drillYour first session

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Two hours, twice a day, and the second day is worse than the first.

Gunnery Sgt. Ismael Pena · Public domain

What it is

What actually happens, in order, at a gym in Thailand that takes walk-ins.

The long version

Two things nobody tells a first-timer.

The shin hurts before the lungs do. A shin that has never hit anything will bruise on a pad on day one and the bruise is on the bone.

Two rounds of pads is not a small amount. A pad round is three minutes of throwing everything you have at a man who is also hitting you back with the pads. Two of those is the ceiling for a beginner and a trainer who gives you five is not being generous.

Inference — the second morning is the test. Everybody gets through the first session on adrenaline; the gyms are full of people who did one and full of people who did sixty, and almost nobody in between.

How

Run. Skip. Shadow. Wrap hands. Oil on the legs. Two rounds of pads, or three. Bag. Clinch if they clinch beginners. Sit-ups nobody counts. Stretch. Two hours.

Connected to

• Pads The part that matters.
• Roadwork How it opens.
• The oil What goes on your legs.
• What to ask before paying a month Before you pay for a month of them.

Named here by

• What to ask before paying a month What the first one is like.
• Training on a study visa What you are staying for.
• The bag The order it all comes in.
• Clinch The order it all comes in.
• Pads The order it all comes in.
• Roadwork Where it sits.
• Roadwork The order it all comes in.
• Skipping and shadow Where it sits.
• Skipping and shadow The order it all comes in.
• Sparring The order it all comes in.
• The oil What happens to you in it.
• What ten years of kicks does What a beginner is walking into.

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