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Sy Nadji reached out to us to talk about his plans with Rebellion Muaythai going forward and ultimately he has decided to give the promotion one more year with a few changes to it and see if the Muaythai community wants our sport to move forward and grow or if they just want to just keep the status quo. This will decide if we see Rebellion past 2021 and it's on the shoulders of the Australian fighters now to see if they actually want to change the sport for the better.

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Mark pease is the owner of Strikeforce gym that has produced elite caliber fighters since 1988 such as Aussie Golden era fighters Aaron "TS2" Leigh, Ben "Pixie" Burton to the current crop of rising talent in James Honey, Natalie "Viking" Pavlides and Jayden Eynaud. Mark dicusses his back ground starting in Zendokai karate and moving on to Muaythai, eventually his team help shape  the Golden era of Australian Muaythai when it was on Fox sports and how he went to University to complete a sport coaching degree and how he uses the knowledge of that to prepare his fighters. 

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Siam 2 Sydney put on a great show the other week which we got a chance to commentate on as well. We cover a few of the undercard amateur fights and the main card which consisted of NSW's first junior MTA state title, a WMC women's state, the Australian debut of Tu warren against the returning Singpayak

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The boys this week recap some of the fights on Muay Thai Grand Prix Australia's last fight show including the cracker main event for the WBC international title with George Mann vs David Pennimpede. Also they recap Hugh's experience going to watch Prince Promotions epic 8 man Tournament which ended up with Charlie Bubb taking home the $20K prize. 

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Prince Bunjaku is the promoter of Prince Promotions who's aim is to given Kickboxing in Australia a platform for an resurgence. He has everyone in the nation talking about the stacked 8 Man tournament with a $20,000 prize for the winner. He has lined up for March 6th which include Charlie Bubb, Jayden Eynaud, Michael Badato, Cody Jameson, Nasar Kassab, Guy Coleman, Sarmad Jahanara and Daniel Barber. We have a one at each fighter on the card, get to know Prince himself and also some of the other big events he has on hand for 2021

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Darren "The Riddler" Reece is the owner of Riddler's  gym in Western Australia, it has one of the biggest muaythai fight teams nationally and he has produced Champions like his wife Caley Reece, Lloyd Dean, George Mann, Chris white, Tyler Hardcastle and Nicola Callander just to name a few. We get into his martial arts background starting in Zen do kai and moving onto training and fighting  in Muaythai, then living over in Thailand for a long term. Then we talk about the starting of his gym and transiting as a fighter/trainer to being just the coach and how he has developed a system taking elements for his time in Thailand fighting and blending it in with modern athletic performance guidelines to help his fighters always come into the fight fresh and not overtrained.

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First time in a while the boys have no guest, they breakdown down a few local cards coming up, starting with new NSW WBC promotion 1774 doing their maiden show with Yah boy Hugh is going to fight Jesse March, also talk about the 2 State title as well. One of the biggest prize pools for an Aussie combat sports tournament of recent memory is coming up in March, Prince promotions is running an 78kg 8 man K1 tournament with names like Charlie Bubb, Jayden Eynaud, Michael Badato and Cody Jameson, just to name a few.  Also we touch on some reopening and rumoured closures of stadiums in Thailand. Finally, we answer a few Instagram questions like: How active is too active for fighting and Hard vs Light sparring.

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Michael Corley is the Author of  Muay Thai Grit which tells his story of going through the ups and downs of a fighter from the USA trying to become a true Nak Muay. Michael is also the president of USA Muaythai and he goes into what steps Americans need to do to become real contenders on the world stage of the sport. Special thanks to Matt Lucas for getting us in touch with Michael

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George Mann is a Scottish born, Australian based Muay Thai fighter who after a lengthy career across the UK & Thailand fighting at Junior Middleweight recently stepped all the way up to Super Middleweight and immediately claimed the #4 spot in the WBC Muay Thai rankings. 
Hugh sits down with George to talk about his career so far and announce his next exciting challenge - taking on perennial contender David Pennimpede (world #6) for the WBC International Super-Middleweight title, February 27th in Perth. 
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This episode the combat crew talk to UK's Performance expert for Muaythai, Don Heatrick. Don share his unique stories learning and competing in Muaythai and also how he switch careers to the strength & conditioning field to fill the gap in fighters training regiments who work off the training models they see and do in Thailand. Don is all about train your sport first and foremost, while all the other supplemental training should compliment it. However, he thinks we can do that supplemental training better with the help of a bit of field tested sport science to train the right athletic qualities and level up our Muaythai. Loads of training gems in this one from weight cutting, a sample weight training plan and dispelling a few training methods to set you on the right path.

Don's articles we talked on the podcast:
https://heatrick.com/2020/02/13/what-is-my-ideal-fight-weight-class/
https://heatrick.com/2016/12/29/videos-how-to-plan-muay-thai-strength-and-conditioning/

Don's Podcasts:
https://heatrick.com/podcast/the-science-of-building-champions-podcast/
https://heatrick.com/podcast/heatrick-heavy-hitters-podcast/

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