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Can you please introduce yourself to the Swedish grappling community?<\/strong> When and how did you first come in contact with Grappling\/Jiu-Jitsu?<\/b> How has your last grappling year been like?<\/strong> How are you preparing for ADCC 2013?<\/strong> What is your thoughts of the competitor list in your weight class, any names you are missing?<\/b> In 2011 I did an interview with Janne-Pekka Pietil\u00e4inen and I mentioned that Finns tend to go for a lot of heel hooks and foot locks. What is your opinion? Many people see you as a foot lock specialist.<\/strong> Who do you see yourself facing in the final?<\/strong> Favorite submission?<\/b> Can you please introduce yourself to the Swedish grappling community? Hi. I’m Timo-Juhani Hirvikangas, a grappler from Finngifhters Gym Turku Finland. When and how did you first come in contact with Grappling\/Jiu-Jitsu? Well I started with grappling almost by accident, I started with MMA in 2005 and my coach Marko Leisten wanted me to do…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,197],"tags":[357,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-14307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adcc","7":"category-intervjuer","8":"category-nyheter","9":"tag-adcc-world-championship-2013","10":"tag-timo-juhani-hirvikangas","11":"wrapper-post entry","12":"no-post-thumbnail","13":"wrapper-post-text"},"yoast_head":"\n
\nHi. I’m Timo-Juhani Hirvikangas, a grappler from Finngifhters Gym Turku Finland.<\/p>\n
\nWell I started with grappling almost by accident, I started with MMA in 2005 and my coach Marko Leisten wanted me to do a grappling tournament, I won and started to fall in love with the sport.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Well I have been focusing mainly on MMA this couple of years and haven\u2019t been grappling too much, only the biggest tournaments. But I’ve been training really hard and I think MMA has helped my grappling alot too.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Well I’m training for a MMA fight at the moment but when it’s over I will be focusing on grappling for a month or so before the ADCC.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNo one missing in my opinion, all the best grapplers in the world are there.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Well I don’t know about that =).\u00a0 I like the leglocks alot, but there are alot of people doing legloks nowadays, not just a Finnish thing =).<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Well it has to be Rafael Mendes.<\/p>\n
\nHeelhook, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"