SW
03-24-2008, 06:35 PM
Muay Thai. At the end of my previous journal, I told you guys that I was starting it and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Since it takes a lot of dedication and hard work and focus, I will start with Muay Thai, and BJJ will come later.
Yesterday was my first 2 hour session. Easter. I guess in the years to come it will be easy to tell people how long I've been doing this.
I will be training Sundays and Tuesdays, 2 hour sessions apiece at the Academy. Most other days I will be working on katas on my own and working out/getting in good cardio shape.
I am 250 lbs, and when I start to actually fight I will be in the light heavyweight division, 205. I'm not sure if I will have to lose some muscle to get that low, but we'll see. I'm watching my diet very carefully.
Muay Thai is the martial art I've wanted to do my whole life but where I grew up it was impossible. Now I have all the things I need to do it, and I plan on working as hard as possible. Put all that muscle and experience I gained thru some good people on this board's advice to some awesome use.
There are some guys there who could literally smash my ribs with one kick, and I am learning as much as possible from them. I hurt everywhere from things I had to do, like I started off with the 1st kata 50 times per side (kicking with a diff leg). Then the work started, hitting a person with pads, then them hitting/kicking me. That's a workout on it's own when the dude doing it resembles a "killing machine".
I am more motivated about this than anything else in my life. I have lost 10lbs in the past couple of weeks in preparation. Count on me losing a lot more. Half the muscles in my body hurt form kicking and punching over and over. I skinned both my fist's knuckles, but had gloves on the whole time. I love this!
The one thing that stood out to my teacher yesterday was that he kept commenting on my "heavy hands" initially I thought this was bad, like "heavy feet" (which i do have, and it's my biggest weakness right now. I most like a rhino). He let me know that I can hit pretty hard for an extended period of time. He had me do a very simple 3 punch combo, jab, overhand right, left hook until I literally couldn't hold my hands in front of my face anymore. And if for some reason I didn't have my hands above my chin before and IMMEDIATELY after my punch, he'd go ahead and pop me lightly.
Like I said, I'm terminally obsessed already.
Yesterday was my first 2 hour session. Easter. I guess in the years to come it will be easy to tell people how long I've been doing this.
I will be training Sundays and Tuesdays, 2 hour sessions apiece at the Academy. Most other days I will be working on katas on my own and working out/getting in good cardio shape.
I am 250 lbs, and when I start to actually fight I will be in the light heavyweight division, 205. I'm not sure if I will have to lose some muscle to get that low, but we'll see. I'm watching my diet very carefully.
Muay Thai is the martial art I've wanted to do my whole life but where I grew up it was impossible. Now I have all the things I need to do it, and I plan on working as hard as possible. Put all that muscle and experience I gained thru some good people on this board's advice to some awesome use.
There are some guys there who could literally smash my ribs with one kick, and I am learning as much as possible from them. I hurt everywhere from things I had to do, like I started off with the 1st kata 50 times per side (kicking with a diff leg). Then the work started, hitting a person with pads, then them hitting/kicking me. That's a workout on it's own when the dude doing it resembles a "killing machine".
I am more motivated about this than anything else in my life. I have lost 10lbs in the past couple of weeks in preparation. Count on me losing a lot more. Half the muscles in my body hurt form kicking and punching over and over. I skinned both my fist's knuckles, but had gloves on the whole time. I love this!
The one thing that stood out to my teacher yesterday was that he kept commenting on my "heavy hands" initially I thought this was bad, like "heavy feet" (which i do have, and it's my biggest weakness right now. I most like a rhino). He let me know that I can hit pretty hard for an extended period of time. He had me do a very simple 3 punch combo, jab, overhand right, left hook until I literally couldn't hold my hands in front of my face anymore. And if for some reason I didn't have my hands above my chin before and IMMEDIATELY after my punch, he'd go ahead and pop me lightly.
Like I said, I'm terminally obsessed already.