On Friday I just got word that I will be competing against another 0-0 muay thai fighter from Cung Le's USH at 150lbs on 9/5/09. I would like to fight at 145-147 but in grappling ive been comfortable up to 160 and I dont think size or strength will be an issue at all. After sustaining a massive ankle injury early this year I cant wait to get back to competition. And after tough losses in grapplers quest I am really hungry for a win.
Ive been working a ton on my standup primarily with Kru Edge Brown and also Andrew Moy at GYm 445. In addition have been getting lots of help from both Rodney Mirasol and Darren Uyenoyama at FTCC. In the next three weeks I am going to try to fine tune all my weakspots. Its funny after a year of starting real standup training I have a ton of really glaring errors. These will be remedied.
Ive been pushing myself conditioning wise but have not been extremely dilligent about eating clean. though weight wont be an issue I must insure that I stay away from any vices avoid as much sugar as possible and eat clean as possible. My conditioning will now focus primarily on endurance and explosiveness translating to, 15 minutes of hell drills and of course Sprints in the form of Takus at Kezar and the 445 stanyan run to6 windsprints up a sunset block routine.
Ill be sparring 4x a week for the next two weeks at least and doing pads or contact drills daily with partners or edge, andy, or rodney. I will still be grappling 3x a week at the group classes MWSaturday at FTCC and drilling with the chen chens on Sundays. Im planning on competing at the No-Gi Mundials this year as well so ill be working hard on that.
I'm taking care of this guy from USH. No disrespect to him but hes going to have to come close to killing me in order to stop me in september. and im looking to knock his head off.
as Kru Edge told me last year when I started at the gym... if your going to be a bear you might as well be a grizzly... (wonder if he was thinking of that luda song that just came out).
Im nervous, excited, and ready to work. While I am confident in myself, im getting ready for nothing less than a war. After watching many friends and training partners experience this I cant wait to finally do the same!
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