Last Day at Kaewsamrit

Today is my last day at Kaewsamrit. It's been a pleasure or should I say an honor to be able to train here. The last couple of days have been a blur. On Wednesday and Thursday I had the honor of watching Muay Thai at the highest level in honor of the Queen's Birthday. Unfortunately because of the events and the fact that the gym had fighters participating, there was only one training session on both Wednesday and Thursday. However, being able to partake in the Queen's Birthday at Sanamluang was a honor in itself.

This past Friday was my last training day at Kaewsamrit as I do not train on Saturday. I trained with Lang again and I had the training sessions of my life. The past couple of days I just drank water before I trained. In the beginning of my stay here I drank Iced Tea for a week before my training sessions. I tried that again on Friday and I noticed a big increase in performance. For my last week at Fairtex I plan on doing the same thing.

Yesterday which was Saturday I visited the morning session and watched my fellow boxers train. It was nice to witness as when I am training I am pretty focused and undisturbed. After attending Mission Seventh Day Adventist church I decided I should head out to Khet Saimai and check out Proptheeratham gym. Proptheeratham is the gym of the famed Samart Payakaroon. I wanted to check out the gym before I left for Pattaya. After the long taxi ride I was greeted my Ling the manager and also the wife of Samart. The gym is small, it actually looks a lot bigger on the internet. However the gym is very clean, modern, and has an aura that caters to only the serious Muay Thai enthusiasts if not fighters. Ling then introduced me to her father Anam who speaks fluent english. It was a pleasure talking to Anam and I later found out that he worked for the airlines and would speak english everyday. I gave them my word that I am going to train there and after a nice chat (I think they liked that I came), I got a taxi ride back to Kaewsamrit.

When I got to Kaewsamrit I tipped my trainer Lang and thanked him for the awesome training. I then saw the Ice Cream truck in front of the gym with one of the child boxers buying ice cream. I then motioned to two of the kids to get something but that turned into a swarm and I ended up buying ice cream bars for about 10 kids. It was comical at first but ok as I liked seeing the smiles on the kid's faces.

That brings us to today. I leave for Fairtex in Pattaya City in 2 - 3 hours. More to come when I get there.