Onra:February9,2012

Hafa Adai,

February 18^th looks to mark a big day for Guam Martial Arts as on the homefront Guam Kyokushin Karate will host the 5th Freshman Karate Tournament at the Dededo Sports Complex, in the Philippines PXC29 will feature GroundFu and Guam’s Jesse Taitano and Ryan Bigler as their main event bouts and a timezone away 17 members from Team Purebred/LloydIrvin  will be competing in the PanKidsJiujitsu tournament in California ..

Congratulations to Scotty Duenas and Maria Dunn for their gold medal finishes in  the 2012Oceania Championships  and hats off to a job well done in BJJs long and winding road for Guam’s newest blackbelts Patrick Fleming, Omar Damian, and Will Escobar of Team Purebred/Lloyd Irv in.

Guam is honored to again host a direct descendant of the martial arts pioneers that changed the world—Welcome back to Guam Carlson Gracie Jr.! Sincere hope and confidence that you will find within your students and others that Jiujitsu is flourishing profusely where America’s day begins.

A few weeks back the guys from BudoVideos .com were on Guam filming at different grappling academies across the island, interviewing many of the pioneers and new faces regarding the past, present, and future of what could be considered Guam’s most popular martial art.

As of this week–That end product is available online on their website.

Budovideos .com has done a magnificent job in opening windows  online to some of the greatest grappling tournaments in the world—the AbuDhabisCombat Championships, the Jiujitsu World Championships,etc… They definitely have their hands full and it says a lot that they would literally travel thousands of miles to broadcast Guam’s jiujitsu story. The 44minute and 37second piece is an excellent opportunity for online viewers  to get a backstage glimpse into the perspectives of the different academies that illustrate Guam’s growingly elaborate picture. At the very least 330 people already like it. Dial into www.budovideos.com or find its link on www. Fokai.tv  and  see what the fuss is about and come witness a description of the islands far beyond the grass skirts, brown tree snakes, power outages, and other misleading topics of conversation that miserably fail to reveal the proper picture of the island we love, live in, and fight for.

Jiujitsu has done this much for the island and with the long list of talent in the waiting—athletically the future looks promising.  With the good intentions  of our industry, the hard workof our , and with the  critical and undying  support of its  fans-Jiujitsu in Guam has proven itself to be a truly honorable effort and an extremely successful venture.

Certainly the benefits of Jiujitsu training have given us more than enough reason to enroll in an academy, to talk about endlessly, and to convince friends to join in all the fun. And though it might not be the main focus of our training—its Good to see how the online world is digesting Jiujitsu on Guam as training in paradise.

Because its something that we have not only digested well—but something we have reprocessed even more positively.

Thanks for dropping by,