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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...

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...

This afternoon’s clinching session started with me shadowing in the ring, warming up.  Sakmongkol taught me a knee that he was working on with Sifu McInnes and his son last night.  Basically it’s a long straight...

We arranged a private session for clinch instruction just before regular afternoon training today.  I wasn’t in a good mood entering the gym, which is unfortunate because my attitude and how I’m “read” by trainers is...

Even though it’s Sunday, which is usually a rest day, Sakmongkol invited me to come train with him for two hours in the morning because he didn’t want to do padwork yesterday.  He had let me...