Damien Trainor: Muay Thai Evolution & Fighting Your Own Way - SoBC Podcast EP 02
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- Welcome to “The Science of Building Champions” podcast, in which I interview top-level fighters and coaches and dive into their stories to discover what makes them champions.
In the long overdue 2nd episode of the podcast….
Former two-times World champion and owner of L-Star Legacy Gym UK, Damien Trainor generously shares his hard-earned Muay Thai knowledge - from both competing at the highest level in the early 90’s and onwards, and as a world renowned coach in the present day.
We cover a lot in our chat together. Get a pen and paper at the ready, and be prepared to make some notes!
You can learn more about, and more from Damien at his gym website:
www.k-starlegacy.co.uk/
... and his instructional videos on the Warrior Collective Marketplace:
www.warriorcollective.co.uk/d...
TIMESTAMPED LINKS TO KEY POINTS OF INTEREST
0:00 Intro
1:14 How Damien got started in Muay Thai
3:10 A fight career begins
4:04 Chasing titles, then moving beyond them
5:20 Coaching others - learning how to teach
6:57 Seeing Muay Thai beyond the surface level
7:54 UK Muay Thai fight scene in the 90’s - Dutch style influences
10:24 Understanding fight habits
11:00 Working with fighters of different experience levels
12:34 Nearly three decades of UK Muay Thai evolution
13:57 For one night only… Coming out of retirement
18:21 Discipline - every champion’s key trait
20:48 Motivation - doing it for your own purposes
22:08 Knowing your fighters, and fighters knowing themselves
23:48 On self-reflection when training in Thailand
25:10 Styles make fights - Understanding what you’re looking at
26:03 Using punchbags to level up
26:48 Longer combinations - using volume, and serial sequences
30:36 Effectively relaying information to fighters between rounds
33:46 Working with the person that’s in front of you - understanding a fighter’s personality
37:59 Persevering with a broken hand, and learning to use goals
39.48 You don’t have to go hard all the time
40:37 Using supplemental strength & conditioning training well
42:13 Misunderstanding the importance of rest
46:27 Productive training as you get older
48:28 Coaching, and remaining capable of effective visual technical demonstrations
50:15 Lost Muay Thai role models, and lessons in keeping your own historical personal record
52:38 Getting the right amount of time between fights
57:40 Reviewing opponent’s fight footage effectively
59:39 Adaptability - the best attribute a champion can have
1:00:55 You can’t make everybody the same - fight your own individual way
1:03:01 Your physical attributes affect a how you can fight
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Two legends chopping it up!
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what a great interview. Interview questions and insights were excellent.
I really appreciate the feedback, thank you. 😊🙏
Thanks Don & Damien. Appreciate the knowledge and experience you shared 🙏
You’re very welcome! 😁👍
Brilliant podcast! Big fan of damien 👍
That's awesome. Thanks Stuart. :)
Brilliant interview!
Thanks Ken! 😁🙏
second time i've watched this episode. Well spoken, thoughtful guy. I bet he's a fantastic coach. Started following him on instagram after listening to this episode before. Does some fantastic tutorials.
Damien is a world-class coach as well as a world-class former fighter. Glad you've found you way to his work. :)
knowledge, passion and dream chasing 🙏✌🤘💪👊
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Good video!
Thank you, much appreciated. 😁🙏
Great video thanks. Im 40 am im looking to improve my muay thai im trying to train as much as possible but am starting to realise i need to rest more as i feel fatigued regularly. How do i know when to push through the fatigue or rest? Also how often should i be doing strength training to supplement and should this be done completely separate or can i do it together. Thanks Don
Hi Jenny, I’m glad the video has helped. There are some resources on my website that will help you. I recommend starting here: heatrick.com/2019/07/28/strength-and-conditioning-for-muay-thai-101/ and here: heatrick.com/12-week-fight-camp/
Enjoyed this 👍🏻be good if you could get more uk mt legends on 😀
I’ll do my best. 😀 Who else would you like to see me speak to?
Heatrick Strength & Conditioning ,ronnie green, liam harrison, andy thrasher, sandy holt, people like that
@@ORIGINOLINDIVIDUAL Good shouts there. :)
@@heatrick Really enjoyed this. Would love to see Tyrone Herod, former champions from the Trojan Gym in Wolverhampton, like Kirk Walker. I'm sure theTrojans had lots of champions. But Damien appears to be the most humble of most all the great UK fighters.
@@p-hawk1956 More great old school names there. Thanks for contributing. :)
Do you 2 work with each other because I think you'd make an unbelievable team.
We’ve only done the podcast episode together. But thank you, it's an honour to be considered as a coach that could work alongside Damien! 🙏
Also do you think im stupid wanting to start fighting? at 40
Not at all! As long as you are fit and healthy, and you fight at an appropriate level, go for it!