Happy Birthday

Happy birthday buddy! 

Pasta Pesto

I just wanted to share this sweet little moment with you. Abigail secretly made me and Moira some pasta pesto this afternoon and it was awesome. It's the little things in life that create happiness and after eating only rice for about four weeks now I can say I'm so sick of it so having some pasta was like heaven on earth. This pasta made my day. I tasted so good. My legs are almost healed so I'll try to train again tomorrow morning. Thursday I'm off to Koh Samui for two weeks to visit my gym of last year and to spend some time with my friends there. I'll still be training but also relaxing for a bit. I will return to Sitmonchai around the 15th of May and then I'll start training hard again. Probably fighting again somewhere in the beginning of June. I'll keep you guys updated about that. I'm really excited about going back to Koh Samui but it's a bit weird as well. Lived there for four months last year and now I get to go back. We'll see how it will be. The one thing I have been dying to do is swim so that's something I will do right away. It's so hot around here and there's literally no place where you can go for a swim. Still living the good life here. Take care!

Boredom and Pictures

It's saturday evening and I'm bored to tears. I haven't trained for a week now and I'm getting so tired of having too much energy and nowhere to put it. I tried training this morning but that wasn't really a big succes. After two rounds of pads my legs called it a day and I was done. My upperleg still hurts and walking around is still not easy. I need to be patient, recovery takes time. Don't rush things. Hmm yeah, I'm so bored. So that's also why I'm updatting my blog, as I got nothing better to do. 

This is how my legs are today. Today was saturday, my fight was wednesday. It's healing up nice and easy. The bruises aren't getting bigger anymore and the worst pain has gone already. I can't wait for it to be 100% again though..

This is a picture Artem took the night of my fight, when Pee A was wrapping my hands. I love this picture.

Me and Danny (another guy at the gym) were both supposed to fight at MBK last wednesday but as we arrived to BKK we got told Danny's fight had been cancelled. The promoters at MBK tried to fix another match to make up for Danny's fight dropping out. They asked Kongfah (my trainer) if he wanted to fight and to no surprise he said yes (he didn't train at all but that's just how they roll here..). He fought a trainer from another gym and after three rounds they called it a draw. The fight was more of a 'give-back' to the audience for the other fight dropping out so they put up quite a show. This fight got quite a lot of people to stop and watch as an 'ex-Lumpinee Champion' was fighting at MBK. Here are some pictures of the fight (Kongfah is in the red).

 Flying knees, flying elbows, strong punches and all with a smile. 

Just arrived at MBK, all signed up, got the red corner. Now we just had to wait.

Internet at the gym is so slow at times so every once in a while we go to Amazon cafe to get a nice smoothy and good wifi. As we were sitting there the other day a whole group of monks walked in, all ordering iced coffee. Gotta love Thailand.

At breakfast this morning, another day, another training, everyday's routine. 

We decided to get a massage today as we were all in pain so a trainer took us to this nice massage place and we got a good solid massage. I felt so relaxed afterwards. It was kind of awkward having to change into these clothes but all for the greater good I guess..

Hmm so I guess that's it for now. I'll update my blog soon again. I'm actually doing a pretty good job at keeping my blog up to date lately! Let's not Jinx it.. Take care!

FIGHT FOOTAGE

Here's the video of my fight!

Fight at MBK BKK

 I lost my fight on points yesterday but it was a good fight. Everyone was really proud of the way I handled the fight and I learned a lot. I was really relaxed and compared to last year's fight I actually felt like I knew what I was doing. My left leg is completely busted and my nose hurts like fuck but I feel happy. Pain is just temporary. I got a couple of rest days coming up before getting back to training. May 2nd I'll go to Koh Samui for about two weeks to relax and after that, back to training and hopefully some more fights.
My fight was recorded but internet is being a bitch lately so uploading is going to take a while. I'll post a link as soon as it's online. For now, here are some pictures that were take last night.

Pee A wrapped my hands, rock solid. This man is a master at doing so. 

All dressed and ready to go

 Little warming up right before the fight

I never knew I could be this relaxed three minutes before entering the ring

With Yoshi, one of my cornerman

 Gametime

Wai Kru

During the fight I didn't really feel any pain. But as soon as the fight was over and I stepped out of the ring the reality started kicking in and I could feel my left leg shutting down. I'd didn't really check her lowkicks so I took quite a few of them. I couldn't really walk properly yesterday and the bruise is starting to come out. Other than that I'm not really hurt. Like I said, I'm happy with the result, I gave it my best and I learned a lot. On to the next one.

Still smiling after my fight! Proud to have fought for Sitmonchai.

MBK BKK

I just felt like typing a little message. Tomorrow night I'm fighting at MBK in BKK. I've trained hard and I'm resting now. I'm feeling really calm and relaxed about it. I feel like I should be more worried, but I'm not. We'll see tomorrow. We're heading to BKK at 14.00 tomorrow and the fights start at 18.30. I'm just going to give it my all and we'll see what happends. My trainer here told me; win, lose, no problem. Have good heart. Fight with heart. So I guess that's true. It doesn't matter if you win or lose (winning is preferable of course..), as long as you're fighting with your heart and with good spirit you'll always be a winner to those who matter. I'm going to rest some more now, I'll let you guys know the result as soon as possible. Take care!

Tigers and Temples

This sunday we took a little trip to Tiger Temple. I'd never been here before and I wasn't really planning on going here at all but I needed to get out of camp so I decided to join the group as they were going anyway. It was pretty cool to see all the tigers from up close and being able to touch them and take pictures with them but at the same time it's sad to see them all chained up. These are wild animals and you can't help but think of the fact that they should be free instead of being chained up all day. It still was a really fun day though. We got to take some nice photos, the whole atmosphere at the Temple was really relaxing and even though the temperature was insane today we had a blast.I was definitely able to clear my head today. Just one more day of training left tomorrow and then it's on. Gametime.

Heeeere, kitty kitty!

 

Just walking the dog on a lazy sunday afternoon, LIKE A BOSS.

After we were finished at Tiger Temple Kruu Juab took us to another temple. It was so beautiful and calming. I don't know what it is. Everytime I visit a temple I just get so calm and relaxed. I could literally stay there all day. There's something there that just makes me so calm and that's pretty rare for me knowing I've got ADHD and am pretty busy and chaotic like, all the time. Temples are good for me. That's one thing I know for sure. They do me really well. We got there at around 15.00 in the afternoon which still made it really really hot but the lighting was amazing. All the colours came out so nice and bright. You just had to take pictures of everything. 

This morning they told me; 'today, no training'. Yeah, let's just go visit a temple and climb over 150 steps of stairs.

And the view.. bwoah. Just amazing. I've seen much of Thailand and sometimes I think I can't be stunned anymore by things here. But every once in a while I stumble upon something that just takes my breath away. Today, this view took my breath away. I love Thailand, every day a little more.

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