Hello my friends! I haven’t been able to get a computer yet, car sales hasn’t been going too good lately. Unfortunately I have to keep my blog short cause I’m[...]
Hello my friends! I’m sure no one cares but I haven’t been able to blog since my apartment was broken in to twice and my computer along with other things[...]
Hello My Friends!
Wanderlei Silva and I
At sparring on Tuesday night I went my first round with Wanderlei Silva also known as ”The Axe Murderer”. He was the Pride World Champion at 205 lbs and also undefeated in Pride for five years. He is the biggest legend in MMA. Pride was a way tougher organisation to fight for than UFC. OK, back to sparring.. The first round is always the lightest at Wand Fight Team sparring. Halfway through the first round I looked at the clock to see how many seconds were left and it said 3:35 and I was already tired cause Wanderlei likes to keep a high pace. I thought we had missed the bell and that we were on our second round. The truth was that he had set the rounds to six minutes. Wanderlei was used to 10 minute rounds from the Pride days. Halfway through the round we pick up the pace. I landed a couple jabs to the head and then focus more on the body and landed a few kicks to the inside of the legs and he came back with some good kicks and punches. We had a pretty even trade off but when he hits or kicks there is power behind it, obviously haha:) Anyways I made it out of the first round alive:)
The second round I went with another really good fighter from Brazil. We went at a very high pace, I managed not to get hit once in six minutes but I had to use a lot of offense to do so and it drained the crap out of me.
Third round I was thinking about resting cause the first two rounds were so intense so I was going to spar with my friend ”Crazy Legs”, his real name is Jay Orallo and got that name from his crazy and fast kicks, he is like Bruce Lee, but twice as big.
The round was about to start and Wanderlei went PSSSST pretty loud to get my attention and I looked at him and he looked at me so I looked to see if there was anyone behind me just to make sure that I was the guy he wanted to spar and everyone watching behind the chain fence started laughing cause it looked hilarious haha:) This round was awesome. We went at a good pace for the entire six minutes.
We traded off equally and he landed some good hard typical War Wand flurries to my dome and I was happy for not getting knocked out or cut cause that is what happens to most people who spar with him. He landed a super hard punch to my liver so I had to pause for a moment and then we went at it again. I wear socks when I spar and at one point Wanderlei stepped on my foot and pulled my sock off and picked it it and threw it at me like a distraction and hit me while it was in the air haha:) I actually landed a high kick and he landed one right back we both pulled back when going for the high kicks. We weren’t trying to kill eachother. That reminds me of what he said before sparring one time and this is a great Wanderlei Silva quote: ”You guys are training, you don’t have to kill eachother, just try to.” after he said that everyone got quiet until Wanderlei laughed..haha haha then everyone else did as well:) He has a good sense of humor.
Thiago Silva, me, and Wand after sparring in late 2009
After sparring we took an ice bath for 5 minutes. The ice bath is really nice after a hard training like that. I would definitely recommend it to any athlete who trains very hard.
Ice bath
The best part about the training was when I was about to leave Wanderlei came up to me and gave me a hug and said that my standup is very good, ”very very good” and that I am very hard to guard. Coming from a legend like that just motivates the crap out of me:) I am so thankful I get to train with him and everyone else at Wand Fight Team. Here is a cool highlight video of Wanderlei before he started using gloves..
I posted an update on facebook the other day about how how I was working out on my doorstep and here is the video for all you people who wondered how the heck I did that haaaha:)
I keep telling people that I don’t work out with weights any more and people ask me how I stay in shape so here is a video of one of my home workouts without weights. Trust me if you do this every other to every three days you will build some serious strength.
Right now I’m packing to go back to California for my military training…Ill be back:)
Any questions or comments go in the comment box at the bottom of this page:)
Thank you!
Hello my Friends!
I had a fight set up for the 28th of this month against Joseph Mengali who fights for Freestyle. I was very excited to get the fight. I just recently found out that he couldn’t fight because of an Injury so I was pretty upset for a moment. I decided to ask the matchmaker from Tuff N Uff if I could fight John Gettle who is undefeated and the same guy who broke my teammate’s arm off. This would be a great fight for my career and a fight that I really want.
From Facebook:
- Daniel Johan Mackie May 11 at 11:09pm: What about john gettle..let me fight him .
- Sean Ashby May 11 at 11:46pm: We can probably have you fighting him on July 2nd. He is out of town for Memorial Day weekend fights.
Later on I wrote him again saying that I really want to fight on the second of July and here is what he wrote:
-Sean Ashby May 12 at 10:29pm: No problem, man. I am working on getting Gettle for you.
It isn’t official yet so I’m going to keep reminding him until it is :)
Last week my car broke down and I lost my phone so it was a rough week. I had to stay at my friends house cause he didn’t feel like driving me home and picking me up in the morning, and I don’t blame him. I had to sleep on the floor since he didn’t have any furniture cause he had just moved in. It wasn’t too bad though. The guys name is Adan and he is Mexican so I got to eat a lot of good mexican food while I was there hahah:)
Mexican food!
I ate good!
I bought a 1989 Toyota Celica for $500. It is red, old looking, and fits into the neighborhood quite well. The car has 161 000 miles on it it but it is a Toyota and they never stop going, not even if you hit the brakes hahaha:) I’m just waiting on the guy to give me the title so I can get it registered.
My new ride:) 1989 Toyota Celica
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Training has been good. Sparring has been smooth and fluent. I wish I had more time to spend at the gym, but I have to work to put food on the table for my beautiful family. I have been doing a lot more training outside the gym. Running, pushups, dips, and all sorts of weird stuff.
Thank you for reading!
All questions or comments go in the comment box at the bottom of this page:)
Hello my friends!
First I would like to congratulate Sweden’s Reza ”MAD DOG” Madadi for defeating Junie Browning! It was total domination!
Junie Browning got dominated by Reza Madadi..Yeah!
It has been a long week. Work has consumed most of my time. The last week of the month is always the most busy one in the car business. I worked all day everyday hahaha.
It was really windy this last week, winds up to 80 mph were recorded. Wind is the worst enemy to the car business. People rather come out in the rain to look at cars, especially women cause they are worried about their hair getting messed up..
I took my Tuesday off so I could get some good sparring but other than that I didn’t get to do much training at Wand Fight Team.
My stand up was good but not at my best. My ground game has improved a lot. I can control people on the ground now and I’m actually starting to submit people. I pulled off four submissions so I was stoked hahah:)
I did run a couple times in the neighborhood and I’ve been doing some hood circuit training so at least I’m getting better stamina hahah:)
Here I come, TUFF N UFF!
I really want to fight a.s.a.p. I’m going to try to get on this months TUFF N UFF card at the Orleans Casino here in Las Vegas. TUFF N UFF puts on fights once a month typically and is a great place to get some experience. It is a very proffessional organisation from what I have seen when I was at last months event when two of my friends from Wand Fight Team fought and won.
My swedish friend and team member Gabriella Lakoczky will be fighting for the TUFF N UFF title on May 28.
Gabriella Lakoczky
It is getting close to 10:00 pm so I’m going to head on out for a run before it gets too late.
Take care everyone:)
Any questions or comments go in the comment box at the bottom of this page..Kablaaam!
Hello my friends!
Sprints!!
I have been very busy with training and work. Here is a video blog with me doing Jermaine’s workout in the hood. I’ll have a better update when I get more time to write:)
Thank you!
Questions or comment go in the comment box at the bottom of this page.
Hello, my friends! I’ve been very busy and haven’t been able to update in a while..Sorry..
I was down on Fremont Street the other day and ran into Don Faison, the guy who plays ”Turk” in the show ”Scrubs”.
He was there shooting a pilot for some show where he is going to be a cop. Don is a very funny and down to earth guy. It was pretty cool talking to him.
You never know who you will run into in Las Vegas haha…
Me and Don Faison aka Turk from Scrubs
My foot looks normal and feels almost ok so I’m going to do some sparring tonight. I can’t wait, sparring is like a drug to me, very addicting and if I don’t get it I start having withdrawals.
I was in California over the weekend drilling with my unit. After my wife picked me up from San Francisco airport she drove me home and made me some really good russian food with dessert. Check it out and be jelaouse..
Russian made meal..Delicious!!
Dessert!!!
I spent one day with my family and then we drove down to Roseville. We stopped at Denny’s on the way there. Here is a vid of my wife and my baby Bjorn at Denny’s.
At drill we went over some weapon systems and did inventory. After drill I got to spend some more time with my family and friends. Saturday night me, my wife and Joey Williams went to Mandango’s in Roseville to watch the fights. I got to armwrestle a pretty manly woman there. She wanted to go twice and the second time she licked my hand thinking that I was going to give up hahah weird stuff…
Anderson Silva is amazing. He didn’t finish the fight but the first two rounds were awesome.
On Sunday I got to spend some time with my old friend Emil Mikitiuk, my Ukranian brother.
Me, My wife Sasha, Natasha and Emil Mikitiuk in Roseville, Ca.
I’m going to take a nap before I go sparring so this is it for now. If you have any questions or comments they go in the comment box at the bottom of this page!
Thank You!
Hello my friends!
Lately I have just been lifting weights and working on my strength. Today I worked out my whole upper body and my pump was amazing after I did 5 sets of dips. The pump is amazing and Arnold describes it the best so I’ll let him do it hahah The last part is hilarious!
My foot is still pretty jacked up, but it will heal with time. The swelling kinda went to other areas and I now have weird shaped bruising in areas that didn’t get hurt. I got a picture from this morning about a week after the incident.
Any Doctors who would like to give a prognosis? Estimated time to start training again?
I would like to congratulate two friends of mine, Warren Roberds for winning his first fight for WFT and Gabriella Lakoczky for winning her first fight for Wand Fight Team. She is one out of two girls that fight on the girl side of Wand Fight Team and she is from Sweden like me. She is from Gothenburg, not as cool as my city Linkoping hahah.. I wrote about her a few blogs back and here is a video of her that I took on Friday night when she fought at the Orleans Casino!
One of my trainers is trying out for the Ultimate Fighter show and I hope he makes it because it is a huge jump in anyones mma career to get on it and I do believe that if he does get on it that he will win. He is ridiculously good on the ground and an awesome person. Here is the Try Out Vid For Sidney Silva!
Two police officers have each been docked five days’ wages for racist slurs made during disturbances in Malmö’s Rosengård district in December 2008.
In the film sequence, officers make a number of racist and threatening comments
“You little monkey son of a bitch. Should I make him sterile when I catch him?” said one police officer on the tape.
”Yeah, he’s going to get beaten so badly that he won’t be able to stand on his own two legs,” answered a colleague.
This was taken out of an article on www.thelocal.se
( http://www.thelocal.se/25738/20100325/ )
which is a swedish news in english website. I read it cause it is interesting to see how swedish news is translated into english hahaha:)
What angers me about this is that they let people who think like this stay on the police force. Who knows how many people they have abused and how many people they are going to abuse just because of their ethnicity. These officers are corupt and how can the police force be respected if they don’t get rid of these infected people? Get rid of them cause they are trash!
Thank you all for the support and if you have any questions or comments they go in the comment box at the bottom of this page.
Hello all my friends!
On Monday night I got to the gym at 8pm to do some pro mma training. Before I got there I had just eaten a nice homecooked meal at one of my customers friends house, and I had met some very nice people there.
My sexy foot hahah
What happened was that when I kicked the elbow the vein on the top of my foot popped. Now this is my own diagnosis since I dont have insurance. I am definitely not a doctor but I hope this is what happened cause if it has anything to do with the bone it will take longer to heal. The top of my foot hurts like hell and it is still swollen but the swelling is spread more evenly throughout the foot now. It is wednesday now and the pain seems to be getting worse but the swelling is going down. Anyways back to monday when this all happened.After sparring I drove home with one shoe on cause there was no way I’d be able to get that ugly looking foot into a shoe.
As I was parking I see two white guys walking down the street and this is very unusual where I live. When I get out of my car I say hi and immediately one of the guys tells me that he will pay me $20 to get out of the neighborhood and he seems very worried. I said ”yeah, but don’t try anything crazy cause I will kill you if I have to”. I didn’t know these people and wanted to make sure they wouldn’t try to rob me or anything. I didn’t take any money from them and drove them home. I found out from the guy who offered me the money that he ended up there by accident and he was very worried that someone might rob or kill him in that neighborhood. He works at Planet Hollywood in Ceasars Palace Casino. He seemed like an ok guy after talking to him for about 15 minutes. As I drop him off he thanks me for saving his life and I really didn’t do anything but give him a ride. When I get home I get a call from his girlfriend and she thanks me and tells me how she prayed for god to bring her husband home and that I was the angel who did it, she was very sweet. We made plans to meet at Planet Hollywood the next day and have lunch.
On tuesday, before I took off to go to lunch I stopped and talked to my neighbors and filmed the guard dogs. The bigger pitbull in the video I sometimes take for a walk in the neighborhood. If you want to see two pitbulls going at it then watch this vid. The lady who gets stuck behind the chain that the pit was pulling across her legs was fine after a few minutes. After filming I went straight to the casino. Sensitive viewers be advised!
Inside of Planet Hollywood..Rocky has too good of reach on me:)
Before I get there I sign up for a players card at the casino and they give me $5 free slotplay which I ended up turning into $60 which was nice.
The lunch was awesome, good conversations and amazing food. I had pasta in some kind of tomato sauce with chicken mm..mmm.. And it was free:)
I also got to know Alyssa And Jason a little better, two very nice people, and very thankful. We are going to all hangout again whenever I get some free time.
Inside Ceasars Palace Forum Shops with Alyssa and Jason.
Thank you for all the support!
Any comments or questions go in the comment box at the bottom of this page:)
Today after standing out in the heat all day at work I went to Subway and bought a Footlong chicken breast sandwich on honey oat bread. I put, provolone cheese, tomatoes, pickles, cucumber green bell peppers, banana peppers, and onions on it. I got home at 6pm and took a nap. At seven pm I got up and left to go to Wand Fight Team training.
Forrest Griffin and me at Wand Fight Team:)
The first thing I do when I get to the gym is go use the restroom. The restroom has two showers in it and two toilets and a little four foot long bench. The whole room is about 8×10 feet including the showers. As I walk in I see a half naked guy sitting on the bench and he looks very familiar. I did a double take cause the face was so familiar and it was the former UFC light heavy weight champion of the world, Forrest Griffin, and he was looking at me and probably thinking to himself ”why are you staring at me while I’m halfnaked in the restroom, stranger” hahahah
I didn’t want to be rude and not say hi, but at the same time to most people it would be kinda weird to start conversation in the restroom with a stranger, but we are fighters so I introduced myself really quick, used the restroom and talked to him some more after he was done in there. Forrest is one of the nicest people you’ll ever talk to. I didn’t try to bother him too much since he was there to train.
After speaking with Forrest Griffin I warmed up doing a light round of sparring. Then I went a round with a Kosovo-Albanian guy who will be fighting for the titel at the Tuff n Uff event here in Las Vegas for amateurs. The round was pretty light with it being the second round only. The third round was pretty intense. I went against a kickboxer who had some really fast kicks but was able to keep any of them from landing. I think he used them more as defense strategy to keep me away from him. He was swinging and kicking like he was trying to take me out. As all people know who does fighting the harder the other guy goes, you have to go just as hard to let them know that they can’t unleash on you without getting hurt themselves. Some people will say lets take it easy or slow down a bit, but I love it. It ends up being the closest thing to a fight and I believe that is how one gets their ultimate training out of sparring. I was landing most of what I threw at him but I wasn’t trying to knock him out so I threw a lot of body shots and leg kicks and ended up taking him down for some ground and pound to the mid section.
I also sparred with Warren Roberds who is fighting very soon. He is a great fighter just like the other guys I sparred with but we went pretty light since he is fighting soon. He shouldnt have a problem winning his next fight, he fought Randy Couture’s son during the recording of Wanderlei Silva’s reality show and it went very well for him. I can’t really give you any more details;)
After practice I filmed a little bit around the gym to show everyone what a state of the art gym it is and how positive it is in there and hopefully more people will want to come and join cause the more fighters the merrier:)
If you have any comments or questions please leave them in the comment box at the bottom of this page;)
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