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June's Special Guest at the Dania Card Show was EBAN OROZ. Great guy and we wish him well on his shot at the belt on June 28..
The Big "O" Brings Jeet Kune Do to Pro Sport MMA
With Mixed Martial Arts being the fastest growing sport in the country and hundreds of places to train, one Fighter is setting himself apart from all of the rest. Fighting out of JKD Extreme Martial Arts Academy, home of the JKD MMA X-Team, headed by Sifu Richie Carrion Who is Under Sifu Bob Bremmer and Sifu Tim Tackett which Bremmer being a First Generation student under the late Bruce Lee is quickly finding great success in the MMA. In only a short amount of time in the MMA World the JKD X-Team out of Lake Worth Florida has produced fighters like Bodog Fight's Eben "The Big O" Oroz.
The success of Oroz in the ring, cage, and on the mats come from his multiple approach to Martial Arts. From the stand up side, He was taught and instructed in Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do” Way of The Intercepting Fist”. From the ground he became extremely efficient and dangerous in Sifu Carrion's self developed ground fighting system and finally, it is his approach to the philosophy of Simplicity as Bruce Lee Once Said "The Simple Done Right Has No Counter".
His training is simple yet effective. It is unorthodox but successful. He is taking Jeet Kune Do Bruce Lee's art form, with some modification of course,due to “JKD is a street self defense art” and has been modified to fit into the cage and show that it is a force to be reckoned with at any level of competition. However, for him it will not stop there Oroz always challenges himself to get better by fighting some of the best fighters in this pro sport! He has already fought figthers like David Love, Mike Brown, Dj Taiki from Japan to name a few.
Oroz states, my teacher Sifu Carrion
He just kept telling me to have an empty mind, or as Lee once said an 'empty cup'. The thinking is that if your cup of knowledge is empty you can always fill it back up, but if your cup is always full you cannot add to it. So, one should keep his cup or circle empty in order to keep learning."
To remind himself of this philosophy, Oroz took the unusual step of having an enormous
*Eben Oroz will be fighting for the MMA XFC 155lb Championship belt in June 28th 2008 in ST.Pete Tampa against a great fighter John "Mulatto Mauler" Mahlow*
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