30 Nov 2010

Okay so here's the dilemma - do you purchase your own Christmas gift now, or wait until you 'think' your loved one has ordered you your heart's most desired gi on the actual day? Oh and what about the January sales? Surely there will be some fightwear bargains to be had after Christmas, right?

Well here are a few things happening right NOW that you really should try to get a handle on.


First, my good friends over at Scramble, MMAOutlet and BJJWeekly are joining forces to do something cute - they're offering you the chance to win a Scramble package including Scramble rash gear and tees, an incredible $50 voucher from MMA Outlet, and one of BJJ Weekly’s fine jiu jitsu t-shirts.

Here's what the Scramble boys say:

The competition is simple. Santa is practising his BJJ in five pictures which will contain clues as to the identity of a famous fighter. One will be released in the BJJ Weekly newsletter (be sure to sign up so you don’t miss out on the first clue) on 6th December. The remaining four will be hidden somewhere on both the MMA Outlet website and the Scramble website on the 7th and 8th of December. You’ll have to have a root around those sites on those two days to find the hidden images. Once you’ve found the pictures and the clues, you should be able to piece it together to find out who the famous fighter is. The first person to post the correct fighter’s name on the Scramble Facebook page will win the Christmas booty! Make your guess wisely though as you’re only allowed one guess per person; multiple guesses will be void! AND you aren’t allowed to start guessing until a post on the Scramble Facebook page tells you to.
The winner will be announced on Friday 10th December!  Good luck and happy hunting!

Oh and even if you don't win the three prizes on offer, you can at least console yourself with a free keyring and funky sticker whenever you purchase two or more products from the Scramble website (as seen hanging on my Christmas tree photo above).

Speaking of MMA Outlet, I'm pretty impressed with this US fightwear shop - Mike is on the email to me every few weeks with news of this and that so I finally asked, can readers of this blog get a discount? Mike said yes sure! so here it is:

MMA Outlet discount coupon code: type MEERKATSU at checkout for 5% off.
Now let's see, ooh they sell Sprawl, Vulkan, Break Point, Atama, Fuji...the list goes on omg I'm so filling up my Christmas shopping list right now!

That's not all friends, don't forget you can always get a handy 5% discount of all Tatami Fightwear products by just typing in MEERKATSU5 at checkout. And while I'm on the subject of Tatami, I see they've just produced a very slick video advert featuring my good friends David Onuma, Pippa Granger, Daniel Agard, Pedro Bessa, Greg Creel and Kevin Cox. Enjoy...



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November 30, 2010

Santa does Jiu-Jitsu

Okay so here's the dilemma - do you purchase your own Christmas gift now, or wait until you 'think' your loved one has ordered y...
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29 Nov 2010

Oooh look what came in the post at Meerkatsu HQ today? A postcard from Portugal...

Howdy boys! My name is André Costa Silva, I'm 28 years old and I'm a white belt jiu-jiteiro from Portugal. I've been training for about half a year and I've been hooked on it from day one. There's nothing quite like it and chances are you already know how efficient it is from MMA, but you have to try it to know what this obsession is all about.

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November 29, 2010

Around the world in 80 dojos: Postcard from Portugal

Oooh look what came in the post at Meerkatsu HQ today? A postcard from Portugal ... Howdy boys! My name is André Costa Silva, I'm 28 y...
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26 Nov 2010



Richard Shore, or 'Shaky' to his friends, is founder and head instructor of the Tillery Combat MMA Club in Abertillery, Gwent, Wales. A long time practitioner of martial arts, the BJJ purple belt is also a successful mentor and coach to kids brought in from the Youth Offending Service - turning their lives around for the better. Earlier this month, one of Shaky's students, Mark Marshman, a former young offender, won the prestigious Prince Trust Young Achiever Award and the Tillery Combat MMA club received a runners up prize in the  Impact on the Community Award. Both awards were the culmination of a lifetime's dedication to the sport and the power that MMA and jiu jitsu can bring to the community. I was moved by shaky's posts on the Cagewarriors forum so I asked him to explain more about his work...


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November 26, 2010

Fighter Profile: Richard 'Shakus Maximus' Shore

Richard Shore , or ' Shaky ' to his friends, is founder and head instructor of the Tillery Combat MMA Club in Abertillery, Gwent,...
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25 Nov 2010

Top lady BJJ black belt Gazzy Parman - she of the ultra tough warm ups and twisty turney open guard is back in the UK and hitting the country with a couple of not to be missed seminars - see below for posters of her 4th December Sheffield date and her 12th December London date.

She's also gonna grace the front cover of Martial Arts Illustrated (out December 9th) with my epic interview  and James Oluoch-Olunya's magnificent photoshoot. Stay tuned folks because the moment MAI is out, I will let you know, oh yeah worry ye not!



Read about Gazzy's previous seminar here: http://meerkat69.blogspot.com/2010/08/gazzinator-gazzy-parman-seminar-review.html


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November 25, 2010

News just in...December renamed Gazzymber..official!

Top lady BJJ black belt Gazzy Parman - she of the ultra tough warm ups and twisty turney open guard is back in the UK and hitting the countr...
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22 Nov 2010


Michael Langhi is a very cool guy. His coolness, and the awesome seminar of his that I just attended stopped my day today from becoming one of complete disaster.

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November 22, 2010

Spiderman! A seminar with World Champ Michael Langhi

Michael Langhi is a very cool guy. His coolness, and the awesome seminar of his that I just attended stopped my day today from becoming one...
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19 Nov 2010

My team mate Anthony Warby fights his debut MMA fight in two weeks. His prep team asked me to draw a little logo - War Bee, gettit?

Okay so I start with some sketches:


Then I unleash Illustrator...



And, here's the T-shirt!

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November 19, 2010

War Bee

My team mate Anthony Warby fights his debut MMA fight in two weeks. His prep team asked me to draw a little logo - War Bee, gettit? Okay s...
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18 Nov 2010

I'm too poor to go travelling. If I did have the time and money, I would travel the world seeking BJJ academies in places where you wouldn't think such dojos exist. But then I thought, why travel the world when I can let the world come to me! So allow me to introduce my new project: Around The World In 80 BJJ Dojos!

Oooh, look what came in today! A postcard from Iceland...shall we see what it says?


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November 18, 2010

Around The World In 80 BJJ Dojos: Postcard From Iceland

I'm too poor to go travelling. If I did have the time and money, I would travel the world seeking BJJ academies in places where you woul...
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17 Nov 2010

I'm off to see spider guard wizard Michael Langhi this Sunday in Brighton. I'm so pumped for this one as he's actually been in the UK for the past two weeks and word from my brethren is that he is teaching some awesome tech. I cannot wait. As usual, I shall bring my trusty sword, in the shape of my camera and notepad and reporting on how the seminar went.



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November 17, 2010

World Champ Michael Langhi is in the House!

I'm off to see spider guard wizard Michael Langhi this Sunday in Brighton. I'm so pumped for this one as he's actually been in t...
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15 Nov 2010

Two lady warriors that I have had the great pleasure of both training with and interviewing - Ana Maria India and Gazzy Parman have their own little fan-made highlight videos.

Here's Ana Maria's:


Ana Maria India - BJJ & MMA - Highlight [HELLO JAPAN] from Hello Japan on Vimeo.

It was made by fellow blogger Stuart Jones, who produces the Hello Japan (http://hellojapan01.wordpress.com) blog. Stuart trains in Manchester and is a purple belt. Of Ana Maria, he says:

"I trained at the Minotauro Team in Rio de Janeiro for 6 months in 2008, where I met Ana Maria in the Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu classes. She was really cool to me and I was inspired by her dedication to training and Jiu Jitsu, she is a very technical grappler. I learned a lot about her through the interview on your website and thought it was really cool how she started training and dedicating her life to Jiu Jitsu. In my spare time I like editing fighter highlights and seeing as there were so many videos around of Ana Maria, I thought why not make a video of her best moments. So I did and I hope everyone enjoys it."

I noticed he posted the video on Facebook and Ana Maria herself said: "“Wow! Many thanks, I loved it a lot” ~ Ana Maria India.

Cooooool!

Gazzy Parman also has a really cool highlight video made by a fan. The video is called 'Beautiful Assassin' and I nicked that headline for my own interview with Gazzy - which is coming out in Martial Arts Magazine on December 5th. It's my best interview ever so look out for it!



Gazzy did more than just 'like' this video, she...well why don't we let Gazzy explain for herself:

"The most impressive fan I've ever had in my life, has now become a good friend of mine. I didn't know who he was when he contacted me on myspace to have me check out the "Beautiful Assassin" highlight video he made. I was nearly in tears when I first saw it. He touched my soul when he made the Beautiful Assassin highlight clip of some of the things I've done. I couldn't believe someone would spend so much time making such an amazing highlight clip of me.... he did such a great job for the few fights if mine he could find. The music is spot on and the feeling he gave it really shows off my soul. I love him him forever for that. He's called Zen Monkey on YouTube, real name Jakub Bobrowski, from Poland."

Now that's what I called a 'like' !!!

Oh yeah, Gazzy's coming back to the UK in December - watch out for seminar dates to be announced soon.
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November 15, 2010

Kick Ass Lady Grappler Highlight Videos

Two lady warriors that I have had the great pleasure of both training with and interviewing - Ana Maria India and Gazzy Parman have their ...
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13 Nov 2010



In part two of my interview with the featherwight veteran, Alain Pozo, he descibes his teaching principles at his academy, Black Label in Colchester, Essex and his impressive competition heritage...

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November 13, 2010

Fighter Profile: Alain Guerra Pozo - Part Two

In part two of my interview with the featherwight veteran, Alain Pozo, he descibes his teaching principles at his academy, Black Label in...
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12 Nov 2010



Alain Guerra Pozo may not know this, but he is a very important man in my BJJ life. For most people who began BJJ in the early 2000’s, Royce Gracie was their inspiration. Not me. I had never heard of Royce before, but Alain was the very first person I ever sparred against. I’d like to say he held my hand and introduced me to the arte suave with cotton gloves, but the reality was a very different story...he tooled me in a way only a Brazilian, trained in the old skool hard core ways could ever do with a raw beginner. I cannot remember how many times I had to tap to him within the first twenty seconds but it was brutal. And yet, that experience, over seven years ago, left a very deep and profound impression on me. Here was a small, slightly built man, not much bigger than myself, giving hell to guys twice his size. Ever since that moment, I vowed that I too could be the small guy who kicks jiu-jitsu ass. It’s also nice to know that Alain, who I see at every tournament, is still giving hell to guys twice his size.


Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you part one of my interview with Mr Alain Pozo where he discusses his BJJ origins in Recife, Brazil where he met and befriended a young unknown talent called Braulio Estima, plus a whole ton on the early history of BJJ in the UK back in the day...


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November 12, 2010

Fighter Profile: Alain Guerra Pozo - Part One

Alain Guerra Pozo may not know this, but he is a very important man in my BJJ life. For most people who began BJJ in the early 2000’s, Ro...
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10 Nov 2010

I'm not really big on the whole post-match analysis thing. But I'm posting this fight at the English Open of my final with Mark Phung because it's pretty hilarious stuff. Check out Mark's audacious cartwheel at around 2:20 and my ONE good sweep thingy at around 3:10. Apart from that, I get pretty much owned every second of the way, but it's all good fun.

In the video, I'm the little guy, no, hang on, we're both little, okay, I'm the Chinese guy, no, wait...okay I'm the one wearing the white gi (Faixa Rua leve if you must ask) - enjoy!

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November 10, 2010

Flying Cartwheels and Dodgy Half Guards - My Finals Fight

I'm not really big on the whole post-match analysis thing. But I'm posting this fight at the English Open of my final with Mark Phun...
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This is an instructional video by my good friend and instructor Oli Geddes on behalf of his sponsor Black Eagle. Regular readers may recall that I dubbed Oli both 'The Half Guard Wizard' and 'The UK's Most Prolific Competitor' when I interviewed him for the Fightworks Podcast last year. Yeah, I like my headlines, it's all I'm good at.

To be honest, I really wish he wouldn't do these videos, it means all those sessions where he teaches us, in class, these same techniques is being shared by all and sundry and really, I need all the help I can get haha! Joking aside, Oli is a legend and it was good to see him in action at the English Open this weekend, cleaning up his division and taking gold in the brown absolute too. A monster, and a Gent!



Expect more Oli media coming soon. In the meantime, did I post this picture before? Not sure, anyway, here's my photo of Oli posing in his Scramble (for he is also a Scramble sponsored athlete) hoodie. I love it because I had literally five minutes to shoot it and it just all came together nicely. I love the fact that the mat and wall splits the image into three thirds, plus the climbing lugs in the background look like stars or explosive shrapnel caught mid-flight. Anyway, I've got the same hoodie but don't look half as cool as Oli.




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byMeerkatsu
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November 10, 2010

Half Guard Instructional by Oli Geddes

This is an instructional video by my good friend and instructor Oli Geddes on behalf of his sponsor Black Eagle. Regular readers may recall ...
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8 Nov 2010

I had a blast at yesterday's English Open BJJ Championships - had a couple of great fights, met up with a huge bunch of great people and witenssed some mouth wateringly tasty fights. All in all, a grand day out.

Here are some choice photos from Day Two of the fights:
Alain Pozo v Roger Middleton

Vicky Todd v Tiff

Black belt superfight 1


Alex De Souza wonders what Bruno Melo (below) is complaining about

Graham Welsh attempts an armbar

Zagham Younes fights with huge spirit

Judo genius and now BJJ brown belt, Graham Welsh maitains calm

Delroy McDowell in high flying action

Rachel McMillan storming her way to absolute gold

BTW Tiff here (above) is not showboating, the ref halted the match but kept position so Tiff smiled at me while waiting


How did I do?
Oh well ifyou must ask, I won silver in my category. It was such good fun to compete - I think I've shaken off those early purple belt nerves and I can now go out there just to try and do my stuff. I didn't take any videos sadly, which is a shame as I think you would have enjoyed watching the pint sized maestro that is Mark Phung flip and cartwheel around me in the final match heh heh!

Oh, and I forgot to bring my contact lenses - you could say I fought my matches completely blind, which I almost am with out my lenses or glasses. But hey ho, luckily the nature of BJJ contests mean far sightedness is not such an issue.

I want to thank my fellow purple belt master fighters James Carey and Mark Phung for our fights and a big thankyou to David Onuma who popped up out of nowhere like a guardian angel and gave me a thoroughly brilliant pep talk before my fights. I want to also thank Andrew Marshall for all those early Saturday morning conditioning sessions which paid off today. And of course thanks to my coach Nick Brooks. Cheers and well done to all my Mill Hill BJJ team mates who fought with such amazing spirit these past two days, I'm so proud to represent the badge. Days like these make me smile the biggest BJJ smile. Onwards and upwards!
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November 08, 2010

A Bit of English

I had a blast at yesterday's English Open BJJ Championships - had a couple of great fights, met up with a huge bunch of great people and...
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3 Nov 2010


Summary
New fightwear brand Masaru launch their debut BJJ gi alongside star name endorsements. With a decent pearl weave fabric, light weight and sensible cut, this gi promises much and delivers in most areas. However my review sample exhibited several quality control issues and I was not convinced by the quirky logo designs.

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November 03, 2010

Gi Review: Masaru Fight Co, BJJ Kimono in blue

Summary New fightwear brand Masaru launch their debut BJJ gi alongside star name endorsements. With a decent pearl weave fabric, light wei...
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1 Nov 2010



Oooh as if my ego needed more massaging LOL!

Here's a little interview I did with fightwear company Black Eagle on all sorts of questions about the BJJ scene in the UK. I hope it's an interesting and informative read, I actually had to try to think hard and come up with sensible answers for a change hahah!

Read it here: Black Eagle interviews Seymour Yang.

Thanks.
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November 01, 2010

Interviewer turns interviewee - Black Eagle quizzes the Meerkatsu!

Oooh as if my ego needed more massaging LOL! Here's a little interview I did with fightwear company Black Eagle on all sorts of ques...
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