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  1. Micc
    I think my 2016 goals will truely form after I come back from Thailand :) What I can say for sure for now: 1) Loose weight (that's my goal every year...never accomplished) through training & dieting 2) Perfecting the techniques I'm already decent at (right jab, middle kick, low kick, right hook) 3) Learn some throws and trips for clinch!!! (that's totally my number 1 goal) 4) Get better all-around, to be able to spar with the "badass" people at summer camp without much damage 5) Learn how to read openings on opponents - or at least start working on getting a clue how to do it
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    I'm pretty much the same, I very rarely wear lenses. I have yet to find a brand that is comfortable for me. Sometimes I wear them to training - but mostly only if it's a seminar kind of class, with lots of people and lots of new stuff. I don't feel comfortable in them, because when I'm in fight stance I have to kind of look up and the lenses don't want to move as fast as my eyes do, so I get blurry vision and have to squint a lot.This doesn't help during sparring ;) Maybe i should consider laser operation, too. I'm a bit scared for now, but maybe that's the solution. Though I like my face with glasses on more than without, probably some stupid misconception as someone once told me I look better with glasses on. And here I am, years after that, having an inferiority complex about my natural face <stupid!!!> Maya, I don't think the brand or type matters. The dailies are usually a bit more flexible and soft compared to the one-month type. I only tried the dailies, not the one-months. I was curious and once I read through the competition rules of the Polish Muay Thai Association. Using contact lenses is not allowed during competition - probably due to the risk of injury.
  3. Micc
    Thanks and that's so cool that you're going, too! I'm going 14 January - 31 January. First we arrive in BKK and have 3 days to sightsee, then I'm off to Phuket on my own to train for 2 weeks. At the end of the trip I'm going back to BKK and have one day all to myself - and it's a Sunday, I checked it now, so maybe I will visit the channel 7 fights! :D Will you be staying in BKK? Maybe we can meet for dinner or coffee or whatever it is you meet for in Thailand :D which will be pretty funny to meet in Thailand when we're both from Europe :D
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    What's the first day at the gym in Thailand usually like? I will arrive early on Sunday, so I will have all day long to get to know the neighbourhood and also gather some first information. Then on Monday I plan to start training. Is there usually someone who will show me around the gym, ask me what's my goal or stuff like that? Will I be told, who's my trainer and do I get to talk with them before training? I will be training at Rawai Supa Muay Thai gym in Phuket, maybe someone has any exprience with this place? As the reality of the training gets closer it makes me nervous, as in how will I deal with it all? Should I chat up people I see around the gym?
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    Actually, is there a next Muay Thai Angels event planned?
  6. Micc
    I use a single-mouthguard from a local Polish brand called Masters, and I mold it exactly like NewThai does. A normal size suits me well, coz I'm big - 175 cm (5'9). I've seen and heard that smaller girls with smaller jaws cut the back of the mouthgard, just like Sylvie does. I actually have a second back-up no-name mouthguard, but it's so rigid and I always have irritated gums after using it, the Masters one is really soft and molds perfectly - and it's cheap! 10PLN - so it's like...2,5-3 Euro/Dollar :) + another 10PLN for delivery ;) I change it every 10-12 months, but I heard you should be changing it every 3-6 months because of the bacteria and stuff... Every now and then I put it in boiling water or clean it with toothpaste - actually I don't know what good it does, but I feel cleaner this way ;)
  7. Micc
    I think you stood your ground nicely and used your reach and height advantage very well. After reading your intro I see what you mean by "lazy" - yeah it might look like it, but that's not necesserly a bad thing. And I think it will come with more training. I don't like watching people in amateur fights smash each other with full strength head on - it usually looks very chaotic. You looked a bit restrained to me, but in a good way. The height difference was really visible here and I think you could totally smash her and KO her, but I don't see the point really. In my opinion you should kinda look out for your opponent in an amateur fight. You don't get paid for it, both of you are doing it for the thrill/love of the sport/other reasons, so I don't think it would be wise to send someone to the hospital. I know people might not agree with me, but that's my opinion. I'm aware that it's a fight, but well... So overall, congrats on your first official win!
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    This is so cool!! I really hope you will train your best and kick ass during the competition! Have fun, that's the most important thing! :)
  9. Micc
    It's true, it is broad and vague. I don't know her true condition, it could be that simply changing the water she's drinking to a brand with more minerals could help, but it could also be the cause of fatigue. Or sth completely else. I'm just trying to point in a direction and it's up to P.Evi to see if this might apply to her. Or not. From experience I can say that when I feel my punches weaken and my kicks having no power, even though I've been training a lot - it usually is related to not resting properly, not eating good quality food or having a lot of stress at work and life, as well as a kind of overwhelming feeling of pressure. So it can be put in a bag called "overtraining", but I'm aware that not everyone ever overtrains the same way.
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    To me, this sounds a lot like overtraining or reaching a plateau moment in your growth (for the latter, try googling physical plateau or sth along the lines to see if this is your case). Why I think these might be symptomps of overtraining? I assume you stopped using supplements in February, so you had to do all this year without them, right? This could also be a reason for your lack of growth. It's not that you can't get better without supplements, but if you were using them, your body was recovering faster. Now that you don't use it, it recovers at the "normal" time, which is sometimes too slow for an athlete who trains everyday. Do you properly do a rest day once in a while? Active recovery - massage, swimming, sauna, light stretching? I also heard recently that if you can't recall a time when you didn't train for more then 2 or 3 days in a row during the last year, overtraining is probably your silent companion.
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    Hi Maya, it's a situation most of us gets through sooner or later, I think. I agree with Sylvie on what she's written above. It's a business relation most of all and if you're not in it to fight professionally, you can choose whichever gym suits you most - be it the trainer, the gym, the hours of training, the price or in your case the sparing sessions. After the gym I went to closed down earlier this year (permanently), I followed my trainer and I really wanted to stay "loyal" to him, and I worked out a way in which I still feel loyal to him, but also train with another trainer, at another gym, where the overall conditions (hours, location, gym atmosphere) is better for me. I feel that our bond weakened and I know he won't invest so much time in me as before when I was training 4-5x a week only with him. I feel a bit torn, but I also learn a lot from the other trainer, which makes a huge difference for me. And I'm open and honest about it - the hours at gym #1 don't suit me, I can't come. And obviously, just because the hours doesn't suit me, I won't be sitting around and crying, I go out and find a place where I can train at better hours for me. Enjoy your training at gym #2, if it's a good place for you.
  12. Micc
    A big thank you to every one of you for your advice! And thanks to Sylvie for posting about it on FB I also got some information from there! It's all starting to come into shape in my mind. I will have to do a lot of planning, but I will do it. :)
  13. Micc
    So I know some of you have traveled alone to Thailand. What was it like? Did you have all planned out, all places to stay confirmed? As some of you may know, I was planning to go to Thailand in December or January, a friend said she will accompany me and sightsee, but now these plans start to fall through and I'm facing either giving up on the trip or go alone. I never really traveled alone that far. I never really traveled farther than to the UK and this is a one-connection flight and in a language I speak. But Thailand? i'm not sure if I can handle it on my own. I wanted to sightsee Bangkok for 2 days and then go to Phuket to train for 2 weeks (Eagle Muay Thai gym), then back to Bangkok and fly back...now I'm scared because I heard so many stories about naive farangs being ripped off and I don't want this to happen to me! And I'm really naive. Do you have some thoughts you can share with me and experiences about a one man (well, woman actually) trip from Europe to Thailand? I really want to go and I think this will be a once in a lifetime experience, but I'm not sure anymore what to do.
  14. Micc
    Emma, thank you! This is pretty much what I've been looking for. I started listening to the first lesson and gooosh Thai is so difficult! :) :) I need to figure out how to download it, because it only opens up in my browser, but I will manage, I'm a web specialist after all :p I don't know the word for thanks in Thai yet, but thanks. :) //on a sidenote, I went to a Senegal cafe yesterday (here in Warsaw, Poland) and the bartender barely understood any Polish or English, turns out he speaks French and I have never learned French besides counting to 10 or asking if you speak another language than French :D So he told me the name for "plate", coz I was asking for one, and I totally forgot it after a few minutes. I hope I will do better with learning Thai! :)//
  15. Micc
    Hi Ems and welcome to the forum! I find your "whining" totally understandable. It's frustrating when you want to give your best in training, but your partner is not helping... I have been in similar situations countless of times, but I still have no real adivse to offer. The thing I did that seemed to work a bit: I talked to the girl that we need to train with different people for our own good (in my situation I was the MUCH bigger one) and she came to understand it and we tried hard to get paired up differently, although it didn't work out a lot of times. Most people in the gym just assume that if there are two (completely mis-matched) girls in the room, they should train together :( Maybe you can try working in longer pauses between combinations while you are holding pads for her. Do some footwork, faint a jab, make her work a little, but also give her time to rest. This will also reduce the numbers of throws you have to get from her and maybe she won't be as gassed when she's holding for you?
  16. Micc
    I'm looking for a shortcut to learn the basic words and sentences. Do you know of a website or maybe even audio-book, that has the Thai version (spoken) and English version (spoken) as an audio file? (e.g. Thai speaker says: "sawadee", English after that "Hello"). This way I can learn to recognize some words or structures and have them coded in my head with the English equivalent - this is the method that works best for me. As of now, I found a Polish (that's handy for me :) ) website, with basic words and a Thai audio, transcription in Latin and Thai letters. But I can't download it :/ This tread made me realize I should start learning some basics for my trip in January!! :D
  17. Micc
    That's the picture! But uh, it's hard to maintain the balance with TRAINERS...I don't know how people manage with actual mistresses... O.o
  18. Micc
    My situation is completely different than yours, Tyler, as I train at two different gyms with two different trainers who don't come in contact with each other. Although I know that my trainers both know/had known each other, but I'm not quite sure as what the circumstances were - I only know they both trained at the same gym at some point in their life (like, 10 years ago or even more?), but their career paths went waaaay different. Both have a strong opinion about the other one and both also kind of look down on the other one. Both know I train at two gyms with the other trainer ;) So....I try not to mention what I did in training with the other one. It's hard sometimes, when I had a great training at one gym and want to talk about this great feeling or techniques, but...I can't/shouldn't. I still try to work out a balance... it's tricky. This situation is still kind of new to me - like, 3-4 months old, so for now I stick to observing if my training changes anyhow. For now it hasn't, so it's okay. I still feel like I'm "betraying" my trainer with whom I've trained for the last year and a half, even though I get the vibe from him (or it's just my wishful thinking) that he accepts my need to learn the Muay Thai I want to learn, even if it's learning from another trainer. (the longer I think about it, the more I think it's my wishful thinking).
  19. Micc
    I still have a few months left of being in my sweet 20s, so being over 40 is kinda like a lifetime away in my perspective. I really do hope that I will be as active as I can when the time comes (and slimmer!!! ;( ;(). I feel as if all the 40+ can relate to these reasons, I see a lot of women joining gyms and fitness classes at that age and I think it's totally admirable. I see why it can be bittersweet to you, but let's face it, noone is going to be in their prime form forever. You have to adjust your training to your health conditions, just like you adjust to -let's say - weahter conditions :) Let's congratulate this 58yo for the courage to come to the gym and train with younlings ;)
  20. Micc
    This was great. I cried, too. I think I used the thing about 10 seconds of courage a lot of times in my life. I used to tell myself before though decisions or situations - "just do it" - as cliche as it sounds. It hasn't brought me to my goal yet, but it placed me pretty securely on a path that can lead to reaching my goals. Thank you Emma for posting this video.
  21. Micc
    I'm sure you will learn a lot at ballett classes, but I consider crosstraining with such far away disciplines a bit distracting. I used to do a lot of various sport activities in my years off martial arts, but I see that I get the best progress when I crosstrain only muay thai with muay thai and a bit of weight training in between ;) I want to add yoga to it, but don't have enough time. I manage to go to one yoga class a month, which can not be considered cross-training ;) I'm curious of what you're experience with ballett will be :)
  22. Micc
    I consider myself a beginner at clinching and the times when I do it without gloves allow me to feel out the movements and the strenght movement in the clinch, which is still very foreign to me. In gloves I just grab on to the head and do nothing fancy ;) Actually I currently train under two trainers. The first one, with whom I've beed training for over a year now usually has us clinching in gloves. It's rare that we do it bare-handed. The other one does it completetly different (although I've only been training with him for 2 months) - first we learn a technique bare-handed and then we have to try it in light sparring with gloves on.
  23. Micc
    Do you feel that this was such an intense workout week? Or are you already okay with upping the hours of training? I've actually cut down on one class (which is in a gym that's pretty far away), but instead I'm going to a kinda-crossfit class that day. It's at a fitness gym, not martial arts one. So I find it extremely hard to NOT jump in fighting stance or shadow-box lightly in-between rounds :) :) I literally had to stop myself to do it, even if the song was a boxing song (lyrics going like "left hook right hook" and so on...) :) Fortunately we also did some punching on the pad, so I was giving my best there :D
  24. Micc
    Thanks Tyler, I totally can relate to your last sentence :D I go to work by bike and sometimes I'm so sleepy during the first few hours of the day that I can't remember my road to work ;)
  25. Micc
    Ah yes, I've been using one, it sucked for me. I woke up pissed off because of the long waking up period :D But if I find a strong enough resolve to run in the morning, I will try using a different one for sure :)

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