5-19-2007
Went to SCMA for no-gi (too much traffic for gi). We practiced some mount techniques:
Rolled with a Rigan Machado MMA fighter named Andrew. He had on the blood-stained vale tudo shorts and rash guard and seemed very experienced. However, I still dominated. Maybe he took too much time off and needs to get back into it.
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Went to the GFC with Brian and Joe. Bob and his mom and girlfriend went seperately. Sheri, his son, and Lon Chaney and his girl friend, and Donny's wife came too. There are a few others I didn't know that well from UFF too. Donny cornered Billy. It was a long trip, but Joe drove.
I liked most of the fights. Maia was really impressive, and I was surprise that you could twist the shoulder that way during the sweep. Intentional or not, that was one of my favorite moves of the night. I really liked watching the Cardellas/Dias fight too. I rarely get to see two black belts fighting each other in MMA both using their jits to fight. It was a war with lots of counters and recounters, but I am glad Cardellas won. He not only did more damage from the guard, but was more active than his opponent. This was my favorite fight of the night. I also like the two heel hooks of the night as well in other matches. Textbook perfect.
My boy Bill got destroyed by Jacare. I don't know what happened, he just made a series of mistakes and Jacare was perfect as usual. Billy really is better than his performance last night, but neither his strategy nor his mindset seemed to be together. No excuses, Bill was outclassed that night. Hopefully Bill bounces back and Jacare continues his domination in bigger orgs.
I was also disappointed with the result of the George Bush/Vinicius Magalhaes fight. Both me and my friends thought Magalhaes barely edged out a victory. We also thought he should have tried to take it to the ground earlier. He had good groundwork and had some good kicks (what was that in the beginning? LOL) but took a little too much damage I guess.
I can see why the GFC sold so few tickets. There were too many technical difficulties, slightly overpriced tickets for the demand. They could have gone without the Jiu Jitsu infomercials too. We liked the GFC pyramid, though. If they just polish it up some, then the event as a whole would probably get a lot more ticket sales. It was still entertaining, though.
P.S. Jacare, don't do your jacare-imitation when the audience's home-town team just lost to the Gators...
