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15 Things About Growing Up In New Zealand

1: You were the shit if you had one of these.     2: You were also cool if you had one of these, and the accompanying half-pipe. 3: You could play out in the street until the streetlights went off. 4: You could sing the whole thing. 5: Getting …

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My First Muay Thai Fight

“One… Two… Three…” I can’t breathe, I’m up against the ropes desperately trying get my breath back before the end of the count but it was impossible, my lungs were shut to the precious air that I so badly needed. But let’s not start there. 12:00pm – Friday – Weight …

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Unreal Engine 4 – Something to kill time

Hey Guys, I’ve been training and recovering over the weekend and with one week left to my fight, I’ve decided to do some playing around in Unreal Engine 4 to see if I could do anything fun with it. It takes a little bit of getting used to and I …

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Fight Meals – What The Hell Am I Eating

Hey Guys and Gals, With little under two weeks left to my fight, I’ve been trying to lose some of the extra bits of fat on my body. Which for someone who lives of takeaways, has been a bit of a struggle. I’ve tried both MuscleChow and FitMeIn for meal …

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One Month To Go – Finally Fighting

After hanging up the phone on Friday afternoon with my trainer, a wave of emotions and adrenaline came over me, leaving me like a giddy kid who’s finally getting to go on the scary ride at the theme park. I’d just had my fight confirmed and  I was so happy …

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2 Months To Fight – Getting back into training

So it’s finally happened. After a year and a half of training, I’m hopefully having a fight on the 25th of March. To say that I’m excited is an understatement, though there’s also a whole bunch of nervousness and butterfly’s in there as well. After taking 3 weeks off training …

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The Journey to the First Fight

  To follow on from my previous post on why I started Muay Thai, I thought I may as well document my journey to fighting as well. I’ve been training Muay Thai for maybe just over a year now and started sparring a couple of months after starting. In fact …

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Camera Review – Panasonic G7

This week I want to talk about my latest purchase, the Panasonic G7. I bought it because I want to start shooting more video content, and the my little Nikon D3200, whilst loved, wasn’t up to the task of creating high quality videos in 4k. So I started scouring the …

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Muay Thai – Where I Started

  Here I am, 25 years old, and had never stepped inside a gym in my entire life. Apart from that one time, when I stumbled into one at my high school P.E class. I went to bench press the bar by itself and decided that it was all too …

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