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

Caol Uno!!

I was feeling lazy today, and with the cold here in tokyo i was really hesitant about rather going to gym, or.....going to meet my bed.

Turn out the gym is always the good choice (of course).

Not only there wasnt many scramble guys (3with me) letting more time with trainer to improve technics;

But specially right at the end of the training i saw a familliar face entering scramble :

CAOL UNO, thats right baby!!

I immediatly catch my camera to ask him a picture, and second big surprise, he heard about me and said he likes my style. and here i am blushing like a school girl :)

More seriously he is gonna fight at the world known UFC next march. In UFC elbows are allowed and its a new horizon Uno woud love to explore.

He can count on me anytime to work on it!!

Seminar kickboxing

Hi everyone,

Tomorrow, at suidobashi come enjoy this "kick" seminar

Scramble's gym 5 champions are gonna be there to teach their favorite techniques.

The seminar is open to everybody, all levels from beginner to pro, between 1pm and 3pm.
Entrance fee is 3.000yen and free for scramble members.

Have a look here for more info :
http://www.boutreview.com/2/topics/seminar/item_3962.html

Isogo temple's stairs

Yeah i know, i know,...i promised myslef i would never do that "running thousands of stairs" training again.

But this time my gym mates had made me an offer i couldnt turn down :

As soon the training over, we would go straight to the swimming pool for the whole afternoon!!

It makes even more sense when the meteo is 30 degrees and 80% of humidity.

Yes thats the face of people happy to head for the swimming pool :)

Unfortunatly, it was forbiden to take pictures at Negishi's swimming pool (one of the many measure to limit pervert behavior in public place)

THe afternoon there was just great, not that busy, huge pool in shape of 2 circles.

Lots of fun and laugh, specially an epic water gun fight against a team......of 6 y.o childrens.

Yes we are real warriors, taking every challenges ;)

candyzzzz

Obon is the time in summer when people get hollidays (just few days) and go visit their hometown.

Then they usually bring back some omiyage (present) to friends.

Thanks to Endo and Masuda, i get delicious typicall food from their hometown.

Glad diet time hasnt come yet :)

My Bro on youtube

Here you can find Naoto Itakura in action.

He his a strong sparing partner and great gym mate.

Im sure you will hear more of him soon.



what a showman, i like that :)

ready to crush!!

nothing to do this saturday?.. what about Killing your legs?

I usually spend my saturday at staying in bed late, watching stupid video on youtube, having a good breakfast, training at gym lighter than during the week, then relaxing with friends.

But not today!

 As i had planned to order (again) a new mouthpiece in yokohama, it went just on the right timing for a special training sesion around yokohama with my team mates Itakura, Wentz, Koji, and Takuro.

Because we are all badass fans of dragon ball and jacky-chan movie, doing a training who consist of running trought +100 steps of  the stairs of a temple didnt sound strange to any of us.

Here are the stairs :

So once you arrive half way, hard to look up when all you have in front of you is...more steps :

Here is the charming temple where you can try to recover your breath once you finally reached the exactly 174 steps :

Then each time you reach the top, you now have to get back to the bottom of all these steps.

Yepp still pretty long even view from the top, you cant even see the departure from there :

Ok, we spoted the place, now lets change in the bottom of the stairs, next to the highway.

(doesnt that sound strange?)

 gladely it wasnt so cold this afternoon.

See that? your legs worst nightmare

Also when we heard that the WBC champion Naito had said that doing the full stairs 10 times is already a lot, we also decided that we would make it 12!!! 

yeah this is how we roll :)

Notice how we look so happy at the begining.

And after the 6th set, i seriously wanted to give up...

...but give up didnt sound right in the ears of my team mates.

Its not very clear on the video, but my leg couldnt even stand without squeezing from spasm.

GO! GO! GO!  LAST 300steps!

"Can you walk without gripping the ramp?

 neither do i."

BIG NEWS : Bruce Lee isnt dead, he is just chilling around yokohama:

"WATCHAAA!!"

After that, we took the best decision to go to onsen for well deserved relax time.

 Sorry no pictures for that one.

Then we relax a lil bit in our way before to get back home, 

Haaa one more good hard training done, but im now afraid of waiking up tomorow with my legs full of aches and pain..

Long week end - part 3

Because Fame never last long....

...you have to enjoy every second of it :P

So the scramble gym put up a party in ebisu, at the Ambassadeur Hotel, s'il vous plait!

I should have know better that going to a celebration without preparing a speach would have been a bad idea. But even much more a bad idea when you are supposed to do the speach in japanese....

Thanks to my Bro T.Pain (the real one, not the MTV rapper) help me to translate some stuff and all went well.

YOROSHIKU!!!

ok time to go for the missed-pics now : 

Wentz and his belt "up and down"

Damned, the belt caught again my attention,

 lets do it again!

Alright one more,....BIN WAKE UP!

ok ok lets do one more.

Ohh sh....ok nice one lets give up :P

Later the party continued in another place, even Akeomi Nitta came to say hello.

Tokyo is great :)

This month in fight and life magazine

Scramble gym's champions are honored :)

And since masuda is now a world champion, we will also be in kakutogi magasine next month.

kind of worry about the pictures of that next one, i may have laugh too much when the photographe asked for a "bigu sumilu". 

hope there wont gonna be any vengeance on the pics aha

Ladies class

Every tuesday night there is "ladies class" at scramble, usually teach under k1 max fighter Hayato.
Because of the upcoming next k1 max japan tournament, Hayato is busy at training and so i am taking the ladies class.

Actually i have to say girls are better student than boys, they seems to really care about techniques and always keep in mind the advice they received.

hope to see a crowded class tonight :)

and that makes it 3!!

We have actually 3 champions of 3 different federations at scramble :



Lets name from the right to the left (japanese reading) :

- Wentz J-net super fly champion

- Kan ittabashi RISE 60kg champion

- Chris AJKF welterweight champion

Yesterday we have all been interviewed for the magasine "fight and life" (^o^)

once again the scramble shined

last week end had been tought,

from saturday afternoon untill sunday night, it was all about:

- massaging fighters,
- greasing them up with vaselin and sometime special oil,

- preparing their warm up,
- checking event schedule (the more KO happening in match earlier on the card, the fastest you have to be ready),
- supporting and screaming,
- being quik as possible during the one minute interval between round
- taking of bandages,
- waiting, waiting a lot,
- and of course celebrating :)

inoki is everywhere

before they get to start their diet, we went eat a ramen with my 2 scramble boyz wents and naoto.


they did me an impressive Antonio Inoki personnification.

have a look, can you tell wich is the real Inoki? ^-^