Saturday, October 3, 2009

Japanese Kickboxing!

So I went to my friend Brad's room to ask if he wanted to go to our faculty advisor together tomorrow. He agreed. We then we decided to explore Inage a little bit together. We went to Mosburger first for some lunch. I had the most delicious chicken teriyaki burger I have ever eaten there. There was a cute japanese boy that came in and tried speaking english to us. I asked him a few things in Japanese (since he didn't understand them in English) like "How old are you?", "do you go to school around here?", etc. He responded in English. He was adorable.

After Mosburger, we decided to just go down a random street to see what was around. Brad decided to turn left at this side road for some reason. We soon came across a small kickboxing ring. We were looking at the signs when someone comes and asks us if we want to see a match. We say yes and ask how much tickets are. He says "プレセントです” and gives us two tickets for free. The tickets were about $25 each! So we come back to the ring when the guy said it started. It was pretty awesome! We had to take our shoes off before we came in, and we got some good seats.

The place was legit. It was just a shack with a ring in it. The roof was just some metal panneling. No air conditioning. Really small place. There were about 5 fights, and the main event was the last one. The winner of the main fight was going to go on to a match in Tokyo. Here are the three rounds of the main fight:
Round 1

Round 2

Round 3 (go to 2:35 for the best hit of the day)

It was such a weird coincidence that we came across that place when they were about to have a match. Here is a picture of me with the nice man who gave us free tickets:
After the fight, we went back to the main road we were on before and started looking around a little more. We came across a 7/11 and decided to go in. There was an ATM that took foreign cards, so we both decided to do a withdrawal. I took out 30,000円. Now I have money for food! YAY!

After that we ended up in a residential area. Very quiet and nice. We saw some traditional looking houses:Brad used to be an architecture student, so he really liked these.

1 comment:

  1. gah! Charles this is interesting (I am for realz not for play play)

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