Combat Chat Podcast

Yolanda Schmidt returns to not only to the podcast but to the squared circle after being sidelined for two years from sustaining a career threatening injury during her success run at the ARAFURA games. Yolanda outlines the many setbacks she had to work through to get back in the ring and gives you the tools she used daily reinforce her mindset to be positive and achieve goals, you can use these yourself if you find yourself in a similar situation. Yolanda also talks about her pursuit to be in ONE championship and a campaign close to her heart, Orange day: bringing awareness of violence against women every 25th of each month by wearing Orange and posting on it.

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Sandy Heilig is the founder of Quanmooka cup and Supajai Gym on Stradbroke island. She is a advocate for talking about mental health issues  and the increasing rates of suicides in her area. The Quandamooka non profit organisation has now expanded their message across the nation and also internationally with notable athletes such as Charlie Bubb and Benny Mahoney as their Ambassadors to spread the awareness of there noble mission of "you are worth fighting for" .

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Spring is Back! She talks about how Sy, Jason, Dominic and herself have started Muaythai Victoria and are running Development days to really produce a solid amateur scene in down there. Spring also talks about her business of doing Zoom PTs and building a success youtube channel to help provide content for Muaythai people that maybe in Lockdown. 

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Diandra martin is a rising talent on the Australian Muaythai scene, she trains under Kieran Walsh of Muay U. In this episode we talk about her about the upcoming fight against the world ranked Yolanda Schmidt of PTJ gym, how she uses her Exercise Physiologist background to enhance her training and recovery, we also touch on some considerations to make when training female athletes.

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Pinky is a coach who has a vast experience not only in Muaythai but in life itself.  He was a fighter that couldn't support himself from fighting alone in Thailand so he also did TV extra roles and singing. Once he came back to Australia he started up Team Pinky Muaythai in Adelaide and has now a very active fight team that travels all over Australia and as cornered more than anyone that we know. We discuss the Muaythai of each state in Australia and honestly list the good and the bad, then in the end discuss what we need to do to progress forward.

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We talk about Hugh's victory on 1774 Muaythai's 2nd show and also recap the pro fights from that card. In the second half of the podcast we breakdown the fights lined up on MTGP upcoming event, we go over George Mann vs Charlie Bubb, Tyler Hardcastle vs Lukas Sayers and Singpayak vs Max McVickers.
*photo for thumbnail by William Luu*

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Sarmad Jahanara, is a Root and Rebellion Muaythai veteran who recently is having  a crack at Kickboxing and tried to plant his flag in that world  by being one of the 8 men in the recent Prince promotions tournament. We talk about his varied amateur career in across a few combat sports and then delved into the 2 fights he had in the 8 man tournament.

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Elliot Compton returns and lays out what the whole experience was like last year fighting Nieky Holzken during the pandemic, plus the lengths ONE championship went to ensure their events are as Covid friendly as possible and the Hydration test for weight cutting. Elliot also talks about Team Compton moving locations and revamping their training structure to be bigger and better and we got over a lot more random combat sports topics.

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River Daz is a super accomplished fighter, capturing state and national titles but has also fought successfully on the biggest shows like Lion fights, Glory Kickboxing and Rebellion. We go over his beginnings at Hammer's Gym under Mark Castagnini all the way through his pro career to now. River also comments on the difference between fighting abroad with not much of a crowd compared to fighting on Rebellion in front of all his friends and family and how excited he is to fight PTJ's Palungchok on Roots on May 28th

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Nugget is an iconic part of Australian Muaythai, he was a fighter that ended up creating the top tier fighter stable, NTG and is know for his head coaching role on the show "the challenger Muay thai". He also shaped the Australian Golden era through his promotion, Evolution. Nugget has a few things he has to voice about how new Promoters are going about running shows and how today's fighters compare to the previous generations.

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