its here in two parts if anyones interested:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2154840538382856161&q=rickson+gracie (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2154840538382856161&q=rickson+gracie)

the little japanese dude is the real star of the show if you ask me. :adora:

Beautiful.
I keep missing the opportunities to download this damn flicks. Gracias, man.

I'm coming for you, Rickson!!

that little jap lad is a fuckin nutter. in the first fight of the tournament Gordeau proper gouges his eye (teh danger..) and does a good job of it, [after the tourney he was blind in one eye} but he still makes it all the way to the final and then... i wont give it away. well worth watching if you havent seen it, particulary for helio gracie's modest appraisal of rickson "he is invincible - like all my sons".

Beautiful.
I keep missing the opportunities to download this damn flicks. Gracias, man.

hey, no problem. all part of the service.

Yuki Nakai, what a legend.

Rickson is such a god.

invincible, apparently.

I bought it, and really enjoyed it. I would have liked to have seen that american kickboxer fight Rickson (his name escapes me).

Todd Hayes. The guy who for all the talk pretty much wussed out when it came time to do it. He won his first fight then played up the his injury, which we don't know how serious it was, and said he would be back. To date there is only one fight recorded for him, AFIAK.

OMG I love you!!! I have been trying to find that Nakai fight for a few months and have only seen pictures.

Bobsled-Fu!
http://www.usoc.org/27555_13661.htm

Once he had enough money for a top of the line bobsled, Hayes saw no reason to continue fighting.

Todd Hayes was very honest--at least with the film crew--about why he was there. When he got hurt, he had already won his sled.

If you had to enter a singles luge event to make enough money to keep fighting (addressing Asia here) it might be similar. If you made enough on your first run to keep fighting, and your next run--injured and likely to end up on a wall--was only going to get you more money to do it better, you'd probably give it some thought, too.

I got the impression that Hayes considered himself a hobbyist at MMA who got swept up in a chance to go pro, but never saw himself as a professional MMA fighter.

I got the impression that Hayes considered himself a hobbyist at MMA who got swept up in a chance to go pro, but never saw himself as a professional MMA fighter.

Your impression is correct. Hayes fulfilled his dream of making it to the Olympics. He did the smart thing IMO.

And Nakai is the fuckin man. Always has been, always will be. Would love to roll with his some day.

That article was great. Apparently he trained with "Del Cook" in Oklahoma and fought a Japanese "Shoe-Fighter" in the Open Vale Tudo Japan.

:D