(Day 8 ) Friday 25 seb.

Got up early ..took a shower.. got my yogurt.. and walked up to TMT to do the morning class!
COACH: Andreas Hesselbâck (from Sweden, pro mma fighter, nice fellow with a lot of humor, got skills).
# Started the training with the usual warm-up … running, bearcrawl, farmers walk, shrimping, neck flips, butt-drops, “getup´s” (and as the other days when we did the neck-flips we lay in a circle and Andreas started the count 1-50 front up, by counting loud…. Then the next in line counted 1-50..next one 1-50 side to side and … next on the left side… right side… and so on..).
- While we were swaiting Ray appeared with a pink eye (infected) and gave a warning about not training when ones got something nasty and contagious… ( there were already some guys there had be contaminated)
# Technical part: I was dummy for Andreas so might have missed some details and gone on routine…
Start ass down and opponent on his knees… armdrag and skoupe ass to the side so you get one leg free… and be able to take his back by swinging the free leg over him and have both hooks in… shooters stile :)
If he is protecting his side so you won’t be able to get that food in.. (pretend that your right hip-side is down) underhook his left arm with your left.. and put right lowerarm across his neck and close the hands in a wrestlers grip ( palm against palm). When your push your right arm down and lift the left ..,it will HURT like hell and force him to roll… right into your seatbelt … then there are a lot of options… like RNC or the shorter vers. of RNC …use the right arm to “knife” his trout and the left to push down on his left shoulder … needed to be closed in the wrestlers grip.. and kind of turn the right one into his trout and up at the same time… like baseball choke . Another option is going strait to the armbar by “bumbing your hip up and swinging around…

Drilled that a bit… and went to doing a lot of sparring/rolling….
At the end of the class my eye was starting to itch and get red… so went home … took a bath washed all my gear and clothes with dettol (disinfection) and had a taxi drive me to the pharmacy to bye eye drops… ( and antibiotic )… be aware they tend to give you that way too often… but it works) the normal pharmacy was out of eye drops so went to the Central mall .. and did some shopping and got my “dope”..
By the time I was home my eyes was filled with pus and hurt like crap… so for now.. no more mma-training for me, and some of the other guys (until the eyes is better) but will do some running and strength I think…. might be for the better... my strain in the shoulder needs a pause, it´s starting hurt a bit!!!
This day is over and out….

( 23 days left in Thailand )

(Day 7) Thursday 24 seb.

My shoulders look a bit better to day, so after some breakfast (yogurt with muesli and fruit ..jum jum) ..off to the morning class…
COACH: RAY ELBE
# We started by the usual warm-up … running, bearcrawl, farmers walk, shrimping, neck flips, butt-drops, “getup´s” . and then strait on with the…
# technical part:
- first the basic of the halfguard (being a mixed class we got ALL the fundamental, kind of nice.. because when one train for a long time, you tend to forget some of the little things and just do them but not knowing why!!) some key words: *always be on the side/ribs NEVER flat on your back… *get a deep/high underhook with the upper arm right away. *defend and control your head by either controlling opponents’ arm (the one he “stands” on) or cover the head.
We worked with getting up from the halfguard …
- Sweep. *shrimp and get your top leg into the guard in front of his hip…and if he starts to push your head (or something like that) *simultaneously - kick with your upper leg and - pull with your lower leg (it should be hooking his leg to prevent him to pass). and a straight bendoverroll “getup” with one knee up and controlling both his legs with your hands.... importent: have a good posture and get up one one hand!

#Cardio/fit part
As we did the other day as well…in the middle of the schedule we had some workout…
It’s preformed like circle-training with the timer running… first 4*4 minutes of work … 4minuts of rest/water and 4*4 minutes of work
Today we had: 8 counters (kind of like a burpee ), jumps (touch the floor and up), sit-ups, butt-drops, bearcrawl (fast to the middle and a bit slower out), standing snow-angles, shoulder-push-ups, box n´run!
#Ended with a lot of rolling/sparring… lost count of rounds!
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Like the structure: # warm-up # technique /drill # cardio/fit # sparring as long as there is some breaks and a lot of water… one can give it a lot all the way through the session!
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When the training was over I went back to my bungalow and…. eat, protein shake, water, sleep (seams to do that a lot!!).. Eat some more and all the usual stuff..
( 24 days left in Thailand )

(Day 6 ) Wednesday 23 sep.

This has been a slow day… so not much to write…
My shoulders and top of the back didn’t exactly like the combo (from yesterday): sunburns - sweat - rolling/sparring and repeatedly have some guy messing around on my back!! Had to let them heal … therefore no MMA today.. Instead I was out running and tried to swim (but it was painful to get chlorine into the wounds so that didn´t work either) It´s been raining a lot and with no training I got the time to finish the layout of Redbeard´s tale and upload some pictures…
Been a bit around the camp and watch the Thai-training… looked really nice and the trainers push the students HARD… but with a smile and a lot of humor ...like falling to the ground playing dead!! That is if the student hits like he should, and connect with a good punch or knee! I really like the atmosphere here. There are friendly people all over.. and so far no sour faces!! Found a place were I could buy some milk (pasteurized low fat “fresh” milk, cost 40bt/ltr.) and my evening shake suddenly tasted a LOT better ..Kind of like strawberry milkshake from Mac D …nice!
(More to come.. )
(25 days left in Thailand)