The 2008 Pan-Asian Brazilian Jujitsu International Tournament and the Pan Asian International Grappling Challenge was held at the Main Activity Center of SM-Mall of Asia on May 3 and 4, respectively.
The event was participated not only by various BJJ teams in the Philippines but also by BJJ practitioners from Borneo-Malaysia, Singapore, Phuket-Thailand and Shanghai-China.
I’ve taken around 400 pictures of the 2-day event. Of course can’t show them all here in this blog but I will give the organizers a CD of the pictures and hope they will post these in the official site of KMA-Team Fabricio www.bjjphilippines.com. The official list of winners will also be posted in the said site. Will post more pics soon.
By the way, Beck and I helped in the event by manning the weigh-in area.
The Tournament Banner
The Battle Arena. I’ve always dreamed to hold a muay thai event in this area, and like the tournament organized by KMA, will also be participated by amateur muay thai fighters from South East Asia. I’m already starting out by getting in touch with amateur muay thai groups in the ASEAN region.
The medals up for grabs
Em Matias (Team Fabricio) vs. May Masuda (Gracie Barra)
Melvynna Tambunan (Team Singapore) vs. Ashley Pueblo (Team Guam). Melvynna ( special thanks to Fabricio Teammate Jonna for the correct name) is one of the best female grapplers I’ve watched. The following day, she dominated the grappling tournament in such fashion that she was voted as Most Technical Fighter. The first female to be given such an honor.
Literally and figuratively, a very colorful player. His hair color would always match the color of his gi.
Me, Sir John and Sir Stephen wanting to get a piece of Karl. Sir John Baylon is a legend in Philippine Judo. He’s a member of the Philippine Judo Team since 1988 (one year before I started training in Judo, I’m 2nd year high school then) and competed in SEA Games since 1991 until 2007, he has no plans yet of retiring from active competition. He won a whopping 8 SEA Games gold medals.
