jkdberlin
28-12-2003, 12:15
USA quake affects MMA community
Take a look at this report published by our partners by MMAWeekly.com:
We are sure many of you heard about the California Earthquakes on the Central Coast yesterday. Many of the MMA community was affected by this 6.5 Earthquake. The most damage was received in the small town of Paso Robles which is a half hour north of San Luis Obispo. San Luis is of course the home of Chuck Liddell, Gan McGee and the fight gyms of SLO Kickboxing and the Pit which is in Arroyo Grande.
John Hackleman who runs the Pit told MMAWeekly "My house is a mess right now. I have everything knocked off my walls, but everybody is o.k. The gym is fine. Chuck and my family is o.k. so I'm alright." SLO Kickboxing didn't sustain much damage. A few tiles hit the floor but the gym is o.k. If you travel up north towards the town of Paso Robles that is where you start to understand the damage. MMAWeekly's Ryan Bennett lives just 10 minutes away from Paso Robles and his story was of course was much different.
"I was upstairs and felt the earthquake. I thought it would just go away and it didn't. My house was literally moving. It just started swaying, so I ran downstairs and told my wife and girls to get under the door frame. My kids had a horrible look of fear as I told them to get under the doorway. After a quick headcount I realized my baby boy was upstairs asleep so I went running up my staircase to get my 10 month old. Then the staircase started swaying a foot each way. I was scared beyond belief. It was hell just trying to get up the stairs. I grabbed my boy and my knee buckled on the stairs because my staircase was swaying back and forth. It feels like I tore my ACL again."
"It was like a scene in a bad movie as the quake just continued to get more violent. We are in cleanup mode as I have T.V.'s DVD players and stereo's on the floor, water from my fish tank all over the living room floor. Luckily my house doesn't have any structural damage as the builders have constructed this place for earthquakes. I am 10 minutes away from Paso Robles. I know they were not as fortunate and are in much worse shape."
Source: Tatame
Take a look at this report published by our partners by MMAWeekly.com:
We are sure many of you heard about the California Earthquakes on the Central Coast yesterday. Many of the MMA community was affected by this 6.5 Earthquake. The most damage was received in the small town of Paso Robles which is a half hour north of San Luis Obispo. San Luis is of course the home of Chuck Liddell, Gan McGee and the fight gyms of SLO Kickboxing and the Pit which is in Arroyo Grande.
John Hackleman who runs the Pit told MMAWeekly "My house is a mess right now. I have everything knocked off my walls, but everybody is o.k. The gym is fine. Chuck and my family is o.k. so I'm alright." SLO Kickboxing didn't sustain much damage. A few tiles hit the floor but the gym is o.k. If you travel up north towards the town of Paso Robles that is where you start to understand the damage. MMAWeekly's Ryan Bennett lives just 10 minutes away from Paso Robles and his story was of course was much different.
"I was upstairs and felt the earthquake. I thought it would just go away and it didn't. My house was literally moving. It just started swaying, so I ran downstairs and told my wife and girls to get under the door frame. My kids had a horrible look of fear as I told them to get under the doorway. After a quick headcount I realized my baby boy was upstairs asleep so I went running up my staircase to get my 10 month old. Then the staircase started swaying a foot each way. I was scared beyond belief. It was hell just trying to get up the stairs. I grabbed my boy and my knee buckled on the stairs because my staircase was swaying back and forth. It feels like I tore my ACL again."
"It was like a scene in a bad movie as the quake just continued to get more violent. We are in cleanup mode as I have T.V.'s DVD players and stereo's on the floor, water from my fish tank all over the living room floor. Luckily my house doesn't have any structural damage as the builders have constructed this place for earthquakes. I am 10 minutes away from Paso Robles. I know they were not as fortunate and are in much worse shape."
Source: Tatame