Posted in Alex's Blog on March 10, 2011
I first saw Luke when he came to check out Lanna for a day, he was wearing perhaps the smallest pair of shorts I had ever seen and I thought that this guy was either going to be really good or really bad. Let’s just say I never asked him about his shorts. Anyway, I [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on January 19, 2011
Anybody who’s travelled in Thailand knows what a disaster overnight buses can be, so you can imagine my delight at having to travel by five of them in one week. The plan was to head to the some beaches in the south of for New Years with some friends and then on to Laos to [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on January 12, 2011
I first heard about KC from a friend out here, I told him I was thinking about switching gym and he said his mate was training at a new place close to where I worked. I thought it was strange that I hadn’t heard about it before but he guaranteed me the training was top [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on December 12, 2010
Pandemonium, the streets were brimming with ecstatic faces and alive with color. A parade of floats, decorated trucks, marching children, banners, and music forces its way through the entwined crowd. Thousands of voices exclaim their amazement in numerous foreign tongues. Brightly colored lanterns are hanging from trees, shop awnings and street stalls. Golden candles line every [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on December 6, 2010
So I’ve been away quite a bit the last while, this has been due to a combination of work, sickness, stress and work. Basically I had come to Thailand to escape commitments, restrictions and see what life outside of work and study was all about however after one month out here I had engulfed myself [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on October 23, 2010
I sat perched on a rock slick with water, the air thinner up here but heavy with spray and thunder. I sat and stared. How could it survive amidst such a raw, unrestricted force engulfing it every moment of its life? Yet it stood, solitary and defiant against the gushing energy that was Mea Ya. [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on October 20, 2010
“Muay Thai in Thailand means family” There’s one aspect of gyms in Thailand that differs from any of those you may have experienced in other countries. It’s not just being able to train alongside an exceptional group of fighters and individuals or the excessive knowledge these people have of the sport, it’s not the opportunity [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 30, 2010
There is a collection of people you might even say sub-culture, that lurks in Thailand. They bide their time in dimly lit areas, beneath doorways and around corners. Their friendly….when they want to be. These are a passionate people, they won’t hesitate to fall in love or rush into an argument hands gesturing wildly while [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 26, 2010
Falang, Falang, Falang-foreigner!! These are probably Wongs favorite words, he sings them in his rough smoky voice almost constantly each day in the gym,he also acts as the human timer, “OK START……..1 minute, 2, minute, 3 minute, 4 minutes OOOOk Lao Lao Lao – Fast Fast Fast….OK BREAK 10 push up!!” I feel like theres [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 13, 2010
I climbed into the ring bowed to the four sides and waited for my opponent. He leapt over the top of the ropes and faced me with a big grin on his face. He was bigger than me and he knew it. I tried not to think about it, we performed the Ram Muay and [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 13, 2010
James had been teaching English and learnign Muay Thai in Chiang Mai for the past month and was having his first fight at Loi Khro Stadium tonight. Loi Khro stadium consists of a ring surrounded by bars, the occupants of which are all quite eager to shall we say “befriend foreigners” its not really much of a stadium more so [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 9, 2010
Den, one of the head trainers had been asking me to fight since the first week I got here, though I’d done Muay Thai before I had only been training out here a week when he first asked me and I refused because I knew I wasn’t in any condition to last more than 2 [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 9, 2010
They should have been a circus sideshow perhaps even the main attraction. They clambered across the table not paying any heed to anybody or anything in their path, one ran up slapped me in the leg and bailed under the table, he proceeded to repeat this act for the remainder of the class while another [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 8, 2010
Julien had been in Chiang Mai for 4 weeks, he was leaving in two days and had decided that tonight was as good as any to do the “big shop” an event key to any trip to a country filled with cheap merchandise. The store we were looking for was the Twins shop located at [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 7, 2010
Taywin was barbecuing, Julien needed new gear, James was fighting, Nathan wanted to get laid, and I was just plain happy that the weeks training was over. We had a busy night ahead of us. Taywin is someone you do not forget, and last night I found out that his persona outside the ring is [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 6, 2010
Doi Suthep overlooks Chiang Mai, the mountain is 3000ft high and from my balcony in the city you can make out the golden Chedi that stands at the centre of Wat Prathat Doi Suthep (A Wat is a temple, also any temple preceeded by what Prathat means that it contains Buddha relics, and boy did [...]
Posted in Alex's Blog on September 6, 2010
Maniacal, his cheeks strained wide to contain his gigantic leering smile, both rows of white teeth were clearly revealed. his massive hazel eyes were alive with energy and looked ready to leap right out of his skull. They didn’t break contact with mine, not even for a second (I was later told he maintained this [...]
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