Damm!!!

Just returned from Ede...
Damm that was a shitty profromance by me.. I weight in at 86kilo's(!) and could not sweat it of in the sauna,only getting my ass to a 84, stil to heavy!
So I fought in the -91 kilo division, a dicision that proved not to be the right one for me before..
I'm rather weak if it comes to pure strenght, and these guys tend to be on my level,but much stronger.. I stil won 3rd place, but I serieusly dont care for 3rd places... And I got Submitted!!! For the first time in Grappling I had to tap...By a god dam north/south power choke..Just brute force and I just could not figure out how to get out of the dam headlock,and when things started to daze..I dicided that it was better to tap out..But shit that made me angry!!
Mostly at myself, I came unprepared to this tournament, and I paid for it.
Very unprofessional...
The other matches I won by RNC, points and I lost an other on points(just on the edge,but a loss is a loss)..Wich pissed me of even more.. A poul of 5 guys, and I win 2 and lose 2..
Thats the score of a biginner..
Wel the positive note is that I know some nice things to work on, and I should focus myself more if I want to win the next one.
Cry in the Dojo, laugh on the battlefield..The last 3 weeks it was the other way around, and i paid for it..

New gi!

Just orderd this new Gi, Keiko Special Black edition.

Not very expensive,85,-

I also bought booster MMA gloves,sadly,the old edition,not this cool new version, but their okay :)

Ommoord

If things turn out wel, I'll be one of the new instructors at Team MMA-Rotterdam at gym Ommoord.
Got myself some new gloves for the ocasion :P
Nothing certain yet, but with a little luck this wil give me an axtra income around 90,- a month.

Ede

Saterday yet another edition of Ede, where I wil fight in the -83 division again, altough I'm not really sure how heavy I am at the moment..
Nice twist to the usual competition is that the official representetiv of the Rickson Gracie Holland schools wil be fighting in my wieghtclass, Miechel verhoef.
A good challenge but a hard fight,because he has way more experience then me..
Luckely,I know footlocks are his weakpoint.

My stand up and especialy my sprawl have improved a lot,and it wil be good to test these skills in competition.
We'l be going with a large group, so it might be a nice day team wise.

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.