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Muay Thai – Day Two

Today, we met out at the same field that we did last time, but only this time two other guys showed up. They weren’t there last time because they couldn’t make it out.

One of the guys had been away from working with the teacher for about one month because of work and other things, but now he’s getting back into it. He’s a little bit shorter then me. I’m around 5’11-6’0, but he’s got his body into a lot better shape then mine because of getting back into training 3 months before me. His legs were pretty damn solid compared to mine. At one point, I was bringing up my back right leg, raising the knee for a kick, but he was already bringing his back right leg up towards my left forward foot so I quickly decided to use my kick against his so I didn’t take the blow. Sounds good, right? Only one problem, his legs are condition and mine aren’t…yet. Let’s just say, I felt it.

The other guy is around 6’4 and had been in Martial Arts when he was young, and some boxing, but hasn’t really done training for quite a long while. He’s not in great shape either, but still better than me, because he said he’s been active in other stuff here and there. During some of the light sparing, me and him were practicing grabbing each others leg’s when we went off for a kick and sweep each other down but we brought each other down slow enough so it wasn’t that hard of a slam to the ground. It’s insane though, how big of a difference it is for him to be only that much bigger then me, and when he sweeps me I start off so high and fall so far, that I’d definitely be out of air(if not hurt a lot worse) had he brought me down with real force.

All in all, we worked on nothing but sparing today and it was fun as hell. It’s hard for me to get use to the real close combat with knee’s as part of the combo since I’m not honestly not very use to using my knee’s. A lot of my problems have to deal with not paying enough attention and bringing my hands down too much when I’m going in for a kick or a quick sweep. The problems with my sweeps seem to be that I don’t have the accuracy down of my leg movements and if you’re off just by a little bit, it actually backfires against you and makes YOU have an unstable balance and not them.

I’ll update you next week when we meet again! Everybody seems to be having a lot of fun!