January2014

Day 13 – Padwork and Clinch Today was a full day.  Damn.  I had some good, hard padwork with Kru Nu at Petchrungruang and he really pushed me, telling me to rest tomorrow.  Then I did...

After training with Sakmongkol in the afternoon at WKO we departed a bit early and took the motorbike back over to Petchrungruang Gym to have some clinching with Kru Nu’s son, who is ranked 2nd in...

Day 11 – Fight Energy Another difficult day today.  Morning training at Petchrungruang was good and the trainer there, Kru Nu, has been trying to get me a fight.  It’s proven remarkably difficult to book a...

Yesterday was Sunday, so I tried something a little different and did a long run in the morning – got lost trying to do the loop I did last time but exploring is fun – and...

This is going to be a bit short because I’m very tired and it was a long, full day.  I trained this morning at Petchrungruang Pattaya gym and wrote a blog post about that experience. My...

for a map of where Petchrungruang Gym is scroll down This morning was my first experience of actually training at Petchrungruang Pattaya gym about 10 minutes away from where we’re staying.  It’s basically pinched into the...

Staying 5 More Weeks – Lots of Growth It’s a little hard for me to believe that it’s only been one week here in Pattaya.  The work I’ve done with Sakmongkol feels so extensive and my...

Sometimes you have bad days.  It’s just an inevitability of spending hours upon hours of doing something.  Thing is, it wasn’t that I was “off” in terms of my movements; instead I was unable to understand...

This afternoon, in the last 20 minutes of training when I was wringing out the last of my energy on a hanging bag, Sakmongkol’s boss who I met yesterday called me into the ring for some...

I am so, so sore today.  That’s a good feeling in some ways and unpleasant in other, more obvious, ways.  As I was shadowboxing and warming up before clinch training, Sakmongkol put on his bellypad, shinguards...