Deaf Interpreter Available at the Festival

Austin-based Deaf Interpreter Bert Ivey has made himself available for the hard-of-hearing during The Texas Testosterone Festival. Because we have two Featured Event areas in two different areas of the Festival, but only one Bert Ivey, we have to let you know Bert is planning on attending the Amir Sadollah MMA Seminar Presented by King of Kombat and Relson Gracie Jiu Jitsu Seminar Presented by AT&T on Saturday and the Relson Gracie Texas Jiu Jitsu Tournament and Team Challenge on Sunday but otherwise, seek him out and ask for his assistance for the other Featured Events if you are hard of hearing.

And if you are seeking a deaf interpreter for personal services or for your next event please post here or email us at info (at) texastestosteronefestival.com and we’ll forward the message along.

Click here to pre-register for the Amir Sadollah MMA Seminar Presented by King of Kombat.

Click here to pre-register for the Relson Gracie Jiu Jitsu Seminar Presented by AT&T.

Click here to pre-register for the Relson Gracie Texas Jiu Jitsu Tournament.

Buy your advance tickets to The Texas Testosterone Festival for only $6 (plus s/c) by clicking here.

Thanks to Garrett for the suggestion!

Fight to Win BJJ/Submission Grappling in Austin this Saturday - What to Eat

Big Jiu Jitsu event happening on Saturday with Four Title Belts and $1500 in cash prizes available. Fight to Win Presents Tournament of Champions III and looks to be bringing in academies all across the state to compete. The tournaments begin at 9:00 AM and will happen at Anderson High School (8403 Mesa Drive 78759). If you’re on Mopac and you exit Anderson Lane / Spicewood Springs you head West until you reach Mesa Drive and then make a Right on Mesa. It will be on your Right Side.

Need a quick by filling lunch? Check out Indian Palace just South on Mesa and then East on Far West Boulevard on the North side of the street (3616 Far West Blvd 78731). Tell them The Texas Testosterone Festival sent you and they will stare at you blankly and point you to their excellent Indian buffet. If you don’t like the buffet choices and you need protein, get the Beef Jalfreezi. Excellent.

Carb load? Brick Oven Pizzeria is a bit farther but worth it for the pizza or the pasta. The easy way to explain is to say you should go back to Mopac, head North and go North on 183. Exit at Braker Lane and make a Left under the highway. Make a Left into the parking lot with the McDonald’s and the HEB in it. Tucked away in the back is Brick Oven Pizza (10710 Research Blvd). Tell them The Texas Testosterone Festival sent you and they’ll laugh and ask you to repeat the name again. If you’re done competing, ask them to hook you up with the pepperonis that curl up at the edges when they cook and form a pool of grease in the center of each one. Sometimes they have them. Sometimes they don’t. Love it when they do. It’s about a 15 minute drive to Brick Oven from Anderson High School.

Sushi? Now you’re talking our language, as long as you’re not saying it in Japanese. Make the 10 minute drive to Ichiban by heading South on Mesa to Spicewood Springs then East on Spicewood Springs, over Mopac where Spicewood Springs turns in to Anderson Lane, resist the urge to go see Adventureland at The Alamo Drafthouse and instead go Right on Burnet Rd. Ichiban will be in a crazy-looking building just a bit off the street on the Right side (7310 Burnet Rd. 78757). Tell them The Texas Testosterone Festival sent you and they’ll tell you to tell us to never come back there again. We had an unfortunate accident with too much sake and the enticing big-fish ponds in their parking lot.

There are plenty of Fast Food joints on Burnet and 183 if you’re on a budget, as well as the HEB grocery store if you follow the directions to the Brick Oven Pizzeria above. There are also a number of sit-down joints including Sherlock’s, Bone Daddie’s, Pluckers, and Rudy’s BBQ along 183. 

If you have other suggestions or request another food type please post a note below and we, or someone else familiar with dining in the area, will help.

Best submissions in mma?

“No. 4 The Triangle Choke: While in the guard, the fighter traps his opponent’s arm and pulls it forward. From there, the fighter puts his leg opposite to the isolated arm behind the opponent’s head and locks that leg into place with his other leg. Once the legs are locked, the opponent is trapped, and the fighter in guard applies pressure until his opponent either taps out or loses consciousness.”–www.askmen.com

Just this past Saturday at UFC 95, Demian Maia further cemented his position as one of, if not the, best bjj practitioner(s) in mma today by submitting WEC Middleweight Champ (for all intents and purposes) Chael Sonnen; a fight between two guys with slightly unpronounce-able names. His transitions and finishes are impressive, worth drooling over when watching again in slow-mo. With Anderson Silva having been submitted in the past, you heard it here first, Maia might be the man to beat him (if Silva can avoid being submitted by a very game Thales Leites, also slightly unpronounce-able, at UFC 97 in April).

Sadly missing from the askmen.com list are the Peruvian Necktie and the D’arce Choke. Also, I’d probably put the Gogoplata higher than 10. But, it’s tough to complain; I’m just glad stuff like this is being talked about at all, as 4 years ago no one knew what was going on when an mma match hit the ground. And knowing is half the battle, according the G.I. Joe.