FokaiMerchandise:FokaiMiniUtitilitySack

smalleDetails of the FokaiUtitilitySack available exclusively at Guam FokaiStores

HafaAdai:BrunoFrazzato

Fokai:Surfing&MartialArts

Fokai was born in the impact zone and baptized in the cage, and confirmed on the mat.  Stoked to see the things we love come to light and life. GoodJob fellers.

YougoGirl:LouiseCecchone

Abit ofg the FokaiSpectrum, but an toast of respect to the evolution of Women’s roles in our society

Madonna will soon find herself in a whole new material world: the pages of a comic book.

The star will have her life story told in 32 pages by Bluewater Productions Inc., the latest celebrity to be part of its semi-regular line of “Female Force” comics, the publisher said Thursday.

“Our goal is to show the little-known events and influences that resulted in Madonna becoming the phenomenon…

HAFA ADAI,

Among other things…Congratulations to the promoters, fighters, and staff of Pacific Xtreme Combat 24 who, with almost 200,000estimated television viewers, were able to produce a very successful event with their major step into the Philippines as KelvinFitial secured the PXC Heavyweight Belt in his rematch against the at-the-time reigning champion Roque Martinez.

CukiAlvarez and Jason Tarkong of TrenchTech Purebred Saipan visited Palau this week to conduct an introduction to Mixed Martial Arts seminar in with Palau Mixed Martial Arts.

And eyes are on the PurpleBelt Open and BrownBelt Open divisions of this Saturday’s MarianasOpen at the PhoenixCenter, Guam’s signature event in Brazilian Jiujitsu and Submission grappling competition.

Support Your local wrestler! The Guam Grappling Organization is hosting a Wine tasting and food paring @ Meskla on June 29 . 6-9pm. $50.00 donation goes to Team Guam Wrestlers for 2011 World Championships from September 12-18th i Istanbul , Turkey .

And an overdue and sincere congratulations goes to theUniversalAlliance’s Christiana Cruz for securing a silver medal in the Womens’s Feather Weight Division in the IBJJF Jiujitsu World Championships  on June 2nd in California.

We have seen many different extending facets of our island’scombat sports . From our long-time traveling competitors in TaeKwon Do, to our islander’s off island ventures in KyokushinKarate, our wrestler’s trek’s into the Olympics and our island’s many successful stories for boxing at the SouthP acificGames .

We’ve seen the growing sophistication of our industry as We’ve watched total fighting sport evolve from NoHoldsBarred fighting to MixedMartial Arts Competition. We’ve watched local fighter athletes conduct everything from fundraising carwashes to full-blown sold out events at our islands biggest venues.

We watch admiringly as our islander’s venture overseas to faraway and exotic lands such as Russia, Brazil, AbuDhabi, and Thailand to name a few. And we’ve sat just as astoundly as we’ve seen elite athletes and world celebrities visit Guam repeatedly from just-as-faraway places .

We’ve witnessed a growing interest in hand to hand combat sports from our armed forces and we’ve watched our island soldiers succeed and advance time and time again in the relatively recently formed MACP programs and tournmanents abroad

All of these things and all these different corners, nooks, and crannies are in the cultivation of our island’s very supportive audience yet one topic of serious interest and development that seems to often escape much-deserved attention is our women in combat sports.

Women in combat sports is definitely not a new thing. Thinking of women in local  martial arts, its easy to remember TaeKwonDo’s familiar name in EleanorMinor, personally I can remember being thrown around effortlessly by Aikido’s Minegishi Sensei of Guam AikiKai, we watched Sera Chargualaf technically dismantle a much larger opponent in Guam’s first female MMA bout in Fury3:Round2, and our island continues to cheer for the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation’s Olympic veteran and ever-hopeful Maria Dunn.

It seemed that before, we only had brief instances and only the occasional training and very-temporary partners with women in martial arts training, with women in combat sports competition. But today that isn’t the story.

What’s amazing is that in the martial arts evolution of our local women in skill is in their ability to remain as feminine, and in some ways remind us of the art in martial arts. Even without the testosterone you’d think is necessary in fight sport Their growing formidability offers testament to the assets of precision in timing, technique, and strategy—things nowadays often overshadowed by the more aggressive physical qualities of stamina, endurance, and explosiveness often displayed by the super-athletes that our modernized combat sports have been reflecting today.

Aflague, Cabaccang, Cruz,Dunn, ,Gandaoli, Roberto ,Velez, Wong—how many times have we seen these names in competition? How many more times will we see them? How many more names will we be given reason to remember? Female athletes who are helping to pave teh way for more women atheltes and ambassadors in the art of Brazilian Jiujitsu. They are making the sacrifices and crossing the miles to illustrate a serious pursuit of combat sports success and martial arts reward. These are the names that have offered us in women not mere sideshows or experiments in sport and entertainment—but for the sincere and formidable windows into the non-discriminating passion and road that comes with martial arts training and/or in sport and in just as much as for men—for the love of the game.

There is much to be applauded for the leaps that our women are making in training and for the bounds that they are making in competitiion. In awe of things we might want to offer a photo, in support of things, we might want to offer a hand, but in light of everything they’ve been doing and in confidence of their contribution to our martial arts and martial sports identity—what some of us might have reluctantly missed out on before, and what we may happily offer them now and ongoing…is respect.

Looking forward to watching the women’s division at the Marianas Open.

You go girl.

Thanks for dropping by.

FokaiDesign:It’sAFamilyThing

Guam, Saipan, Rota, Tinian, Pohnpeii Philippines, Japan,Taiwan, Korea, Bali, Hawaii,California, LasVegas,Washington,Maryland,Ireland, Wales……

Conscious footsteps forward for Fokaiinternational…

Before it was something that just used to look cool on our shirts and now it’s really happening.

Wanted to extend our heartfelt thanks to all of you for believing in what we do and supporting what we stand for. There is a story behind every design. It goes through and beyond of thinking of whats physically attractive, the designs are released to hopefully induce whats soulfully productive.

From The ISA design and goodwilling of “WishComeTrue” to the soon to be released designs of  Fernando Terere’s offering of “Never Give Up” and the MendesBrothers “Improve”—

Fokai’s Imminent campaign of the rewards of perseverance (Exhaust the Body,ProceedTheMind,CultivateTheSpirit) aims to resonate apositive vibration targeted to push the  fruits of virtue and spirit that lie in the pursuit and imminent evolution of personal horizons, not necessarily dependent in comparing to others.

So this is an applause of gratitude and props for the history of our extended design team on board with Fokai2.2GRFX

JOHN CALVO      KIE SUSUICO      COTCH DIAZ

NOBORU ASAHI      MARVIN MANIBUSAN   MIKE FOWLER

and a warm Hafa Adai and Welcome to the Famila:

FokaiCUT&SEW’s Newest Addition:

RYAN HOPPER

As the much-appreciated Family of Support Grows, the drive to support this family stands proudly along with it.

New and Improved Merchandise iminiently arrriving@Fokai

GoodVibrations:VictorDelaCruz

Just wanted to share apretty cool story here. My father passed away in 2004 in effort to fundraise money to help improve the library for his school’s alma mater. despite an ongoing miniature financial crisis in life–he always found time and reason to help others. i think that’s where he found his wealth.

Years prior he was driving onthe southern coast of Guam one day where he spotted twoscantily clad, dark-complexion men of obvious foreign descent stranded on the side of the road. though my father was on schedule for an appointment he made time to pull over and offer them assistance. their rent-acar had broken down and they needed aride to their hotel.

He offered them a lift–i believe they were either taying at thePacificStar or the HiltonResort Guam. my father had driven an old camry, the aircon was busted and the car hadnt been washed for weeks.

Regardless, he had driven them over to notice a massive entourage of attendants and photographers waiting for something.  To his surprise when they were spotted–the small crownd of people surrounded the car and treated the men as if they were royalty.

It turns out that they were..one of the men was the President of Nauru. it turns out that he broke away from his assistants and wanted to see the island of Guam from a regular travelers eyes. he offered my father an all-expenses paid trip with accomodations as his personal guest to Nauru. but my father was so caught up trying to make his appointment that he lost all the information. But he had no regrets because their sign of relief was payment enough.

Honored to have this blood run in my veins.

They often say that if your good deeds doesnt find its way back to you directly it will do so for your children. For whatever success Fokai has enjoyed, and for whatever absence of happiness in his life that he might have missed out on– this is perfect testament for this truth.

Thanks Dad. Rest InPeace. GoodTimes in the afterlife. See you on the other side.

GoodVibraions. VictorDela Cruz

TheLovelyLadies of Guam

via our friends@PIKA and the PacificDailyNews

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SpokenWord@CapitolFokai

BraveNewVoices @ capitolFokai in HagatnaGUAM

FokaiIreland:ChillLounge

Via the ChainReaction of GoodVibrations and Positioned on the top of the first sewing machine shop in all of Ireland–Some Photos of theFokaiLounge opened in May2011 in Cork,Ireland

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