Chris Mason photos - S+S 7

I really love the pictures Chris Mason has taken at the last couple of shows. He's captured some great little moments, after the action shots, or before in the corner, when the other sports photographers have stopped looking. I think in years to come when I look back at my career as a fighter and as coach, I'll be glad to have these shots most of all. The excitement of the fighting itself overshadows some of the other things that are going on; and it's great to have those little moments of celebration, quiet contemplation, pride and love and caring documented, because they so often slip by unnoticed in the fracas surrounding the violence.

Strike and Submit 7, Pete Irving - European Champion

All photos by Ian Malone

Knackered

Knackered-er

Victory

defeat

Cornered by David Bielkheden

Back control

The "smell my feet" submission hold

The Schultz headlock

To the body

No closing the guard on me

Come on....

Get up!

Holding

Who wears short shorts?

Backing him up

When Abdul says sprawl, sprawl.

Nice shorts from Made4fighters.com

Madadi's jab was strong

Slip and kick

Always after the single

Strike and Submit 7, Matt Inman - still Champion

Good sport, Martin Scrafton's leg was okay in the end, just badly bruised but not broken.

Crotch to face victory dance

No time to show off the guns

Always perfect on the kicks

Blue Steel

I've not updated the blog for a while, as the training for last weekend's fight consumed every waking minute up until the day, and the post-fight blowout has consumed every minute since.
I've just got a hold of some of Ian Malone's photos of mine and Matty's fights, unfortunately he didn't catch Yves's awesome display of Le Ninjitsu.