My most recent trip was a great one, I visited 7 gyms, went to the best amateur mma event I have ever been to and drove over 1,000 miles in 4 days. It started when I flew into Los Angeles last Thursday. I drove down to San Diego where I visited 3 gyms, the last one being Brandon Vera's Alliance Training Center where I spent a couple hours hanging out shooting videos. I drove back up to Fullerton and stayed with my friend Chris Carlino for the night. The next day I drove to Torrance to check out the Gracie Academy, from the moment I walked inside the doors I felt very welcome by the people working there. Rener Gracie gave me a <a href="http://www.purefight.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234443-gym-tours/183605-gracie-academy">video tour of the facility</a> there which included a sweet museum inside the building.

From there I went to Bread Co. for lunch and internet to plan my next move. I stopped by the UG and saw a post about a ticket give-away to the Tuff-N-Uff show in Vegas the next day. I contacted the guy right away and thanks to Eric Callahan from Tuff-N-Uff for hooking me up with tickets. I stopped by 2 gyms on the way out of town, including Freddy Roach's Wild Card Boxing and drove out to Vegas.

Saturday in Vegas, before Tuff-N-Uff started I stopped by Wanderlei Silva's new gym and the people were very friendly and take a video tour of the facility (video should be up in a few days). I got a chance to meet the man himself and get an interview in with him, another extremely friendly person.

From there I headed back to Tuff-N-Uff where Gene Stevens met me to help with the coverage. During the day there were 2 rings with fights going on so between Gene and myself we got most of the fights and interviews. We came back for the evening session and I recorded the fights while Gene was behind the scenes getting exclusive interviews with the fighters.

I was extremely impressed with the quality of production that Tuff-N-Uff put on for the event. This was an all amateur show but if you didn't know better you would think it was a professional one, the lights, the smoke, the quality fighters, the good match-ups, the announcing... the security even came through when needed. The overall production for that show was unmatched for an amateur fight card that I have seen, good work Tuff-N-Uff

The next morning I was tired but had to fight through it and drive back to southern California so I could catch my plane back home to Austin, TX. I made it home and have since left again... I am in St. Louis right now and have a good weekend of coverages lined up. I am driving to Indianapolis to cover the Legends of Fighting Championships to record all the fights and get plenty of interviews and other videos. I will drive back to St. Louis right after the show, get some sleep and get myself ready to check out Strikeforce in St. Louis on Saturday which should prove to be an awesome card with lots of good fights.

I will fly back to Austin from here and plan to have another full schedule ahead next week. I have confirmed going to the XFL in Tulsa on next Friday June 12 and am still waiting to hear back from a promotion near Dallas on Thursday and another one in Austin that Saturday. Stay tuned people because I am just going to continue to travel and get new original content and fight coverages for you to see.