Fruit Lady

This post is dedicated to fruit lady. Our saviour after hard morning training and a pet(spicy) breakfast. Fruit lady is an elderly lady who rocks up 9am every morning with her custom fruit cart rollin' on dubs. Well not quite.

She has an umbrella, several glass storage containers and a pretty unique horn to let you know shes here.

She sells a number of fruits for 10 baht a piece

Bai-ow - Like a mango but raw. Its very refreshing after all the sugary fruits and spicy breakfast. Its a neutral taste and good for cleansing the palate.

Sapparot - This is pineapple however its not the bitter acidic pineapple found in Australia that usually ruins a good pizza. Its a very sweet and extremely nice tasting item. My favourite, also topped off by being dipped in a sugar salt mix like sherbert.

Watermelon - Well that one speaks for its self



Morning Session

4km dog dodging jog (suprised as I only walked maybe 50m of it)

3x60 knees in the ring
4 rounds of shadow working footwork.
3 rounds of bag work
*1 round break*
2 rounds of bagwork
2 rounds uppercut block
*1 round break*
2 rounds technique with 13 yr old kid.
3 rounds clinching (with some random 16yr old thai who nearly broke my neck)
3x20 full extension slow situps
2x2 mins skipping
stretches
10 pullups

Big workout and tried to put in alot of effort as we aren't training this afternoon and it went quite well considering I did the short running path today. Worked abit more on footwork with Lak even though my feet were getting eaten up by the carpet.

Clinching was the most challenging so far. The Thai kid I was clinching with was all of 16 and was pretty scrawny compared to the other boys that age. I did underestimate him as I believe my clinching is probably the best part of my weak Muay Thai game due to my weight and height (80kgs & 5'11)

Well this kid probably would be lucky to be pushing 60kgs after a few bowls of rice. Besides the obvious disadvantage he had my neck bent the whole time and even pulled me down twice. I was trying with every effort and controlling his elbows quite well to gain better position but he would always manage to weaken my neck even whilst his arms were on the outside. I had to have several breaks for water and just gave up.

After the workout finished Ben, Adam and I were playing WWF wrestling with our trainer Mam. So abit more on Mam first. Mam is only the tender age of 25 and has had over 300 Muay Thai fights and 80 or so western boxing matches. Also he has an incredible physique pretty unique to most Thais. He is built like a brick sh1thouse basically and has an history of striking that would make most pros look like amateurs that have picked their matches.

Anyway whilst wrestling with Mam with ease he put us all on our ass one after the other whilst laughing and having a good time (sabai sabai - be happy *not same same as previously mentioned).

I wish I got a video because he even gave Adam a tough time who is pretty much a viking and about 6'3 and 95kgs lean. I really think Mam would have a stunning career in MMA even though it seems hes retired.

So now we are just chilling out and will head out for the chefs daughters boxing match. Should be pretty interesting.

Until next post