(Day 14 ) Thursday 1 okt.
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This has been a short day… started with the usual morning swim, breakfast, private-lesions (2 times this day) eat, sleep, train …eat… rest! (no mma today)
Worked with some combos and how to get away when under pressior of a aggressive opponent… my highkicks are getting a lot better and my damaged shoulder are starting to get used to the training… nice! I hope it doesn’t change when I am back home in Denmark and the could weather ..! my lungs was as yesterday..trying to eskape up threw my throat.... but a bit better today... didn´t get as dissy as all the other days!!
( 17 days left in Thailand )

(Day 13 ) Wednesday 30 seb.
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Today I had arranged with Nathan too join me at the morning class(mma) and was happy too find that the teacher for the day was Brian Ebersole (pro mma record: 53-14-1)



We started with the usual warm-up and then we went threw( all the basic) … the
double - leg takedown, the single- leg takedown and some strategies sorunding these techniques and some defenses and how to get up (or take the back) when sprawled upon! After that we did some sparring (some of us in the cage and I fount that I had an BIG advantages by being used to the fence and doing takedowns/defense up
against it!)

(the"cage"I have build back home!! some of the guys asked about it!)

- after the class I rushed home to get a shower, some food and half an hour of sleep before I rushed back to tmt to my private lesion with Nan. We worked a lot with my highkick (back home I can´t kick a properly highkick doo to my knee injury and lack of flexibility but the climate down her helps a lot) and did a lot of sparring with him correcting me when needed! Ending up with me almost calfing up my lounges … damn a pace!! As we did yesterday… a lot of stretching and he gave me a massage and we had a talk about what we should work on the next day! Home and shower, wash my clothes/gear, eat and some rest…
( 18 days left in Thailand )

(Day 12 ) Tuesday 29 seb.
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Today has been good… started by swimming then of to tmt to get a private lesson in muaythai! The thaicoach had a name that is impossible for me to pronounce (Sansananchai) but said with a lafter that I could call him “Nan” like all the others farangs… he was very nice and patience and took the time teaching me properly with all the breaks necessary for me too follow! He was impressed by my lowkicks but the rest was “not like that” . my fighting stance (mma) was wrong and “no-do” but he couldn´t make me do like a true thaifighter and we found a golden midway we could agree on… and after some time we kind of found each other and started working with thai-for-mma! After some technique we did some stretching (iám old and stiff.. but the heat and climate made me a lot more flexible than usual..nice) and ended up with him giving me a massage… nice eventhow he walked all over me! Made a new appointment with him the next day and went home for some food, a shower and rest… at night time I went for a short run.
( 19 days left in Thailand )

(Day 11 ) Monday 28 sep.
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Started my day with the usual morning swim… 50times back and forward in the pool without any pain in the shoulder this time… when I arrived I could only swim a couple of “rounds” … nice it´s getting better!! And so was my eyes … they were fine… but had to be entirely sure that the “pinky-eyes” was gone… so no training today!

Tied of doing nothing I booked a tour called: Phuchada Safari Tour.
I was picked up right out in front of the Floraville bungalows by a cap. The tour started with a snake show… where one could touch the snakes and a guy teased and “played” with the snakes… kind of crazy in my book! He was rewarded by one of the poison-cobra with a bite in his hand… so he had to take off in a hurry… the lady that was the speaker for the show, said that he was bitten many times before and therefore was out of mortal danger but had to be sure!



After the snake pit we went to see the elephants… I hadn´t expected that there would be so many of them.. (over 100 spread out on a lot of small farms). I went for ride with one and got to be the “driver” while the real zookeeper had to take a pee… it was exiting to ride the elephant all alone not knowing how to make it go were I wanted it too… but I guess it was used to the route and knew it a lot better then I!
After the ride I was allowed to feed it some pineapple from a basket… it seamed a bit hungry and was not satisfied with the pineapple alone…so when the basket was empty and I started to walk away, it took the basket from me and tried to eat it… kind of funny!
After the elephant trekking a guy put took for a motorbike ride up the hills to a place filled with 4-weel offroaders now it was “bug rider” time… we raced up and down hills in the jungle-like nature for about an hour… really fun but had a soar bum afterwards, smile.



When I got back home I took a shower and washed all my clothes and sandals with dettol (including myself… didn´t want to get ringworms or something from the elephants ). When I had my dinner the couple from Australia (Nathan and Danni) asked me if I would join them later when they would go to the putong market… that was a bit of an experience we shopped a lot and went to the local burger king…


and a trip down the patong main street ..(nasty place, awful smell and dirt all over, boysgirls and hookers at every bar… one must say that there was a party going on!! ) we took a “taxi” home it was a small car with lights and music so loud that we coun´t even talk together and it was 0200 in the morning!!


( 20 days left in Thailand )

(Day 10) Sunday 27 sep.
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Not much to tell… spend my day by running, swimming, eating, sleeping… and some more eating!!!
Didn´t train with the others today… wanted to get rid of this stupid infection… Al though my eyes were clear today… they still itched a bit!
( 21 days left in Thailand )

(Day 9 ) Saturday 26 sep.
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Today my eyes was still infected but didn´t drip with yellow nasty slime anymore… it was a bit sore, red and the itching was still there but better…


(stole this pic. of Ray from his facebook profile, but i shows exaturely how i looked as well)
Spend the day walking around the camp looking at the muay thai- training… and trying to absorb as much as possible.

Talked with a lot of the guys from the mma-class and every single one of them had the pinkys… and was told that it was an outburst covering most of phuket Iceland.


This was the night of the traditional BBQ-beatdown fest/ fightnight of TMT. The mood was a bit down.. course to half of the camp (and ALL mma-people) was hit by the “pinkeye” infection. And most of the schedule for the night was canceled but the party went on and they managed to make a couple of Thai fights… including some “clown fights”. The food was good and so was the beer… or so I’m told I couldn’t taste shit!! So went home early a bit disappointed!
(22 days left in Thailand)