Pink Mission #5 Monday 19th Dec

After getting permission from my BJJ Coach Raphael Dos Santos I rocked up with my Gi for a BJJ session at Pucket Top Team... The PTT coach is professor Silvio Braga ... Here's a link for more info http://www.silviobraga.com/ . The classes are held in doors on clean thick mats with Aircon - much better than Tiger. Everyone was really friendly and I got to roll with the coach ... He's very much like Raphael, super speedy, slick with moves and a great caring personality for his students. Lots of drills and working on butterfly. I also met a lovely lady who started BJJ a couple of weeks ago with the classes her name is Sharon. Already she is quite good and I think that's also down to having private session every other day with Silvio too. Hoping we stay friends. 4pm-6.30pm Muay thai session at Tiger Although in the beginners class we had the opportunity of a seminar from a Muay Thai champion of 37 years ago

Pink Mission #5 Sunday 18th December 2011

Had a massive breakfast at Mamas for 80baht (£1.60)
Fruit platter (Watermelon and Pineapple)
Scrambled eggs and bacon
Juice
Coffee
Toast & Jam (this I gave to Andrew)

Today it was raining but still very humid, with the jet lag you are tired one minute and awake the next... heres some footage of the pool

In the afternoon got fidgety so I went for a run... I found another camp... Phuket Top Team http://www.phukettopteam.com/  ... It looked awesome so found timetable online.

Pink Mission #5 Saturday 17th Dec

Today I purchased some new pink gloves and White Shin Guards (approx £60 for both) Tiger had closed for weekend to have a Xmas party so no classes. This gave us time to recover from Fridays sessions and the Jetlag... Andrew is suffering badly pacing the room at 4am is driving me insane. We found a Pharmacy and I had to go hardcore and go for b12 injections ... These are useful for energy and regenerating red bloods cells and burn fat. I was using timed release capsules in the UK ... Try them they do make a difference if you do a lot of training. Food over here us pretty much perfect for body builders and fighters ... Chicken, rice, fish, salad, fruit platters and protein drinks made with bananas and ice cream - my favourite meal so far is chicken with spring onions and cashew nuts - :0)

Pink Mission #5 16th December 2011

First day of training at Tiger Muay Thai started at 8am ... I went in the beginners class and Andy started in the Intermediates...They made us run for 25mins then do lots of other exercises including 30 Burpees to finish off. They then get you to put your wraps on ... A Trainer will do them for you too! Firstly we put gloves on and do combinations with no power, this lasts for about 20mins. Next up we had to split into groups so we do 3x3mins on Pads with pad man but 10 Press ups after each round and then rest for the remainder of the 1min.
Then 3 rounds on bags
Again 10 push ups in between.
Then 3x3 sparring rounds
With yes... 10 Push ups at end of every round.

To finish of we had to do 200 Teep kicks on the bag, followed by 3mins of fast knees on the bag

100 push ups
200 sit ups
stretch off end of session

Our head coach is Dand and he carrys a bamboo stick with him ...

In the afternoon we chilled by the pool had some lunch at Mamas restaurant.
Back in our apartment we only have one mirror which is in the bathroom- Andrew keeps going in there to check himself out and obviously do his shadow boxing. Lol

4pm went to the western boxing class which was running next to the MMA class... I got pulled out of the class "you over there spar" I was put with this lady who looked like a super scary Mma fighter... I was cacking it lol. It was good! she kept getting me with her jab lol but that was what I was here to work on.
It was good fun to get back into the boxing again anyway.   I got a snap of Andy in the warm down ...

I turned up at 7.30pm for the BJJ class in my gi as on the website it's says NoGi is optional ... The coach that was teaching just said ah no we are not teaching gi so you'll have to put up with no gi. I started the class with all the traditional warm ups then we had to do 30 take downs each - the mats were so thin I just thought after all the training hrs followed by being thrown by a novice Russian in NoGi I was going to get an injury. After some technique I decided to leave the class and apologised but I would come back another night with no gi clothing - it was so hot my gi was soaked anyway!

Pink Mission #5 15th December 2011

Arrive in Phuket and get taxi to our accommodation ... We are staying at Happy Cottage which is a 8min walk to Tiger Muay Thai.

We walked around Tiger Muay Thai at 4pm so we could check out the classes in action before we signed up. All of the classes seem to be 2.5hrs long and run in the mornings and some again in the evenings.

Conditioning is a large part of the training here and it seems some people come to use a boot camp for losing weight.

Pink Misson #5 Trip to Thailand 14th December 2011

Andy and I boarded our flight from Stanstead to Dussledorf ... It looked like one of those polystyrene planes and both of us had a face of panic... The flight was only 1hr and 15mins to catch the connected flight to Munich. We had a 2 hr wait and that was it 11hrs approx to arrive at Phuket.
Air Berlin were fantastic to fly with we were fed and watered so many times, they stuck on a couple of good movies so the time didn't drag too much.

Pink Mission #4 - Hereford Open 10

Had an absolutely awesome day out with our club Project Mayhem MMA at the Hereford Open #10

Five of our ladies competed and 4 of them for the first time...

In order to calm the pre-fight nerves there was some really nice BJJ hair prep going on ....

They all did extremely well considering they have not been training very long and the whole competition experience was totally new to them.   Very Proud of everyone :0D

I'd like to say a BIG well done! to my Saturday sparring partner Kat Rix who trains at our ladies class and Exeter BJJ .. she had 3 fights and 3 submissions... go Katapillar!

For Pink Machine it was a day to remember as it was the first time I had fun and did not get nervous(normally i would feel that i had about 102 fights before I'd got on the mats lol) ... I held my own with both Vanessa English (Bronze world Medallist 2011) and Rebecca Hill (British champion 2011) although they won on points I was really pleased with my defence performance and I had enjoyed the whole experience... I want to fight both them as much as possible now... here we are on the podium.

Seymour Yang (Meerkatsu), had designed the backdrop banner and the T Shirts for the competition, if you are ever looking for a brilliant artist with a difference to design your logos/posters etc, he is your man.

 ... these were awesome and I was glad to get my freebie for entering promptly. 

Next event is February 19th March 2012