Leaving Thailand (again) was a sad occasion and heading back to the cold winter didn’t make it any better. My flight was through Paris so I was a bit worried if I make it back in time for Christmas because of the whole snow crisis in Europe. Luckily my flight to Helsinki wasn’t cancelled, however I did have to wait at the freezing airport in my summer clothing. It seemed like forever. Would it really hurt to get some heating at the airport..
My family was at the Helsinki airport to greed me and they also brought me winter clothes and shoes, and off we headed to do some Christmas shopping. I arrived two one day before Christmas so the shopping had to be done, never mind that I was on my way fro almost a day with very little sleep.
I survived both Christmas and New Year and adopting back to life in Finland. The reason I wanted to add one more post was actually to summarize my experience in Koh Yao Noi, I guess I got a bit sidetracked.
Here we go: I loved Koh Yao Noi and I still miss it a lot, and training muay thai. The whole experience I had training and sleeping was a great success. In addition to developing my own skills I got to know more about the Thai culture and family life.
KYN Gym is definitely the best place to go to learn muay thai. The place is nice and quiet with little distractions. Most of the other muay thai camp seem to be overcrowded and participated included a lot of partying and drinking. For me, as I only wanted to train not party, Koh Yao Noi was the perfect place to do so. I could actually focus on training and relaxing, so the month wasn’t just pushing myself to the limit but also a holiday.
And the trainers are just amazing. They know what their doing and they care. Sometimes it might not feel like it when you’re getting your ass kicked with an extra “psychological humiliation” that seems to come with it somehow, but all of it actually makes you much stronger and tougher. And of course makes you realize how hard muay thai really is and how much training and dedication it needs.
Not only did I learn muay thai but I also learned that sometimes it’s good to take a break and even though I’m young my body needs to rest. I’m still not quite accepted that my body can be vulnerable, that too much is just too much. I still need to work on that which is a bit weird: I do know my body and the limits and I know how to listen to my body but just somehow I don’t know how to stop. I guess I need to work on my mental problems a bit more.
I wish I could continue training muay thai here back in Finland but unfortunately I’ve been spoiled my Hlukhin and Noom. Now that I know the right techniques watching how they do Thai boxing here just makes me noticed all their mistakes and why would I pay for that kind of training. Yes, if you noticed it, I even changed the name to Thai boxing instead of using Muay Thai, that’s how differently I experience it.
Thank you Hlukhin, Noom and Lisa for making my muay thai experience awesome! And for the readers here’s a video of Hlukhin’s knockouts for you to have a look how good he really is.
I also want to thank Chris Dodge the teacher of the course of which this blog I part of. Writing this made me see that it isn’t that hard and with more time and dedication having and maintaining a blog is pretty fun and easy. Check out Chris’s blog http://sanctuarybayblog.blogspot.com/
Thanks for reading you all!
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