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Blog 16
11 May 2010 11:07PM
I had signed a contract to fight against a Japanese fighter in Hong Kong
in 2 weeks but due to circumstances I'm not going to go into, the fight
is not happening. Bit of a shitter that but ah well I'm sure there will
be more opportunity's. It's pretty cool I'm fighting at a level now where opportunity's like that are coming up I guess. Normally I would be
pissed off at losing a confirmed fight but I've got another fight lined
up in just over 6 weeks against Leigh Remedious at Knuckle up.
The Hong Kong fight had been fairly short notice so I had to jump in at
the deep end with training, I've just completed 2 weeks of intense
training, sparring a lot and hammering conditioning and not having a day
off, to avoid over training and boring myself, I've slowed down this
week, took a couple days off and trained light. Tomorrow I start back
proper with a 6 week fight camp for the fight.
My gym in Lanark has had to move again, we are now settled in a new hall
which should hopefully be the last hall we ever need to rent before
getting our own gym. Lanark MMA has a good group of students and some
really talented fighters including a couple of Pro British champions in
Graham Turner and Andy Snape, the only thing that's stopped us moving
into a gym of our own so far has been my need for getting pushed in
training. I have a 70 mile round trip into Glasgow 4 times a week to
train at the Griphouse gym, there I can get pushed in training and work
out with the best Pro fighters and coaches in the country. A big problem I see in fighters is when they become top dog in their own gym no one
is pushing them anymore, they are never really uncomfortable in training
and stop developing as a fighter. As long as I'm fighting I'll be working
with better strikers, better wrestlers and better grapplers so I'm always
getting better, same as my students. Once I stop competing I wont need
to travel for my own training as much, so I can concentrate on a full
time place in Lanark.
Just now I've no idea when I'm going to give up fighting, I had my first
proper fight at 18, a full contact kickboxing fight. Before the fight I
thought I'll do 1 fight so I can see if I like it then sack it. I'm 31 now
and had over 40 fights, now I'm more worried about what I'm going to do
when I cant fight anymore or stop enjoying it. I've had this vision or
idea of a perfect fight, a fight I want to be involved in more than
anything. What I want is a proper fight, back and forth up and down war.
Me and the other guy being hurt, both coming back from the brink of
defeat, both fighting to the best of our abilities. I get jealous when I
see other guys in these fights because they normally come out of a
fight like this better than they went into it and if a normal fight is
fun, a fight like the one I want will be awesome. Maybe I'll give up
fighting once I get my ideal fight until then as long as I'm enjoying the
training and winning more than I lose I'll keep going.
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