My life as a fighter

So my second smoker happened last saturday, june 16th. Sorry I was missing for a little while, if anyone actually reads this, but yeah I was in a different headspace, and after the fight I did a little too much celebrating.. and we'll just leave that there ha ha. Anyways though.



The fight itself went well, the guy ended up weighing in at about 179 pounds, I weighed in at a meager 166 pounds, while eating a sandwich (true story) so he had a good weight advantage over me, and about 3 inches of height on me. He also trained at the same gym as the last guy that I fought, so he knew to expect the leg kicks and checked a lot of my leg kicks, which kind of took me out of my element. Even with all that though, I almost knocked him out in the first round but I ran out of time, and I feel like I controlled the fight most of the time, I did gas out though, it was extremely tiring being in there with him, any time we clinched I had to fight with everything I had to get out of the bad positions and things like that, so it was tough. I think I did good though, did more damage, and controlled most of the fight, my sifu was happy with my performance, especially after taking in that guys physical advantages.

My next smoker will be sometime in august, and that will be my last little practice before my actual amateur kickboxing debut. I plan on working my strength and conditioning a lot more before august, and fighting in august at 165. In the october ring fight I'll most likely fight at 163 pounds since I think that's my closest weight class in the IKF. Anyways, I'm off for tonight. Talk to you soon interwebs.

Love,
Cory

My life in training

The fight is in 4 days! It's nuts. I mean it's my second fight so the experience isn't quite as harrowing as it was before, but it's still a crazy feeling. I mean honestly the entire situation is a little bit crazy at least. I'm willingly going into a situation where I know this person in there with me is trying to hurt me, and I have to try and hurt him before he hurts me hah. It's more a matter of self preservation than a desire for me to hurt someone. I just don't wanna get knocked out.

I can't lie though, I love the feeling of my glove, or my shin, digging into someones body. It's a rush, knowing when you land that power shot, when you feel it dig in, and when you see that reaction in your opponents face and you just know, yeah, that hurt him. It might sound morbid but it's not, it's not a satisfaction over the fact that I hurt him, it's the same kind of satisfaction an athlete gets scoring a touchdown, or making a basket, it's the feeling of victory. Knowing you beat someone, who trained like you did, who has the same goals you do. That feeling of knowing you're doing it better, it's not really capable of being replicated outside of sports. I love it. It's the whole reason I started doing this, because I missed sports, and I missed that feeling of intense athletic competition.

Anyways, my fights in 4 days, my thigh feels about 85%, and I can't wait to get in there and let it all hang out.

Life in Training

Ah True Blood was on last night, I was looking forward and counting down to that so much. Now I focus solely on my fight. 5 Days away now.

MY thigh is feeling better, it's still not 100% but it's better than it was, and I can move on it and run on it now, but if it takes any kind of a hit right now it's gonna be excruciatingly painful still. Hopefully by saturday it will be 100%. I was actually able to jump rope last night though and do some swimming/running in the pool, so low impact so that was nice, and since I was at lexi's house I couldn't resist but jump on the trampoline.

I did some shadow boxing last night too, I dunno why but I'm feeling crazy confident right now going into this fight. Even with being hurt right now and not training the way I wanted to the past couple days, I still feel like I can go into this fight and win, decisively. I'm just so ready to have this fight done that I wish it was saturday right now and I could just do the thing.

Well, True blood was awesome, and I feel great, that's the little update for now.

Life In Training

I've always wanted to do this, have a place to just talk, express how I feel about how my training is going, things like that. I think anyone who fights has moments of insecurity, anxiety, apprehension, etc. I think it's healthy to have an outlet, a release. I mean all the big fighters have blogs. So what if they're fighting for hundreds of thousands of dollars, while I'm barely starting off an amateur career. We're one in the same! This is primarily suppose to be about fighting, but I'm sure other little bits and pieces of my life will get involved in this as well. Anyways, onto my first real post I guess.

So I have another smoker on the 19th. That's 7 days away. It's a little nerve wracking to have a fight coming up, it's even a little nerve wracking sometimes to have sparring coming up, and an actual fight where someone is trying to knock me out, it just makes everything 100 times more intense. It's a good feeling though, I like it. I've been an athlete my whole life, so this kind of intense, pre game/match/fight set of intense feelings is just so welcomed in my life.

I feel really good, as far as being in shape, going into this fight. I trained on thursday last week, 6 rounds of sparring (My fight is only 3 rounds) and I was fine at the end, not gassed at all, although I caught a nasty knee right in the middle of my thigh and it's been killing me since that night, I was out of commission friday and today, and got zero kind of a work out in, and to top it off today was my nephew's birthday, and I have a serious weakness for barbecue (and marble cake). Luckily I don't have to make weight for this fight, my opponent is heavier.

I'll write more about life in general tuesday, after I train, I just felt like getting the ball rolling or else I never would have started.