Muay Thai Obsession

My unwitting indoctrination into the greatest
fighting art on Earth.

Skinny Bastard!

Bought an electric scales today cos I’ve not weighed myself in over a month and the scales at the gym’s been broken for a while and shows no sign of being fixed.
Guess what? 82.7kg!!
That’s down from 93kg in October. Awesome - I thought I was around 84kg! I’ve been eating really well for the past month and drinking a lot less. It’s working. I need to be below 78.1kg by August 10th to make Super Middleweight class restrictions. Only four and a half kilos to go in eight weeks. Easy. Don’t want to be doing no psycho sauna starvation weight cutting nonsense; I want to be at weight two weeks before.

Just found out last night that my coach is gonna be away for three weeks in the middle of my prep for my first fight…bit gutted…plan is to fight August 10th, he’ll be away the last week in June & first two weeks of July…that gives us three weeks this side of it and three weeks after…could be worse but I was pretty confident having these two months of continuous training right before. Not been sparring for a while as I’m working heavily on technique and was gonna be going back to it in a few weeks. Been working on getting perfect punches and now kicks; I’m there with the right and nearly with the left, next we’ll be putting it all together and then working on defence before I go back to sparring…when I was gonna be back at it was just around when he’s going away. Don’t want to be sparring and potentially undoing all the hard work without him there to correct me. I guess it means I’ll just have to do bagwork and shadow-boxing for the three weeks he’s away and then get back into sparring for three weeks before fighting. Bit shitty but I’m planning to visit friends & family in Sweden, Denmark & Ireland from the end of August to beginning of October, then breaking in a new guitarist and touring in November, and finally away with my girl afterwards for a few weeks in December…which all means that this is the only window I have to fully concentrate on it until the end of the year…faaack! It’s just gonna have to be okay I guess.

Just found out last night that my coach is gonna be away for three weeks in the middle of my prep for my first fight…bit gutted…plan is to fight August 10th, he’ll be away the last week in June & first two weeks of July…that gives us three weeks this side of it and three weeks after…could be worse but I was pretty confident having these two months of continuous training right before. Not been sparring for a while as I’m working heavily on technique and was gonna be going back to it in a few weeks. Been working on getting perfect punches and now kicks; I’m there with the right and nearly with the left, next we’ll be putting it all together and then working on defence before I go back to sparring…when I was gonna be back at it was just around when he’s going away. Don’t want to be sparring and potentially undoing all the hard work without him there to correct me. I guess it means I’ll just have to do bagwork and shadow-boxing for the three weeks he’s away and then get back into sparring for three weeks before fighting. Bit shitty but I’m planning to visit friends & family in Sweden, Denmark & Ireland from the end of August to beginning of October, then breaking in a new guitarist and touring in November, and finally away with my girl afterwards for a few weeks in December…which all means that this is the only window I have to fully concentrate on it until the end of the year…faaack! It’s just gonna have to be okay I guess.

Right Leg, Hospital; Left Leg, Cemetary

Mirko Cro Cop is probably the scariest man in kickboxing. That left leg…JEEEZUS. Nevermind the fact that I have no love for cops…this guy’s a legend. At 37 he’s still demolishing opponents with superior strength and tactics…here he is with a punishing KO at K1 Rising yesterday.

PT - Kicks

Great PT session with Pedg on Monday. My kicks are getting a lot stronger and I’m working on the movement aspect of it all quite successfully. Most importantly, I’m understanding how to move and why it works like it does…I can’t learn anything unless I understand how & why. He had me do some useful exercises balancing in the point-of-contact kicking position to demonstrate how and why my body needs to be in a certain position to exert maximum force. I need to have all my weight on my supporting leg, which is slightly bent. I need to have both hips in a line bisecting my target as I strike. My supporting foot should pivot a minimum of 90°.

Unfortunately I’ve been sick all week so I’ve had no chance to practice before our PT session tonight…gonna try and get in early to get 15 minutes at least before we begin. Or he’s gonna kill me.

What A Week… This week sucked…went away for the weekend but started coming down with a cold on Sunday morning. Thought I’d fought it off but it got pretty bad Tuesday evening meaning I did no running. Had to take Wednesday off work & training. Thursday I’d band practice in the evening so today (Friday) is the first time since last Friday that I’m going to have a proper workout. I’m gonna get soaked on the way to the gym after work…it’s the wettest, most miserable Melbourne day we’ve had in a while. And it’s gonna keep up all weekend…

What A Week…

This week sucked…went away for the weekend but started coming down with a cold on Sunday morning. Thought I’d fought it off but it got pretty bad Tuesday evening meaning I did no running. Had to take Wednesday off work & training. Thursday I’d band practice in the evening so today (Friday) is the first time since last Friday that I’m going to have a proper workout.

I’m gonna get soaked on the way to the gym after work…it’s the wettest, most miserable Melbourne day we’ve had in a while. And it’s gonna keep up all weekend…

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rockbogart:

K-1 Commercial for Madrid event

Anyone know a good free streaming site for this…? :)

*edit: just realised this will show at 4am Monday morning over here…gonna have to watch it after :/

But anyway! Cro Cop & Silva on the same event along with the rest of that card, this is gonna be the brutalest brutal that ever brutaled!!

Good advice

persianlikethecatmeow replied to your post: The ropes don’t forgive…
The trick to shin kicks is being relaxed but in control. You relax your leg until the very second when you go all the way through your target as if cutting down a tree. Precision and timing is important.
Good advice -thanks! There’s so much to remember that it’s hard to get everything…just remembering how long it took me to lock everything down with punches before I could forget about the mechanics and start to focus on speed, accuracy and timing. Same with this… Now I’m really focusing on foot placement and making space with the initial movement of my leg up and out, at the same time as putting my back hand into my opponent’s face while putting all my weight above my slightly-bent front leg…and kicking. All in one fluid motion!

The ropes don’t forgive…

For the last two weeks we’ve been working on my kicks. Once again Pedg’s methods are pretty full on, but at least now I know what to expect and can approach it with patience and discipline.

I destroyed my toes through practicing kicks on the corner of the ring…the point is to hit the padded corner flat with your shin so that your leg is parallel with the ground. But the ropes don’t forgive…every time you misalign, the skin is ripped off your toes. Vicious.

We then went on to general balance and weight distribution while kicking. After that it was low kicks, inside and outside, which was really helpful in figuring out things I hadn’t understood before. All the way through Pedg is really putting emphasis on how everything ends and the balance of it all…learning from the most basic level up so that the combos link together later.

Really wish I could make it to this, allegedly JWP’s final fight…

TOTALLY psyched for this tonight!! My mate Em is fighting plus another sparring partner of mine, really good card, it’s gonna be ULTIMATE BRUTALIC CARNAGE!!!!

TOTALLY psyched for this tonight!! My mate Em is fighting plus another sparring partner of mine, really good card, it’s gonna be ULTIMATE BRUTALIC CARNAGE!!!!