I took on a girl weighing in at 160 pounds with a lazy eye and an arse like the back of a ship. Do i have your attention? either way, that bit was fictional. What happened was this, i took a jab to the back of the head whilst on a night out (rare). The girl came at me from behind and knocked me out. Seriously! Punched me right in the back of the head, I did not fight back as i don't remember much more. I hope she broke her hand and couldn't straighten her shit hair extensions for weeks the beaut. I lost my pride for a bit that night as i went home wearing my own blood and wondering if her fella was proud of his bar brawler bird. Why did she do it?.. simple: i was bar served before her, she kicked off as she was bladdered with a bad attitude, told me she was first and i told her her dress was a knockoff. I quit drinking and going out after that for about a year.
I'd love to fill this blog with tales of me knocking shit out of people and being a hard ass but truth is, i'm really not. I've never had an amateur fight and i know i'll never be a professional mma fighter. What i do know is that i train 5 nights a weeks, i spar with lads and i am addicted to fighting. "Just not in bars" It's my life. To look at i'm just your normal english girl, but i'm bruised and fairly ripped underneath the threads.
MMA consists for me of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Boxing, Wrestling and Conditioning. As an MMA fighter you may study even more martial arts for example Tae Kwon Do, Judo and/or Karate but for me my list is enough. I work full time and still train in each of these fields, therefore, this leaves me little time for being out with mates and parties. This is standard. I don't really mind it but if i think hard about it maybe i do!
I belong to a great team at my training gym, I have my brothers and my team mates who provide the banter and let me lash out too when i am not "getting it." We learn a lot in 1 hour, it is possible that techniques cannot be performed and executed perfectly in this time frame. I have this issue a lot and sometimes get wound up by it. So much so, swear words will come out on an occasion! For the most part i keep my head down and try to take in as much as possible, i learn and study more here than i ever did at university.
You train, you have a good day, you have a bad day, this is standard and i fail to recognize any person who leaves a training session feeling 100% every time. We got a new lad in last week, Jimmy his name was, nice lad, must have been about 20 years old, came to our boxing class and said after about half an hour "how long before i get the technique! I wanna fight! I guess he was sick of being told what to do in that his stance was wrong and he shouldn't wind up a hook. Anyway he had the obligatory roasting about practice and patience. I still get the coach standing behind my sparring partner waiting to put the pad across my face (hard) because my boxing gloves are not protecting my face/chin. So Jimmy, just learn from these guys and keep your guard up.
Boxing is a staple of MMA. I do this twice a week and for those girls who think they sweat on a treadmill, have a shot at this. Your walking out of class like a raisin. If your at all worried about sweat, wear black cause your going to be drenched, or just don't attend. Likewise the next morning, putting your bra on or ragging your hair up in a pony tail could leave you feeling disabled.
A couple of months into training i received quite a few blows to my ear, no not romantic whispering breath blows with sweet messages, but a tasty few digs in sparring. Kyle did it! (grass) Miss injury prone goes home and instead of producing a body full of bruises from BJJ i have a terribly sore head. I mentioned to my brother about my sore ear, this was only after i told him to take a picture of it with my phone as i couldn't see it or compare it to the other one.. Josh said it looked a bit swollen but i guess a brotherly glance whilst ramming his dinner in his grid wasn't a doctors opinion and he couldn't be arsed taking a picture for me as one hand was holding the fork/shovel and the other hand was arguing with his girl via text. So i slept on it (my other ear.)
The next day the top of my ear was pretty much in agony and yeah it was swollen. It was really sore to touch, itchy and bright red. I guess anyone with any sense reading this will know already what the problem was. 4 months in and i had "the ear."
To be cont.....
