Idk, judge for yourself from these official weighin pics:
He didnt feel that much bigger
Oh and since this was my first time, and I didnt want any extra stress about weight, I made sure I was at 77 kg 1 week before the event. So basically on day of event I woke up at 76 kg and had breakfast... whereas my opponent since he's a bit more muscular than me probably skipped breakfast and weighed in closer to 77.5 limit than me.
Dont think it mattered tho. But since its gonna be a few months before next match I plan on starting a bit of a bulk, since I'm down to very little fat.
On April 27 2014 20:42 B.I.G. wrote: So your korean is good enough now the follow the kind of technical instructions your trainer gives? Sounds awesome
For grappling, I can understand really well because I understand grappling concepts already quite a bit, and I've picked up so many new korean grappling related terms.
Striking is really un-intuitive to me so it's a lot harder for me to pick up. The coaches of this gym are pro fighters and THEIR coach speaks really good english so every now and then I'll get some concepts that I didn't quite catch, explained by him, which helps a lot.
On April 27 2014 11:15 Physician wrote: What is it about Starcraft that attracts people, the likes of Jinro, so far outside the usual mold most humans are made of? I was floored with surprise watching this..
There's actually several of us with MMA or other backgrounds in martial arts here man. It's not just watching or betting on fights. Quite a few of us from not just the BW days but apparently the SC 2 days as well. Including guys who managed teams.
trying grappling with boxing gloves must be a nightmare :s
holy shit man fighting mma... i wouldnt be able to sleep for two days after a fight. i would have liked to see more of your grappling, maybe next time. keep it up-
p.s: i fucking hate when the other guys corners start to scream.... im like "fuck man pls shut up, im trying to think"
On April 27 2014 22:50 B.I.G. wrote: Is it that hard to learn the language? You've been there for quite some time now right?
I've never studied except for some minor studying on my own, and while playing SC I actually didn't use korean as much day to day as you'd think. Then switched to poker... not really a social job.
I'd say the majority of my Korean improvement has occured from 1) Non-korean friends and koreans with good english moving away (TLO, hayder, huk, hero, supernova, mc etc - 1 year ago), 2) my girlfriend (met her like 1.5 years ago) 3) MMA since almost nobody there speaks english (starting 1 year ago)
I'm not happy with my korean level, but I have improved a lot in the last year which is nice, still really tough to get the finer points of striking instruction.
My hearing is also, like it's not bad it's just not great, especially in a pretty loud enviornment it gets tough to understand sometimes.
Watched the fight and I thinks it´s awesome that you something new to dedicate yourself to. I myself trained a lot of kick and thaiboxing for two years ago but I never really enjoyed MMA when I tried it. Feels really scary to wrestle and different kind of armlocks and stuff like that.
Keep it up and most important. Post more matches. Gets me back to conitnue with the kick and thai boxing .
EPT
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