So i've been pretty busy the last two days with training having privates every day followed by a 3 hour group session.
Last night i was totally exhausted after training, had absolutely nothing left in the tank and no energy. I was in one of those states where you are so knackered your not even hungry and have to force yourself to eat. I put this down to my diet recently which has been pretty much fruit, eggs, grillled chicken and vegtables pretty much every day. Pretty much no carbs which would be a big contributor to the lack of energy. Have dropped a few Kg of fat and probably replaced it with a little bit of strength and muscle. I have been doing about 600 sit ups and 300 push ups a day. After the sit ups it is followed by a trainer standing over you and smashing a medicine ball into your guts a couple of hundred times to strengthen and to get you used to receiving punches to the totally ripped six pack i have...
Tonight i opted for the spaghetti carbonara as i need to up the energy levels for tomorrow. Fell asleep at the table waiting for my meal and the kind thai kid just gave me a little tap on the shoulder to wake me up and pissed himself laughing.
In yesterday and today's session i was with doing pad work with a very aggressive trainer, i have heard some people complain about him but personally i like it, makes you think and hurt more if your not doing something right. My weakness was not checking his inside leg kicks. I had a bruise there yesterday from receiving quite a few. When got chosen to go do pad work with a trainer i pointed at him and called him out and showed him the already bruised leg from yesterday. He loved, pissed himself laughing and he replied with "oww tough guy". So we went at again i was again receiving firm inside leg kicks to an already bruised but not to bad leg. After the 10th leg kick and it was starting to hum just that little bit more with each one so i started inside leg kicking him back he absolutely loved it (technically i am not supposed to). We went at it 3 x 5 min rounds and i started checking the inside leg kicks like i am meant too instead of just wearing them and getting on with it. So he started throwing head kicks which i blocked every time because i was keeping me hand high where they are supposed to be
Here is the result of not checking inside leg kicks and calling out a trainer that you know is going to kick you and pressure you constantly.
So after the three rounds we exchanged high fives a big smile and a hug of appreciation from him for my hard and painful but also really enjoyable pad session. Believe it or not i actually like being kicked and punched, it is a surreal experience where it doesn't hurt it just hums and you get a nice shot of adrenaline pumping through your veins, at the same time you also know that after that adrenaline pisses off an hour or 2 later it is going to hurt. This is the part i don't enjoy but to receive that adrenaline kick that i need i have to put up with a little bit of pain later. That said this is not that bad i just don't want to receive another kick to it for the next week or so, because adrenalin doesn't help an already bruised leg for some reason it just hurts like buggery. Totally worth it though.
I'll try and update tomorrow with some pics and videos of me training it is kind of hard to film or take pics of yourself while training hence why their is only a few.
So yesterday and the day before SongKran was celebrated everywhere in Phuket. The meaning is below.
The Songkran festival (Thai: สงกรานต์, from Sanskritsaṃkrānti,[1] "astrological passage") is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. It coincides with the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia.
Basically it is a big water fight with literally EVERYONE with supersoakers, buckets of water and a white powder that the put on the side of your face as part of the tradition. It was quite simply absolutely crazy! Anyone thinking of coming to Thailand April is the perfect time of year for it, party and the best weather combine. 30 every day, not humid as i expected and nice blue skies and warm water.
I will let the photos tell the story of Songkran, it can not be described in words and i recommend esperiencing it for yourself!
Naturally we prepared and armed ourselves for an epic battle!!!
I lost out in the end here, the chick who was filling her water bucket up was pissed off when she stood up and i tipped her own bucket of ice water on her. I got chased down and painted white as the result!
Oh and as for training, they were shut yesterday giving me the full day to celebrate. Was and awesome day but very tiring, slept well that night.
Trained in a 3 hour session this afternoon as they had limited trainers 2 to about 50 people when it is normally a trainer per 4 people maximum. So it was actually a pretty ordinary session as i had too actually hold pads for people as well as hit them which is not normal, i think the beginner class got merged with the intermediate cause of the limited trainers, either that or like 30 people highly over rate themselves. But that said i got the most out of the session that i could.
Knee is still stuffed and my left shoulder which has been hurting since before i left is starting to get very sore. that said i can still train and i am hoping that it doesn't get any worse. I really want to start Grappling again and it is quite frustrating not being able too. Might go see a Thai Doc about getting a few Cortisone injections.
Sorry bout the language but there is no other way to say it. Having the fucking time of my life, training, laying on the beach, chilling by the pool and partying and most of the time without alcohol and its still awesome. Only had 2 nights on the grog since i got here and they have been Saturdays.
Just Chilling on the beach smashing down a Mango, well maybe someone smashed it on me but its all good ;)
My knee is coming along well, about how i expected it too. I still cant do my MMA, grappling/BJJ which sucks but my MT and striking is coming along really really well.
Having privates every day and that is elevating my level really really fast. Just realizing just how unbalanced i have been and how poor my foot work has been which has been the reason I've been loosing my balance in the first place. My trainer Sak Si (i think that is how it is spelt) has had over 500 fights and has been training since he was 2!
He is always saying "slow, slowly, no rush, balance comes power". Well what i can see is that my kicks have come a long way they are much faster and powerfull and i can now say that i would not want to be on the receiving end of one of them. I have now added a very nice flying knee to the repertoire as well as a few other tricks ;)
I have not been training with the regular training sessions only the one private a day. I have been a little distracted for good reason and it's been totes worth it. I will not go into any further details here ;)
I literally have so much to talk about what is happening. There was a bike festival yesterday and their were some of the best Harleys and Choppers you will ever see on display, all so some cool mini trials bikes burnouts and tricks shows
Now onto tonight, tomorrow is the Thais New Year so celebrations were going off in Patong in particular bangala rd. Now the tradition is that you pour water over everyone and then throw a white powder on their face, however recently it is now just an all out water fight, literally everyone, like being at a big festival like Summerdayze or Future armd with water pistols and even hoses!! I was soaked right through and glad that my Camera is a waterproof one. Unfortunatley no shots of me cause i was the one taking the photos. Here are some of the two Sweedish girls i meet Sandra and Louise.
Now a photo of Bangala Rd party and apparently this goes off even more tomorrow!
Man I got heaps more to tell almost too much and will more than likely post again tomorrow or the day after, i have a feeling things are about to get even better!!!!
Recently i have been quite i'll and i am only now just starting to be able to handle 1 full training session due to having no energy, being very dehydrated and just drained in General. I went from my hydrated 91kg's when i got here to my constant low of 86kg. If i ate more or dran more to try to rehydrate... well i'll let you use your imagination as to what happened.
Due to this i have switched my eating habbits to Burger King or a place down the road that serves all different types of wetern food and pizzas etc. I opted for the spaghetti Carbonara and it was awesome
I now feel normal but due to the knee i have not been able to grappla in the MMA classes which it is all about! I expect my knee will be fine to grapple in 2 more weeks. However bad this felt and sounded at the time at has actually opened up a window of oppurtunities to work on my wetern boxing in particular which is well below par. Every time some one gets in close all i feel like doing is pushkicking or kneeing them to get them back on th outside witch is where i am best and most comfortable fighting with the exception of when i cant wrestle or take some one down MMA style or Muay Thai clinch and knee them to the body or head. I have still been training MT (Muay Thai) as well as i can do pretty much everything but switch kick which i can live without. I am building up some serious power in my kicks and dropped the trainer last night night when my kick slid of the pad and into his guts and he was wearing a belly pad. He responded by the next time i through a punch he kicked me hard to the ribs winding me whic i pretended like i didn't feel a thing. But we both replied with the standard thai thing when you kick or punch or through a knockout punch and that is "OOO WEEE". It is actually awesome to hear 20 guys training and every few seconds you hear ooo wee.
No pics of my training yet, i will get some today.
Here are some nice pics of the very nice pool and surroundings of the only "up market" place to stay around TMT (tiger muay thai) but would you expect any less from me?
A couple of underwtaer shots
Here is my heavily strapped knee, this MOFO's not moving anywhere
Me, Stian and Hooman my mates from Norway went out to patong for a couple of quiet beverages and i mean quiet (4 or 5) Hooman left a little earlier but me a Stian decide to try our luck at Factory which is pretty much the place to be. We meet some nice young Swedes who were also having a quiet one so we have arranged to meet them back there on Saturday night. We had also sort of loosely arranged to meet to previous girls that we met on Saturday night back there as well could be awkward but could also work in our favor, you have to work hard to get the honey out of my pot! LOL
So today's the day i bought myself a pimping Rolex of a guy on he beach, he seemed genuine enough and promised it had a 3 year warranty and that he would post it to me in the mail. As i walked away he shouted just make sure you dont wear it in the water... i thought Rolex were waterproof i must be mistaken ROFL
Now i plan on buying about 8 gold chunky fake gold rings and a gangster gold chain to go with it. This will complete my gangster persona. I might also get a bandanna tied at the front Krips or Bloods style ya'll. I'll be the biggest pimp in Thailand.
The best news is i managed to train with me knee, heavily strapped and with minimal pain while taking it easy
Managed to train western boxing (normal boxing) with limited pain to my heavily strapped knee. On the BJJ front I also learned a twister from Vistor and they really suck when your in them so to the next person i roll with back home at clifton hill beware when i get back contol with hooks in and all of a sudden i pull one hook out beware you are not far from be in a world of pain (yes even you singer, time to get some of your own medicine back) its technically a neck crank but bad luck im gonna do it anyways so make sure you tap early when something trippy starts to happen oh and don't hold on just tap cause all that's gonna happen is your gonna get a fucked up neck (i know its illegal for the blue and white belts but bad luck deal with it, I'll happily accept the DQ just to fuck you up and have you saying WTF was that. By the way singer i want you first!! Then Wombat who believes he is invincible and never taps! Im gonna own you! (yes i know that's a challenge and i know your up for for it!Dont worry i wont crank it hard just hard enough for you to realise "oh shit, its time tap, you little bastard!)
As for you Cam Rowe, i think if the opportunity arises i will attempt it on you, however i am not so confident that i will even be able to get back control... and even if i can weather i can hold it long enough to execute it. Maybe if you just give me back control to give me a chance at least of trying to doing it LOL.
The Twister:
Had an awesome day just walking along the beach in Patong today. Topless woman every where, some old birds with big saggers but the other talent made up for it ten fold. The best i saw was a smoking hot brunette, she must have had fake boobies as they were just perfect, not to big not to small, just a perfect size and oh took my breath away. I nearly put my neck out from walking past and being fully fixated on this wonderful specimen of woman. The funny thing was she was defiantly topless apart from silver things about the size of a twenty cent piece covering the nipple. Dont know what the point was but i didn't really care!
Anyway i m going to try the Muay Thai tomorrow and see if my knee is up to the task.
Peace and thanks for reading. Much Love
Love you Mum,Dad, Georgie, Aaron, Lauren, Dylan and Bridie (i already managed to find some nice pimping clothes for the nephew and niece. Only a few more to go for the rest of you :)
Ok, most are probably wondering about the worst thing that happened. Bad luck, you have to read to the end to find out.
The night started like any other night out in a foreign city, your not really sure where to go or what places go off etc. We went to various different bars trying to find the one tht appealed to us most. We finally found it. It was a place called Factory. However when we were on our way we got harrased into going into a ping pong show with the promise of free entry with one drink purchaed. So this had us asking, hmmm, whats the catch? The catch was that a beer was 800baht which is about $25 we got up and walked out and were chased by to Thai guys begging us to stay asking "how much you want pay?" I said normal price for a beer 90baht is all we were going to pay. He says "nooooo i cant do 90baht, i do 90baht today you come tomorrow, close down" exactly like something out of Russell Peters
So i ended upagreeing to 300 baht which at $10 is an absolute steal considering what was to follow in the show.
So we sit down and it is apparent straight away that it is not seedy old men and perverts coming to see these show. The amount of females actually out numbered the guys and to my suprise their were quite a few elderly couples going in for the show, i'm talking 60+.
It starts off pretty slowly and were just like. hurry the fuck up and shoot ping pong balls at us already. The first lady on stage reaches into the holiest of holy's and starts to pull out a fluorescent string that is about 30 meters long, impressive but not that impressive. Any way shit escalates from there pretty fast and after everything you are left asking "shit what can possibly be next?" So im gonna get straight to the interesting part. This woman come out and starts pulling some string out and tied to the sting is a double edged razor blade like the old style blades that the barbers use. Then as she keeps pulling, another razor blade and another and another and another until she has pulled out 30 blades at least (i counted them). Me and my 2 mates were like impressive but they are probably not sharp. 2 seconds later she gets 3 drinking straws grabs the razor blades and starts slicing the straws like a chef chopping shallots! She did this with most of the blades to prove they were sharp. Impressive yes?
Nest lady walks out with a small bird cage and immediately everyones jaw in the bar that was already half open in shock of the previous act opened just that little bit further. After some moving around and a push none other than a budgie drops out into the cage and starts flying around in the cage. She shuts the cage and walks of stage to a loud applause. The next lady comes out and places a towell on top of the cage. She then stands over the cage and none other than a mouse drops out onto the towell.... Their were many more things like this with fish etc. but i dont have time to tell them all or it will be a 10000 word essay. Unfortunaltey it was no photography so i dont have any photos.
So now me and my two Norwegian mates that i have made (Stien and Oman) headed of to factory
Stian on the left, me in the middle, Oman on the right and 2 random Kiwi birds that new how to party hard at Factory.
From there the night consisted of Jagermiester and red bull pretty much every 5 minutes. Then it all becomes a little blury from there and i wont go into to many details but i will say that it was crazy.
Eventually i started to feel a little light headed and ill so we got a tuk tuk dropped the girls of at their hostel and went home, i was holding bsack vomit the whole trip whoch for anyone that knows me i just never spew from alcohol, no matter how much i drink. Havent since i was a teenager. So we get out of the tuk tuk and it is abundantly clear that this spew is coming weather i like it or not. Stians room is before mine so i wanted to make it past their so he didn't see me spew. Fail! I powerchucked right out the front of his in the garden, he asked if i was ok and i casually replied with "yeah i'm sweet" like nothing had ever happened. I start walking towards my room, power chuck again and continue walking towards my room but i power chuck again! Finally make it to my room and i get this horrible feeling in my guts, the one that says find a toilet and fast! Well i can let you use your imagination from there as to what happened. But instead i'm just going to tell you. I'm sitting on the toilet with pretty much water splattering the bowl from my bowels while leaning to the side and powerchucking into the shower at the same time. Would have been quite amusing for someone to watch. From then on it was all down hill, my whole body ached all over and this continued most of the day. I had fallen victim to the notorious Thai belly.
I am now starting to feel better but still a bit seedy. I took some gastro stop which i brought from home on mums recommendation and this has helped a lot as the same thing happened to Stian and he is sill crook. As always Mum came to the rescue when i was i'll with her good advice and she was 1000's of kilometers. Thanks Mum!
The knee is still sore but i am going to attempt to train tomorrow with it heavily strapped. Their is no chance i will be able to do the MMA class so i will try Muay Thai and if that doesn't work i should be able to do western boxing as my knee only hurts when i twist it or change direction suddenly. Due to the boredom and not being able to train i got a special Sak Yant tattoo on the base of my neck (im sorry mum, don't worry i got it so that i would be able to conceal it). It has magical healing powers and will hopefully help to heal my knee so i can start training again. It was performed in the traditional manner with a bamboo needle that they jab you with over and over and over again with. I could actually hear it piercing the skin and making a popping sound. It also hurts a lot more than a regular tattoo gun. When it i told him i wanted it done the traditional way with the bamboo needle the Thai Guy asked me several times, u sure, u sure? much much pain. In my true fashion i took it on and spent an hour and a bit in a fair bit of pain. To take my mind of it i just listened to the music they had cranking and thought about someone punching me in the head repeatedly which would hurt a lot less.
