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When and how did you come to the
practice of martial arts?

My dad was an Martial arts teacher. He was an
certified teacher in Judo, Jiu Jitsu (tradional), kara-
te and taekwon-do

So at the the age of 4 i started judo, at 7 with tae-
kwon-do and at 11 with Jiu jitsu
Later on i picked up some Boxing and Thai Boxing

In november 1993 i introduced BJJ In europe

How did you get to enter the UFC II?

There was an advertisment in an magazine. That
was called KO magazine, It was ownedd nu Ino
Alberga (the first teacher of Gegard Mousasi by
the way) The asked for athletes in an open tourna- Me and my dad, my biggest inspirator...
ment with less rijles than usual.
I looked for a
I looked for a challenge in my life and the UFC
was the one. challenge in my
life and the UFC
Did you already know something of Bra-
zilian Jiu Jitsu before entering the UFC? was the one.

I introduced BJJ in europe in november 1993 Next being the first in europe with BJJ. This was the first
That was sort of the same time period BJJ seminar in Scandinavia

There was some news about BJJ and no rules mat-
ches. But the magazines where mainly interested
in Thai Boxing and the exotic. Arts

In that fight with Royce Gracie, two of
you looked at each other into the eyes
for several seconds. What were you
thinking then?

When i have a fight. I don’t try to think. Just
keeping focused on the situation.And try to Apply
what i have learned and trained for.

And you always train for your Waterloo. That
is the one where you meet thee one which is the
better fighter that day and gives you the Sparkle to
continue training and keep on learning

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