Picture this: It’s February 2024, you’re in the UK and it’s typically cold, wet and miserable. You’ve gotten rid of most of your belongings, and what’s left of your 23 years of living in the UK is now in a storage unit. Your life now consists of two backpacks and the clothes on your back. 

You have some shekels in your bank account but not much, but that doesn’t matter, you’ll figure it out. Just like you figured the first place you go to has to be hot. Your Dutch-Kenyan disposition has finally had enough of constantly wearing warming headgear for 10 months out of each year….

A quick cheap airline promotion and Opodo Prime membership means for the grand sum of  £95 (that extra carry-on OR hold charge is ridiculous) your friendly neighbourhood RoninShig went from 7ºC to a delicious 23ºC in about 4 and a half hours.

A hostel and town vibes review might be needed, but for now, a Facebook friend turned into a real friend and she invited me to her regular training gym…So my first gym visit at SurFight Club is what you’re getting a breakdown of right here, right now….

Post Podcast Bluuurb:

Hey, thanks for being here! If you want a more flavourful review of this gym, I’ve done a full write-up on my personal blog here: JustShiggi.com - Ronin On 1

Since February 2024 I’ve been travelling around Europe visiting BJJ gyms first-hand so I can build a network of like-minded badasses, experience new countries, cultures and most importantly BJJ gyms, their coaches, students and communities. Whilst my travels are mostly funded by my freelancing work as an audio editor on podcasts and audiobooks, I’ve also been kept afloat by donations. 

If you can, and are able to, helping out with a small donation always adds up and helps in keeping on The Path to more gyms and bringing all of that back home to Kenya. You can also check out a full post on how I got to this journey: https://buymeacoffee.com/just-shiggi