Ringsports

Ringsports Featured a short part about the Zona Cup! With my name in it! Sadly, they also posted a picture with my name..With the winner from the -85 beginners...
I'll post the pic,its kind of funny,but on the other hand it sucks,I finaly get a magazine spot, and it they place the wrong photo :S..

Seminar and tournament

Sunday there wil be a seminar from one of the best coaches around, Henry Atkins!
We wil be training grappling technique specificly because of the upcomming Grappling tournament in Ede where I wil try to secure my first place again and with that making almost sure I wil be Dutch National Shooto Grappling champ once again!

Gracie magazine

From the website of Gracie magazine!!

29.04.2008
Zona No-Gi Cup images
Sunday of submission in Holland
Submission grappling athletes gathered on April 20th, in Amsterdam for the 2008 Zona No-Gi Cup, sponsored by GMA member Zona MMA, online store. The event had a lot of great fights.An excellence note goes to Sebastiaan Mook, who won the advanced -85kg division and the open class division. Among beginners, Achmed Belmadani cameback from a 3rd place in the -91kg division to conquer the absolute. The Zona No-Gi Cup will be featured at the the next GRACIE Magazine issue. For more info, go to zona-mma.com. Promoters has sent some pictures of the event.

=85 and Absolute Champion!!

Zona no gi challenge ended really wel for me!
The -85 poule was not to hard, and that was partly to blame to the fact that there where only 4 other opponents.. Wich gave me only 2 fights.
I was able to win both wel within the 6 minute limit on armbar and traingle.
Victems: Ritchie from physical gym holland and Chritian Eden from Luta livre Germanie.

Now the absolute division was the best part of the day, 2 poule of combined 10 guys fought for the open weight cup, having me fight semi final against a -75 fighter from belgium, wich I could submit by traingle. (I won the first round on RNC)
And my final match against the 2e place super heavyweight cup winner who could beat the 1e place winner Jesse gibs in the semi final.
Respecting his strength and weight I simply went for a butscoop in the hope I could Armdrag him, but sadly he landed in my guard, still, I could sub him withing 3min by traingle choke!
Making me the first Absolute advanced tournament winner!

Nicest part of it al is that the sponser Zona Gear gave me a grappling short and is sending me a rashguard because of the wins!

Zona no gi challenge

10! training sessions to go to the Zona No Gi challenge,

it appears to be a pretty big competition and every first place winner gets a zona kimono!

Atleast that is what their website says at the moment.

After winning Ede last month I have a good feeling I might stand a chance, but I really have to put some serieus time in training if I want to come out victorious again.. I'm working hard on my upper body control and underhooktakedowns, I also want to focus on better guard opening and sidecontrol is going wel already.

My guard work is still improving,but I dont want to depend on that..

pic's ede

Two pics I got form

Christiaan that he took

at the last competition.

Grappling ede

First place!

and it was a nice run of wins, only one point lose, and it wasnt the worst match at all.
My team mate Christiaan won 3 or four matches in his division,but the cool thing was, he fought at -83 while being 65kg himself.
Toby from MMA Rotterdam did a little less wel, but stil preformed very good for his first time.
I'll upload the vids soon!