ONRA:June4:2009

Hafa Adai,

\To keep us up t date: Mariana’s Elite’s Kelvin Fitial is defeated in the 2ndRound via armbar in TheArtOfWar12 in China.

JCongratulations again goes to Joe Duarte advancing to a title fight for his frst round victory in War Gods 5 last Saturday.J esse Taitano, Justin Cruz, and a much leaner Manny Chong in his return to MMA compeition all returned with victories as specialty bouts from Rites OF Passage 7:FistsOfFury at the Saipans World Resort while in further amateur MMA competition  Preba Hao returned on the 30th with the first live MMA event at The King Of Clubs.

Saipan hadt its Public Hearing n HB16-26 yesterday. Welcome back to Guam and the Spike22Academy, BJJ BlackBelt and UFC and EliteXC veteran Renato”Charuto”Verrisimo.  Assorted Members from, the Purebred, CarlsonGracie, and GracieBarra Academies , are on deck for the BJJ World Championships in Long Beach California and along with them, former all-island high school wrestling standouts, Eric Sian and Maria Dunn. Also this weekend, the newly opened Raval’s Gym will be having a kickboxing tournament on June 6th in Harmon.While in the hole, members from the Spike 22Academy as well as K-1 World max veteran,Patrick Ayuyu set their eyes for MMA competition in Japan with the next Deep on June 30th.
And that bring us to the next discussion…BJPenn’s Live Like A Champion Project.

The evolution of martial arts through the revolution of martial arts, has given us a  greater-than-ever acceleration in the development in our fighting skills. It is only right that we give large credit to the fluorishing of the world’s MMA industry for shotgunning us to us to this collective level of perfrmance which has made our athletes as fighters more formidable than ever…

Uncle Ben told the man that would become  SpiderMan that “With Great Strength, Comes Great Responsibility.”

As we immerse ourselves into strength, it has been, is, and will be a great service to our support and island that we also immerse ourselves in responsibility.

The popularization of martial arts and the call of duty to become good representatives of martial arts creates added pressure for the instructors towards becoming competent beacons for the expanding and diverse list of lost vessels seeking guidance on their way to and through the martial arts experience.

Close to home, BJ Penn goes above and beyond the call of duty to provide an online course avaiable through www.bjpenn.com
that goes int intricate detail through aspects that not only provide combat skills for fighters in competition but mre importantly through important aspects for instructors to be best effective witht heir students and most improtantly for developing lifeskills for  all martial artists in life
In a world so caught up with the entertainment of Mixed Martial Arts, it would be a shame, if in its practice or admiration that we( deny  in focus of the skills and athletics of the body,) that we would neglect its  gifts in mind and spirit.

“The ring is small and the world is big,” s “knowing how to fight like a champion has its value, but living like a champion is the ultimate aim of the training; and to teach it you have to live it first.”

-Pacific Islander UFC World Champion, BJ Penn

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Some people hold the opinion that the martial
arts is all about war, battle, and fighting.

It is -and it should be.

At the same time, it should also, like life, be
about the exact opposite of that as well. This
is what makes it hard; this is what requires
thought, energy, practice, effort, and awareness.
To embrace only one part of something is easy,
it’s simple and doesn’t require near the focus
that it takes to have a deep understanding.

The martial arts, like life, is about living -and
dying. It’s about youth and old age. It’s about
feast -and famine. It’s about rigidity and war
as much as it is about fluidity and peace. We
want to, as instructors, take a viewpoint that
allows us to see the big picture, as clearly as
possible -and to train ourselves to come from
the center, always.