UFC 65 - GSP!!

UFC 65
Georges St. Pierre is the Welterweight UFC champion! Yeah!! And he did it in impressive fashion – dominated Matt Hughes from the start, resisting submissions and keeping the fight to a stand-up game. The final blow – a left kick to the head which just dropped Hughes on his ass!! But GSP had gotten in a number of excellent punches, kicks and knees throughout both rounds. Awesome fight. Yeah for Canada!! The Heavyweight championship fight with Tim Silvia and Jeff Monson wasn’t impressive at all – a lot of standing around throwing little punches. Monson tried to take Silvia down a number of times, but Silvia countered with sprawls which did give Monson any chance for a mount. The fight went 5 full rounds, with a unanimous decision to Silvia, but BORING!

I did a 3 hour Filipino martial arts (or Kali) session yesterday afternoon. This has the potential of being a very vicious form of self-defense! It is actually a system martial art techniques that employs single, double and short-long weaponry, as well as grappling and hand-to-hand combat. It’s an extremely effective long and short-range combat MA, used by Filipino warriors. Very effective for injuring or killing your opponent, with or without a weapon, as well as for disarming an attacker. We worked with two rattan sticks, one short to represent a dagger, and the other a 2.5’ staff which represents either a stick or a sword. It’s very different than Muay Thai, more complicated I found, but I think complimentary, Kruu believes in being well-rounded, and I think that once a week I will take Kali along with MT. Never hurts to know these techniques, although I hope that I never have need for them except in practice/training!