10th Planet Watch – 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu Van Nuys Blog

On April 17th, Henry’s TKD, of Christiansburg, Virginia, hosted an MMA Smoker to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.  Neale Hoerle, head coach of both 10th Planet Morgantown and the upcoming 10th Planet Lynchburg, attended as the event’s guest referee along with current Strikeforce World Champion, Sarah Kaufman, who sat in as a celebrity guest judge.

If you had issues with our previous guard break and pass video, you may want to give this one a shot; it’s unstoppable.

Madman/martial arts master and world class stoner Joey Karate brings you into his chaotic head with mma predictions, fight reviews, 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu techniques, weight watcher tips, cannabis dispensary tours, plus tons of random
insane insights and out takes

Ryan Hall sets up a slick Gogo Plata from a Flying Kung Fu move, off the Capoeira Pass.

And it stars Randy Couture!

10th Planet JJ Melbourne took 2 x gold and 3 silver and a bronze in the State BJJ titles just over a week ago.

I’m going to be tweeting from the UFC tomorrow. Please follow me! My account is @alder4000.

Good luck to Sean Bollinger an all the Legends MMA/10th Planet fighters who are competing in Las Vegas at Tuff-n-uff tonight. WAR!

MAIN CARD

* Champ Georges St-Pierre (170) vs. Dan Hardy (170)
* Shane Carwin (265) vs. Frank Mir (265)
* Fabricio Camoes (155) vs. Kurt Pellegrino (155)
* Jon Fitch (171) vs. Ben Saunders (169)
* Mark Bocek (154) vs. Jim Miller (155)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

* Nate Diaz (171) vs. Rory Markham (177)
* Ricardo Almeida (170) vs. Matt Brown (170)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Un-aired)

* Tomasz Drwal (185) vs. Rousimar Palhares (186)
* Jared Hamman (205) vs. Rodney Wallace (206)
* Matthew Riddle (170) vs. Greg Soto (170)

Today we made our way down to the NYC’s Radio City Music Hall for the UFC 111 press conference. This was an opportunity for Dana White and the combatants competing in the main events to address the media and the fans. Except for Shane Carwin. For whatever reason, he wasnt in attendence. After everybody spoke, the fans had an opportunity to take pictures and meet the fighters. It is my opinion, with this much support for MMA, New York needs to hurry up and legalize it already. It would bring tins of money to you’re state! How about Hardy’s first title defence being at Madison Square Gardens? That would be epic!

On a side note, the last episode of Primetime aired tonight. If you didn’t get a chance to peep it, it should be on the UFC’s website tomorrow or the next day. You’ll see why I’ve aquired the new nickname, “The Muscle.”

Hello gang, 10th Planet Burbank’s Alder Hampel checking in here. I arrived here today in Newark, NJ with Dan Hardy and striking coach, Steve Papp. We checked in with the UFC, and now the official countdown to UFC 111 begins! It’s been an amazing 2 weeks on the eastcoast, and I’d assume it’s only going to get crazier!

The trip began with my seminar in Christiansburg, VA at Henry’s TKD where I got to hang out with a who’s who of current and future 10th Planet affiliates. It’s always a pleasure to hang out with James, Jessica, Gwen and the rest of the gang. Good luck on the affiliation, I’m sure it’s coming soon. I expect to see some killers coming out if that school in the near future.

After leaving Christiansburg, I flew into New York’s JFK airport where I was picked up by Hardy and Papp. The gameplan was to finish up the last 3 weeks of Dan’s training camp in Saddle River, NJ before moving to Newark for the fight. We were also being followed by a camera crew 24/7 for the filming of the UFC’s Primetime show which airs on Spike T.V. The last of which will air Wednesday the 24th of March.

Dan’s reason for choosing to come out NJ early was to one to get acclimated to the time zone before the fight. The other reason was to come out and train with world famous strength and conditioning coach, Joe DeFranco. His reputation for creating absolute monsters and for pushing professional atheletes to their maximum potential is demonstrated in the documentary “Strong.”

Everything was set until rumors we were going to be training with former UFC welter weight champion, Matt Serra, started circulating. This was news to us, but when UFC president Dana White called, things changed. Mr. White had contacted Serra and a new gameplan was set into place. We were now going to split our time between NJ, and Long Island where GSP destroyer, Matt Serra, calls home.

For the last two weeks Hardy has been sharpening the blade into a razor. You haven’t seen a bigger, stronger, faster, slicker, more explosive and more focused Dan Hardy ever! It’s my professional unbiased opinion that come March 28th, we will see the welter weight championship belt change hands.

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