Have you even trained in Thailand if you haven’t been made to spar with a teenager?
You will often see many foreign adults men and women being made to spar with young thai people in the gyms in Thailand.
People often think this is for the trainers to have a laugh and for the younger Thai to benefit from sparring someone bigger.
However it’s more because our ring IQ and fighting experience is probably amounting to the same as a teenage Thai person.
As foreigners most of us start training and fighting a lot older than the Thais, generally the Thai people start from as young as 7 years old where as many westerners start much later, like myself I started at 21 years old.
Which means the amount of training and fighting experience I have accumulated is probably around about the same amount of ‘Team’ who is just 13 years old.
Being out the ring and participating in no sparring for around a year, this is probably one of the best equatable people for me to spar with right now, in which I will probably gain more from the experience than him.
That’s right a 28 year old female fighter learning from a 13 year old boy fighter.
Thank you for teaching me ‘ Captain Team’.
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