Woah.

I've just come back from an hour and a half of Muay Thai, and all I have to say is,

....D-a-y-u-m.

That sport really gets you working hard, and just after an hour and a half of it, I came out looking somewhat like the mixture of a snowman in a sauna and an absolute tomato face - I love it. Muay Thai is now officially my favourite sport, which takes Hip/Belly Dancing and Zumba into 2nd place. This sport burns off tons of calories, tones your muscles and body shape, gives you great self defence techniques, as well as being extremely fun - Never thought that was possible, did you?

In today's session, we warmed up with 40 press-ups (using knuckles only), 40 sit-ups, 40 squats and lots of skipping. The skipping rope kept on getting stuck in my ponytail, so I had to try a different technique. To begin, I started off with throwing 6 different punches:

Upper-Cut Left

Upper-Cut Right

Hook Left

Hook Right

Cross

Jab

I tried to pull off about 45 of these in two minutes, but unfortunately didn't keep much track of how fast I was going - too busy remembering to keep the hand up not using up at the temple, hip swinging and the rest of those things that you must remember, otherwise the punch isn't perfect. 

Next, I combined those punches with nine of my favourite kicks:

Shin Left

Shin Right

Kick Left

Kick Right

High Kick Left

High Kick Right

Knee Left

Knee Right

Power Kick

However, this time I was striking them on the punch bag, not the trainer. Kicks are my favourite to perform, because they're so fast, choppy and neat. Have you ever played a game called Tekken or Street Fighter (Or any game like that, where you fight against another player using kicks, punches and throw-downs)? 

It's quite like that, except your opponent is a punching bag, the trainer or a partner. Pretty cool, huh?