The Spartan blog

This friday 3rd of september it will start to be sold the tickets of the next Fight Festival, and I will fight there, I hope all my friends can come to watch, it is been a while since last time I fought in Finland and I would like to see everyone there;) http://fightfestival.com/forum:http://www.pakkotoisto.com/kamppailulajit/95223-fight-festival-28-la-16-10-2010-helsinki/ Tickets: http://www.kamppailuopisto.com/fightfestival/liput.html [read more]

For the next 4 weeks I will be in Hamina celebrating the 10 years aniversary of the Pakration Gym, we will have lots of fun and trainings together, here are some videos of my seminars there and the introdution of the team, videos made by Tomi Kaistala: [read more]

There has been a week sice I arrived in Finland, sorry to all my friends that I haven't been wrinting much here but I was having vacation in Brazil, anyway I am BACK:). After a week of awesome trainings at Kehahait I am moving to Hamina today for 4 weeks of celabration, that's right, Pakration Gym Hamina is [read more]

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Every winter my father travels to the country side of Brazil, in a small town called Auvinopolis in the state of Minas Gerais he meets up with his family:My granfather and granmother pic sorounded by the name of all their children: [read more]

In the weekend we had an awesome seminar with world champion and co founder of Check Mate team Ricardo Vieira, learnt a lot about his way of teaching, specially for competition.As u can see he is also a spartan:) [read more]

I am in Brazil, sorry to my friends that I haven't been writing so much, but I am having a great time here. It is winter but the weather is great betwen 26 to 30 celcius and the sun is shining. The trainings are going very well, soon I will post some pics and videos.Last tuesday a [read more]

Had a great time at KIKO, 10 days with lots of trainings and fun:Pictures by Markus Komulainen, for more: http://komulainen.kuvat.fi/kuvat/BJJ/Lucion+leiri+KIKO+2010/ For pics of 2009: http://komulainen.kuvat.fi/kuvat/BJJ/Lucion+leiri+KIKO+2009/ [read more]

I had an awesome time in Riihimaki, summer is great in Finland:), here some pics of the last day: [read more]

Yesterday no gi training at Riihimaki's Heracles there was a visit of many good friends and great fighters, from Pori there was Finnish MMA amauter champion Tina, from Espoo Kehahait there was MMA professional fighter and Fight Festival winner Joni Salovara with a group of great students, Gasper, Rasmus, Emmi and Eero:the whole group: [read more]

I am having a great time in Riihimaki, today there was 56 students in the same class, here some pics and one video:Me and YavuzTommi and I.Tulirinta, Tapsa and I [read more]

When I was at Hipko gym I had lots of fun training Taekwondo, it was a great experience and if I had oportunity I will do it more. I felt that Taekwon Do would help me a lot in MMA in terms of speed, positioning and kicking: [read more]

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I am right now at Kehahait(shark's ring), this video show a bit of one of the biggest(if not the biggest) facilities for martial arts training: [read more]

Hi everyone, sorry for taking so long to write. The summer is going very well in Finland, getting warmer everyday, sometimes a bit cold again but the sun is shining. I am at Kehahait at the moment, training with my friends Sune, Ville, Aki, Riku, Janne, taking it easy and helping Valtonen to prepare for his next fight [read more]

Don't fprget to check it out The Spartan signature tee:http://www.kimurawear.com/Lucio-Linhares-p/0252.htm [read more]

Starting in the summer of 200(brazilian summer is in january) the submission wrestling championship in São João da Barra Brazil made history, created by the visionary Leandro Ribeiro all the best brazilian fighters were there for many year, people that u see today kicking ass in MMA rings around the world, happily I had my share in this [read more]

The last day of trainings in MMA Rovaniemi was so full of fun, after 2 hours of training we went to a Paintball war in honor of Finnish war veterans, there we had food, drinks and some other funny activites, like a strange boxing match I had with my friend JP, whos responsible for this great event, according [read more]

I had an awesome sunday, went rafting with the MMA rovaniemi team, very nice experience, lots of fun. If any of u come to Lapland must check out this website for some awesome adventure: http://www.arcticlifestyle.fi/Some pictures and videos(pics by Markus Lisko, special thanks for J.P): [read more]

Last saturday was last day of training at HIPKO, we had so much fun, here some pics and videos, and if u want to see more check it out here http://www.helsinginitsepuolustuskoulu.fi/site/index.php?mact=Album,m3,default,1&m3albumid=33&m3returnid=120&page=120 [read more]

Nice last day of competitions, lots of great fighter putting a show in Kehahait. Unfortunately Marko lost in the semi to a very good and strong fighter from Fin Fighters Gym, whom lost in the finals to Kimo from Imatra in a bit of controverse, he had a very good guilhotine on Kimo but let it go when [read more]

Today was the first day of the MMA Amateur Finish Championship at Kehahait, lots of great fights and future star, tomorrow there will be the semi and the finals, lots of friends are going to batle there. This videos I made for u to see a bit of the climate and the fights, u can see Antti's first [read more]

This video is from friday afternoon training, over 30 students: Every tuesday morning after the no gi training we did a kettlebell circuit training of 15 min, hard but lots of fun: [read more]

Saturday I went to watch The Cage 13_ Spring Break, very nice event, very well organized with a card full of exelent fights. Here is the video I made in the beggining of Markus Vantinen fight, his corners were also my corners Jarno Nurminen, Petteri Maunu plus Vantinen's brother, the fight was awesome pretty soon avaible to watch [read more]

Last year one of the best photografer from Finland woked with me for a article in the Fightsport Magazine, this some of the picture that he took:To see much more of his work, check out here: http://mike.pakkotoisto.com/ [read more]

Today I was helping my friend Marko Nyman train for his next fights, he will be competing next weekend for the MMA Amauter Finnish Championship that will happen at Kehahait, see u guys there. I had to train very carefully cause I have a fracture in my nose, reason why it will take a bit long that I [read more]

We had so much fun in the last day of training in Lahti, here some pics:And for much more pics from my friend Ville Eronen check out here: http://gallery.eronen.net/main.php?g2_itemId=10331&g2_page=1 [read more]

From Hamina "the biggest small town in the world" the great group of warrios: [read more]

Some videos of the good time I am having in Lahti. My boxing training with Mikko, the gym, and the guys. [read more]

Hei guys it is out my signature T-shirt, it looks awesome, great job KIMURAWEAR, check it out: http://www.kimurawear.com/Lucio-Linhares-p/0252.htm [read more]

This weekend I went to Porvo to keep a MMA seminar, nice time with great group of people, including great fighters such as Markus Vantinen, Gregu Forsell, Pauli Jakkola, Markus Peltonen among others, thanks guys for having me there. On saturday after training had a delicious dinner with Pauli Parents(unfortunately no pictures), and on sunday a lovely time [read more]

Awesome, last weekend was Junior bjj competition in Rihimaki(BJJ nationals and Heracles Open), lots of finnish future champs fighting, Hipko did very well, 14 kids and 12 medals. In many interviews people ask me about bjj in Finland and the future here, take a look at this video and u will have a good idea of what the [read more]

Everything was going perfectly as planned, day before in the weight in I made weight with out breaking a sweat, woke up half pound over, toke a shower and that was it,during the fight I was lighter then my opponent but it was worth it, never felt so good.As my closest friends know, I don't like to [read more]

Day 4 was the weight in, everything went great, woke up half pound over weight, toke a shower and that was it. Very easy. In this video, I, my brother and my riends going to the arena: [read more]

Today I woke up feeling very well, the weight cut is going great, 86 kg and the weighting will be tomorrow. Went to the supermarket with a constelation of friends: Ronis Torres, Andre Perdeneiras, Parrupinha and Rafaello de Oliveira. After that spend the day giving interview and doing photo shoot: [read more]

Everything is going very well in Charlote, in the second day I meet some professionals from here, Alex from The MMA Workout, very nice guy also a manager for a italian restaurante, Luis black belt from Alliance jiu jitsu and his student Egart "happy feet", plus great fighter and one of the nicest guy I met Rafaelo "tractor" [read more]

Galera não deixem de visitar o Blog do Olivar, lá vc fica sabendo tudo do mundo da luta, mas principalmente os bastidores e sobre a vida dos que fazem o espetaculo: http://blogolivar.blogspot.com/2010/03/lucio-linhares-sobre-o-blog-do-olivar.html [read more]

I had such a great camp in Tampere this last two weeks, mestari Jarno Nurminen helped me a lot in my strategy, thanks very much for Tero, Marko Helen and the other guys that helped me in the sparring.Jarno, I and Tero after the last session.In an unrelated note, [read more]

Since monday I've been training in Tampere under my MMA coach mestari Jarno Nurminen, I am having a great time, lots of fun in the sparrings and some relaxing after, Jarno lives in a house in the florest, very beatifull place, and he has a outdoors jacuzi which we use once in a while, this is Jarno: [read more]

Fight Festival was awesome, best card ever, too bad almost all my friends lost but Macus Vantinen, Jouni Salovara and JP. Suvanto had a very tough oponent, he did very well but lost in decision, Valtonen also did very good, his oponent Jake O'brien a former UFC fighter with a great resume, wrestling specialist and impressive boxing skills [read more]

Yesterday afternoos I arrived in Helsinki and went straight for the Fight Festival weight in, every fighter looked very good, everybody but Marcus Aurelio(whom was 300 grams over) and Jake O'brien (3,300kg over) made weight. I was especially impressed by Mikko Suvanto who made 77kg and looks ready for battle. Another fight that I am looking forward to [read more]

Today I am going to Finland. I had such a great time in Vitória, it was almost 2 months of intense training and relaxing in the spare time, no party at all but didn't miss it. Thanks very much for everybody that helped me train: Kaveira(coach), Jamelão, Marcelo Guimarães, Marcelo Saulo, Fabianinho, netão, Corcoram, Thiaguinho, my [read more]

This weekend in Finland there will be the Fight Festival 27, the greatest show in Scandinavia, lots of great MMA fights plus some exciting kick boxing and Muay Thai matchs, check out the card:MMA 3X5 MIN -70 KG Niko Puhakka, Espoon Kehähait vs Marcus "Maximus" Aurelio, Brasilia WAKO-PRO EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP [read more]

Nice interview by Jay Furness: http://news.fightmagazine.com/ufc-fight-night-lucio-linhares-3750/ [read more]

Yesterday I visited my friend's gym, Bruno de Paula is a very good bjj black belt, in the videos u can see his gym and a technique he showed me with good detail to do a better Clock Choke:More info about Bruno at www.brunodepaula.com.br [read more]

The MMA training in Brazil is going very well, specially now that I have two team mates fighting soon, Marcelo that will fight this saturday at "Jungle Fght" and my bjj master Eduardo Jamelão that will probably fight in beggining of may, here some videos of our trainings(warming up) commanded by Alexandre Kaveira: [read more]

Today I visited my friend Gustavo Guimarães gym, he is a specialist in butterfly guard:In this picture I, gustavo and some of his students.In this video a view of his gym, everything is made for fight: [read more]

In the carnival, cause everybody was traveling, I had some really good boxing training, in this video my coach Robson Vidal demonstrate an exercise cuban stlyle: [read more]

Here a couple of videos of a little bit of my conditioning training: [read more]

Nice article in a finnish website, my interview is in english! http://www.pakkotoisto.com/content.php?347-Haastattelussa-Lucio-Linhares [read more]