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PLEASE COME DOWN TO THE ATRIO ON NOVEMBER 19TH FROM 6PM TO 11PM AND SUPPORT THE GUAM JUDO TEAM IN RAISING MONEY TO COMPETE IN THE EAST ASIAN GAMES IN DECEMBER!
ALL IN SUPPORT OF SENDING OUR ATHLETES TO REPRESENT GUAM IN HONG KONG, Please Attend!! YOU CAN BUY TICKETS AT THE DOOR OR CONTACT Ric “RJ” BLAS AT 788-3446 PLEASE COME OUT AND SUPPORT!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

- TICKETS ARE $10.00 (comes with a beer and food)
- GREAT RAFFLE PRIZES!

**If you can’t make it but still want to support us…mail in your monetary donation to:
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Hagatna, GUAM 96932

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Local Sports  –   Thursday, May 27, 2004 Dela Cruz will swim to honor late father By Mark-Alexander Pieper Pacific Daily News Masako Watanabe/Pacific Daily News/mwatanabe@guampdn.com His father’s son: Roman Dela Cruz stretches before starting a training swim at Ypao Beach. Dela Cruz is training for the 14th Annual International Cocos Crossing Sunday in Merizo. TO THE POINTRoman Dela Cruz said his father Victor Dela Cruz‘s motto had always been: “Try to do something good for somebody else.” It’s the reason why Roman Dela Cruz will honor his father’s memory by swimming in Sunday’s 14th Annual International Cocos Crossing. Victor Dela Cruz was going to swim in the race to raise money to help build a library for his alma mater, Don Bosco Technical Institute, in the Philippines. To help out, call 472-1008. For more than eight months, Victor Dela Cruz would swim about 10 hours a week, watched over by his sons and a family friend. The 59-year-old was training to swim the 14th Annual International Cocos Crossing as a means to raise money to help build a library for his alma mater, Don Bosco Technical Institute, in the Philippines. But a little more than two weeks ago, when Dela Cruz decided to tackle the 2-mile stretch in Tumon Bay from Ypao Beach Park to the Hotel Nikko Guam for his first saltwater swim, something went terribly wrong. On the morning of May 8, Dela Cruz was supposed to meet his sons, Carlo and Roman, and family friend and lifeguard Chris Benito for a training session. But that morning, Benito had to work and Carlo Dela Cruz, who had watched his father swim for the first 20 minutes, got called to work for an emergency. Roman Dela Cruz arrived at the training ground a few minutes after his brother left and jumped in the water to catch up with his dad but he never did — Victor Dela Cruz had drowned in the water off the Guam Marriott Resort. “He was in really good shape, but for whatever reason, just the way things went, his number was called,” said Roman Dela Cruz, 29, co-founder of Fökai Industries. “So now, basically what I’m doing is, I’ve committed a big part of my life to bringing some kind of closure to my father’s death. So I’m swimming the Cocos (Crossing) not as a race but as an attempt to honor my father and complete his last good deed.” Roman Dela Cruz, a bodyboarder and mixed martial artist, said while he swam the 2.2-mile Cocos Crossing in Merizo two years ago, it’ll be a challenge for him to have only two weeks of training to complete the arduous swim. Benito said it would be dangerous for a swimmer who has trained for only two weeks to attempt a race that takes most swimmers more than an hour to finish. Roman Dela Cruz, however, is an exception because of his high level of physical fitness and familiarity with Guam’s waters, Benito said. With the help of his brothers Carlo and Victor Jr., and Benito, Roman Dela Cruz is confident he will finish after building his endurance the last two weeks by running, biking and even swimming the course that so recently claimed his father’s life. “I try not to focus on the waters that killed my father but more so on that those were the waters that made him so alive,” he said. “Doing the swim, you know I’m glad I’m in water because I think it’d be embarrassing to show all those tears. “I haven’t really said goodbye to my father, and I never will totally say goodbye to my father but my Dad was a very, very good man, and I think for me this is another way to bring honor to the life he lived.”  Email this story Originally published Thursday, May 27, 2004

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ONRA:November 5th, 2009

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Looks like GuamMixed  Martial Arts has been venturing more frequently through Japan:

Its a late congratulations for SunKooChu–as he became the 20th annual Ken-Ho Open Weight Champion at 75kilos after 2KO victories and one decision win three in a single night in Kyuushuu Japan in October 12th. Jesse” SpiderMan” Taitano was stopped by Mamoru Yamaguchi 4:41 seconds into the First Round of their long-awaited battle in Vale Tudo Japan 2009. Guam makes international news as it was published in www.Sherdog.com that the event Deep Impact will be colalborating with PacificXtreme Combat for special exchange matchups between the respective Guam and Japan title events in early 2010.

In the CNMI:
Saipan promoters continue to invite Guam grapplers to the Art of War 4 at the Ada Gym on November 14th.

Guerilla Warfare:Confrontation will be presenting Saipan’s First Title Championsip with their 3rd event on November 21st at the Saipan World Resort Hotel, Tetsuji Kato returns again to Japan MMA on November 23rd in Professional Shooto at the JCB Hall in TokyoJAPAN.And, though originally set for December 4thTrenchWarz 11:Redemption will be allowing Saipan MMA to refresh itself with the rescheduling of their event til December 18th.

With all this MMA activity it’s always good reason to go back to basics and that weve defintiely got a good one as the world famous Multiple Brazilian Jiujitsu world champions Guilherme and Rafael Mendez Brothers will be arriving on island this weekend for a seminar for Guam BJJ and a one week instructional to further prepare members of the Purebred/Lloyd Irvin Jiujitsu Academy for the end of Novembers TokyoInternational Open Jiujitsu Championships.

The topic of Underground fighting events has been mentioned often in the past and has recently resurfaced. First, let it be said that the rise of MMA did not invent physical confrontation in the islands–street fights have been happening everywhere for a long time.  Second, though it is widely agreed that MMA isnt the sole source of supposed “underground fights”, this industry is largely responsible for attracting our youth to curiosities of the excitements that come with (combat) sports. Third, for those of you who might be organizing or involved with these “underground events”–please reconsider,please tread lightly, because you are playing with fire. If you are truly competition hungry, if you want to learn, if you want to progress, and immaturely speaking : If you think you’re bad” then try to take advantage of the more frequent competitions that are taking place in amateur combat sports, whether it be Tae kwon Do, High School Wrestling, BJJ, etc…

Even if live MMA never arrived int he islands–with the advances in technology/media and the globalization of MMA, our people would have been exposed to the sport that seems to be taking the athletic entertainment world by storm. Though we should be cautious of the fact that the growth of our local industry has our children competition-curious into what can reasonably be considered a dangerous venture, we should also be appreciative of the fact that, in all our accumulated years of first-hand industry, training, and competitive experience–there are knowledgeable and qualifiable elements that can be sourced for guidance, solutions, and hopefully redirection from the energy wasted in youth violence.

Our new and changing days in MMA have seen the tremendous development of our fighters and the international representation of our islands. As our fighter-athletes might try to grow in the sport as competitors, as we might cheer for our favorite fighters and support their fundraisers as fans–we must not forget the responsibilities that we have to the community as citizens.

On so many levels, martial arts can be a very passionate venture and avery powerfultool. Like fire it can either burn or warm. Like water it can either drown or hydrate.

Witht he popluarization of this sport–it is key that at the earliest levels of training, we encourage and enforce the ethic and etiquette of living way before we enforce the ethic and etiquette of training.

In this perspective, we can udnerstand that martial arts is not just about enhancing our skills in fighting, its about enhancing our skills in life.

Keep the Martial Arts in Mixed Martial Arts.

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