40 cent

Hey guys, Going to train for 3 months in Phuket, my first time overseas, so im going to post up my list of things to pack and if you guys could add/delete stuff thatd be great! trying to pack light as possible... Beach towel, normal Towel Socks X 7 Jocks X 5 Jeans Tracksuit pants Jumper? shoes X 3 Multivitamins T shirts X 4 Singlets X 5 Shirts X 2 Anitbiotics Visa/passport/licence/atm card/baht camera tootbrush/facewasher/soap/toothpaste gloves/mouthguard/shin pads torch k any alerations appreciated!

Hey guys, Im booked in to train at the WMC camp for 3 months in Koh Samui. To simplify costs i asked if they could come up with a package of food (they have their own restaruant) for me and they proposed this: The meal deal is 27,000baht and gives you a daily allowance of the following. Breakfast: 2 choices from breakfast menu plus bottle water. Lunch: Dish with Rice or Dish with pasta or Sandwich meal plus bottle water. Dinner: Dish with Rice or Dish with pasta or Sandwich meal, also fruit plate and bottle water. Do you guys think this is reasonable? It doesnt seem that cheap to me however ive never been to thaliand before. Also, i would like to get a tat over there, anyone know any good quality places in Koh Samui? Or not worth it? Thanks heaps for any direction Regards, Grant

im just posting up my diet and the things ive added are in red. late for work so itl be quick! Sit ups Minimum 3 fruits in a smoothie, a little juice, 3 eggs, honey Oats with a little honey Skipping/Bag Work - 45 mins Protein Shake with water here? 1 cup Brown rice & 95 Tuna 6km Run (should i lessen the distance?) 2 or 3 days a week this will be swapped for heavy weights training Protein Shake with skim milk Natural low fat yoghurt with handful almonds/roasted peanuts/sultanas Small piece of lean lamb Training: Kickboxing/karate Dinner: 4 vegies & Chicken no skin I can add in extra servings of tuna and eggs throughout the day if need be? Anyway let me know what you think sorry not much time to go through everything...

ok thankyou, so i should eat a total of 2-3 grams per pound daily? or is that what im adding to what i already eat??

Ok...Im used to fighting kyokushin around 69kg perfect for my division of under 70kg, im around 5'10' i think. Over the past few months i have REALLY cleaned up my diet, im very disciplined with saturated fats and carbs after lunch, but eat very well with fruit, vegies, brown rice, yoghurt, eggs meat etc. I train very hard. Skipping/bagwork in mornings throughout the weekdays, then a 6km run every weekday then kyokushin or kickboxing class every weekday. Training 3 times a day, and also do situps throughout the day as well, light riding on weekend days. I have really leaned up and 'ripped' up a bit, and im REALLY happy with my fitness and endurance levels..Diet gives me good energy levels too. HOWEVER, jumped on the scales and to my horror im at 64kg!!! This is far too light and i want to get back up in weight. Can i gain weight whilst maintaing my fitness/endurance and 'lean' muscle? Suggestions please...fighting in two months Can i simply add weights and more protein or will i have to back off the cardio? I realise i shouldve cycled my regime but too late now... any help greatly appreciated grant

Hey guys, By all means direct me to another thread if this has already been covered.. However after a few years hard training i want to take my thai boxing to a new level and get some really good, dedicated training in thailand...im looking for reputable gyms that i can train full time and REALLY improve my fighting skills...looking at going for 3 months. ive looked and emailed a few over the net and so far the wmc lamai camp looks the best? please let me know of any others and let me know of pros/cons etc. i just want HARD training, dont care about the holiday side of things thanks heaps for any direction grant

Me and a few of my friends are making a dvd as a brithday present for one of our mates, and i need a few ideas of some funny stuff we can do on the video. Obviously i dont want anyone hurt, and i dont intend on going car surfing down busy streets or anything, but i want things that are at least mildly entertaining without being a knobhead and disturbing/hurting anyone. (at least anyone who isnt involved ) So anything from stunts, to skits, to just stupid stuff... cheers guys and yes, i realise this is immature, im happy to live with that fact.

After some funky music with a good beat to skip to and do cardio bag work in the mornings. Give me some tracks to download-im mainly in to hip hop, but anything with an awesome beat and a bit of soul that will get me grooving will suffice fighting in the kyokushin australian nationals in sydney this coming sunday so wish me luck guys... ps i wont be jumping rope this week

ok thanks, im taking it all on board. should i be trying to keep my cardio up ALL the time? for instance, should i be doing hard bag workouts every morning throughout the week? i should i focus more on bag workouts/intense focus mit work, say, 6 weeks out for a fight, then taper off a week out? id be happy just stretching in the mornings for a while i guess... also had some interesting developments. i went to a nose specialist today, and i have bung cartledge in my nose from having it broken bout a year ago, and also have congestion and really badly blocked innner ears...this could have something to do with the tiredness and dull headaches right? on the waiting list for an operation..:s thanks heaps for the replies! all been real good

ok thanks very much for the advise, ill definately adhere to it, the diagnosis does sound correct. the problem is, im still fighting and grading, and mentally i would feel weak backing off a bit....i grade in 3 weeks and i am then back in fight season...what can i do with this in mind? or is the solution ceasing training for a while? to get back to full health, would it be enough to nail my diet, go to bed earlier and perhaps take short naps after sessions during the day?

Hey, Firstly, please don’t think im being a hypochondriac for writing all of this, I understand there are people much worse off than me, but im just seeking advice and suggestions. Ive done kyokushin karate for around 2.5 years and I compete full contact whenever I can. I have a good fitness/cardio level, and also feel that my conditioning and strength is at a good level. Im 21, so I want to push myself as hard as I can and make the most of my ‘strong’ years. I train three times a week at my dojo, Monday wed and Friday, and these classes are always real hard, with sparring and high intensity basics etc for an hour and a half, then we do conditioning after class. I usually also do some form of exercise on Tuesday and Thursdays, this isn’t as high intensity or as long but enough to lift the heart rate. I want to start doing kickboxing and I am thinking of going to a kickboxing gym on these two evenings. I also go to the gym and push weight 3 times a week. Also, I usually train in the mornings. This is bag work and skipping for around 45 mins. So its basically nearly a complete program, which is what I want and what I am strongly motivated towards. However, im really getting drained. I find myself having to miss mornings and miss nights here and there just coz I don’t feel great. A lot of the time I have to push myself to class. Now once I get there, I perform fine, I forget about my tiredness and I can pump it out, but come the morning time…damn *im at university so my workload in the daytime isn’t particularly high Ok now I haven’t simply ramped myself onto this program. Ive done the weights for two years, and ive trained 3 times a week in the evenings for two years. The morning training has been on and off all of this year, Tuesdays and Thursdays ive always been active. So I haven’t all of sudden rushed into it. I just want to know why im having so much trouble putting it all together. Am I overtraining and not thinking enough about recovery and so forth? Having said that, I have not really increased the amount of sleep I get (around 6 to 8 hours). Could this be a problem? Additionally, my diet is healthy but not PERFECT. I eat the correct food groups and everything, but by no means am I super strict on what I eat and don’t eat. Could this be contributing to my problems? Since I am trying to train so regularly should I be nailing a perfectly supplemented diet day in day out? Its something that I have to address because training hard and to my full capability is something I have to do. Just don’t want to have a lul hanging over me and a constant dull/drained headache feeling. So yeah, any advice on how to train smarter/recover smarter or what could be causing my problems would be sensational. And any questions, feel free to ask Thanks gw

hey guys.. im not quite sure what is going on, but its the weekend here in ballarat, so ive pretty much left it too late to go to the docs.. but my throat isnt sore as such, but the muscles at the front and down inside my throat feel tight...its REALLY annoying, makes it a little hardER to breath (nothing drastic at all). but the biggest reason im worried is because i fight full contact sunday...and im not really at my best any indications of what could be going on, or what to do?

i do like that. thankyou

k i wasnt sure were abouts to put this problem, it is weird, its purely mental, and there is a fair bit of background and so forth involved, and i dont expect it to be solved on the internet, but any guidance is appreciated. im now 21 years old. i do kyokushin karate, and over the last year or so, it has pretty much become a way of life. i love the way it developed my physical strength and my character, and it has changed the way i think and approach things. i pride myself on honesty and loyalty and so forth. it also changed my maturity, it curbed my need to be a 'tough guy' (moreso made me see i wasnt as i was fighting with 2nd dans :s) and it really helped in putting my ego in place, through development. so i was going really smooth mentally recently. then, we had a break for summer over christmas, and i decided to get a different form of hard training and joined the reserves. i went to 'boot camp' for 7 weeks. i didnt struggle, it wasnt physically hard AT ALL, not one bit, and we just got yelled at and they tried to make us feel like sh*t for 7 weeks for 16 hours a day. which i realise is all for a reason, and design to break the weak ones and all that jazz. i didnt think it affected me at all, infact i managed to maintain my humour throughout it all.... and then WHAM. about 2 weeks after i returned home, i had commenced training (unfitter and stronger than when i left) and i got a monster burden that made it hard for me to sleep. i all of a sudden had a flash back to a street fight about 2 years ago, where my mate got hit, (i was only involved with the pushing, we were outnumbered and underage :/) anyway i got pushed over, got up to see my mate get hit from behind by one of the pack, all i did was run over and yell 'f**k off'. he had a split eye, and i had a guilty conscience becuase i was unharmed and didnt put myself in dangers way.... as with most burdens, a 'snowball' effect occured, and i got to thinking and i remembered when i was like 16, it was at school, one of my mates when down and i saw the opposition pack converge on him (i was 100m away on the b/ball court) and i had a fair idea he'd be getting hit a few times, but i didnt do ANYTHING. what makes things worse is, and i realise this wouldve fully compunded my guilt, was that when he came up (he didnt have any blood or bruises, just copped a few soft ones, but that isnt the point) i sorta acted like i dint know it was hostile, i tried to bluff him (and myself to a degree) that i just thought it was kind of a 'stacks on' kind of thing.... further snowballing now...and my best mate ryley was in two fights, both of which he copped a fair pounding in, they were both 1 on 1, but he didnt want to be in either. all i wish i had done was stopped it, or not let them happen. ok, thats all of it, i know i didnt let anyone die or anything like that, i didnt do anything immensely wrong, just didnt do anything right. i dont expect to be a hero and run down and slay the harrasors, i just wished i had the courage to put myself in harms way. i realise i have this kind of emotional dump now, because it was a situation i didnt deal with, i didnt fight or fly, i just did nothing, stood there, witnessed it and felt like i shouldve helped, shouldve put myself in harms way for my friends being harmed who i love and respect so much. it worries me that it was 'instinctive', i dont understand how to develope myself so if someone i care about gets hurt, i react appropriately.. i am not an aggresive person, i feel capable as a fighter to some degree (not cockiness) and i feel strong, and know im a good person, but i want to be able to turn the switch on when it is needed. ok, i havent been tested since i started hard training, and since i have really started developing my character, so i HOPE things ahve changed. but even having a burden is my body telling me that those feelings arent dealt with, and i know the past cant be changed, but id be interested to know how to deal with these emotions so they dont continue to resurface. i intend on speaking to the footy oval friend and telling him the truth, and i have already admitted to my mates that i shouldve helped them more...maybe i should discuss it with them completely. what should i do to get rid of the guilt? also, how do i stop this from happening in the future? i gather its a common problem getting stuck in the middle of fight or flight, street fights are extreme stress situations, however i know i am capable of helping, i dont want to stand there and watch by when wrong is being done. what mind set do i need to change? what training should i do? (ive been in many full contact fights in the last yyear, and that helps deal with fear and so forth..) theres a millioin questions...id just want any feedback/advice/guidance whatever on this, discussion, whatever....anything to help me understand the situation and my actions better...cant undo the past, but i can learn form it its ridiculous i know, i realise there are people with a million times worse problems...but hey....

k i did the suck up with the nose, and it did help, well atleast until around lunch time and i clog up again. but it was good to atleast have it cleared so thanks. i will see a pro i think...i will let you know of results

excellent, thanks for the help guys this is great....it feels good to at least have some direction. i will try these tricks and if it doesnt help at all, ill go see a specialist. with the 'saline' solution, im actually breathing the water back into my nostril right? not just inhaling the steam? thanks for the help...any other remedies hit me with them

Hey guys, I dont want to sound like a whinge, but this problem has been p*ssing me off for so long now, i want some other opinions/experiences... Ive always had relatively bad sinuses, enough to give me head cold symptoms regularly, but not enough for migraines etc. However, about 3 months ago i got a REALLY bad ear infection...i couldnt hear out of my ear and it was painful for a month or so. Second month i still couldnt hear properly and third month there was still a considerable amount of pressure. today, there is still pressure there, it isnt infected, but the doc said the flem and stuff isnt draining because of my sinuses. he suggested there wasnt much i could do to clear my sinuses, suggested i could TRY a couple of sinus tablets?? i was wondering if anyone has any advice on what to do, i really need it to drain, i feel it when i train hard, and it feels as though i am talking underwater sometimes. wondering if anyone has any techniques/advice/whatever on how to help my problems. im drinking lots of water, tried 'steaming', and have tried some sinus tablets, but nothing has worked so far, and its been MONTHS...i know it takes a lot to drain...but hell, its not getting much better thanks for any assistance...

Not sure if this should be in another section, so mods feel free to move this. I have started competing quite regularly in kyokushin full contact tournaments, trying to fight once a month when im not injured. im 20 years old, and i do about 3 gym sessions a week, although my main focus is stamina and bag work/conditioning etc. as ive gotten a little older and more mature, and through lifting weights, ive started to fill out and get stronger. i am reasonably short, and i have always fought light weight which is 70kg and under. recently, i have been weighing in around 69.2kg, and i am REALLY having to watch what i eat and so forth, which is a real pain, considering my appetite after the amount of training i do. my question is, do i now start making a run at middle weight? i dont like having to really monitor my food consumption before tournaments, and having the stress of not knowing if ill be over. but then again i dont want to fight at like 82 kg in middle weight. what do you guys suggest? stay with my advantage in light weight? or start trying to put pounds on? i know its variable to the individual, but how long would 5kg take to put on? coz i would be comfortable fighting at that. also, to do that within a few months, would i need to stop the majority of my intensive stamina work and just focus on weights? any opinions, advice, info will be greatly appreciated

Hey guys, i know this a karate forum, but different ideas come from different places i got appointed to a youth committee for ballarat council last week, and we are responsible for organising events, youth welfare services, general youth stuff etc etc im just brainstorming some ideas at the moment for different activites and events...id like them to be different from the standard fundraising stable, want them to be fun and things people actually get into and enjoy..... different events im thinking of could be: a rap/hip hop event, a dance off, maybe a collective cruise for ballarats youth etc etc. they are already running as many acoustic and live bands as possible. also running bbq's. so i need ideas for events, promotion (perhaps someone has unorthodox (and legal) way to gain exposure, and we also have a laneway/alley that needs developing, but we arent allowed to paint it, everything we put there has to be removeable. anyways i thought id try my luck. if anyone comes up with a cool idea that i end up using i will credit your name with it in the local newspaper...not that youll probably see it :s thanks guys, let the creative talents fly...

awesome replies. thanks. its starting to get through im fighting in a full contact state title tournament in 2 days, ill keep ya'll posted

and thankyou superchick, your reply was helpful, thanks

you havent seen why i have written the post because perhaps you havent understood the problem. your response to it, once again, doesnt address the problem, just explains it. i understand they are better through time and dedication, i understand that. as i said, we all have an ego, we all have pride, but martial arts is designed to challenge that and make us work towards humility. i posted this as a problem with MYSELF not the YOUNG GUNS in my dojo. i respect them completely, and i look upwards of them. and no, i dont feel 'because of my age i have some right or title', infact i think you should perhaps examine the reasons behind my post manabimasho, instead of looking at it so black and white. i am angry at myself for having this problem, hence the post. i was seeking help for it, and i dont need help in the form of 'your wrong' as i have aptly stated 'i know' and yes, i dont doubt you have lethal women in your dojo, so do we, this was never a gender debate....

yamesu, pm sent mate. thankyou i am in the state of victoria. charlie, i have emailed the contacts on both of those sites, thankyou btw i have a tournament in qld in 2 weeks, and then a 1 match fight in geelong 2 weeks later, so there is another two

rest assured, despite my problem i have not lessened my training ethic or even come close to 'dropping the bundle.' i was looking for more of an insight rather than an answer. simply stating that i need to forget that and focus on personal improvement is fine, but is about as helpful (on a much lesser scale of course) as 'ignore your broken arm.' it must be acknowledged that EVERYONE has some form of a competitive drive and an ego, it just depends on how much you feed it/or abuse it, i got given the example of seeing ego as alcohol. i REALISE i shouldnt be focussing on age, comparisons and 'catching' people, i REALISE it is unhelpful, it is futile. infact, that is the entire reason why i posted it as a problem, i want to iron it out, want to forget about it. thats why i wanted insights, i wanted experiences shared, not a statement of what i should or shouldnt be thinking.

First of all, i will start by giving the disclaimer that my post may annoy the hell out of some readers, and i may seem ignorant and ungrateful of my position, but anyways: i am 20 years old and i have been doing kyokushin karate for around 1 year. i ABSOLUTELY love it, it is the central part and the focus of my life. i have had a 3 full contact fights and i love the challenge of doing them and training hard for them. the thing is, my age lately has been frustrating me. i know, everyone will be thinking "WHAT!!!, YOU"RE 20!" but i look to the front of the class and i see 16 year olds with unbelievable technique and unbelievable flexibility as they have been doing it since they were tiny tots. i on the other hand started when i was 19, which is still a ripe age, but it frustrates me to think that at age 20, i am still struggling to develop my flexibility (its horrible) my footwork, my technique, everything is still at a very premature level. also, when i think about competing, i love martial arts so much id love to compete on a world level. and yet when i look at most professional fighters, the majority started and were fighting since they were tiny tots. now, i know, ive thought about it a lot, and im not just interested in fighting, i love the character building aspects of martial arts as well. perhaps this very problem reinforces my undeveloped karate spirit. i realise that my problem is ego based, its competitive based. which are two things that karate should be working against, i shouldnt even be watching other students and comparing myself to them. but, i cant help it. i try to forget fighting in k1 and so forth, just believe it wasnt my path and wasnt meant to happen but i cant help it. i know 20 is certainly young, even young enough perhaps to get to a pro level, but i cant help but think im a few steps behind... any thoughts, opinions, experiences would be great. i realise its a silly problem, but it is genuinely bothering me. anyone who can help me start believing in 'no regrets' thatd be great