Ok so a few new people in the house adam kiely and jim hodges both from the uk and here for about 3 weeks and keen to train, we took them for a day down the beach to view the women and pepe beach. training has been pretty relaxed this week as we trained hard for the last comp.

ok first of all let me thank dennis for pushing me hard this week you will prep me for this torniment but you will not break me. secondly id like to thank all at connection rio including training partners and house mates as i havent been my usual self due to tiredness hard training sessions and my little brother had a muay thai fight today witch makes me nervous more than my fights especially when i cant be there. so as you may tell its been a hard week training and its not over yet the torniment is next week and i have 3 hard days left befor we tighten up on techniques and get me sharp.

So to round up the last couple of days here its been full of hard parties and training to match, the arrival of henric and mike (kung fu panda) and lots of rain, as yo probably herd on the news rio has been hit with some crazy rain witch has wiped out a few shacks and killed some people but the rainings stopped now (i can tell coz the sweeds are sunbathing again). dennis announced a tornament in BJJ comming up so we are all training really hard for that and last weekend was our last drinking session. so let me tell you about them 1st.

ive been lazy on the blog as iv been really busy and tired but this is a cover of the last 3 days, monday we all hit training hard hill sprint in the morning, followed by our park curcuit training dennis's class and gordos in the evening.

the weekend is here and after a hard week training were about ready to party hard a quick gathering of troops and were of out 6 deep, odd job, emily, mugatu,joe bulk neviniho and me. a few drinking games at the house (check out the link) and were off to lagoa were nev is meeting a date (and we want him to ''rock up pissed'') 1st bar has a great vibe live music, drinks are flowing so i suggest a game of heads or tails......................now i know the dangers of this game so i had a good way to cheat and stitched nev and joe up by making them drink half a cup of whisky each.

today is a lil bit different for me as i have to go to botofogo for a MRI, i wake up around 7am to make a pact lunch for the day that consists of a USA import snickers (thanks mike)  5ltr water bottle and a tuperware box of mince rice broccili and tomato pure. Dennis calls to maks sure i know were im going and a little last minute advice on were to get on and off the buss at. on the way there i meet a very interesting german/brazillian old woman who gives me some finner details of were to go and talks to me about how she would run brazil very sweet.

YOOOOWWWWZZZA mid week is here and im tired as a slothe, thanks for every one keeping updated and tell your friends about it lets get every one knowing about connection rio and the stuff we got going on it would be a shame for you all to miss out.

Today  i decide to train the 2 o clock class and the evening class so i can have a lay-in, i still wake up at 8 to hear some of the early birds shuffling around but im back asleep in no time. when i do finnaly wake its mid-day and every one is doing shopping so the fridges and cudboards are staked with a variaty of foods every thing from greens to snickers bars. the day is scortchin hot and a few of us have sunburn from the beach time yesterday and if you have ever trained gi with a sunburn you'll know it sucks.

We all made goals to train the morning session every other day, as there is less students and more black belts, so with the smell of toasted bread comming from my bulky bunk buddy nev, i wake up make myself some toast and a guranana smoothie and off to training i go. Every body is so much more energetic in the morning except us gringos but we soon liven up wen we get a few black belts mounting us.