First Training Session

I woke up about 1 hour ago. Went to sleep last night at 11pm, and woke up at about 6am. I am super excited for training. I bought a bunch of gear yesterday like hand wraps, gloves. And because I am staying here for 3 month I get pair of shorts and singlets for free every month. The training schedules are 7:30am-9:30am in the morning and 4:00-6:30pm in the afternoon. Middays are free time and if you want you can pay for individual lessons with the instructors but they are quite expensive. Since I am only a beginner I don't think I will need that for the time being. I think I will do a single session per day for this week just because I want to ease into things and don't want to over exert myself. Based on what other people have said this seems to be the best option. But I will update after my first training session. Here is some pictures I snapped at the training session yesterday in the afternoon. The morning session is way less people.

Update:
 I had my first training session. And I learned the basic moves of how to move strike, kicks, knees and blocks. It is really fun hitting the pads with the trainers. I had Pot who is the head trainer teach me today. And he's a really nice guy and really good at correcting me.  I had a really hard time getting the kick down and he showed me many times until I got it.

The training was pretty intense. Basically you start at 7:30 with skipping weighted ropes for like 10 minutes. Then we move to running. Next is stretching. After that people move onto different stations like pad work with instructors, hitting the bags, or shadow boxing. The instructors will time it and rotate the stations every few minutes.

We do this until 9:15 then its warm down with ab workout and stretching again.

Since today was my first day, most of my training was with the instructor and just one on one time with him teaching me the basics. So overall I am pretty good in terms of my body. I didn't really experience the full force of the rotations. But it was still tiring nonetheless.

I also went zipping around the island again. This time to the top of a mountain, the view is simply amazing. Along the way there were elephant camps where you can pay to ride elephants, I am pretty sure I will try this before I leave. 

The Morning scooters from people who live off campus but come to Sinbi to train. Also a lot of them belong to students who live on campus but rent them from Sinbi. It costs like about $100 Canadian for one month.

My friend Nathan on his private lesson with the trainer.

elephants!

Peace