Man v's Machine

[R. Devane]

So straight into it - I wasn't even back home for 24 hours before I was back on a plane to Newcastle to train with Ian 'The Machine' Freeman.

I didn't sleep at all on the plane so I lost a day and it caught up to me straight away on Monday. Thank god I only had to do an evening session which was a great way to get me going again. The fact that it was a Kickboxing class was good too because guess what? I'm actually alright at that

It was hard to sleep Monday evening because my body thought it was the start of the day!

Tuesday we had 2 sessions in a row. Clinch escapes and it was great to have Louise getting stuck in beside me. After that we did the group class - most of the participants have fights coming up so we covered sweeping people from guard - always handy to go over in case you end up on your back (and you will in this sport).

Just had a tough session today. To warm up we did full-on grappling. I must have done 6 or 7 rounds. Then another 6 or 7 rounds of ground and pound grappling and yet another 6 or 7 rounds of standing grappling with strikes and takedowns. I thought the rounds were 3 minutes long and was disgusted when Ian said they were only 2 mins! Still, nearly 20 rounds of 2 mins is 40 mins - plus some of the beasts in the class were 2 weight categories over me! No excuses though because I was happy with my performance.

That's not it either because I've another session in a couple of hours and after that we're going to watch the last UFC at Ian's house - he doesn't know the results yet so I'll have to bite my lip.

That's all for now so talk later. Adios Amigos

[Kiefer.c]

Sounds good Rob a week with Ian and his crew will top all the training off and you will be on fire for your next fights - keep it up, your doing great!

[dkidd]

YEa sounds awesome man and hope Louise is enjoying too

[Deleted]

Good job Rob sounds great so far - All your hard work will soon pay off, best of luck!

[R. Devane]

wednesday evening we had a technical session and then We went to the machine's house to watch the very Ufc that i'd seen with Denis Kang and tom kong watson in canada the week before. it was great getting the perspectives of other fighters. too often the only comments flying around are those of arm chair warriors but these men are the real deal and it was great to hear their opinions. thurs afternoon was a lot of kick boxing rounds of sparring and dirty boxing. thursday evening was lots of rounds of grappling and take downs. It was funny because i was one of the lightest there! a couple of very big Fellas. today the body was wrecked from all the sparring and grappling so we simply brought the dogs out for a decent walk. then back on a plane and home. rested this evening and back to the grind with a hard session at MAI tomorrow. see you all very soon. p.s. i wrote this on my phone so grammar and punctuation aren't perfect plus it's after 1am and I should be asleep. night