Training blog

So I'm going to start to shoot and display my training and some video blogs. I Love your continued support. I hope you enjoy the blog for a long time to come. By the way it was done on my phone so it'll get better with time, I promise.

Peace

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The beauty of it all

What's up people, hope all is well and blessings are being showered upon you all. I just want to step away from the actual physical toll training and fighting take on ones body or the opponents body and focus more on the beauty of it all. You often hear how amazing the human body is or how shocked people are at what the body can do. I on the other hand am not surprised by anything the body does but i often find myself in awe of how beautiful it is in motion. Whether it's Michael Jordan playing one of his finest games with the flu and a temperature over 100, or Anderson Silva finishing Chael Sonnen after being beaten to the punch in every aspect of the fight for 23 mins straight. It's beautiful, internal struggles of life don't go away because you have a fight, in fact they become somewhat magnified. The external struggles of everyday life become more obvious to everyone around and even under the worst circumstances we push on. We are the real 1%. We are believers in the impossible and achievers of the improbable. We wear our hearts on our sleeves and our emotions as our armor. Nobody can suggest to me that what we do is violence out of anger rather than out of competition. If we get angry we make mistakes, because we are human. What we do is beautiful and we are blessed to be able to do it. Please enjoy the videos, I think they help support my point.

Examining: Winning

Hey guys, it's a huge joy to put these thoughts and feelings into words and share them with you. In my opinion this is winning in a big way. It's long and drawn out and as long as I can think of something I can write it. However, victory in combat sports isn't the same. It's like being shot in the heart with adrenaline like Winona Ryder in Pulp Fiction or like Jonah Hill in Get him to the Greek "I'm aliiiiive!!!".

That's right it makes you feel like your alive. It's infectious to everyone around you. People you don't even know feel like somehow they were in the fight with you. This feeling lasts a different amount of time for every fighter. Some guys will talk there fights up for years, some for an hour,and some are ready to fight again immediately after they win. In there is the rub of the whole thing, no matter how long the feeling lasts, you want it again. Yeah i'm gonna say it...It's like crack. I have never tried it but that feeling of wanting it again has to be similar. I don't think it matters when that last fight was or how old you get, you want that feeling of victory again. I'm sure there are some old fighters out there long since retired that are still wanting to feel their hand raised just one more time. This is the reason that guys that haven't fought in years still talk about that one win as if it happened yesterday. I just had one a few weeks ago and already want it again, that might be a sickness. Don't get stuck on winning though because "winning isn't everything" or was it "winning isn't everything it's the only thing"!?! Only one things for sure as they say "you're only as good as your last fight" so let it be a win or accept it as a lesson.

Origins:Muay Thai

Of course I chose Muay Thai to be the first post about knowing the history of your art. I believe it is important to know the history of the art form you practice. That knowledge really rounds out a fighter and gives them a better understanding. So here we go. Muay Thai, originally called Muay Boran, was created by Siamese soldiers for use when they would lose their weapons on the battlefield. At the same time a weapons based art form called Krabi krabong was also created and used by the siamese soldiers. Eventually Muay Boran gained popularity as a sport. Challengers fought using the techniques of Muay bare fisted in front of spectators and festival goers. The bare fists at some point gave way to lengths of hemp rope wrapped around the hands. In the 19th century under King Rama V Muay Thai became nationally recognized and use as a form of excercise, as well as recreation. Camps began to spring up all over the country and much like sports in the ghettos of the U.S. it has been used to create financial gains for those fighters that train and compete regularly. Before every match the fighters do a ceremonial dance called the Wai Kru to show respect for their teachers and ancestors. These fighters often took the last name of the camp they trained at out of respect. This is still somewhat common in the modern age. As the years went on, Muay thai lost such strikes as the headbutt, and groin strikes and made way for strict rules, time limits and weight classes. The hemp rope also slowly went the way of the dinosaur to make way for cotton wraps and boxing gloves. Also more western boxing hand strikes have come in to play in the modern age. As the sport grows the natural progression will change however the true spirit of the art will always be there if we chose to keep it alive. Even if it is just passing the history on verbally or in writing it must be preserved. Kob-khun-krap (Thank you)