WelcomeBackCrazyMike
February 17, 2010 by admin
Filed under BJJ Stuff, FokaiCombatUNit
CrazyMikefowler is back online. Visit his blog at
Luff:HappyValentimes!
February 15, 2010 by admin
Filed under Special Forces
FokaiCombatUnit:FrankCamacho’sBlog
February 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under FokaiCombatUNit, FokaiSaipan, Fury, GlobalGuamMMA
http://crankeffect.com/blog/97/meditation-on-inevitable-death-should-be-performed-daily/
Frank The Crank Camacho PXC 12 CutFor the Title of this blog! It may help, it may not but just think about it. Dying is inevitable! It will come. Knowing that your time may come may do great things for you or bad. Its your choice!
Whatever your “Fight” is, “Fight” till the end!
“Real Strength, Power, and Heart can’t be given… It must be taken!”
I just finished watching the Enson Inoue Highlight, one of the very few videos I watch almost every night before bed. He is a Fighter! Never gives up! Till the end. I remember reading something about Enson and he said “Everytime I step in that ring/cage, there is always a chance of dying! So a broken arm or going to sleep is really nothing!” WOW! I mean, what do you say to that! I admire the way he thinks, his heart, and the way he fights. Till the death!
It stopped snowing and finally got two training sessions in today. We had our Strength & Conditioning with Coach D’Angelo and we had some good BJJ sparring at 6:30. I’ve been training here at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy for over 2 years and its always an honor to roll with Master Lloyd. Its amazing how much I learn in just 20 minutes of sparring. All the tilts, the angles, the….. EVERYTHING! Its an amazing thing.
Master Lloyd asked everyone what we wanted to do for BJJ training today. We all gave our answers, “We want to roll!” He responded, “SUBMISSION SUBMISSION SUBMISSION!” Now thats all I’m thinking! Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a Martial Art. It is used to stop another body! I need to program my mind so when I roll or compete, I must SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT! Fight to WIN not Fight not to Lose! Go for the finish! I may be up 10 points and its 30 secs left. “SUBMISSION SUBMISSION SUBMISSION!” Do the Art!
Anywhooo….
It was an amazing day! This 6 days at home made me realize how valuable training time is.
We’re Rockin n Rollin! ADIOS…
EnsonInoue:RearNakedInterview
February 13, 2010 by admin
Filed under FokaiCombatUNit, FokaiJapan
Rise:SinangantaAndWeAreGuahan
February 12, 2010 by admin
Filed under Special Forces
as illustrated by Kie Susuico of teh FokaiGrafixDepartment
FokaiCombatUnit:TrueHeroEdFreeman
February 12, 2010 by admin
Filed under FokaiCombatUNit, Special Forces
Subj:: True Hero
THIS man is a true hero. Not some over paid athlete or actor. A real person having done real courageous things.
You’re a 19
year old kid.
You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley.Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense,
from 100 or 200 yards away,
that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to
stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re
not getting out.
Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll
never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then – over the machine gun noise – you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter.
You look up to see an unarmed Huey. But … it doesn’t seem real because
no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you.
He’s not Medi-Vac so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into
the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.
He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load
2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses.
And,
he kept coming back!! 13 more times!!
He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten
out.
Medal of Honor Recipient,
Ed Freeman, died
last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , Idaho .
May God Rest His Soul.
I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s
passing, but we’ve sure
seen a whole bunch
about Michael Jackson.
. .
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman
year old kid.
You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley.Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense,
from 100 or 200 yards away,
that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to
stop coming in.
You’re lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re
not getting out.
Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll
never see them again.
As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
You look up to see an unarmed Huey. But … it doesn’t seem real because
no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you.
He’s not Medi-Vac so it’s not his job, but he’s flying his Huey down into
the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.
He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load
2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses.
out.
Medal of Honor Recipient,
Ed Freeman, died
last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , Idaho .
May God Rest His Soul.
I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s
passing, but we’ve sure
seen a whole bunch
about Michael Jackson.
. .
Medal of Honor Winner
November 11, 1965.
LZ X-ray , Vietnam .
Shame on the American media !!!
Now … YOU pass this along on YOUR mailing list.
ONRA:February11th,2010
Hafa Adai, Fighter athletes out of the Spike 22 Academy return from Taiwan with 2wins and a loss in Pacific Rim Organized Fighting on February 7th. Good luck to Saipan fighter athletes as Rites of Passage introduces Korea to CNMI MMA competition as they join the force to help Haiti in donating part of their event proceeds to the cause with their event this weekend. Jesse Taitano returns to Japan on March 23rd climb his ranking in Professional Shooto. In the absence and incubation of local ProfessionalMMA competition, , the MFL i s seeing a host of MMA competitors taking action from the cage to the field in local football. In our landmarking days of competitive BJJ and MMA, Guam’s highly evolved collective combat sports community and industry might want to offer its respect for a long time competitive martial arts advocate and Guam’s Brazilian Jiujitsu and Mixed Martial Arts pioneer. From our island’s earliest days of Brazilian Jiujitsu secret training to the internationally respected island Guam has established itself in international BJJ and MMA today, from the drawing board to his role in Guam’s first locally promoted MMA event promotion, as competitor,cornerman and almost everything else in between–Longtime instructor and martial arts advocate -John Calvo has received his Brazilian Jiujitsu black belt under Marcos Oliveira and Carlos Santos fronm EMIRATES TEAM (ABU-DHABI COMBAT CLUB). As our island’s third locally produced BJJ blackbelt ( Dan O’Connor received his black belt training off-island) thatCalvo has been a significant figure as one of the spearhead figures whove laid the foundation for a more sound infrastructure that has provided us with a consistently evolving entity in Martial arts training and industry. Much respect for the local fighter who first showed Guam that our people could win with armbars, chokes, and true technique aganst overseas NoHoldsarred Compettiion(NHB). Reflecting on some of the things Calvo has accomplished in a truly international and very eventful MMA venture–an invitation into the world’s most prestigious AbuDhabi Combat Championships grappling tournament, a sincere inquiry for participation in the at-the-time leader in World MMA entertainment PrideFighting Championships, an opportunity to compete against the at-the-time UFC World Champion Dan Severn–we can say that we had come very far even in our earliest days of the world-expanding MMA industry. What has been very interesting is the growing ambition that has turned into opportunity among Mariana Island fighter-athletes since NHB’ Competition’s debut in Guam almost a decade and a half later. with an island’s sincere respect and admiration for Professional MMA competition, our athletes have not only immersed themselves into the larger mix of world competition. Our islanders have world also established significant roles in the world industry in the likes of Richard Chou as the matchmaker for Strikeforce and local clothing company Shoyoroll gracing the uniforms of world champion athletes in highly broadcasted competition (to name a few). The long-term uphill challenge for a hand raised in victory of competition has respectfully offered, in its process a multi-pillared structure in a true rise of our islands, in and through the BJJ and MMA competition industry. Our imprint abroad illustrates that the efforts of the few in the past are being celebrated by the success of the many today. With the industry pointed in the right direction,(and this always demands attention) imagine what the efforts of the growing number of many can provide. Rooted, Dedicated, and focused–We are capable of massive things. Congratulations Calvo, Good Luck Taitano, Great Job Saipan. And For everyone, at the very least:Respect. Thanks for dropping by
RESPECT:RestInPeaceAndrewDuenas
February 11, 2010 by admin
Filed under GuamWatermen'sClub, Special Forces
RESPECT:There will be a special paddle out ceremony for the late AndrewDuenas at left side Malesso on the Wednesday Sunset February 10th. Rallying up at the parking lot starting 5pm at the Malesso pier or closeby to get everyone in motion to pay respects for the family and figure of one of Guams premiere big waveriders. Please bring flowers if can. pass it around
Incubation:FokaiInternational
February 9, 2010 by admin
Filed under Product Development
Fokai International: Missing in Action?
as cut and pasted from Total-MMA.com
Posted by Tommy Hackett on February 8th, 2010
One of the effects of MMA’s boom in popularity has been, predictably, a rise in MMA-themed merchandising. For a while it seemed everybody and their brother was beginning a line of MMA-themed apparell. Generally these companies featured T-shirts with awful “tap or snap” slogans, pitbulls, skulls, and the like. They were generally, to be perfectly honest, crap. Some have survived, some haven’t. A few, like Triumph United and Six Deuce, actually put out some nice designs — and it’s good to see them do well.
But there was an old guard, too, from the days MMA wasn’t all the rage: and some are still alive and kicking. Bad Boy, whose fight shorts were worn by seemingly every other fighter in the late 90’s, has made a return to the spotlight with such fighters as “Shogun” Rua — and the old “squinting eyes” logo, which I was always found somewhat irritating? It now seems, oddly enough, kind of classy. Of course, the TapOut story is well-known. Far from the days of hilariously cheap commercials like this one which showed up at the end of Hook n Shoot DVDs (and please accept my apologies if the implied nudity there offends anyone — it’s really not my style), they now have a big budget, their own reality TV show, and have become one of the biggest employers in their Southern California hometown.
But there’s one company from the “old days” which, more than any of the others, had two things going for them which would seem to be a combination for success. First, and most importantly, they have always put out great and unique designs. Second, their shirts were worn by Dana White in season one of The Ultimate Fighter, the show that really sparked MMA’s recent surge in popularity. If there were one company I’d have picked to break through, this would have been it.
Yet, despite some continued local success in their native Guam and a few parts beyond, they seem to have disappeared from the US mainland and had no part of MMA’s move to the mainstream.
I’m talking about Fokai International. Anyone else miss them a bit?
So what happened? Back around 2000 or so, Fokai kept a pretty high profile. They sponsored several big name fighters like Enson Inoue, and later, BJ Penn. You saw their logo at jiu-jitsu tournaments all over the place. Fokai retail shops popped up in California, a FokaiDamashii.com site took online orders, and I heard about a Fokai street team in Hawaii. The name was said to be a slang in Guam to “go for it,” and their slogans: “Since Ever Since,” “Exhaust the Body, Proceed the Mind, Cultivate the Spirit” were familiar to fans everywhere. It wasn’t just their designs that set them apart, it was a mellow, vaguely Buddhist, island vibe.
Now, MMA has blown up worldwide, but they seem to be nowhere to be found. I can’t even order from their website — but navigating it, I can see they have a presence in Ireland, of all places. But then, I look a bit more and the Fokai Ireland site appears to have not been updated since July 2009. Mostly the main Fokai site blogs their continued sponsorship of MMA and BJJ in Guam. It appears that their retail shops are still alive there. The Fokai Youtube Channel hasn’t offered anything new since 2008.
I’ve sent out an email to the contact there, and hopefully I’ll be able to find Total-MMA readers some answers this week, because I can’t be the only one who misses these guys.
Here’s a quick Fokai gallery in the meantime:
Dana White with representatives from Fokai at Grapplers’ Quest Las Vegas
The Fokai shop in Tumon, Guam
Fokai-sponsored Mike Fowler against Renzo Gracie at Abu Dhabi 2007
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February 8th, 2010 at 11:42 pm We feel very respected by this consideration and apologize to our supporters who might have been disappointed by our venture back into incubation.We have seen many labels coming up in the Martial arts industry and didnt care to get lost in the mix. we feel very honored for the support we have been receiving internationally and in gratitude for this support, we felt it was only healthy to focus on product, label,and community develeopment. though Fokai has originated in Guam, a very small island, we have been fortunate enough to find ourselves synergizing with a growing world community.
We are massively grateful for Dana White’s selfless support and thank Enson Inoue for opening the world doors for us in the MMA industry. We are honored to have worked wit great folks as previously mentioned and great events like Grapplers Quest. We hope to be an asset to not only the MMA industry but to everything that pertains to our extended and growing families.
There has been tons of discovery in teh Fokai Road and we can respect how we have many intersections with the positive (and unfortunately negative) roads of what we ultimately hope to extend in Fokai–a positive experience.
We will be returning once all systems are in place. trustfully speaking–better than ever.
Int he meantime,as it will always be a venture not quite to capitalize off MMA. More like to help and join in the many others that seek to cultivate it. its a great thing really and it has much to offer. it has definitely brought us to and through a great journey. we hope that if not, already, we will be ale to do the same.
Godbless you for such an inspiring write up.
from the heart–Hafa Adai.
Photos:ReggaeLegendsInThepark
February 9, 2010 by admin
Filed under 1008, CelebrityFokai, FokaiMusic, Special Forces
Brought to us by Paul Blas of FokaiMedia. Saina Ma’ase
