Well I finally have an internet connection I can hook up to my laptop. I’ve been back for about 4 days now and the town is quite different in the summer time. It’s usually a small quiet town but it seems deserted now. Everyone and anyone who has time and money for a vacation is getting out of here.

What that means for me is that I am now left with only a couple students still hanging around. Regardless, they are lucky enough to be getting private lessons twice a day. What it also frees me up to do is concentrate on making a a short and concise MMA instructional in Urdu. I will post it on the site when I find a connection that wont take days to upload. The video will be short and will cover only the fundamentals on how to approach MMA training. For example I will not show specific grappling moves or punch combinations but rather will show people where to find grappling information or good striking info.

Most of my days have been spent reading, working out and planning for the next few months which should see alot of progress on all avenues towards making a viable MMA scene in Pakistan a reality.

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I arrived in Pakistan last night. I will be in Lahore for the next two days before heading out to my hometown near Faislabad. It’s hotter here than I am used to being in Pakistan but its not that bad really. The bad part of the heat is that the power is out up to 18 hours a day in some places, making getting away from the heat to even a basic fan impossible.

I am looking forward to getting out of the city and back to some teaching, although from what I understand many of the students I had are gone away for the summer. I may have an extra small class this time around. We’ll find out soon.

Unexpectedly I will be returning to Pakistan next week. I will be in Pakistan from the 18th to the 29th. If there any gyms in Lahore or Faisalabad that would be interested in holding a seminar or any individuals who wish to do FREE private lessons please contact me and we can hopefully arrange something.

I’m extremely happy with the progress that has been made since I launched the site. I have created a central online area where people can link with myself and in turn each other, Pakistani’s interested in Mixed Martial Arts can now stay informed about what is going on and I am getting regular emails from Pakistani’s living in Pakistan, America and the U.K. These emails are always very enthusiastic and the sender always wants to know what they can do to help out and what they need to do to fight for their country. Unfortunately after a few weeks the emails stop and I never hear from the person again. It’s unfortunate that progress for Pak MMA is going to be so incremental because I think it’s frustrating for people who want to help out and don’t see immediate results. The results will come. They already have, and everyone needs to remember that there are highs and lows and sometime you get as much progress in a week as you do in a year. Patience and consistency is the key.

So, to all those who have contacted me wishing to help and then got frustrated or forgot about what we’re trying to do, get back to me. It will be worth your while. And to anyone who has seen this site and has been following the blog and wishes they could take part in something like this. You can. Just contact me. The project can only benefit with having as many people as possible interested in MMA Pakistan get involved with me and create the vast network of Pakistani’s that are needed to make this thing a success.

So keep reading and those who are training keep focused. The time will come sooner than later.

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Omar Saeed was born on March 3rd 1992. His nickname though is Snobar and is known by everyone by that name. He started training in Martial Arts 3 years ago at a nearby ground in his small town in Pakistan. He started in Tae Kwon Do but has also done Drunken Monkey Style Kung Fu. While he was training he was told that there was good training available at Nasir Fighting Club at the nearby community sports complex. He trained there for approximately a year and a half. It was at that same club that I came and started training the kids in Mixed Martial Arts. He has always been interested in the fight game and saw that this was a little different. He has now been training for over a year and a half. He wishes for MMA to become famous all over Pakistan and wants to help spread the knowledge of this sport throughout the country. He also wishes to become a successful fighter in the future.

Omar has been a big help for me throughout my ventures into spreading MMA in Pakistan. He has always kept in close contact with me and has taken it upon himself to lead training for all the other students while I am not there. He is a very well rounded fighter and has an interest in the ground game as do most of the students I teach due to the novelty of it. He is a very smart, tactical fighter and will most definitely develop into one who uses brains over brawn.

As for recent news, I will be fighting on the 13th of July. This will be my 7th fight this year. I am having a rematch with my last opponent and I am looking forward to this fight more than any other that I have ever had. He is the best opponent I have ever had and it felt good to hold my own with him. This fight I plan on knocking him out, wearing him down and knocking him out. Knocking him out is the easy part, if something big connects, I am sure I can put him away. Wearing him down will be difficult because he is a boxer in his prime and these guys are always in great shape. I do not feel I can win a decision. His kicks are too fast for me to block everyone at this point in my training and I am much slower than him in my own kicks and so he will most probably win the point game. I don’t care about points though, I just want the knockout. My prediction for this fight is knockout in round two or loss by decision.

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