Long day at the office in Manila today

So after training and going out last night, we decided to do two classes in two different gyms today.

We started out at the VPF/Atos gym at 4:30. There was lots of people in the class and the atmosphere was great. A big group of good blue belts and the two instructors, Ali Sulit and Ralph Go, was highly skilled brown belts. Ali was teaching the class and had some great details on passing the guard. As I rolled with them later, they did lots of pressure passing, which fits my game perfectly. Lots of stuff that will go right in the notebook :)

After two hours of training, we were soaked in sweat and dead tired. There was a lot of hard work done in that gym tonight. We hadn’t had enough yet though, so we took a taxi to Newbreed. It was a small class with a purple belt instructor, one blue belt and three white belts. Nice little place though and good training. I was ridiculously tired but still managed to do the entire class and roll with almost everyone. The instructor was very good and had a guard game I should work more on being able to defend. Good experience!

After training, Francis from the Newbreed gym took us out to get some local food. It was super nice, really good to have a local recommend us something.

Now it is time to sleep at the love hotel (rate just gone up for the weekend!), the tomorrow we’ll hit one or two more gyms :)

Location:EDSA,Makati City,Philippines