Yesterday I went to this martial arts show in a nightclub in Uppsala, Birger Jarl, known among English speakers as Club BJ. Anyway, the show was pretty fun to watch; they had Muay Thai, jujitsu, capoeira and MMA. Aside from the fighting itself the stuff revolving around it was also pretty entertaining, from the announcer shouting, "Let's get ready to rumble!" in a Swedish accent to the fights having their own soundtracks (who hasn't wanted to fight to a good song?) to watching the girls holding the round cards get instructions before the fights. It was agreed that the jujitsu fight was by far the best; faster, harder more immediate and also just prettier than some of the other fights. And of course it's always more fun watching people if you know what techniques they're doing. Their fighting style reminded me a lot of the Ko Sho system, in fact.
The capoeira was sadly not an actual fight but a demonstration of acrobatics and coordination. Entertaining, but I really wanted to see an actual capoeira fight. The last fight was a free fight against an MMA guy and a Muay Thai guy (that rhymes!) but that wasn't very pleasant to watch. Judging from the punches to the kidneys, rabbit punches and kicking the opponent while they were down the only real rules seemed to be to stay in the ring and not kill anyone.
One thing I would have really wanted to see was a match against all these martial arts against one another. A jujitsu/capoeira match would have been just awesome. But even without it, it was still a fun time.
I learned this in class from an Australian and thought it was just worth mentioning: place a 2 liter water bottle in the water tank of your toilet. This reduces the water use for flushing from 7 to 5 liters. If you have a household of four people that in average uses the toilet 5 times per day and person this is a reduction of water use by 40 liters every day.
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6 comments:
that show sounds amazing! I wish they'd have those here...wow. Did the jj fight combine striking and grappling, I'm guessing/hoping? I agree, jj+capoeira would be interesting, or I'd like to see MT+capoeira.
So do you put a bottle in just to displace volume of water? Or like an empty bottle without a cap?
Jujutsu's hot.
Huh. It's been awhile since I misspelled 50% of the words in a sentence.
The jj was mostly grappling though there definitely were some strikes thrown in, mostly crescent or roundhouse kicks.
And it's a full bottle of water with the cap on to displace the volume, so the toilet thinks it's always 2 liters fuller than it actually is.
I think 'jujutsu' is the older/archaic way of spelling it. Then there's the Brazilians who spell it 'jiujitsu,' but I think they're more appropriately named when they go by BJ...J. Yes, sorry, bad joke =/ =)
BJJ at club BJ. hmm...
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