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 exciting experience.

Despite being pushed too and though many physical limits over the past four weeks I feel great. I'm actually really going to miss this place and the people here. The Thai trainers have been fantastic, alway full of energy and a sense of fun that is infectious, even when you are already sweating blood and they want another 10 kicks. They have been great and without their great attitude to life I wouldn't have survived the first week. The trainers all know that tomorrow morning is my last training session and they all keep asking me if I will come back. Yesterday I told Ped that I'd definitely comeback and he immediately wanted to know when and for how long. He then told me that I will fight when I come back - with his usual enthusiasm. I'll definitely come back to Sinbi, as for fighting however my only consolation is that to fit in to a Thai weight class (top on is ~70kg) would take me months of training!!! Saying that I'm pretty happy that since I've been here I've dropped somewhere between 6-7kg.

The people who I've hung around and trained with have also been great.....I have to say the American's I've met here have definitely changed my opinion of people from the United States. Most are staying for at least another week then they are also off home or to another destination. A number of people that I've trained with are fighting next week (Garret, Patrick, Heather and a couple of the trainers) it will be dissapointing to miss them at Bangla but I have been promised the video!

To sum it up the experience have been great, I will definitely come back here and do it again at some stage in the not to distant future.

Hopefully on Saturday (WST) I'll post some photos and maybe even a video of my last training session. Watch for the green shorts.