I'm sitting here at the internet cafe next to Cheap Ass (voted our favorite restaurant) putting in my last blog entry from Thailand for now. I've got one training session left in the morning then off to the airport - I should be back in Perth around midnight on Friday. My training regime doesn't end there with Kobudo on Saturday morning and then off down south for a week of Gashuku (Karate/Yoga/Kobudo/Arnis in the Stirling Ranges) which will also be a new and exc...

Training today was good - I trained with Mat an older trainer who focused on footwork and really gave me a great going over. Its been three days (though it feels like weeks) since I last trained and it was tough standing around watching others train but not being able to train myself. On my Friday morning run I pulled a bunch of muscles in my back and could hardly walk less run or train. With a crash program of rest, ice and anti -inflamatories I got back in to i...

A large number of new people have arrived at Sinbi this week. The largest contingent being a group of hardcore kick-boxers from Spain who look like they break concrete with their heads before breakfast. Though we still get trainer attention with a big group in camp (this is good as I've heard that other Muay Thai camps let this slip) the atmosphere has definitely changed. While I'm on the topic of the people who are training I might as we'll paint a picture on s...

Friday Night's Adventures in Patong Friday started out as such a quiet, peaceful day. The usual rituals of run, train, eat, beach, sleep, train, eat were adhered to then the wheels fell off. A fight night was on again at Bangla stadium in Patong and two fighters from Sinbi were participating. Chane, an American who had been training here for about a year, was in his seventh fight and Dee a the young Thai champion from Sinbi was in the main fight of the night. De...

I had a really good session this morning as I ended up doing some really different things during my five rounds in the ring. I was in the ring with Pot and he was really focused on attacking me then having me counter which was a lot different to previous sessions which seemed more about wearing me down be doing multiple kicks and punches, more for endurance than having any practical fighting application. Now that I've been here training for almost two weeks it's...