No pictures.

I was hoping to have pictures from the mma (mixed martial arts) event my gym participated in this saturday but apparantly I didn't realise how big the event was going to be. In short: they didn't allow photography. I thought it was going to be small and not televised, but in retrospect those expectations were silly considering some of the big names involved.

My mma school has a sister school in Japan where my instructor started. Two fighters from that school came to the event and our grappling instructor had a fight. The grappling instructor's fight was the main event so he's a big deal I guess, he fought one of B.J. Penn's fighters. BJ Penn is a big deal in maa as he beat the current 175lb UFC champ Matt Hughes and he beat the current ?lb Pride Fighting champ Takanori Gomi. 3 of his fighers participated. Unfortunately Penn's fighters' didn't seem to reflect his abilities as they lost 3 of 3 fights. It was neat to see my instructors ring side just like B.J. Penn, it gives them street cred[it].

After the fights I waited with one of the guys from the class to meet up with the grappling instructor and other guys from our gym as I thought they might go out and party it up to celebrate the victory. It turns out the grappling instructor really is a celebrity. People actually waited to get autographs from him and some of the other fighers. Anyway, no one went out to celebrate. Pussies.

That's all for now.