Training and Sparring

On the saturday I decided to go and train after an awful week I had, my plans were improvement of my stamina and of course to gain power, same session as the week before but this time 18 minutes on the bike, to work on the stamina that always let me down. No pull-ups this time, but lots of abs exercise to compensate this, stronger abs are needed to handle those knee kicks. After an hour I decided to jump on the bags repeating what I learned throughout the week.  Left, right, hooks, uppercut,  also worked a lot on my knee kicks due to my poor techniques with knee kicks. Low kicks, high kicks 20 on each legs. Thereafter my friend came along and I was invited to spar with him, a session in which I miserably lost, was thrown to the ground several times and took a huge number of low kicks. My left thighs felt wobbly and I had difficulty standing on it. Then came my second sparring match, in which I done pretty well against a confirmed champion of the club but whilst giving a low kick I managed to injure my toe, still continued to box and decided to switch my style to boxing and giving middle kicks, managed to catch him with a couple of uppercut and hooks. Next bout of sparring in which I excelled. And to complete the sparring, sparred once again with my friend, again lost the bout. Thereafter clinching where I was taught new techniques. All together 3 hours of training, at the end had to count my bruises,a badly bruised shin,bruised knuckle, bruised elbow, hurt my toe again and of course difficulties walking on my left leg. But still love muay thai, as it helped me once again to push myself to my limit and let me forget my pain whilst sparring.

 

 

1st Muay Thai lesson

After deciding to one day train at the Muay Thai class, my friend advised me that the 1st one available will be on the 3 of August having already planned that I will come to train on a wednesday it was a big step back for me. But I was ready to wait for that day, as I was determined to start. Then on a Monday I decided to text my friend to advise him that I will be OK, to start on the wednesday, but was advised that It will be ok if I started on the same day, unprepared for it but ready I had to get home first after work to have a quick shower. On my way there arrived 15 minutes late. I was introduced to the Trainer, and then started my lesson within 15 minutes I was quite tired, then we handed up doing some paos sparring for 30 minutes, practising our elbows and then done a sparring session, mostly done with my friends who is quite powerful, whilst he gave me a front kick i actually went to ground holding the pao, and despite him being the same weight as me! Meaning a lot of work to do, including improving my stamina (meaning no smoking and less drinking), and physical strenght. Then we handed up doing clinching exercises. One exercise that I totally failed at. I just can’t remember how much time I was thrown to the ground, or how many knees I took to the face, well I think a need to improve my neck muscles. At the end of the training I had few injury, injured my ankle, injured my neck. Well need to strenghen my body then.  Well the next training I will be better. After the training I was advised by the trainer that I should start on the second level class, I was in  the middle, quite a relief as I did not even know the class of today was for confirmed competitiors and some were even champions! Now awaiting to get paid so I can  register.