L.A day 3

Alright, after all the annoying but necessary medical check, today we finally had a real day for us.

The hotel we are staying is in Fontana, 1hour drive from the coast. But once again we really appreciate the room we are staying at

Relaxing watching TV, or free wi-fi

Can kick it by the indoor pool if you feel like, or access the fitness room with treadmill.

After one more good breakfast, we all went for a morning training at the gym

OK here we are at Double dose gym, with the owner Bryan Dobler who is a real nice guy and passionate by the sports.

here is the link of his gym : http://www.gokickit.com/page.asp?content_id=18656

Everybody love the gym, include Nat and Andy

real huge gym

Yeah H.U.G.E i told ya

Good for the morning session, lets go eat something not too fat

Yeah thats about the best we could find

Miriam, a girl with bigger bicept then mine.

She will fight Angela parr, yepp john wayne parr's wife

Striked by the hung, we start to loose our mind..

We had a tour of the area, pass some stuff that remind me im in US

The holy place of the cheesecake lover

My only shopping so far

And now a little nap before afternoon training

see you later :)

Medical check day

Today was a day devoted to the medical regulations to fit in order to fight in the state of california.

We have been told it would take time, ...if only we have knew how long.

8am after a little jogging, lets start happy time with a wonderfull healthy breakfast.

Healthy or tasty, yes thats a gauffre Itakura is making :)

And then, LIMO TIME!!!

Straight to the medical center, arrived around 12pm, starting all kind of test, Blood, eyes retina, physical, and especially IRM or RMI scan.

And i attest all that on the name of the Governor Schwartzenegger himself, yeah baby.

Waiting was so long, i fall asleep during the 25min of RMI, i dont remember when we exactly finished but all i can say is by the time we ate something and drive to our new hotel, its was 22pm past.

On the way we had a look at the gym we have access to train at, Doblers's gym. Certainly the biggest gym i have seen so far. We will also do the interview and other stuff there.

More info tomorow about that.

for now its time to take my camomille thea and finally fall asleep

jet lag

Last night was the first good clue that its an excellent idea that the promoter flew us 1week prior to the fight.

Even having fighting hard all day to keep awake, when finally time arrive to go to bed it was like a deliverance.

Unfortunatly, it was shortly before the jetlag hit us.

At 5am exactly Itakura and me were both awake in our bed trying deseperatly to sink back in our sleep, without any success.

I tryed anything, counting sheep, relaxing, not thinking anything, but my body wasnt falling for it.

I was awake and there was nothing to do for it.

I stayed in bed for a while, then finally at 7am went for jogging.

tonight, i will drink camomille, heard it help :)

Here we are :)

An easy resume of the day in picture :

Leaving Narita sunday afternoon at 18:45pm with singapore airline. Certainly the best airline when you need to travel for 8h straight.

Thats it, after the custome control and other boring paper works, we could get our first view of Los angeles at 12pm still sunday....yeah so cool to go back in time :)

Yes, where we are staying at...i know life is hard....he he he

And now the hardest part of fighting in USA, following and even more finding food that wont make you feel fatter than you never felt> Guess wich plate is mine ;)

New challenge!!

New challenge, new country, new event im totally excited about that one.

So i have been invited by a brand new promotion called "muay thai in america" to fight as main event against the well famous Malaipet the diamond!!

Yeah i know, i have a kind of douche face on that poster, but hey which fighter can control the picture they choose hun?

ADIDAS

I had the chance to make some picture with some adidas clothe, have a look :

http://www.honeyee.com/feature/2010/cfs/

special thanks to Yamamoto san and Watanabe san

27.....turning point?

So rude of me, in my previous post im talking about retirement ceremony without explaining the reasons.

Actually since end of last year, around my 27 birthday, i started to feel something different about me and my life in japan.

I still enjoy it and am gratefull for the way things have evolved these last 5 years.

I did lots of fights, experienced lots of strongs feelings, discovered more about peoples, about japan, and also a lot lot lot about myself.

I feel like i achieved enought, and thats its now time for a new start in my life.

Thats why i took the decision to come back to europe.

I dont really have a speciffic idea about what i will do at the moment. But i feel like every doors are open and i should try my luck with anything i feel like.

As much as i love kickboxing & muay thai, other center of interest have started to pill up in my mind.
Travelling, Relationship, Buisness, spending more time with my familly,....and many other things we will see.

Maybe im gonna open an icecream shop in geneva, come have a look someday :)


Still before that, a last challenge is coming up....more info soon...

Retirement ceremony

What a great surprise, Rebels organiser offer me a "retirement ceremony" during their next event on sunday.

I will have a sparrign round with a fighter from weerasakrek, (kuntap?) and then i will try to keep my tears during a little bye bye monologue.

if you are around, come have a look, and of course support Itakura and Wentz!!


http://www.boutreview.com/2/schedule/rebels/100321rebels.html

Road trip to Izu

Last week end, i have been lucky enought to be integrally invited by my longtime friends from scramble to a great road trip from tokyo to Izu.

I have to say a big congratulation for the organisation, we had 2 cars to carry 15 pro fighters qlong the day,...a day that was rich in emotions.

After leaving at 8am, first stop was a delicious lunch.

I pick the delicious rice and sashimi straight from the ocean behinf the window. as good as you can it looks

Check out the beer assortiment

Then we came accross a lighthouse, and decided to take a look.

Actually, im very affraid of Height, yepp scarry time!!



Later a stop at a "strange museum"
So, who got more scare?

Next step on tour was a stop at a strawberry farm. I wasnt sure about that, it was cold and raining and wll i wanted was to be in onsen.

But the deal is that you can pick and eat all the strawberry you possibily can for 30min, and seriously they were sooo delicious that 30min just wasnt enought

Then it was finally time for my favorite moment of the day. Onsen!!!

Unfortunatly you understand we cant really walk around taking pics in a place where everybody is nude.....
..or can't we?.....

YEAHHHHH!!!!!

Love you all dudes :)
Wil never forget all the great times i had with scramble, victory time, hard time, pain time, laugh time,....im gonna miss all that
T-T

Fight for your rights,

Just a cool video to remind you : Fight for your rights!!

unlucky

When everything go bad for you, it can always suddenly change.

thats what makes fighting sports so wonderfull