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Day 17 – Mental Tai Chi Yesterday my trainers were telling me I seemed tired and today I was even more tired than yesterday.  Clinching in the evenings with the little kids at Petchrungruang is sure...

Day 15 – First Training After My Fight My shin is a little swollen from checking a kick in my last fight so I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to kick on it today.  It’s...

When I started training mornings at Petchrungruang Gym in Pattaya to supplement and complement my afternoons with Sakmongkol at WKO, I had the opportunity to talk with Filippo Cinti.  Filippo has been training and fighting in...

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...

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...

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...

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...