tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90786684201037214952026-10-18T10:14:49.129-03:00Just a blog to record my time training jiu jitsu in Brasil and the experiences I've encountered along the way.DirtyWhiteGihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06621382337273904822noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078668420103721495.post-56559413223439797392010-03-23T10:03:00.005-03:002010-05-20T11:00:57.595-03:00

I have moved my blog over to it's own host and domain now. However I am still in the process of fixing up the look and feel of the site, but from now on all future posts will be made from there. The same applies to the continuation of this blog that I had over at Wordpress. Click on the link or picture: http://www.dirtywhitegi.com/ Train hard, train safe!

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These are the videos to my fights from the "War on the floor" competition that just passed. Fights were for 5 minutes with a referee and judges if the fights went the full time. If fights were ruled a draw then fighters were given a 3 minute overtime. The Open Weight Round Robin is pretty self explanatory. Basically everyone is matched up and the winner of the fight then goes on to fight other

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Hahaha saw these on youtube the other week and thought it was funny, there's a third one but I thought the first two were the funniest. After you've been training Jiu Jitsu/MMA (or any martial art for that matter) for a while you're bound to meet these type of characters. Get in my guard Part I Get in my guard Part II In other news I'm still in the process of finding a job. I'll put most

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The competition was organised by our club Marrara Martial Arts and they had submission grappling and C-class MMA fights on for the day. The day was split into thirds with the first third for the submission grappling then the MMA fights followed by an open weight round robin at the end. There were about 25 competitors from 4 different clubs which might not sound like much, but for Darwin it was

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Boxing classes at Gordo Jiu Jitsu are run by Cesario. He's the guy that first started calling me "Pacquiao" and from there it caught on and stuck with all the other Brasilians. He's also a crazy dude in a funny way and a good coach.Basically I came in one early morning for jiu jitsu class as the boxing class is finishing and the boxing guys are coming down. Cesario is chatting to Zoro and Zoro

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I bought two mobile phones while I was in Brasil. Although one was to replace the other I lost on a night out drinking. Problems with Australian mobile phoneOriginally I brought my phone from Australia with me here with the hopes that I could just buy a sim card and use it. It's a prepaid phone and I'm with the Optus network and when I arrived it did pick up a local network, "Tim" which seemed

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I've only been home a little over a week but have been missing Brasil ever since I left. None more so then when I first arrived back in Darwin and it really started to sink in that I'm gone. Sydney was a good distraction from reality with the sight-seeing and UFC event to watch. But once I was on that plane back to Darwin and reality sunk in, the Post Brasil (Rio de Janeiro) Trauma started to

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These are the two gyms I've been going to since I got back to Darwin. Performance Gym for my kickboxing/muay thai and some mma/no gi and Marrara Martial Arts for mainly just grappling.The martial arts community in Darwin is small so there really is only a handful of places to train and in my opinion these are the best two to train grappling and Performance Gym the best for kickboxing/muay thai.

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Coming back home is always a good feeling. Well almost. Although I love having all those little things I miss (vegemite, nice bread, being able to drink the tap water without the shits, ASIAN FOOD, mum's cooking, car and old friends); Brasil and even more Barra/Rio de Janeiro was really starting to feel like home.So it kind of feels like I'm starting all over again. Except maybe with the training

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My first stop upon arrival in Australia was Sydney. I stayed for a few extra days there before heading back to my hometown, Darwin. The sole reason really was just to watch the... UFC!!!Being their FIRST EVER event in Australia, and my travel timing right on, how could I NOT miss out on this opportunity? A friend had UFC Fight Club membership so could buy tickets earlier than general public so I

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Learning some Português will REALLY help enhance your experience here in AND out of the gym. But even if you don't know any when you arrive, you should still be able to understand what's going on in class through observation, although it REALLY helps to understand some of the details of a technique if you know some basic words. The following are some terms I thought would be useful that

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This will be my last blog in Brasil :(((( until I get back to Australia and maybe till my laptop is fixed. I'm sad to be leaving but it hasn't really hit me yet and also I know I'll be back. (Just a matter of when).I'll be continuing this blog when I get back to Australia (in between finding a job and earning some $ to come back). There's still PLENTY of content I want to blog on about Brasil

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Just a quick update...It's been a pretty busy last couple weeks for me. Just got back into Rio on Monday night, before that was in the north Pantanal near Cuiaba for a few days. To be honest I found it a bit boring there because it was mainly a birdwatching trip for my mum and her husband. But we did see a sh*tload of wildlife which was cool.Flying back into Rio at night was also cool, as we

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If I didn't mention this before, it's definitely worth going to both sides of the falls IF you have the time and budget to do it. Both sides offer something a little different to each other but both are as spectacular as each other.I'm too lazy to write a detailed review of both so I'm going to put up some photos to show what it's like and when I get the time I'll add up some of the video I took

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I'm down to my last few weeks here in Brasil and on Monday my mum and her husband just arrived and now we're in the middle of a holiday/tour through Foz do Iguaçu, Bonito, Cuiabá and the Pantanal.While it's awesome to see my mum again and more of Brasil I'm kind of sad that I'm missing out on training and keep thinking of all the things I could be working on improving and learning before I

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Blue Belt...Yup to start off with the first big news; I just got my blue belt on Monday.Gordo gave it to me in front of the class and obviously I was quite happy. It was the end of the evening class and he was giving the customary closing speech, in Portugues of course, so naturally I was tuned out but heard “faixa… blah blah… he doesn’t speak much portugues… Pacquiao (what everyone's been

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You know how you have a group of friends that plan a night out, then everyone starts drinking a bit early and people get tired and it doesn't look like it's gonna be a good night, then everyone ends up going out anyways and it turns out to be pretty good?Well last night was one of them nights. I'm not going to go into much detail but pretty much it was:- bbq in afternoon for Tommy and Zoro (who

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The other day my laptop screen decided to die on me. Hopefully it's just something with software but I don't know (I kind of rebooted it badly by pulling out the battery). Kind of devastated about it because now I got nothing to do at home. At least I still got the warranty and it's towards the end of my trip and not when I first arrived here. Still gotta get in contact with Apple though (that's

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Gringo photo shoot before leaving the house to catch the bus to Copacabana. Most of us wearing the "traditional" white for New Years. Tommy later changed his shirt on the way to catch the bus.Me rocking a R$10 hat I bought... I thought it looked cool anyways lol. They also had 2010 bandanas and glasses, the kind that Elton John would wear.Having a beer while mixing it with the locals. If I had 1

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As mentioned in the previous post I had a private with Gordo on Tuesday. Beforehand I didn't really have anything in mind that I wanted to work on. But after thinking about problem areas (or parts of my game I could use some improvement) I had during rolling on Monday and the Tuesday morning, I thought I'd like to work on creating space from the bottom especially side mount. As a smaller guy it

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That's how much time I have left in Brasil :(Damn time flies and it will go even faster in the following month because I've got New Years Eve, my mum and her husband will be coming and we'll be off to Foz do Iguazu/Bonito/Pantanal for a 1.5wks; and then Carnival. I'm kind of looking forward to seeing more of the country, since I've only spent my time in Rio, but at the same time I really wish I

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I spent Christmas at the Connection Rio HQ with the other gringos. We had a bbq for lunch. Then spent some time at the beach (got wiped out trying to surf... Note: need wax for the surfboard). Then more bbq for dinner and watched a couple movies. Tommy was the chef for the bbq and everything tasted sooo good. Flo made some salads so we didn't have just meat and there was plenty of cold refreshing

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On Saturday we had a bbq for the academy. R$50 for all you could eat bbq and drinks. There was more beer than there were soft drinks or water so it was entertaining seeing everyone getting a buzz/tipsy, especially some of the BB letting loose. There were games of futebol (I suck so sat on the sidelines so I didn't make a fool of myself), lots of meat and some belt promotions to be handed out. All

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If you are in Rio for training one of the things you might want to know about is where to buy mma/jiu jitsu gear. So I thought I would dedicate a post to that and the places I know of so far where you can buy some gear.How many Kimonos/Gi's to bring...Some people may wonder how many kimonos/gi's to bring down. My answer would be that it all depends on how often you are going to train. If you plan

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I know, I know... I've been lazy of late and not updating. I blame it on the crappy Rio weather. It's been raining for the past week and a bit and the lack of sun makes it hard to get motivated to do anything. Hopefully it clears up by this week and we get back into summer mode :)In training I surprised myself (and maybe a few others) last Friday night in class. We were doing positional sparring

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