Micc
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Michelle, yep I finished reading it, then went to watch the whole TUF18 to get a better picture of it, I'm still processing though.
I think she's astonishing in that she really keeps to her word and is honest with her feelings. I really appreciate it and respect her for that. She also seems really intense, but in the book it was more efficient, like she was giving off the feeling of knowing she was the center of the world. After I watched the TUF18 it softened her image a bit.
All in all, I really love it she's this honest type of hardworking person who won't take sh*t from anybody. I love this and it really empowers me. I also like how she semi-openly talks about her body issues. For me she's a consistent person and I value that a lot, because I struggle with my own consistency at times...
So, I'm still processing all the information and how I can pick something from her as a role model (even though she's younger by a year than me hahaha!) to become a better person. I really hope she can become a strong female role model for the little girls out there!
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That's creepy...I mean it's ok they sell it, who would've want to keep an old car if you still can get rid of it and get some money from it, but here...
It really is astonishing how much of a celebrity Ronda has become!
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Gavin, thanks!
I really don't like anything related to falling, mostly because of my weight, so I try to avoid it during practice, even when we do clinch I always say "please no throws to the ground". I'm not ready yet. I hope that one day when I loose weight it won't be as scary, but maybe with practicing these forward rolls I will get better at handling the falling to the ground part! :)
Of course I get thrown to the ground a lot, but they do it gently ;) ;)
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Thanks dtrick for linking it, it's in my signature, so I thought it's visible :) :)
And I'm glad you enjoy reading it, I try to really think deeper than usual when I write it, it helps me get things in order and the cool thing is, I'm learning a lot about myself by writing it! :) and I'm still working on the visual side ;) I don't have much good pictures from training I can use, but I will sort it out sometime ;)
Today I went to class and as it's a holiday long weekend, I was the only one there, so I basically had a private class with my trainer :) :) The best thing was, he pushed me to do sommersaults (I hope it's the right word, like you roll over you head to the front or back, or over your shoulder and so on) and he also has shown me some new types of sommersaults. He knows I'm not comfortable with rolling over my head, so it was nice to practice it in peace and quite on my own with his guidance. I learned a lot! :)
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Marnin, I'm so happy that you found a better suited gym for yourself! I'm not a southpaw, but I noticed that trainers sometimes forget someone's a southpaw, so they can't really bring the best out of these people. I hope you will learn a lot and grow as a fighter!!
Michelle, how is your search for a southpaw-friendly gym going? :) Maybe there's a gym where the trainer is a southpaw, this will help you a lot, I'm sure of it!Yesterday there was a holiday here in Poland, so most gyms were closed, but mine was open and we did a "holiday-training", meaning fun training. Apart from the usual stuff we did a little of BJJ, which I never really tried, I know one or two moves, but I had a kind of trauma connected to it (I wrote a blog post yesterday on my blog about it). The point is, it was so much fun!!! :D I'm so happy I got over my anxiety and rolled around on the ground a bit! :D
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It seems this gym is a laid back one, today there was only one guy, apart from me...and the trainer was absent, he send a representative. Soooo...I don't know. I may give it a try this month, it's always a good change of pace :) The training was different than what I'm used to, but interesting. Not much to accomplish there today, but the positive thing is for sure that I went there and tried a different enviroment.
The guy substituting the trainer asked me halfway through training how long do I train? I said around 3 years and he nodded his head in what I understood as an aknowledgement of my skill :) :) and the guy I was training with wasn't withholding much, he threw pretty decent punches and kicks at me! :)
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Yeah he does that a lot :) I've actually heard from the 'old' guys with whom I train with for a long time that the new ones are also scared of me when they see me kicking low kicks on the bag :D but they are guys, they don't show it ;)
Today I'm going to the new gym!! I hope the guys there will accept me.
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I just got the time to sit back and watch :D it's so cool to "meet" the fighters you interview, Sylvie. Espescially since I like Kelly a lot - from the blog and Facebook :D :D It's cool to actually see and listen to her.
From what I heard, I think I share Kelly's attitute towards life a bit, that makes me really happy, coz I can relate a bit more now to what goes on in her life.
I'm looking forward to part 3 and 4 :D :D
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My trainer used me to demonstrate some combos today!! :D
That's great!! :D Congrats!! :D I'm often taken by the trainer to demonstrate techniques, but every time he choses me, I'm like "me? me?? really?" :D
Yesterday I was training with a beginner girl, a really small girl, half my size ;) and her face was weird, so I ask her "are you scared of me?" and she answers "a bit...but because you're the best here" ;) ;)
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I fought on this card and shared a room with Martyna. I can assure you this was not her attitude.
Martyna is only 20 years old and has been practicing Muay Thai for less than two years. She may have a carefree air to her but she did not wali in expecting to loose. She fielded a lot of negativity going into this fight and still remained level headed and focussed.
Wow, it's cool to get to know the first-hand opinion :) Thank you. I know she's young and I'm really happy that you assured she's focused on what she does. I'm always trying to know more about girls from Poland (or half-Polish or Polish heritage) that train Muay Thai, but I also tend to be really quick to jump to conclussions and think (rarely say) things like "oh, she's only doing it for fun/her trainer/to be seen as cool" - these are not my thoughts about Martyna, just for clarity :) I just had to deal with so many girls that came to train and were not serious at all - that in itself is ok if someone only wants to have fun, but unless they try to make me involved in their "fun" and I can't train the way that I want, it gets annoying.
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I use 12oz sparing gloves by Dragon. I'm not happy with the fit though. I also sometimes use 16oz gloves (don't know the brand) in sparing. They have a nice snug fit, but are so heavy! :)
My first MT trainer gave a nice piece of advice: if you're below 70kg - buy 10oz gloves, if you're above, buy 12oz. This applies to beginners mainly, but gives a hint at the fact that the heavier you are, the heavier your gloves should be.
I found a nice guide for boxing gloves, it gets even more detailed there: here's the article.
I think you need to take to heart especially this one:
Proper Fit – Make sure your gloves will fit you right WITH HANDWRAPS ON. Put on some hand-wraps and see if the gloves is snug around the wraps. Brands vary in size around your fist. Make sure you are able to make an easy comfortable fist inside your boxing gloves.I bought mine online and even though the weight is the same as I had before (12oz) my hand don't sit comfortably in this type.
Before I had synthetic Masters gloves, and they were okay, but lasted only less than a year. Now i got real-leather ones and the quality is better, but they stink the same ;)
There was also a recent link on Muay Thai Guy's page about what weight of gloves should you train with: here's the article.
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BCAA is Branched-chain amino acid, usually sold in capsules or powder as a sports nutricion supplement.
I use it, too. It helps to speed up the recovery time and the muscles are happy. :) It's one of the few sports nutricion supplements that have not been proven to be useless. They weren't proven useful either, but they might work :) And they don't make your muscles grow or anything like that, just speeding up the recovery of your muscles. And as I'm not fluent in this matter in English my description is really simple, but I hope it helps anyway:)
PS. Steph, thank you! I will do my best to write meaningful stuff there!! :D And it really makes me happy that you are interested in my blogging :)
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The girl's gonna have a great promo of herself with being Caley's retirement fight and all...
Caley's footwork is just out of this world! I think it was a bit too soon for Martyna to fight her, but well...I wouldn't say no to a fight this big if I were her, so I understand this aspect.
I feel as if Martyna came into this fight with no will to win at all, or maybe with the acceptance of the fact that she will not win. Just another sparring with a World Champ - this is the attitude I get from her, but it's only my opinion. I'm just a keyboard warrior, I never fought in a real fight, so I'd be happy to hear opinions of people who actually been there. :) :)
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I recommend working out your big goal and then breaking down what you have to do into monthly, weekly and daily chunks. "How to get my training to the next level" - what does that mean? Try and be more specific. It's too vague to be achievable. Fight 3 times this year. <- That's more specific, and there is a time frame.
All the best. I'll be reading your blog!
Thank you! Yeah that's exactly what I want to do - plan and make achievable goals! :)
I've also taken a look at your diet - try to add green vegatables like broccoli, bean sprouts, spinach, cucumber to at least 3 of you daily meals. All these vegetables have de-acidification (I'm not sure it's the correct word) properties. So we usually eat a lot of acidic stuff (chocolate or fast foods :)) and these vegetables help keep the acid level in our bodies low and this helps us lose weight or keep our cravings in check. This is basically a shortend version of the whole process.
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These are great excercises. I especially like the routine Steph posted, I have to try it. I only do half of it during warm ups as I forget about some parts :) :)
What about foam rolling? Here's brief article and video about foam rolling for the SI joint.
http://thetriathloncoach.com/coaches/more-foam-roller-the-si-joint/
I'm playing around with the foam roller, but I don't do it on a regular basis, just once a week, maybe even less. Perfectly you should foam roll every 2 days, as far as I know. I tried learning with youtube videos, I also went to one foam rolling class (just once) and I learned a lot! But we were covering just the calves, so now I know how to professionaly roll my calves :D Anyway, you will get the hang of it after trying, there are lots of sore and painful spots on the body and rolling helps loosen them up a bit. The minus side for me - it takes a long time. You should roll really slowly, and coming back to the sore spots during one session, but if you want to thouroughly foam roll your whole body I think this would take maybe 2 hours?
I have potentially Ischias, as it doesn't hurt in everyday life, but it hurts during massages or foam rolling. My masseur says I should take better care of it, masssaging regularly and relaxing...but I don't have time for that!
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Yes, indeed! I already had one in Polish about general topics, but I was thinking about starting an English one devoted more to training and muay thai specifically. So....here it is! I started it yesterday so I need to tweak it a bit. But this gives me a nice motivation to put out a plan and stick to it! :)
Ps. and work on my English ;)
Micc, do I see in your signature that you are starting (started?) a Muay Thai blog?
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This log has inspired me, too. I was thinking in how to get my training to the next level, as I feel somethimg is lacking in it now. I will try to make achievable and detailed goals like kicking the bag a number of times a week, skipping the rope or focusing more on learning to throw elbows. Gotta work out a plan and stick to it!!!
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Wow, that's so creative! I really like the idea, I only caught a glipse of the idea off the pictures on Facebook, but it must be really impressive in real!! Great work!
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I just came back home from training and my head feels a bit funny after getting hit hard by one guy...a lot of times...I'm seriously scared of heavy shots to the head...it scares me when I feel like a hammer has punched me :( :( And he's just "taking me seriously" - I dunno...I'm scared of the consequences.
In reality, a head guard doesn't stop your brain smashing into the inside of your skull, it just minimises external surface cuts and bruising. If you wrap that aerosol paint can in a towel and shake it, the mixing ball still smashes into the inside of the can. And a head guard actually adds to the mass of your skull that's hitting into your brain! You also take more head shots when wearing a head guard, because you can't see as well, and your head's now a bigger target too. So don't go heavy with the head-contact while wearing a head guard thinking you're safe, 'cos you ain't.This scares me even more. I usually spar in head guard. Why am I doing this to myself?! I think I'd rather NOT think abouth the concussions, coz I get frightened and there's a small part of me that wants to give up. Or don't spar. Or spar lightly. But I realised that the things I can react to in light sparring - I can't react to them when there is more strenght to the punches. So...I'm not sure if light sparring is really doing me any good, other than being a lot of fun.
My head still feel funny :( and I'm still scared ;(
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Michelle, this is an awsome thread! I have a lot of moments when I take notice of something, but have noone to share it with. I share it with the guys at my gym and my trainer (we have a buddy relationship, if I can call it that), but only to some degree. They also like to make a bit fun of me and I'm really serious, especially when it comes to training, so when he says "well that was weak, I'm dissapointed" I'm like: *shocked* and he's just making fun. And when I want to share some great insight I came to realise they don't really seem to understand it, or pick up on deeper topics - at least not during training, out at drinking (non-alcoholic beverages!) it's different ;)
My trainer doesn't really compliment anyone, it must be something really brutal or strong, or skillfull to make an impression on him.
There was a time when he was like "yea, yea, this was soso" after a sparring session, and then he's writing me on FB the next day saying "the last spar was really good, you showed heart, I liked that" - euphoria on my side! :D
Another good one: last week on one day there were only 3 of us at the gym and I was hitting pads with a guy, and my trainer was filming me from behind my back. (we usually record a lot of footage from training/sparring and then he puts short movies together...or not). And yesterdays he's like "can you send me the video from your pads, I need to see what are we going to work at" :D I was a little happy inside, that he cares enough to think of making me better :D :D :D
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They had a distancing towards the heritage, and perhaps were even bemused at Sylvie's foreign respect paid to their own Thai past. It's so compelling to me that foreigners often are in the position of preserving or respecting aspects of Muay Thai that the Thai people themselves have an almost nostalgic connection to.
Isn't this happening in every culture that tends to be "westernized"? I see that in Poland a lot, hell I'm one of the people who hates Polish religious traditions and even though I'm open-minded to the world I don't like cultivating the religious traditions of my homeland. Some foreigners that I know are fascinated by it though...It's just so much going on that the foreign eye can't grasp and I won't go into details here, coz it's not on-topic. Let's just say, I can't accept that people are being easily manipulated - by the church and politcs the same. This is the reason I take a stand by not following them (even if noone notices my stand-up against it ;)).
I generally like secular traditions a lot more than religious that's why the Wai Khru doesn't sit well with me - maybe because I don't understand the culture just yet or maybe because I'm careful of cultivating a tradition I don't understand.
Thank you ขุนเข่า for the great input!
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This is exactly why I love your blog, Sylvie! I never knew there were different styles of fighting, of course, I intuitively felt there might be different styles, but it's different when you see it written down and described :)
I'm still a little bit like Michelle, I still don't know what my body is capable of, sometimes I'm surprised by it, sometimes I'm dissapointed. What I've heard from people, they say I have kind of my own style: I constantly go forward, don't show off spectacular moves, just keep pressuring the opponent. But I also let go, just like in training and "reset" the fight ;)
It's funny, because this is what other say, watching from the sidelines. What I feel in the ring is completely different. I try not to get punched, I try to attack first, and I'm trying out my best moves, maybe not wanting to show off, but wanting the opponent to take me seriously. Basically, when I see someone is taking me lightly (this happens a lot, I usually spar with young adult guys) I throw a backfist or a ushiro mawashi geri (spin back kick?). Even if the hit doesn't land (which it usually does with someone taking me lightly) it make the opponent shift gears. So I kind of think about it as showing off.
I think I'm definitely more of the "aesthetic" fighter, femur whas it? I like when the technique looks good and is effective as well, but I'd rather hit with good technique than strong. At least that is my opinion at this point in time.
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Thank you Sylvie for the information. I was a bit confused about what "losing face" really means, now I understand it.
I hit the bag and pads every training without shinguards, so it seems I'm doing conditioning without knowing it :D
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Wow, that's so sweet of you Michelle! I will contact you in PM :)
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Getting Emotional in Training/Fighting
in Muay Thai Technique, Training and Fighting Questions
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I actually had a similar experience yesterday at my "new" gym, where the trainer pushes you hard, encourages in a loud voice, points out your mistakes over and over again - and this is not what I'm used to. So at some point I got sooo frustrated because I thought I do everything too weak, too slow, wrong...and got a bit pissed...
I think it's the reaction of being pushed to the edge of your comfort zone, combined with the feeling of wanting to correct your technique and do the best you can and be praised for it ;)
I need to analize it more, but I'd also love to hear about others' experience...