Flash Mob Fight for MMA in Vancouver
Today, from out of nowhere came a fight scene in the middle of down town Vancouver in front of the Art Gallery steps. Its a location popular for people selling art, petitioning, playing chess, rapping and breakdancing, or just to sit and eat a snack. But today, the street crowd was treated to a MMA fight. It was all organised to appear out of nowhere, complete with a boxing ring, MC, referee, lovely ladies, and Sensei Blake Lirette and Kirash Moghaddam, two super tough MMA fighters ready to fight to submission.
Here are some pics as the event went down:
The point of all this, if you are wondering, is to show people what MMA is about. Misconceptions abound about this new sport, and the local Martial Arts community is pushing to bring big ticket MMA events to Vancouver. The City of Vancouver was poised to sanction these kind of events, but sidestepped it by deferring to a provincial level authority. Everyone here is hoping the provincial authority will make the right move to officially sanction Mixed Martial Arts events.
So from the grassroots up, people are working to raise awareness about MMA to counteract the conjecture that keeps it from being sanctioned. We have to really show it to people so they can begin to understand better what it is – the future of martial arts. With Georges St. Pierre named Canada’s athlete of the year, we hope that he will be able to practice his sport in his home country.
MMA fans in New York State assembled a webiste for information about this sport, and the information there is just as applicable here as it is there. Hit the site and get the facts about MMA.
Ill be posting the video for this event as soon as it comes available.
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Update:
We got some media lovins from Fight Magazine and the Vancouver Sun:
Now the word is really going to get out there!
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