Woke up late due to being out late for the fights and skipped morning training. I studied some of my Bas Rutten dvds though so I felt productive. Aussie Adam knocked on my door about noon and he and Lana and I headed out. Lana is from Croatia living in London and is a personal trainer. We went to drop off some laundry and as I was pulling the clothes out of my bag and handing them to the cleaner a frog jumped from the bunch in my hand and hit the cleaner in the face. We ate lunch in Chalong and hit an internet cafe there and then headed to the grocery store in the mall. The grocery store there is kinda like a Central Market or Whole Foods compared to the Super Walmart style I had been going to. The prices are similar though on most items.
We headed back to camp and got back just in time for training. Tonight was ground and pound with Gaz. We learned side control to punching to full mount, side control punching combinations to americana, and full mount punching combos. After that we sparred using these techniques with the person on bottom trying to get to their feet and the person on top trying to maintain side control and punch to a submission, or just punch and maintain. After that we had a little mma tournament. My first match was against Oh and I won. When we were practicing the combos from the full mount he politely asked me to hit him harder. Since he has a fight coming up he wants some realistic training. I got him in a full mount while sparring and turned up the heat a bit and somebody yelled 'Nik Hughes'. I was doing okay in my second match, working for a full guard when I ate one to the eye/temple that rocked me and before I could recover I ate another on the chin/nose and saw black... my hands dropped to the floor and my mouthpiece fell out. When I opened my eyes they were putting my mouthpiece back in but I went ahead and bowed out of that round. I still had some cobwebs in my head and the next round was pretty much a draw. After class Brave Dave and I worked on some submissions a little more. I still had some energy so I did some bagwork for about an hour after that. Prathet, one of the trainers is going to start learning mma and probably competing so I spent awhile showing him some groundwork. Will, the owner of the camp has connections with a Rumble on the Rock affiliate in Guam and they are looking for fighters to compete there and then possibly move up to the ROTR in Hawaii.
After that everybody went to Jimmy's and we had some good times. Other new people at camp are Wade from South Africa and Marko from Finland. Maddox got sick and hasn't been able to eat or train so he pulled out of the fight this Thursday night. Gaz took the fight instead... with 3 days notice. I watched Ong Bak and I want to be Tony Jaa when I grow up. There are some pretty insane stunts and fight sequences. Since he was a stuntman he doesn't use any, and this is a selling point in his movies. I might trade Oh some Krabi Krabong lessons for submissions.
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