Mae Ya
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. The rain had fallen hard the previous night, the result of which exploded just a few feet from us, the smashing saturating our ears and drowning out the past. I sat with my back to Ton. We didn’t say much, we didn’t need to.
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.
