Fitness, Personal Stories

Mastering Fear (What training Muay Thai in Thailand taught me)

Fear is present throughout our lives, you can walk down the street and see it everywhere! Everyone feels it, everyone knows it but only few have mastered it!

Once you get to the muay thai gym, you realise your not the only one scared. All these stone cold ‘killers’ feel fear just like you and me. They have just managed to master it!

Putting yourself in a position where you are forced to confront your greatest fears is the ticket to a life less scared! For me it was Muay Thai!

Martial arts is a perfect and for the most part ‘safe’ way to combat fear! Obviously there a various other ways to combat it! But once your at the door thats where the real work begins!

Obviously for some it can be getting to the door so that would be your responsibility to find an outlet that allows you to work on fear…

Once i had entered the gym you pay a fee get your key tag and your off! But obviously i was still shaking in my boots! 🥾

After doing some running an partner exercises, next came sparring! The scary part! No amount of pep talk can really prepare you for what your about to do next! Going toe to toe with a complete stranger from another corner of the world can be quite daunting!

So for the first 30 seconds i had completely forgot about space and time and was soley focused on trying not to get hit! 💥 at this time my French companion seemed to be quite skilled in the art of combat! Because i was getting peiced up! Obviously after a while my ego kicked in and could no longer allow me to take any more punishment (thankgod 😮‍💨)

After the first round i felt quite good about myself! But was i scared? Absolutely? Did i feel as scared the second time around? Definitely not!

So i guess my point is once you step into the ‘damger zone’ and confront the fear you become more adapt to facing it next time! So it would seem that you are mastering it!

Conclusion