Name:
Justin Governale

So I am training at my gym Subfighter in Orange County and I meet this one kid that looks "just like me" (so they say) and we do act a LOT alike. Maybe we act the same because we are both Marines, we are both veterans, we both fight, have facial hair and messed up ears...AND WE ARE BOTH GOOD...

SOOOOOO I am passing through Arizona where is it LEGAL to carry a pistol open carry without a permit. Not many exercise the right so I thought I would go to the one place where noone would look at me funny for having a .45 1911 pistol attached to my hip, a cafe :) ...then as it feels akward I am...

So on my way to California from Texas, I had been driving for about 14 hours and I was ready to crash and die on the road :) LUCKILY I have a friend that lives in Arizona who was one of my BJJ coaches in Thailand for 6 months, Andrew Gardineer. Well it was only a one hour detour to get to his place...

This blog is about me moving to California the first time in an attempt to make it fighting. The year was 2008 and it was a dream of mine to just move out there and "make it" like they do in movies. Unfortunatly I had just gotten out of the Marine Corps. and although I learned a lot about life, I...

Me with one of my coaches Fred Reyes from Paragon BJJ giving me pointers. So I had 5 fights this last Saturday in a pretty nice sized tournament. It was the 2011 Europa Super Fight show in Dallas Texas and my bracket had 32 solid blue belts. I told you all last week I would have the finals...

So I just fought in the 2011 Fight to win Europa Super show and had a 32 man bracket. I will post the video of the finals match later but I caught my opponent in a move that I learned at Tiger Muay Thai, the reverse OmaPlata and took first place...It was a Gi tournament but for the pic of me and my...