Fight

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 rounds. He asked me the following week and I told him no maybe in 2 weeks (so one months training in all) I told him again that I didn’t think I was fit enough, he just pointed to the left of his chest “heart, all about heart” its hard to argue with a sentiment like that. So now I’m fighting at the end of this week on the 11th of September (thats right that date will now commemorate 2 massive events that brought the world to a standstill!). How do I feel about the fight? Not too bothered really, not that I think its just going to be something easy, but I’m not looking at it like its some huge event, the way I see it its just another part of training the only part that you cant fully simulate in the gym and that is the only way to improve that side of your game, by getting some real experience. I’m sure I could wait until I’m fitter, stronger, feeling more confident in some areas but thats the next fights problem, right now I just want to get in their and see how it goes, and figure out everything I have to learn. The gym owner “Andy” told me there would be 3 things I would learn in this fight:

1. Leg kicks hurt like a bitch.

2. How important conditioning is.

3. What your really made of.

I’ll be sure to fill you in on the answers I get to all 3 of these by the end of the week.

Born in Australia, training in martial arts since the age of 9. My first trip to Thailand was back in 2007. Since then i have made numerous visits back to the "land of smiles" to feed my addiction of Muay Thai. During the month of November in 2010 i had to decide between working a 9 to 5 job back home for the rest of my life, or sell all my worldly possessions and move to Thailand to live and train for the next few years. Thankfully i chose the latter. I now spend my time training Muay Thai, meeting new and interesting circles of people, sipping coconuts under palm trees on the beach and measuring the cost of everything on how much Pad Thai i could buy with that money.

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