UNSTOPPABLE

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Well it's time to put your gloves up as Mixed Martial Arts steps into the fray...  Come tomorrow, local mixed martial artist at the junior level will get an opportunity to test their might at the MMA event called Unstoppable. It's an event that's free to the public as organizers begin their search for the future stars in the sport.

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00:00Mixed martial arts promoter Jason Fraser is on a mission to find the next crop of

00:05Pan-American and World Junior Champions. Come tomorrow he will be hosting the

00:09event Unstoppable which is a partnership with the military-led academic training

00:13program MILAT. I'm very excited about the event for this weekend as our main goal

00:18and objective and drive is to identify new talents from the grassroot level so

00:25our focus is really on the youths for this event as you know Trinidad and

00:31Tobago had representation at the World Youth Championship earlier on this year

00:36in Abu Dhabi where we won a bronze medal so we saw the possibility to have a

00:41stronger contingency from the Caribbean region especially Trinidad and Tobago so

00:46our main objective is to find those talents wherever they are. He gave a

00:53breakdown on the partnership with MILAT. The partnership with MILAT is that

00:56well MILAT is a military-led program they have grassroots athletes and as

01:01young athletes inside here we believe in building for the future so we are

01:06focusing on the youths and they have a very good program a good structure with

01:09discipline and fitness inside there so it will be easier for us to actually go

01:14in and have our technical directors and coaches and they you know identify those

01:20athletes and work together so we're about to roll out the program in MILAT

01:24next year and with the St. Jude's home for girls. Technical director of the

01:30Mixed Martial Arts Association Warren Gill spoke about his expectations for

01:34the tournament. I expect to see a good turnout from the youth contingent the

01:40junior contingent sorry of Mixed Martial Arts in Trinidad we expect to see

01:44members of the team that were at Abu Dhabi this year especially the bronze

01:49medalists I expect them to give a good demonstration of what Mixed Martial

01:54Arts is at the junior level. He says it's a highly controlled competition no

01:59striking to the head is allowed. At the junior level you will see that we allow

02:04no punching in the face we remove certain what we would call dangerous

02:09submissions like heel hooks and overextended arm bars so it's going to be

02:13a highly controlled competition. The weigh-in and the competition is set to

02:17take place on the same day. As with the international body with IMAF they don't

02:21allow what we call the practice of weight cutting where people try to cut

02:25weight to go down into a lower division which is tantamount to some people would

02:30consider cheating some people would consider it strategy but in the IMAF

02:34format weigh-ins are always done on the day that the competition takes place so

02:38we try to follow that same arm trend.

02:43Yes this is what we want we try to encourage from the youth level that you

02:49should fight what your weight is what your fighting weight is. There are

02:52approximately 12 weight classes the event is scheduled to take place at the

02:56Milad compound in Mausika on Saturday from 7 p.m. Sergio Dufour, TV6 sport

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