Manila Marathon: Five gyms in 48 hours!

My visit to Manila has been crazy hectic. Me and John managed to visit five gyms in just 48 hours from arriving here and I must admit I am pretty tired right now.

Today, we went to a burger challenge first (more about that later, but let me reveal right away that I won). Then we went to say hi to Wax, a pro boxer turned Jiu Jitsu geek. He had emailed me and offered to help me out with basically everything while I was here, and even though I was covered I still wanted to meet up with the guy. We drove to his boxing gym and ended up doing a spontaneous private boxing lesson with the coaches there. It was good fun to box a bit again, haven’t done that for years. I got my ass kicked by Wax in the ring in a round of friendly sparring. I did instinctually take him down with a double leg at one point, and also accidentally kneed him in the face lol. The place is called Elorde and I highly recommend anyone in Manila to check it out. It is run by Ziggy Roces who is a boxer and BJJ blue belt too actually.

Didn’t plan on boxing in the Philippines, but why not, it was a fun experience and made some new friends there for sure.

After boxing, we went directly to the B.A.M.F. gym (yes, it stands for Bad Ass Mother Fuckers) for a two and a half hour BJJ class. Some interesting details on attacks from the side control was shown and I managed to roll a few rounds, finally with Kauai Kimonos John as well.

Peewee had been driving us around all day, which was super nice of him. Good training with him too. After training we went for nice Mexican food wearing sweet hats.

I am so tired now, there is nothing left in me. Just finished washing up the gi’s in the bathtub, now it is time to sleep. Tomorrow I am going to Boracay to train BJJ on the beach!

Location:EDSA,Makati City,Philippines