FUN...

Friday!! Ok so friday was a little bit different than a regular training session, we did things backwards that day for a change of pace. My training session started with 12 rounds of Muay Thai sparing... fun stuff!! Nothing wakes you up in the morning like getting punched in the face. I started off going with a young aspiring amature who is plannng on doing his first smoker after training along side me and rodney for almost 3 years now. This kid has alot of potential, just needs to listen and take the advice in and change his game. Oh did I mention that he can take a fucking beating!!! So anyways we started off sparring and did a round robin, so 7 rounds straight where I stayed in and had to spar with a fresh(rested) partner every time. After i got through my 7 rounds I was switched to being in every other round. Towards the end of the sparring session, it was me and rodney paired up again, this is always fun, we have some of the best battles ever. We start out both feeling eachother ot because we definately respect eachother.... we start to pick up the pace, the punches start flying, heads start being whipped around. The bell rang and the round ended but the punches did not. Our other training partners were trying to indicate us of this as we both stare dirrectly at eachother and continue to wail away. I tuck my chin in and start to unleash punches, working combinations from the body to head and back. Let me remind you that this is supposed to be a light sparring session, it has now turned into a full sparring session where we should be wearing head gear and 16oz gloves.

Strange thing was in the midst of all this punching and getting punched, one thing ran through my mind, DAMN THIS IS FUN!! I felt that this is what I have grown to love, with fists flying towards me and landing alot more than not, I realized that there was no place I would rather be at that time!! I fucking loved it... when it was over we both gave eachother a "good shit" look and embraced with a quick hug(no homo). If ou were just in the same sparring war that we were in you would totally understand!

Sparring was over and now it was time for Thai pads. After 12 rounds of sparring trust me Thai pad and mits are the last things that would be on your mind but it had to get done. We did 5 rounds of mits and they were 5 of the cleanest rounds that we (me and rodney) have done togather in a while. No pressure or anything since we were only being filmed for footage to the website. Fuck a website, not to be cocky but we should make an instructional Dvd for that shit Mastering the Mits 2009. Yea it was that good! And dont be suprised if we do make a dvd coming out sometime later this year, but I will keep you posted on that. I finished training and it was time for conditioning with the other MMA fighters there training.

6 rounds of conditioning. after about the second or third round of it I felt as if i was going to puke. Thank god for a second wind! I found it somewhere deep down inside to finish the rounds and push myself as hard as I could so I could get the most out of the workout. And thats exactly what I did, Lost 4.5lbs in my two and a half hour workout!!