I ran all the way to the lake before this morning's training session so I'm pretty stuffed....ar....er.....stoked! Yesterday morning my self and two other guys training at Sinbi went off to Patong in the morning to do some shopping. It was interesting having a look around but was a reminder to all of us of how good we've got it where we are staying. We have few tourists, food is dirt cheap and people are friendly - in Patong it's 'western overload' with even the...

I went to a fight night at Bangla Stadium in Patong last night. One of the Sinbi fighters and trainers, Pot, was fighting so there was a big following from camp attending. To get to and from Patong we all piled into the camp hilux and off we sped into the night for the 13km trip to Patong. The hilux was a bit of a squash, with ten of us crammed into the tray with Tiger (one of the more 'colourful' trainers), perched on the tail gate preaching to us on the virtues...

The last few days of training have been pretty tough. My body was definitely feeling the worse-for-wear after three consecutive training sessions (2.5-3hrs each). I had hoped to get to Wednesday afternoon before I had a session off but after yesterday's morning session I was completely nackered. I retired to bed for the rest of the day. I was a bit worried that this wouldn't work but at this morning's session I felt great. Listening to my body and taking time of...

Well its official I survived the first day of Muay Thai training!!!! A bit stiff and sore in some new placed today but quiet functional. Timing to get here was fantastic as last night there was a night Muay Thai fights in the local area at Nai Harn beach. I say arena but it was basically an outdoor boxing ring in the middle of some parklands. Despite being do-tired stayed until the end of the program as watching these athletes was absolutely amazing. For those ...

It might have been a while since I've been in Asia but the bloody retarded roosters that crow at 3am instead of sunrise are still here. I got into Sinbi camp ok last night despite the cab drivers best efforts. He had a wicked manover which he used at every intersection that rather than waiting for a traffic light to let him go straight through he'd take the left turn, proceed 50m down the road do a u-turn hoping that oncoming traffic would stop and let him thr...