“Your Workout is our Warmup!” Strength & Conditioning Coach D’Angelo always says that! AND I BELIEVE IT! Holy Moly our warmups are rough! Imagine how the actual workout feels. Its just real soothing knowing as I look across the cage/ring/mat at my opponent that I am ready to rock n roll! This is why I [...]

Boy I wish I was home to see this fight! Trench Tech’s Rites of Passage FEARLESS Korea vs. Saipan is one heck of a card! The Rites of Passage are the proving grounds for Mixed Martial Artists. Based on performance, they are invited to fight in the pro event, Trench Warz. I love amateur fights [...]

Hafa Adai Frank “The Crank” Camacho here! Born on Guam, raised on Saipan, home to me is the Mariana Islands. I got into Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in 2004 with Trench Tech Purebred Saipan at the age of 15. Growing up, I was never the most athletic/in shape kid. I played golf at the age [...]

WHEWW!!! Let me catch my breath! just got home, super duper tired from todays awesome training. Hafa Adai ladies and gents! Today apparently was a snow day, so our Camp Springs MD school was closed! We had awesome, well needed work drilling positions this afternoon for about a good three hours. I was feeling a [...]

Another Great day of training at Lloyd Irvin’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy in Camp Springs Maryland. Its my first day back in a week because of a minor injury. I made a promise to myself that I would watch at least ONE black belt match a night. (I get carried away and watch about 3-4) [...]

I make it tradition everytime, I mean Everytime I’m back on Saipan I hit this spot, Saipan’s very own Grotto! In the video below its just a sneak peak of its beauty. You gotta be there to experience it. For reference the Saipan Grotto is a huge hole in the ground that leads out to [...]

Master Lloyd is human afterall! We were all just chillin at the Camp Springs Maryland school office when he said the word “M*NE!” Ok ok if I explain the game to you, you are playing automatically! Close your ears if you don’t want to play. TOO LATE! Anywhoo. The original rules of the game are, [...]

“Everyone wants to be a fighter, but no one is willing to pay the price to be one!” -Coach Joe Ocampo. Good Gracious were those wrestling practices rough! Any hoooo… D’Angelo Kinards Mixed Martial Arts Strength and Conditioning workouts is definitely paying the price to be one! Three times a week we would do an hour [...]