[Fighting a Heavier Opponent]

Yeah, the most important thing for me at the moment is not being demotivated for the future, which I certainly am not, so the outcome doesn't really matter.

 

There are weigh-ins 99% of the time, the match yesterday was just a part of a small boxing event, and there were only 3 muay thai/K1 fights, just to give people an idea of what those look like. I could have said that I don't want to fight unless we have a weigh-in, but I didn't care that much I guess.

[Fighting a Heavier Opponent]

Thanks everybody! I lost the fight (which was yesterday), but really not because any weight advantages (even though there was no weight-in, so I guess the girl was ca 5 kgs heavier than me), but because I was a lot less active than her. At least now I know that heavier opponents are not so frightening!

[Fighting a Heavier Opponent]

Hi everyone! So, I have got a fight coming up and if everything works out well, I´ll have my 4th fight at the end of August. The thing that worries me is that I will be fighting an opponent probably heavier than me - it should be a fight in the 60kgs cathegory, and I have been fighting at 56-57kgs (my regular weight without basically any weight cuts; I was actually hoping to lose some weight to get to 55, but well). It should be my opponent´s first fight. Do you have any advice on fighting larger fighters? (I know 3kgs is not such a difference, nevertheless that is the thing that worries me the most about the fight). Thanks!

[Which Brand Of Boxing Gloves Do You Prefer?]

We are advised to buy 14-16 oz gloves in order not to get hurt in sparring but some people at my gym wear smaller ones. We have a girl who sparrs in 10oz gloves regularly and I don't really like it because she goes really hard (in fights I absolutely don't mind small gloves but what's the point in having small gloves if you just sparr?). I personally use Everlast gloves for muay thai and they are so good!

[training with females versus training with males]

My least favorite thing about working with guys is when they wear long, baggy shorts because it makes it really hard to tell wear their leg is (and most importantly the crotch) for leg kicks. I've come very close to kicking some guys in the nuts because of these stupid, long, baggy shorts.

This is my biggest problem too!! I guess I got quite a good lowkick and I don´t use it as much as I should/could/want to because of this. My absolutely favorite part of sparring with guys though is when I kick a roundkick and they, like, turn their crotch towards the kick or something.

 

In general, I like working with people at the "same" experience level as I am. Like, I am "comfortable" sparring with people from the more experienced group (not exactly comfortable, but at least I´m don´t have to be afraid of beeing kneed full-force in the face in the middle of a technical sparring), but I try to avoid sparring with the new guys, since they really tend to assert their dominance by going too hard and stuff.