Ultimate Fighting 2!

Today, Qiang and I went to the Stockholms Stad Bibliotek in Odenplan to sign up for a library card. At the entrance, there was this guy who requested to take our portrait. The guy came from Barcelona 8 years ago to study in KTH and is now studying photography in Sweden. His project is to take 50 portraits of different people in the week. He's supposed to e-mail us the photos so we can check out his work later.

In the library, we borrowed a couple of tour guides on Holland, Germany and Prague. I also took two on Stockholm. I really wanna buy a great book about Sweden before I go. For a reminder of Sweden and so that I can tell myself and others what are the things that I managed to do, experience, see and of course eat that are mentioned in the book.



Stockholms Stad Bibliotek


My new library card

I cannot make it for Swedish this wednesday, so I crashed Alvis' Swedish class today, along with Qiang and another guy Antonio from Spain who is also in my class. I don't like Alvis' teacher at all. I know its good practice for us, but this guy speaks Swedish almost all the time and I can't understand a thing he says. It's also largely due to the fact that I was taught slightly different things in my class. Plus my teacher Berit gives us notes and this guy doesn't! I miss my teacher already and now i appreciate her much more.

At 9, I returned to Lappis and went for my second Ultimate Fighting Class. Today's class was much more strenous. My arms are pretty sore now and I predict that my abdomen will be aching tomorrow as well. We had to do stomach exercises while we were waiting for our turns for the teacher to teach us a new technique on the mats. We learnt some new moves that are pretty interesting. So let’s recap the interesting moves for today. I will add in some photos later on when I find myself a model. It's easier to understand the moves through photos instead of words.

1. When Opp kicks R leg, you hook up and lock the leg with your L hand. Next R arm hooks up the Opp’s R knee. Use R leg to hook Opps L leg so that Opp falls to the floor.
   a) Get on floor. Swing R leg over Opps R leg to keep it in place. Apply pressure on R leg.
   b) Remain standing. Apply whatever to Opp’s face
2. When someone stabs you in the stomach. You move backwards. Hold the person’s arm, R hand above, L hand below. Twist his hand outwards. Roll inwards with R leg first and stab the poor fella instead.
3. When the person punches the right hand. You block upwards using the L arm. Then R arm entangles in. L hand applies pressure to bend his arm back. Try to lock your hands together to lock his arm and bring him to the floor.