ONRA:April7th,2011

Hafa Adai,

Both with successful performances in tryouts for TheUltimateFighter and both with successful records in stateside Mixed Martial Arts– former Guam residents HermanTorrado and JoeDuarte will be facing AJ Matthews and Saad Awad respectively in Strikeforce:Diaz vs.Daley in San Diego this weekend.

Also this weekend Universal Alliance’s Luis Reyes, Jon Tuck  & John Meno will competing in the Abu Dhabi World Pro No Gi Championships.

Good Luck to all our island representatives.

“Now, the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation is proud to follow suit and announce its movement to include the newly recognized wrestling styles of grappling, pankration, submission grappling, beach wrestling and mixed martial arts…

…For this purpose, the Guam Amateur Wrestling Federation would like to invite any person who would like to be involved in this exciting new phase of Guam’s participation in international mat competition to a meeting 4 p.m. April 16 at the Guam National Olympic Committee third-floor meeting room in Mongmong-Toto-Maite“

–Neal Kranz—April 2^nd, PacificDailyNews

For more information regarding the April 16 meeting, please call Jerome Fejerang at 483-8917…

Word! What an amazing unfolding of events after Guam’s first committed steps in our island’s enrollment to the Brazilian Jiujitsu and Mixed Martial Arts experience. Roughly 15years in the making and the consistent headlines of competition news and industry ventures from our island all across the world have met yet another catalyst to cement one more masterpiece in opportunity and world recognition.

SubmissionGrappling and Pankration are headed for the Olympics.?.?

QuestionMark or Period—an exclamation point lingers closeby as the mere association of these 9words should be enough to catch the attention of what has been aiming for recognition and acknowledgement by the world’s most authoritative athletic governing body.

Theres been a lot of discussion in the past about Jiujitsu, Grappling or Mixed Martial Arts eventually making it into the Olympics and now closer than ever,  the opportunity is rising and is pointed at our front door.

It’s inviting to hear is that an established organization such as FILA recognizes the skill, technique, and overall athletic value of our talked-about combat sports and has actually introduced to even larger governing bodies what many local fighter-athletes and advocates have been reflecting ever progressively from our local sport’s infancy 15years ago into its adolescence today.

Anticipating that submission grappling, Jiujitsu, and Pankration will find its way into the Opening ceremonies of the Olympics—what measures are we willing to take that Guam truly puts its best feet forward to escort over 15years of momentum into

the worlds greatest arena?

Respectfully speaking–How much consideration and resources will larger organizations like the Guam Visitors Bureau and the Guam National Olympic Committee invest towards helping our jiujitsu,grappling and pankration program(s)?

Respectfully speaking—how hard will our local fighter-athlete development work to put not just its best athletes forward—but our best island-representatives?

With Guam and the Marianas connections already established in world Jiujitsu and world mixed martial arts—how are these relationships and momentum going to come into play now that we might be aiming for the Olympics?

How will the movements of the GAWF gel with the efforts of Guam’S Jiujitsu experience?

Will FILA’s added ingredient to the Grappling and MMA formula improve the industry and social dynamic of our professional and amateur combat sports locally? Internationally?

Surely there are a lot more inquries that will rise inside and outside of that April 16^th meeting but for now –Just some pretty cool questions for some really cool things that’s cool to see happen for some pretty cool sports.

Cool.

Thanks for dropping by.