Looks like this photo has been shortlisted by http://www.schmap.com/ to go in their next online guide to Leeds: I thought I’d try taking photos and creative commonsing them just for a bit of fun and see what would happen, and if it does get used this would be my first ever published photo. They’re attribution-non… Continue reading Untitled
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Fighting Off
And now my fight’s off again after my opponent pulled out. Oh well. I can eat again now anyway. Hopefully it’s been noticed that I’m prepared to drop everything at a minute’s notice if this type of thing does come up.
Fighting On
Just waiting to get the final confirmations through, but now it looks like I am fighting on Sunday after all. Amateur Thai rules with shin pads and probably over 5 rounds of 1.5 minutes. I’ll be a bit overweight for this because I only found about it this afternoon, but this is only my first… Continue reading Fighting On
Keeping Busy
Ages since the last really long update. I think I’ve just got out of the habit of sitting down and writing long posts. Conversely I do a lot of status updates on Facebook or even Twitter because it’s easier to write a single sentence or even just a fragment of one. Written English is not… Continue reading Keeping Busy
Fight #2?
Early days yet, but I may be fighting again fairly soon. My Thai boxing instructor emailed me to tell me he’s put me forward for a show that’s probably in Harrogate and probably in September. The person running this show (Pierre Mahon, for people reading this via the Facebook feed) has pretty close links to… Continue reading Fight #2?
Next!
One fight out of the way and I suppose I should really make a start on thinking about the next one. Way back in 2005 when I started doing Thai boxing I always intended to fight but I knew it would take a long time to get to the level where I would be able… Continue reading Next!
My Fight
Now on Youtube. I’m in the red pads. Comments welcome.
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Finally got the DVD of my fight through yesterday and it’ll be appearing on Youtube later on tonight. It was a pretty even match and it does look like a proper amateur fight (which is of course what it was). Who wants to see it?