{"id":209765,"date":"2015-09-04T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=209765"},"modified":"2015-09-04T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T20:00:04","slug":"fowler-due-for-saipan-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fowler-due-for-saipan-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fowler due for Saipan visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter Mike Fowler of Purebred Omiya in Japan is due to visit Saipan anytime in the coming months, according to Trench Tech promoter Cuki Alvarez.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209796\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"209796\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fowler-pix-Fowler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Fowler-pix-Fowler-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fowler\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-209796\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fowler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alvarez said the five-time American National Jiu-Jitsu Championships gold medalist will hold a three-week training on Saipan once power is restored at Sugar King Estate in Garapan, where the Trench Tech Gym is located.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike Fuller plans to come and train on Saipan for two to three weeks once power and water supply normalizes,\u201d Alvarez told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler, who has a background in wrestling in high school, began his grappling career in 2001 and won the lightweight gold in the 2003 Pan-American Championship as a blue belt. He would train at the Trench Tech Gym from 7pm to 9pm.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said he has no idea yet of the be-medalled grappler\u2019s plans and other activities on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut once he\u2019s here we\u2019ll work on some private and day trainings as well. And is pretty much open to all who are interested to learn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu,\u201d Alvarez added.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said the Trench Tech Gym suffered minimal damage and remains closed after Typhoon Soudelor slammed Saipan last Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur gym suffered water flooding and damage to our gear and equipment. Luckily our gym roof stayed intact but the gutters were damaged. That\u2019s why we\u2019re forced to keep the gym closed for the past month and not to mention there\u2019s still no power,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also wanted to inform all interested Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners and submission fighters that Trench Tech Gym will be hosting nightly training for two weeks at $50 per person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as soon as power resumes in our area, we will go back to our regular class schedule at Trench Tech Gym,\u201d added Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Alvarez at 783-4MMA (4662) or at Twitter @TrenchwarZ or at facebook.com\/cuki.alvarez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter Mike Fowler of Purebred Omiya in Japan is due to visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":209796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6855,50,2842,6333],"class_list":["post-209765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mike-fuller","tag-power","tag-trench-tech-gym","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}