Muay Thai Training
Sunday, August 10th, 2008Went to my first Mauy Thai training session yesterday. In retrospect, there were one or two factors working against me:
1/ it was swelteringly hot, by the time I had walked the 5 minute walk to the open air, fan free, training ground I had already downed half a liter of water.
2/I haven’t done any physical ex cerise in over 2 months, not including that farcical situation where I free climbed a rock taller than my house on a whim.
3/I had the beginnings of a chest infection occurring, for which I’m now on a course of anti-biotics.
These three factors were sadly high enough barriers to prevent me from becoming a super farang Muay Thai master, in fact, thanks to the chest infection, I couldn’t even finish the training session and instead had to shamefully run to the toilet midway through a right jab to be sick. Not cool.
Lauren is also not too well, she is in bed at the moment and I think that maybe I should be too, apparently it’s been going around and only lasts a few days once you get anti-biotics. So hopefully it won’t be too bad.
I want to go training again, but the sport seems to be so horribly violent. I know it’s boxing with kicks, but even while I sat at the side of the training camp, taking big, heaving breaths after having just revisited my lunch, I could only see a brutal type of bludgeoning occuring, even amongst the pro’s who train alongside the rookies. I’m sure that this is my lazy untrained eye, but even so, when you watch a pro at their respective sport you hope to attain a certain finesse in their actions, rather than just a solid thumping noise, or possibly I’m missing the point?
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