A fighter steps into the ring. Evolution Kickboxer Shiva Toolsie will be hoping to take his career to another level. He will be leaving tomorrow to compete at The Rise K1 Kickboxing tournament in Suriname. He is expecting a tough challenge but he indicated he is up for the challenge.
00:00Evolution kickboxer Shiba Tulsi, 19 years old, will be heading to Suriname to take part in the RISE K1 tournament.
00:07He's facing an undefeated fighter in a country that he's never fought in before.
00:11The odds are stacked against him. However, he is still confident that he will leave as a champion.
00:16I feel confident being coached by my current coach, Jason Romata, and going to Suriname in Simpsons gym.
00:25I'll be coached by Angelo Simpson, a world-renowned coach, and a world champion as well.
00:31This tournament is a little different from his usual rumble. It's the K1 brand of kickboxing.
00:37It's style, it involves knees, clenches, sweeps, and it's in K1.
00:45I've never fought in a competitive K1 tournament before, so I hope to win and come out victorious.
00:51He will be undergoing a camp before the competition, and he will be drawing confidence from his last fight.
00:58My last fight, I fought against a Suriname fighter from the same gym, and I won.
01:05He was tough to put on, but in the end, we came out victorious.
01:09His coach, Jason Romata, says winning is of utmost importance.
01:13We're going to fight at the rise in the hopes that Shiva does well, and once he does well, he will be entitled to fight for either a Caribbean or continental title at a bigger event called Chosun, which is sometime later down in the year in Suriname itself.
01:28Do you think he's ready for this competition?
01:30Yes, he's not quite ready. We still have three weeks to go, but he has been doing a lot of endurance work, a lot of technical work, and then he's going into a training camp in Suriname for three weeks there.
01:43So at the end of that training camp, he's going to be fully ready, yes.
01:46The competition takes place on Saturday, July 5th.
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