Trained at Lamai Muay Thai tonight

[Damian Mavis]

Welp, here I am in Koh Samui Thailand and I went to my first session at Lamai Muay Thai since I got here..... bloody hell I'm out of shape!!

So I'm warming up on the bag and the trainers are watching me, one of them walks over and tells me to light leg spar with him, so we do.... for AN HOUR! Holy frik, I was pretty pooped, I'm not exagerating, it was a full hour solid, no breaks. At least it was light, which is the only reason I had the energy to go on. After that we did plum for 30 minutes, alternating partners every once in a while, that was worse then leg sparring....I'm sunburned to all hell and my partners had rough hand wraps on and it was like 30 minutes of nonstop pain. Then I was only able to pump out 2 rounds with the pad holder trainer. I gave him all I had but only could go 2 rounds before I started to feel like getting sick and had to call it a night.

Honestly I really like this camp, it focusses so much on fight skill training that I learn very fast here. (I came here last year too) I was just disappointed that Stephan Fox was out of town at the moment. Ah well, maybe next time.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[Tom Yum]

Hey man, thanks for the update! Sparring for an hour straight is f@)(!ng brutal!! I bet your neck has new calouses from the plumb work.

Keep us up to date!

[S.Anucha]

good stuff, makes me kinda glad I'll be avoiding the intensity of the beach heat.

I'll be there Sunday week!!! woohoo! I can wait!

So when will you be doing the full days lol.

[Tim Mousel]

Sounds like you're having an awesome experience!!!

[ThrowinBows]

What does the term "plum" mean?

[Damian Mavis]

S. Anucha actually it's not that hot right now, it's kind of their cool season (although by Canadian standards it's freaking hot) But I really feel a difference from when I was still here in late March last year and summer was starting. You'll see, it's not too bad wherever you are in Thailand, it's actually really nice right now.

I'm on vacation with the wife so won't be devoting too much time to training until she leaves January 1st. We gotta do sight seeing stuff and crap like that to make her happy heh. She's Lao and hasn't been back to this part of the world for 20 years so she's really excited to see all the things from her childhood. But you should have seen her train at the camp the other night! She kicked butt for her first official training session. She impressed her trainer.

Throwinbows: plum is the clinch work or stand up grappling when Thai boxers are in close grabbing around the neck and trying to knee, elbow and throw eachother.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[Athecy]

Damian, Let's see some pics of Thailand and training 'n stuff. I want to go to Thailand so bad! So if at all possible would you be able to post some pics?

[OctaviousBP]

Glad to hear you're getting along Damian. Let me know if you ever plan on heading to Chiang Mai.

D

[Damian Mavis]

Hi Kru Dave, you bet, when I do get around to going up there I will be emailing you well in advance for info. Thankyou very much, hope you are coming down sometime and we can meet up somewere, we never did get to train together last time.

Athecy, there are some pics up at my website and info posted from my last trip. www.honourtkd.com

The pics are in the photo section except for the latest pics which are in the news section on the right of the main page... but those are sight seeing pics, the training ones are in the photo section. The info write up is in the news section too.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD