This morning my sleep was quite fretful because not only was I emotionally riled up, but I kept on having visions of this dead Thai girl. You see, last night on the way back to Tiger, right at the intersection before you go down our street- was a lot of traffic. We were riding in a tuk-tuk, which is a car with no windows so we could see everything very clearly. As we made the turn, I saw a Thai girl just a few feet away, laying on her back, laid straight out, unmoving, eyes open, face white as a ghost. She looked dead. A motorbike accident. Where was the ambulance? I was most disturbed by the fact that here was a young dead Thai girl in the middle of the street, and there was no ambulance. Just a policeman directing traffic, and some people surrounding her.
This morning, I went to class, and someone said they saw a dead Thai guy yesterday by Tiger. I said I saw a dead girl! People commented on how this was very common, and Ray said he had seen a dead guy last week. The boy in class today said yesterday as he was coming back to Tiger, he saw a guy flat on his back after getting in a motorbike accident, and blood was gushing from the back of his head. Quite disturbing : (
Let it go, let it go. I can only focus on living my best, positive life, and be safe e.g. wear a helmet! I see so many Thai’s around here stacked 3 on a bike, with no helmets!
I was excited to go train today after the rest from this weekend and the less than stellar diet over the weekend.
Morning jiu jitsu still confounds me but was fun of course. We played “King of the Mat” (ahem! Queen of the mat) which is where it is a free for all! I got tapped right away; I loved the idea though! New to me. Then in rolling at the end of class I got tapped again and again, but people have told me to expect to get tapped for like the first 6 months anyway, so I’m okay with it. Ray put up a video of today’s “King of the Mat” ->
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdP0YBX1_Ng&feature=player_embedded#!
Afternoon muay thai was fine except that when I sparred this one guy, I accidently hit the top of my foot on his kneecap. Now I have a big painful bump on the top of my foot. I just iced it and wrapped it with an ace bandage for compression and just hope to God it ain’t a big thing! Everyone is always injured here…but I just don’t want something to take me out of the game. Pain I could care less about. Debilitating injury is what I want to avoid.
Night time jiu jitsu was fine also, fun, though I don’t know how much I can apply right away but at least I am exposing myself to concepts. The first round I rolled with a guy who said he didn’t have much experience…and I could kind of tell, except he did catch me in a guillotine. Oh well! THEN (drum roll please)…I caught him in an ARM BAR FROM MOUNT!!!!!!!! He didn’t “LET ME”! I asked him if he did, but he was wincing in pain and said no, he wouldn’t LET me tap him..I tapped him fair and square!!! WOOOTTT!!!! Grand victory! I’ve never pulled off that submission before!!! 🙂 Somehow I got from side control to full mount, he struggled as I worked to isolate his arm, I went for it, he got out of it, I re-established position and went again for it, got the arm bar, and TAP!!!!!! yesssssssssssss.
Well. I hope my foot is fine. And I hope the bug bite-y looking things on my arm is not staph. Everyone here is SUPER paranoid (and rightly so), so that’s why I always wear long sleeve clothes to jiu jitsu, and take 2-3 showers a day with anti-bacterial, anti-staph soap, and always wash my clothes after one time on the mats. The mats are mopped every day, and deep cleaned every week. BUT, with so many little scrapes and cuts that magically appear by the dozen on our limbs while doing this fight training, and the maddening humidity, staph is everywhere, and so every little bug bite and mark I look at like ehhhhhhhh is that staph?!!?!?!!?? Hope not!
Love
K
DEC
