Long Day, Long Night

Saturday I literally lost five pounds. Let me give you the secret to quick and easy weight loss.

Sweat.

I had Muay Thai "camp", which was a three hour seminar at the gym. We went over a lot of techniques that we hadn't gone over before, and it was great. The only problem was that is was sweltering at the gym, and I could not stop the sweat faucet. Once we began our rounds, it was all over. I wasn't the only one suffering with the sweat rolling into my eyes. There were about 30 people at the seminar, from all around the state.

At the end we were supposed to have sparring rounds, but that was cancelled, as it was far too hot for us to continue. Our technique rounds were pretty laid back, but sparring is always a little more physically demanding, something we really didn't need.

So home I went for chow and a shower, and back to the gym for the fights. They lasted almost 4.5 hours, I think there was something like 22 fights in all. Some were kids, most were novice adults, and we had a few full amateur rules.

Novice is no punching to the head (kicks to the head are OK), no elbows, wearing shinpads and headgear, and 50% contact. Full amateur is everything goes, except elbows, and everyone is wearing shinpads and headgear. There were some wars in the amateur class. I had designs at one point to try getting into the ring someday, but this night has totally convinced me that it isn't in the cards.

I missed a lot of the fighting as I was in back holding pads and warming up fighters. The fighter that I did corner won in a third round knockout, where he delivered a crashing right cross "down the pipe" as we like to say, right on his opponents chin. Awesome!

There was a pretty good crowd there, and a lot of fun was had. Nobody got seriously hurt, but a lot of people were pretty banged up. Ah, fight night - like nothing else.