UFC Fan Expo – 1 Week Away
July 3, 2009 by danielson
Filed under Competitions, Events, Seminars, Training Journal
OK, so the UFC Fan Expo is less than a week away, and I am pretty excited. I fly out this coming Thursday to spend a week in Vegas divided between the UFC Fan Expo and training at Master Toddy’s Muay Thai Academy. Typically, when I head to a camp or seminar like this I try to really up my cardio and conditioning ahead of time so I don’t seem like I am a mess when I am there. Unfortuntely, with my grandfather being in the hospital the last couple of weeks, I have had many responsibilities that have forced me to slack on my training a bit. Family is more important than training to me. My Grandfather is back home and doing well, so this last week I can focus a bit to try and keep up to par for the Master Toddy Seminar.
The first part of my trip will center around the UFC Expo. I am traveling out there with my buddy Kalif, and we are staying in a time share while we are there. I am excited because I haven’t really seen him since I got back from Thailand, because we both stopped training at the school I was training at. There are several big things we will be doing while we are at the expo.
Autograph Sessions
Obviously, one of the biggest draws of the Expo is the ability to meet, get photos with, and autographs from many of the UFC stars. Among the stars that will be there are: Minotauro Nogeuira, Rampage Jackson, Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans, Diego Sanchez, Shane Carwin, Lyoto Machida, Chuck Lidell, Randy Couture, Renzo Gracie, Royce Gracie, Shogun Rua, Wanderlei Silva, and Ring Girls, Arianny Celeste, Edith Labelle, and Logan Stanton. I am going to try to snap photos with, and get autographs from all of them and more, and hopefully find out where the after party is! 
Training And Development Session With Eddie Bravo
The master of The Twister and The Rubber Guard, Eddie Bravo of 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu is having a training session at the UFC Expo, and I will be attending it. I’m very curious about the No Gi 10th Planet system. I know a lot of people hate on this, but I am always open to learning new styles that may be effective. Other training and development sessions include Wanderlei Silva (Sold Out), Mark Dellagrotte, Urijah Faber and Rumina Sato.
Maxim/UFC Octagon Girl Search
So I just found out that Maxim is hosting the next UFC Ring Girl Model Search. The contest will be held live at the UFC Fan Expo. You know what that means??? Tons and tons of extremely hot women will be there. From what I understand it is a judging panel that decides the next ring girl, but I am sure that the audience feedback plays a part. I’ll snap off a bunch of photos and video while I am watching the pagent style event.
Grapplers Quest
Grapplers Quest is holding a grappling tournament at the expo. Some of the big name people in the open division include Vinny Magalhaes (from TUF 8), Ramina Sato, and Joe Stevenson. There will be many divisions of the tournament. I have wanted to compete in one of these for a while, but I probably won’t do it here, because it will take time away from all the other stuff I have planned, but I will definite watch it for a bit.
Vendor Booths
There will be many vendor booths at the UFC Fan Expo, that I will want to attend which I will want to visit while I am there. I have already made contact with some vendors and theyw ill be supplying me with some products in the future to do more product reviews on. I will let you know as I make some connections, and I am sure you will see the adds on the site. Some of the vendors I have touched base with are MMA Adnetwork, Get Rung Mats and Body Kore.
I’ll try to make a couple posts while I am out there if anything pretty awesome happens, and I also will give you updates from Master Toddy’s as I am training there as well.
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