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I know how you feel, I was the most experienced in one gym too, after a whole bunch of people left because the instructor left. Their were people coming to the gym who didn't have no muay thai experience, and still whooped me. But then this was not what I expected.
So i got busy with work i was working in dominos (everybody knows how i hate dominos because of my experience so I'm not going to explain it). This was back when I kind of enjoyed working their, so I was working 60-80 hours a week, so I wasn't able to train at that gym. So then I thought where can I train that has morning classes. I did some research and couldn't find a gym close to me, then I thought NYC has a lot of good gyms I might go their. I did some research and found a boxing gym.
Then I went to that gym and ironically their was an instructor over their who had pro mma and pro kickboxing experience (he lost more fights then he won in both but he is a good teacher), so I started training their, and training with that instructor, it turned out that his teachings actually worked for me (he went by a principle to establish a jab early and to make your opponent respect your jab, and taught me to throw the side kick real good and how to hit real good) so he also had a sparring night at that boxing gym every Friday night, and their was this guy a karate kickboxer, he has only been doing karate for 1 year and just started on kickboxing and he is already a beast. And he is one of his best fighters.
So after a few weeks of getting my ass kicked by him, he landed kick after kick after kick on me, but then I learnt something. You got to figure out peoples style, so I figured out his style and experimented in sparring a little bit, and found that he couldn't handle close range. So I exploited that a few times. Then their was this girl who was also a student, of the instructor, shes a strong girl for her size, she was a good muay thai fighter and had more experience then me.
So everybody knows one of the main rules of sparring, you spar like your partners. In this case she was moving at a fast pace, so I decided to move at a fast pace with her, and I was hitting her more. Their was this one time when me and her sparred, and she was doing better that time and then I don't know what happened, she hit me with a precise overhand and I fell to the ground I wasn't knocked out but I fell to the ground, after that week I started to figure her out a bit, and hit her more then she hit me, obviously I wasn't going to try to knock her down, I kept countering off her teep all the time.
Then one day the instructor takes the whole team to another gym and I sparred with 2 fighters one of which was an Asian girl whose husband is a pro boxer, and I'm guessing that's how shes able to throw hard punches, but I figured her out pretty quickly and hit her more and more each round then I sparred with an instructor over their and every time he threw a teep I would catch it and he would throw spin back fist then I would would stop it and then hit him in the head with a superman punch everytime.
Because I trained with that instructor I got way better and he was even going to get me a fight, up until I went Mia due to money problems. I went to 2 of my old gyms and showed them how I was doing. Right now i realized what i wanted this year and that is an amatuer fight, so since I got to pay off my mom for paying for my car, and pay the court 100 every month. I am trying to kill myself to make the money to train at a gym in clifton. Anyways it might not be you it might be your instructor because if none of his teachings help then you will definitely need a change of instruction.
So i got busy with work i was working in dominos (everybody knows how i hate dominos because of my experience so I'm not going to explain it). This was back when I kind of enjoyed working their, so I was working 60-80 hours a week, so I wasn't able to train at that gym. So then I thought where can I train that has morning classes. I did some research and couldn't find a gym close to me, then I thought NYC has a lot of good gyms I might go their. I did some research and found a boxing gym.
Then I went to that gym and ironically their was an instructor over their who had pro mma and pro kickboxing experience (he lost more fights then he won in both but he is a good teacher), so I started training their, and training with that instructor, it turned out that his teachings actually worked for me (he went by a principle to establish a jab early and to make your opponent respect your jab, and taught me to throw the side kick real good and how to hit real good) so he also had a sparring night at that boxing gym every Friday night, and their was this guy a karate kickboxer, he has only been doing karate for 1 year and just started on kickboxing and he is already a beast. And he is one of his best fighters.
So after a few weeks of getting my ass kicked by him, he landed kick after kick after kick on me, but then I learnt something. You got to figure out peoples style, so I figured out his style and experimented in sparring a little bit, and found that he couldn't handle close range. So I exploited that a few times. Then their was this girl who was also a student, of the instructor, shes a strong girl for her size, she was a good muay thai fighter and had more experience then me.
So everybody knows one of the main rules of sparring, you spar like your partners. In this case she was moving at a fast pace, so I decided to move at a fast pace with her, and I was hitting her more. Their was this one time when me and her sparred, and she was doing better that time and then I don't know what happened, she hit me with a precise overhand and I fell to the ground I wasn't knocked out but I fell to the ground, after that week I started to figure her out a bit, and hit her more then she hit me, obviously I wasn't going to try to knock her down, I kept countering off her teep all the time.
Then one day the instructor takes the whole team to another gym and I sparred with 2 fighters one of which was an Asian girl whose husband is a pro boxer, and I'm guessing that's how shes able to throw hard punches, but I figured her out pretty quickly and hit her more and more each round then I sparred with an instructor over their and every time he threw a teep I would catch it and he would throw spin back fist then I would would stop it and then hit him in the head with a superman punch everytime.
Because I trained with that instructor I got way better and he was even going to get me a fight, up until I went Mia due to money problems. I went to 2 of my old gyms and showed them how I was doing. Right now i realized what i wanted this year and that is an amatuer fight, so since I got to pay off my mom for paying for my car, and pay the court 100 every month. I am trying to kill myself to make the money to train at a gym in clifton. Anyways it might not be you it might be your instructor because if none of his teachings help then you will definitely need a change of instruction.
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