ADCC 2001!

 Can't believe it was twenty one years ago, when I was flown out to Abu Dhabi to report on the ADCC 2001 event for US based Grappling magazine; I had a column in the magazine, The Voice of Europe and on the strength of that, I went out to cover the event and was the highlight of my reporting days by far :)

I was a skinny white belt and I was hanging out with all my grappling heroes and rubbing shoulders with sheiks, not bad for a Bolton lad :)

In the photo I am with one of the competitors, the Brazilian Ricardo Morais, after a training session and an interview; he was so big, I couldn't get my arm around him, he was a beast of a guy!