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Know what you have
Know what you have
I spent a part of this week reading my blog posts from last year. Month by month I grew further away from Taekwondo and closer to full time MMA. During 2014 I was becoming more and more disenchanted with Taekwondo. I had spent a large portion of the year off with various injuries, silly things like broken fingers, toes and hamstring strains. Missing 2, 3 or 6 weeks every month or so took its toll…
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Blessings
The rare opportunity to be a successful fighter is a blessing and a curse. I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity to compete at this level. I am fortunate in that I can live this lifestyle, training and fighting and winning tournaments. A lot of fighters start taking winning for granted and develop bad attitudes, I certainly expect to do well in competition but I don’t want to win so…
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Money in Combat
I have won 33 medals, over 100 matches and I have represented Australia on multiple occasions, yet I have made no money fighting in Taekwondo; why is that?
On my journey to professional combat sports I have been interested in making money from competing more and more. Taekwondo is an amateur sport, going in to competitions, you know that, we as a Taekwondo community accept it. The prize money…
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You have to learn to adjust
You have to learn to adjust
When I first started Taekwondo the governing body at the time gave out ‘National Champion’ patches for the sleeves of your uniform. You had to win Nationals to win one, ever since I saw a black belt with those patches all the way down his arm I wanted one. I have wanted to be National Champion for so long that I had to hold back tears last week when I won the Australian Heavyweight Title.
I…
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You have to be selfish
You have to be selfish
Yesterday I competed in the Grappling Industries Submission Only tournament. I fought 10 times in one day, the most I have ever fought in one day. It was a difficult experience to say the least. This year has been full of new experiences and I am still learning how best to manage my career.
The first and most important thing is to manage my relationship with my long-time girlfriend Steph. Because…
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Wrestling with the pressure
Wrestling with the pressure. How I dealt with my first MMA fight and how the pressure of sports can be overwhelming.
A little over a week ago I had my first MMA fight. I didn’t want to write about it straight away because in front of a hundred people or so, I was unnamed, a Taekwondo black belt with no reputation in this sport,  two ringside tables filled with my training partners and teammates, I was embarrassingly mounted, then ground and pounded into unconsciousness. It was a wrestling lesson.
The fight…
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The Frequency of Fighting
The Frequency of Fighting
Myself and Coach Alan after I won the Victorian Championship last weekend.
Last weekend I fought in two competitions. The first was on Saturday, it was the Grappling Industries Melbourne Tournament. It was my first ever BJJ competition and I wasn’t nervous at all. I have had so many years of competition prep that I didn’t feel any kind of pressure to perform. The problem was that during the match…
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New Routines
This month I have been working out my new routine. I am at a new Taekwondo club this year, I train BJJ more than I did last year and I am training in MMA. For the first time in my career as an athlete I am working 40 hours a week. I know a lot of other athletes have been doing this for a long time so I know it’s possible. What I am trying to find out is if it’s ideal.
I am, if anything, a…
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Embracing the grind
Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time in combat sport knows that the time in between fights can be very taxing. You have just come off a fight and you are mentally and physically exhausted, you have a long way to go before your next fight. This is exactly what I am experiencing right now.
Training can be a slow grind sometimes. The greatest athletes will always get through. In my…
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Chasing Lions
Chasing Lions. My journey to the biggest stages in the world
Two weeks ago I fought at the National Team Trials at the AIS in Canberra. I am not going to mince words. I lost. I won my semi-final by a significant margin, when walking off the mats I fainted, had a seizure and could not participate in the final. I lost by withdrawal. I am the reserve athlete for the 87+ division, essentially, the B Team. A significant step up from not being on the team at…
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How I got here: The last part
How I got here: The last part. This was a hard one for me to write.
At the end of 2013 I was one of the highest ranked players in the Taekwondo Australia Rankings. I wasn’t able to go to Nationals due to a meniscus injury I sustained during the TA International where I fought world class USA player Philip Yun. Nevertheless I was psyched for 2014 and felt like I was about to make my break onto the world scene. The first step was winning a spot on the National Team.
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How I Got Here: Part 2
How I Got Here: Part 2
I started Taekwondo in early 2009 and I was really bad at patterns. I was worried I wasn’t going to grade to Yellow Belt so I worked as hard as I could to learn Basic Pattern. Looking back on that time is funny to me now, I am so comfortable with my patterns and have even entered and won a couple of competitions (something my fighting teammates made fun of at the time). This memory is what is…
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How I Got Here: PART 1
How I Got Here: PART 1 My first blog about my new goals in this new year. UFC fans take note.
To really understand why I am trying to make a transfer to MMA you have to go back to 2009. Like thousands of others I was first introduced to the UFC through The Ultimate Fighter. I was sitting in the living room with my Mum flicking channels when we find two guys hitting each other it seemed they were doing some kickboxing sparring. We had just finished watching the Sylvester Stallone show The…
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