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Since I have been here at Team Quest, one of the biggest things I have been taking advantage of is training partners. I have a different experience with training partners than others might have but I am sure most people will be familiar with some of my issues. For one I am the coach at my gym, I am the person who introduced MMA to Pakistan and I am quite sure I will be the…
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One of the things I plan on taking advantage of while I am here is being able to fight in MMA. I have had three MMA fights before in Pakistan but I never really consider them fights that challenged me or gave me opportunities to assess myself and explore what I can do to make myself a better fighter. These three fights have a total time of a little over 3 minutes with the first…
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“Training is 90% physical and 10% mental, fighting is 10% physical and 90% mental” – Rich Franklin These words could not be any truer. People seem to forget where the impetus to fight comes from. Fighting can be surmised to be at its most bare, an expression of rage or passion, defending oneself or one’s family, a sinister desire to take with force from others what is not theirs, to right a wrong and to…
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I looked at the calendar today. I have a little more than 8 weeks left here and although I am not even 25% of the way into my trip here I feel depressed about going back. I don’t regret what I have done and I know that what I have done in Pakistan has made many people thankful to me and I have created an entire scene and put Pakistani MMA on the map all…
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I am into my second week of training at Team Quest Thailand and things could not be better. If you read my last post I had set up a training program that I was hoping to follow and so far I have done pretty good and have stuck to about 90% of it, but one thing is for sure, in terms of hours, I have not trained any less. I may have not trained a…
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By the end of today I will have officially been in Chiang Mai one week and will have completed my first full week of training. Right now I am at the stage where I am trying to figure out what the best schedule is going to be for me. Basically at the moment the schedule is as such – 7 am – 9 am Muay Thai 9 am – 10 am – MMA Conditioning 1…
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I’ve just finished up three days of training at Team Quest and so far I have had a good experience. The focus of the past three days however, has not been on training but simply getting set up and comfortable so that I can concentrate on training properly. So this blog is not so much about the training but basic necessities one needs if planning on coming here to train (food, lodging, transport, entertainment). The…
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