#muay thai
Okay. The stripe testing is done. I can relax about that.
Next up is the Muay Thai evaluation on January 9. We haven’t had one since last March, when I was ranked “orange” level after having trained for about four months. This time I am crossing my fingers and busting my ass for the rank of “blue”, which is when we’re cleared to start sparring on a regular basis.
Honestly I’d be happy for anything that’s noted as progress. But I want to spar, and I don’t want to wait another year for it.
Watch This: Chatri Sityodtong’s inspirational speech on achieving greatness for TEDx.
Original Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Super will be up next! And after that, we’ll do Vegeta’s fighting style!
(viahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqNllEbcUXA)
This five count comes from the Cambodian series, from our instructor and world class martial artist Dan Inosanto. Professor Inosanto has studied Muay Thai and striking all over the world and with numerous instructors. He’s developed several world champions and countless high level instructors. At River a City Warriors in Tigard we offer a kickboxing class every day of the week. Come drop in and see the kind of great shape you can get in with Muay Thai and change up your workout at the same time.
Muay Thai is the science of eight limbs, and like it’s American sister the “Sweet Science” of Boxing it’s a fantastic work out. RCW prides itself on the connection to the World Thai Boxing Association.
The WTBA is one of the largest and most credible organizations for Muay Thai Kickboxing around. Our top coaches at RCW have trained all over the world and have worked closely with the WTBA for almost 20 years.
Students in Muay Thai learn the foundations of kickboxing first through warm up, stance and footwork. Then we amp up the conditioning as we move into combinations and technique. Finally we close the session with optional sparring. This legitimate form of Muay Thai typically burns about 800 calories per hour, but more than that it gives you a method for growth and development both inside the training hall and out.
AtRCWwe are a family, and anyone who comes in to check out the school will experience that authenticity and community as soon as you walk through the door.
Get your summer started now and build a new you with some serious sweat equity.
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Não seria lindo se Tiffany van Soest decidisse trocar o MMA pelo pornô? Que mulher adorável…
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Selena Gomez is known for changing her looks and this time for the Thailand Leg of her Revival Tour she was spotted wearing something completely different! This time it was a ‘MUAY THAI’ or THAI BOXING SHORT!!
It was a very attractive high waist boxing shorts in two shades of Blue. On the very top this shorts says “RAJA Boxing”. The meaning of the word RAJA is a King and she considers the stage as a Boxing Ring here. Hence as suggested by her clothing she is truly the KING of the RING!
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Yo yo! For those who are interested in martial arts, I helped out with this pad technique video. The creator is looking for any constructive feedback!
Been refocusing my discipline in training as my personal life continues to fall apart in a spiral of unending shit. It definitely helps but it’s harder than ever to drag myself out of my own rotten mind.
Back to minimum three sessions a week each of Muay Thai and BJJ. Enjoying facing a couple of higher level chaps in stand-up sparring the past week and doing a lot of work on more advanced guard manouvres in BJJ - spider guard, butterfly guard, X guard. Satisfying, adding more weapons to my ground game.
Just spent a delightful evening clinching and trading kicks, elbows, knees and fists with my boy Adam in preparation for his title fight on Saturday. Been training with this lad since my second fight - can’t wait to see him get the gold!
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On the way to the fights and feeling pretty emotional. I’m so jealous of my current/ex training partners who’re on the show. It’s the biggest/best one in Australia and there’s a couple of lads I’ve beaten on it, loss of training time and halting the fight career is the biggest loss I’m feeling since my baby girl was born. I guess that’s life…struggle and sacrifice. It’s all worth it; I wouldn’t trade the love and support I can give the girls for anything.
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So… I’ve switched gyms. I’d been thinking about it for a while, basically since before I started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu last April. At that stage, I decided to train at Nexus BJJ, a pure Gracie jiu-jitsu school under the Pedro Sauer system. It’s ten minutes from my house and it worked pretty well to go there three days a week and still keep up Muay Thai and boxing in the city another two-three days a week. But since Aniya was born in September, the schedule of everything has gotten really tight, so it’s been harder and harder to keep up both.
Changes were necessary so I started looking for a decent gym with both under the same roof, and began trialing at Nemesis MMA when they reopened after Christmas on January 2. They’ve a good schedule of classes in Muay Thai and BJJ and also do training in wrestling, boxing, judo and krav maga. Both owners and head coaches have serious fight experience and they’ve a good stable of active fighters on some of Australia’s top promotions plus a lad in One FC, so there’s plenty of quality sparring and training partners. There’s a good mix of hobbyists and fitness people alongside serious fighters and martial artists. And it’s a 15 minute drive from my house. But the main thing I was looking for is quality of training and attitude - what are they like? What’s their response to various situations? Well, they’re really sound and the training is solid. So I’ve decided to stay.
On top of all that, I’ve just started a relatively full-on job as Marketing & Communications Advisor for an ethical management consultancy firm here in Melbourne, so that means even more demands on my time. My first day was on Thursday so I decided to make a clean break and a fresh start and go to talk to both my Muay Thai coach Pedg and BJJ coach Murat after work that day and inform them of my decision. I was nervous. I’ve been training with Pedg since 2011 and he’s cornered me for ten fights. I’ve gone through huge growth there, developing close friendships through his gym and learning a lot about fighting and about myself. For the past half decade he’s been the biggest single influence on my life of anyone apart from my wife, so it was a tough decision. I was a bit sad. But it was time to go. He was really fucking sound about it, which was cool, and I’ll keep going in there for sparring from time to time. The same with Murat, though I’ve only trained with him for less than a year. It was something of a relief though, as the martial arts world can seem a bit like the mafia when it comes to leaving the family…
So I’m on a new path. The goal is to become a complete fighter.
Today is my first BJJ tournament!
It’s almost five years since I started this blog - here’s my debut post following my first ever hard sparring session back in January 2012.
Right now I’m dealing with intense family shit and some big potential changes in my approach to training and fighting…I can’t say anything yet, but watch this space.
Hope you’re all feeling inspired and motivated with your training goals for 2017!
Posts are thin on the ground these days because life is mmmmmad with the baby.
Buuut I’m still training, generally getting in two sessions Muay Thai, two boxing, two BJJ and I’m ashamed to say just one run a week. I’m feeling the lack - three rounds Muay Thai with my coach last week nearly killed me. Lowest my fitness has gone in a looong time. Hopefully things will return to at least three sessions of each plus sparring in the new year.
But I went with my friend Kieran for his blue belt grading at Renegade MMA today and it was deadly! Nice atmosphere and great buzz…I love the martial world.
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