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Day 2:
Who would have ever thought sleeping on a thin roll up matress in the kitchen of a small apartment would give you such a full fulling rest. Well it sure did the job. This morning I woke up at around 8am (my body just woke up and couldnt go back to sleep) and decided to go for a little walk around town until Taiki was awake. After I made it back, Taiki and I went for some good ol American coffee and then roamed the town a bit until we met up with Rumina and a few of his friends at their clothing shop Flowstyle (The owner Anake learned all his English from American Hip Hop..AWESOME!!). Once we all gathered togeather it was time to eat. We had this delicious Japanese Curry they called it “Master Curry” I think because of the size of the dish. This thing was big but I think there was 1 more that was actually 2x the size.
By this point I was still feeling preaty good without any major sides of the jet lag….or so I thought. As soon as we left the restraunt and opened up Roots gym I started feeling like a Zombie. My vision started blurring, my eyes were burning. It was time for a nap. WRONG. couldnt sleep. So instead I just layed down for a while and tried to build my energy for training tonight.

Around 7pm Shooto and KOTC Champion Mamaru Yamaguchi showed up to teach his Muay Thai class which ment it was time to train. Aside from my horendous jet lag. It turns out my Muay Thai needs more work than I thought. Mamaru’s stand up is NASTY!! Nothing more humbling than a guy much smaller than you tossing you around.
He showed me some really good tips that I think are really going to change my game. Got lots to work on and thats what I came here for. After Muay Thai we all took our gloves off and grappled for about 90 mins. So in all we trained about 3 hours tonight.
After training it was time to eat. Had a little Calamari and a BLT sandwhich. And now its time for bed. Ive got sprints and running at 8am and then its off to Yokohama for DREAM!

Chad “Savage” George

Today is my official 1st installment of The Road to Japan. So here we go!!

Today started off the way any other chaotic adventure is supposed to. As soon as I pulled up to the airport at LAX I get a phone call from my girl asking if I left a bag. Of course I did. So out of the kindess of his heart my boy Louie AKA the Boss rushed down to my house to get the bag and bring it to me. Lucky for me I had to wait in this rediculously long line just to check my bags in. By the time Louie had brought the bag back I had just finished checking in and was ready for the security check. Oh wait…not before the hour long line that was there also.

So by the time I finally boarded ive been through over 2 hours of lines, a little drama but at least it was time to head out and depart for JAPAN.

Of course by the way the day had already gone I knew the way the flight was going to be. Here it was. 12 hour flight stuck in between 2 completely non social people, 1 screen for all TV that only played bullshit chick flicks the whole flight and wasnt able to sleep. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Now i finally make it to Tokyo.

Headed through customs and actually met up with an old gym member from PKG who now lives near by. She was a great help with getting my currency changed over and purchasing my bus ticket to ODAWARA. Yes a bus ticket. Now I had to take a 3 hour bus ride to the west city and reach my destination.

Once I got into Odawara I finally felt relieved. My friend Taiki Tsychiya (who im staying with) met me at the bus station and took my to ROOTS gym where I met up with Rumina Sato and a few of his students. Rumina had just finished a work out for his SHOOTO fight this Sunday. Now it was time to eat. We all rolled together to a gym members restaurant and shot the shit about MMA and American Hip Hop while eating Soba, Sashimi and a few other dishes. Man this was a long day. Its 8am LA time and Ive got to get some sleep before the long day ahead of me. I cant wait!

Will post photos later today. Sorry I added this blog last night but for some reason it posted to this blog..you can check out the photos right here! http://savage135.wordpress.com/

Tomorrow will be my 1st installment of “The Road to Japan 2″. This trip will be a documented adventure through the start of my training camp with Rumina Sato and the Roots gym. This trip looks to be an amazing experience. the training, the traveling, Shooto (Rumina Fights Saturday), Dream, Pancrase and the general non sense of being in a foreign environment without being able to speak the language. This is the road to Japan.