Woke up for MMA at about 6am and the body was in shutdown mode feeling lethargic and still tired from the crap nights sleep, there is jungle around our complex and you hear all the animals all night on top of that my pillow is about twice the height of a normal pillow and hard so it has no give in it, its like trying to sleep with your head ona 90 degree angle. So i slept till about 9am and the first thing i did after i got ready was go and buy a pillow, it was a...

This afternoon did my weight session and then wrestling with JJ Ambrose, My weight session was a lot of leg work and I didnt bother to stretch the legs after because I knew i had wrestling on. That was a mistake we had to do lots of leg drills, the lactic acid in my legs was killing me usually I can blast through those excercises easily but not this time i was really struggling. After that we practiced single leg takedowns variations which was really fun, we were...

I wasn't gonna write until Tonight but I'm stuck at TMT while it pours down. I just got here to go to the beach in the TMT van and it starts pouring, obviously the beach trip is cancelled and I don't feel like riding my scooter in the rain back to my room. This morning I was woken up by Katherine and the kids video calling me on skype they rang about 1 minute before the alarm, had breakfast and went to MMA training. Another awesome session learnt some armbar var...

Okay the photo ain't too flattering but that's gonna change real quick. Part 2 of monday training So after I typed the first blog I was hammered and crashed for a while before my evening training which was 3 hours of muay Thai. I started in the beginners class to assess where I was and have decided to do it for a week then move up to the more advanced class. It is mainly a fitness class with a bit of technique thrown in, I can see my fitness levels going throug...

After arriving on Saturday night I was b*****ed and didn't feel like doing much except eating and going to sleep. At the airport I was greeted by my chauffeur to take me to Tiger Muay Thai, when I got in the taxi he said 'you pay now' and charged me 1700 baht for the journey to Chalong which is about a 45 minute journey from Phuket airport. I was sure Tiger had told me to expect to pay 800 baht but I gave him the money anyway, when we arrived at Tiger I told him...