Day 35

Woke up and went to do a private with Chanman. This time only had to jump rope 20 minutes, then a couple of rounds of shadowboxing and three rounds of bagwork. After that it was padwork and I felt like I was improving. We finished up with the usual exercises and as usual I was totally spent. I went back for advanced MMA with Gaz in the afternoon and after the usual warmup we left the cage for buddy drills in the yard. The first one you hold your buddy in your arms in front of you, walk the length of the yard and then turn around and then your buddy goes. The second one you hold your buddy over one shoulder, the third one behind the head over both shoulders. Then we did some drills where you hold your buddies foot and he has to hop backward the length of the yard and then forward, then switch feet. Then we did some wheelbarrow type races where both your ankles are held and you walk on your hands. Training hard with Chanman was really taking a toll and my legs were cramping badly during the exercises and my elbow and shoulder were killing me. We went back into the cage and learned some ankle pick takedowns, into sidemount into cradle control. We started sparring and in the first match Kristoffer's eyelid got cut open and Dan took him to the hospital to get stitched up. We tried to go a few more rounds of sparring but we were losing people to injuries... I was out myself icing my shoulder and elbow which were both hurting worse than ever before. So class was pretty much over and we all got cleaned up and met back to take a taxi into Patong to watch Elly fight. Ngoo had also taken a fight on a couple days notice. Ngoo had a good fight and won by decision. Elly's forehead got split open by an elbow and if it had been UFC they probably would have at least paused the fight to take care of the cut due to blood in the eyes. It was Patong though so she had to wait till the end of the round to get cleaned up. The cut pretty much stayed close the rest of the fight and she lost by decision. She got 18 stitches after the fight and had them redone the next day with 30 stitches.