summary of the IMFA

Where to start? hmm,so much on my mind..First of all im sad to say i lost my first fight so i am out of the competition.(IMFA World championship)this is the story:

I came to the hotel in bangkok in the afternoon,when i stepped inside the giant lobby,i saw the whole swedish team,and i joined up with them,and we had a quick meeting,and then i went to my room,wich i was gonna share with Driton,a fighter from Kristianstad,he was already in the room when i got there,and it turned out the hotel had given us a double bed,instead of 2 small beds:)
All of the fighters had to check wheight and do a medical check up before 19.00 o clock,so i went down right away,everything was alright,but when i saw the other fighters in my wheight class,i was a little dazzled,they were huge!!
I have always been heavy for my size,and most of my opponents have been taller than me,but some of these guys were just ridicolus big..but then everybody intend to look so big and dangerous when u are checking your wheight and u are tired and hungry and worn out from cutting wheight.
Then in the night,it was time for the matchmaking lottery,to see who is fighting who..In tournaments like this it is crucial to get lucky in the first draw,u need an easy opponent in the first fight,to win and come out of it with a little or no injuries at all.
Then u hope yor next opponent had a tough fight,so u have some advantage,many people got lucky and their opponent didnt show up,they had won their previous fight,but taken damage and couldnt continue in the tournament.One ,Swedish fighter won his fight easily,but took some damage in the last round,he had to operate his leg and his nose,he looked lik hannibal lector when he came back from the hospital 2 days later.
ok,back to the lottery,i got Uzbekistan in my first fight,its a real tough opponent,but it could have been worse,i had Russia,Ucraine,Belarus in my pool and this is the countries that always get the most medals,they are in a leauge of their own,some in russias team have won this
competition for the last 6 years,and many of them are proffesional worldchampions already,and they have nothing to do here,but the thing is that the Russian Goverment pay their fighters a lot of money if they come home with a gold,and they even get salary for training.One in their team is a personal favourite of mine,Artem Levine,he is really good and ive seen him live in Stockholm twice.So there is no suprise that Russia always get the most medals,infact i think that the only countries that gets the gold in A class(the hardest class in this competition)is Russia,belarus,ucraine and ofcourse Thailand.
Next day we went to the fighting venue,its funny,because the fighting takes place on the 4th floor of a shopping mall,but it was a nice opening ceremony,all the national teams walked in with flags and stuff.
When i got back to the hotel,i heard that there had been a misstake in the lottery and that they had to do it again,and this time i got...yes u guessed it.RUSSIA...fucked up.
I had to wait 5 days for my fight,so i got tired and i just wanted to fight,We knew that Russians are really strong boxers,so my gameplan was to move in close to him,so he couldnt use his heightadvantage and boxing,and i would use my clinching skills and win the fight this way,i saw a australian do the same the day before,and i felt pretty good when i stepped inside the ring.
The first round i lost,i didnt get in the fight at all,but in the second round,i turned the fight to my advantage,scoring with kicks and catching his legs and throwing him down,even caught him with some punches,but he hit me aswell,so i started my plan and moved in close for the clinch,but once i got inside,the referee stopped us,again and again,and i was getting really frustrated..In muay thai the clinch is a big part of the fight,some fights the fighters stay in clinch the hole fight,but this referee was european and used with european style of fighting,and each time i got inside he stopped me,i was getting angry,and throw some knees anyway,but then i got a warning from the referee,evrytime he stopped me ,he pulled us apart and i was once again in my opponents boxing range,In the end of the third round he hit me with a big right hook and i went down,i was shaken by the punch,but i was ok,i thought i get up by his 8 count,but he stopped the fight.
at the time i didnt care so much,i was upset by the rules system and the way the referee had handled the fight,but i was sad,because i knew i was the better THAIboxer in the ring,but i didnt show it,and i really wanted to show all the peopla there my style.
But now a coupla of days after evrything feels good,and it was a amazing experience,its a special feeling to fight for your country and to represent Sweden.
Now i just want to fight again,its gonna be so nice to fight at a real Arena,with real Muay thai rules!!
But first i have some days of from training,im spending the days at the beach now and eating what i want,when i want;)
My mum is here aswell so im a reislaiter aswell:)
have a nice one!!!!!!!
henke

Bangkok is knocking on my door

Sorry,those of u who actually follow this blog:) It`s been a while,but i can say to my defense that i have been busy!!
I have been training really HARD at SITPHOLEK,and for the last days ive been training with 3 guys from the Slovenian national team,they are too gonna fight in Bangkok,so we had some good clinching and sparring together,one of them a 91kg fighter came 2:place last year.
The owner of the gym,Frank,is a real character,goes around in his mjukisbyxor and observing,and as much as he love to trade old warstories,he gives me many valuable tips,he has raised many worldchampions and its no coincidense that a lot of the big stars in K1 drop by to prepare for a fight,this is the gym Ramon Dekker stayed in when he had fights in Thailand!!
Frank spend a lot of time with me,and seems like he thinks the world of me,and he already got some plans for me after Bangkok.(not in a sexual way.he eh)
He got GREAT connections in the fightindustry,and can arrange fights all around the world,so i hope i will be doing some travelling.
About the IMFA he is alittle sceptical,he said that he think i can take gold,but he also said that he wouldnt be suprised if i loose my first fight.
Because the IMFA is very different to a proffesional fight,its 4-2 min rounds,with protection gear,so its very hard to really hurt your opponent,so its all about making points,my style now is proffesional and i do everything with power,and in the clinch i make good knees,and use alot of thaiteqnics,but almost all of the judges are really just coaches that take a 1 day course before the fights start,so they dont now what to be looking for and if i fight my style i would win a real fight,but an IMFA fight i could loose.So we have been training alittle bit on this,but i guess i will do what i always do,try to knock him out and use some of my cowboystyle as Becker calls it.
My last fight under IMFA rules,me and my opponent wasnt really fighting smart,we fought like hell from the start,trying to knock eachother out from the first bell,but it was me who landed the big punches,giving him 2 knockdowns,but he came up each time,but it gave me the win,But what i mean is that if i fight that way here,my opponent will not play the same game,he will be smarter,and i just hope i can be that chill and fight smart.

I guess xmas is on the door,because i can hear xmascarols in the days,and even see a xmastree here and there.I really miss pepparkakor,but my mum is coming next week so i hope she can
bring some.
Other than this not so much to report,i really live a easy life,train eat sleep,but its funny but now i just want to fight,ive been training hard a long time now,and its time to go to work.
I feel really strong and i made my wheight,and now i dont eat that much,you have to check wheight everyday in bangkok.
ok,over and out from thailand
henke

change of scenery

My ass still feels sour after all the travelling i`ve been doing lately!!

I started to travel to Chong Mek,a bordertown to laos,to fix my Visa,its a hazzle like nothing else,u cross the border and then u have to fix a visa to stay in laos,its good for thirty days,but i intend to stay for about 30 minutes,just to get the right stamps in my passport,so i can return back with 60 new days,but then u come to the laos immigration office,a small boxhouse,with as many small windows as there are corners,and in every window u get a sheet of paper,that u have to fill in,and then its of to the next window..It makes swedish akassa procedures look like a walk in the park!!

When i finally came back to the camp,I had a quick shower,than it was of to Bangkok,Puja the topfighter of the camp was gonna fight in a big tournament,ther next day so me and Densiam made a 12 hour roadtrip to bangkok.

I stayed in Bangkok for a a quick lunch,then i took a bus back to pattaya,where im gonna spend the last time before its back to bangkok and the IMFA,When i reached pattaya i had been on the travelling road for almost 30 hours,So now i dont go anywhere if its not necessary..

As I was sitting waiting for my bus in eakomol bus station,i saw the backpackers arriving,some small girls struggling with backpacks double there size,all sweaty and hunchedbacked over the heavy bags,when they finally got the bags of,they joined the rest of the backpackers(they appear to be flockanimals)And then the basic questions started within the group.

Have u been there?u got any tips of cheap hotels?,any cheap restaurants there?

I took a big sipp of my diet coke and laughed for myself,these peopla are here on holiday,but they spend all this time on cheap smelly busses,to arrive to a cheap small bungalow and then its of to the next place...

Not much of a holiday if u ask me.

Ok,back to track,the training was really good in sor.suwanne and i got some magic in me aswell,but im here now to get some sparring and get some boxingrounds.

Im training now at Sitpholek,a very diffrent gym from sor.suwanne,Sitpholek is like a badboygym,U got the hells angels training in the gym and stuff,but its good training and a lot of big guys to sparr with.I was offered to fight in a 8 man tournament later this year,could be quite cool.

Sparred and clinched lastnight with a frenchman my size,he was alright,but i saw that he got tired quick,so i fired in some good punches to his stomach and stepped up the paze,and he stopped soon after.so good for the confidence for me.

Puja won his first fight in the tournament,and now its only 4 guys left,and the winner get 1 milllion bath,one car and 80bath of gold(1 bath of gold is wort about 17 ooo Bath)

So it could be a good next month for Sor Suwanne!!!

Its time to go home and rest now for the trainingsession later,i just hope i dont scratch any of the bikers harleys outside the gym,then it could be a tough session:)

I have an idea to print up a Bandidos tshirt and wear on the training,to see how the H.A. guys react..what u think?

Have a nice day wherever u are!!!

henke

p.s kristin,jag e inte alls avundsjuk på förmiddags fikat..usch ryser av bara tanken....:)

bild ovan:puja sor.suwanne in action( blå byxor)

thizz anf that

Just came to phibun,its a small town some kilomoters from the village i live in,and i go here almost everyday to visit the internetplace they got,to be apart of the civilised world,and to see whats going on out there.I love to ride my bike to get here,the hot air blowing in my face and the sound of hakan hellstrom in my ears,on the way here today a big bus slowed down and drove slowly next to me,all the people on the bus wawed and screamed,exept some small kids who looked withbig eyes at the white guy driving net to them and singing loudly on a foreign language.
Im the only white guy in my village and probably the only white guy in the surrounding areas,so wherever i go,i cause a scene,its probably this way all the celebreties feel like,all the people i meet scream at you-Hello!! or just points a finger and whisper amongst themselves,and i can always make out the word farang(svartskalle,fast i ett positivt menande)And when i start speak thai with them,well then im a superstar,getting standing ovations:)
but most of the time i just play stupid,like i dont understand a world,because i now all the questions they gonna ask.where u from,how old are u,and most important,do u have a wife?
and if i answer no,then all hell break loose, YOU NO HAVE WIFE????
It turns out everybody has got a daughter that they want mee to meet....

OK,so now some stuff is going on,Tomorrow i have to go to laos to fix my visa and then its of to Bangkok,my friend puja is fighting there on saturday,and i probably will stay in Bangkok and train until its time for the IMFA.
So a lot of travelling to come..
gotta go
hank

some pics

some old pictures of my trainers glorydays(he is the darkest of the boxers)

and also him and his wife and daughter and at last senchai and his youngbrother slaughtering a chicken:)

Another weekend is coming to its end,but up here there is no such things as weekends and sundays of and so on.Everyday is a workday and the rice doesnt cut itself even if its sunday..and same thing goes for the camp,we train everyday,but im alone now at the camp,my friend baow(nungjakawan)has some days off after his fight.

And what a fight,we went to ubon in the morning and checked wheight with the promoters,and he didnt have to put on his rubbersuit and go run to make his wheight,so it started good,in the night we went back and before it was time i went to a bookie and made a bet of 1000bath on him to win.

the first 2 rounds he was lazy as hell,jost goofing around and laughing(as he does 24/7)

but in the 3 round he started moving inside on his opponent and fired away razorsharp knees to his opponents stomach and ribs in the clinch and you could see that he was in trouble,he started boxing towards baow out of desperation,but all he was hitting was air,baow moved around him perfectly and continued to land sharp knees(all the time with a big smile on his face)

in round 4 his opponent had lost all stamina from the knees and didnt do anything at all,so the ref stopped the fight!!

so TKO round 4 and hanky doubled up!!!!

It was a hell of a wedding asweell,it started in the camp in the morning and then in the night it was in a schools auditorium,about 250 people came!

I was the only sober person,so i didnt have that much fun,and the training was cancelled due to the wedding,so i got restless after my daily intake of 2 big cups of coffee,so i started help the ladies out and clean the tables and stuff,to all the mens amusement:)but i got tired of all the drunk people who wanted to drink and talk with the whiteguy..these cant stand their liquier..he he.

I followed a guy home,he was too drunk to ride his motorbike,he lived outside the village in the middle of a ricefield,so beutiful,I mean his house is like something i could build in a day with a hammer and some nail,but to live so close to nature..just beutiful.

his 10 year old son started to chase a hen around,and it took about 10 minutes to get the hen so tired so he could catch it,then he slid its troath and drained the blood in a jar,and began to rip its geather off...10 years old!!! His name is Saenchai,and i really like him,he trains with us,and he is always smiling and tries the few english words he know at me.

10 years old and already had over 10 fights and knows how to kill a hen,some kid i would say..

At the weedingparty i was wearing a thaiboxing t shirt,that said lumpinee stadium(the finest muay thai arena in thailand)and a guy at my table said that he used to be a champion at lumpinee stadium,and it turned out that he wasnt bullshitting.thought that was pretty cool.But half of the peopla there were old nakmuays(boers)because of my trainer ofcourse.we looked today at an old scrapbook that he got from his glorydays,amazing pictures,i will try to upload some soon,man he was strong as hell,he started to train when he was 18,wich is really old for thaipeople,most guys start when they are about 10 years old,but only after 2 years he was fighting in lumpinee and became one of the biggest fighters of that era!!!

the people named him Densiam(star of thailand).But in the end of his career,he fell in love with a girl selling snacks and soda at a stadium he was boxing at,and they married and he moved to her hometown Bahn Sangkeaw,and started up the camp Sor.Suwanne(suwanne is a mix of their lastnames)

and he ran the camp himself so he could only have 2 fighters,so all the kids in the village showed up at the camp to show that they were one of those 2.

He deicided for a small 9 year old called puja,and another guy.

Today puja is a superstar in thailand(world champion),and lately also Nungjakawan,and the camp is considered one of the best in thailand.

And some years ago a Swedish guy named henke went to thailand to train Thaiboxing and he went like many other tourists to koh samui,and trained there and there he fell in love with a thaigirl,she mentioned that her family had a muay thaicamp in her home village.But henke didnt think about this until there was a huge fundraising event in bangkok,all the biggest popstars,moviestars,and also thaiboxers would raise money for the tsunamivictims,and in the newspaper there was one boxer on the coverpage,and in the tv ad for the fundraiser he got the most airtime,and then henkes girlfriend said thats her friend,and henke asked her how she could know this superstar.

He grow up the house next to me ,he is the superstar of our camp named Sor Suwanne!!!

The boxers name was ofcourse Puja Sor.Suwanne and the girl henke had fell in love with was the young sister of the girl that densiam had married.

We went to the gala in bangkok and i meet Densiam for the first time(and puja)

and he invited me to the camp,and the rest is history iguess,I been training here a lot since then.

and Densiam speaks to me as his son,he really wanted a son that he could teach muay thai,but he got 3 girls,so when i got in the picture he took me in his family.

OOPs now he came in the door,we are going to eat out tonight,in thailand the family of the groom has to bring a weeding gift to the family of the bride so Densiam got 200 000Bath for his daughter last night,so i guess we are gonna eat good tonight!!!!!!!

ha det fint alla!!!

mvh Henke SOr.Suwanne

P.Sjag o nungjakawan pa bilden efter hans match o hans dotter pa brollopsdan

back to basic

The rooster is screaming its head of!!!
Thats means its just after 5.00 in the morning,and time to wake up,I try to hide under my blanket,but after a few minutes I hear a voice=LEO LEO henki wake up bai wing!!!
Its my friend Baow or Nungjakawan as he is known in the Muay thai circus.
Its time to go and run,I go in the toilet and splash some icecold water in my face to get my brain started,and on with my shoes and we are off ,only a few minutes and the treehouses fades away and all i can see is endless ricefields..
Yeah thats how my days start now,Im finally in Ban Sangkeaw and living and training at the camp Sor.Suwanne.
The training is so tough u cant imagine,but i wouldnt have it anyother way,i feel 100% alive and at peace when i stay here,Inbetween the training all u do is relax,and the air is so fresh,and the landscape is so beutiful,u cant imagine.
im gonna stay here and train unril its time to go to bangkok to fight.I have to leave the country before no 26 this month,so its perfect because the border to laos is only 40 minutes away,so its just op on the bike.
Last night my trainer asked me if i miss my home,and then i realized i havnt given any thoughts at all about my life back home,family friends etc..Felt really strange when i realized that,I guess im so focused on training and when im not training my mind is resting as is the rest of my body.
So last night i couldnt sleep because i started to think about my life back home..
I just want to say i mis u all!!!!
So whats going on in the camp i live in now?
Ok,the big thing this month is that the trainers eldest daugter Noom(means milk) is getting married and its gonna be a biig party,with media attending and stuff,My trainer/extra daddy in life is the owner/trainer of Sor suwanne(one of the most respected thaiboxningscamps in thailand)he is also 2 time world champion himself 20 years ago(and as many kilos:)
Nungjakawan has a big fight on friday,and a lot of people has bet a loot of money,so its gonna be exciting,but he is in really good shape,so i think he will win.
Ok,time to go and eat and get back to my vilage,i have to travel to a town some kilomoters away to be able to get online,and the electric comes and goes so im scared to write to long.
ok
love u all
henke

Kings,cops and coloured shirts

wanna start off with that i saw an amazing film lastnight,Law Obainding Citizen,i think it was called,with jamie foxx,it was really good!! check it out if it you can..

If u been to the movies in Thailand,then u know that before the movies starts,all of the people inside the cinema have to stand up and watch a 5 minute movie in celebration to his majesty the king,i really like that the thais r so proud of their country,everyday at 18.00 o clock,all the channels play the national anthem and ofcourse pictures of the king,i remember one time,a guy ask me if we have a king in sweden,and i said yeah sure.

Then he wanted to see a picture,but i said i didnt have one on me,and he was schocked..

-you dont like your king?

i said he is ok,but if they would know about our relationship with our king,i mean he is like a mascot almost,and all the shit he gets in the media,and hey baberiba and stuff,he is like a joke for most of us.

Here its VERY different, you want an exampel??

Ok,some years ago there was one man from switzerland,that was drunk and he drew a moustach on a painting of the king,and the thais that saw this,beat the shit out of him,and he got 60 years in the can!

2 years ago the king turned 80(on a monday),and it was a huge celebration,and all the people here dressed in yellow shirts to honour the king(thats the colour of the royal house) and they kept on with that,so every monday,if u walked the streets everything was yellow,it looked amazing,then only a while after he got sick,and was in hospital for a while,and when he had recovered,he made a public appereance wearing a pink shirt,and this was a wednesday,so then all the people started wearing pink shirts on wedenesdays!!!!and it kept on like this so on thursdays the had blue shirts,but after a while only the yellow mondays remained.

but last year i was here i put on my yellow shirt,because it was monday,but i was told to change right away!! I didnt understand,but as u probably know,there is political clasches in thailand at the moment,and the people are divivded in to 2 groups:1.the people that support thaksin(ex president)they wear red shirts!! 2.the people that dont support him,they wear yellow shirts.

So if u wear any of these shirts u risk to get your azz kicked or worse if u meet the wrong people..

Today was a normal day I guess,did some forensic work,shot some pictures of a crime scene and..U wondering whats going on huh?

If u followed my blog than u know about my motorbike beeing stolen(but returned)and the police needed some pictures of where i parked the bike the night of the theaft,and i would get my papers back from the cops.

So i went there and thought I would be in and out in 5 minutes,but i was wrong as usuall..

I was shown to his office and when i got there he was interrogating 2 handcuffed youngsters,apparently they had stolen a car,but when i got there he took care of me instead of finishing of with them,and when i gave him my memorycard containing my pictures,he saw some of me boxing and then i was fucked:)one million questions and the afternoon and my plans of starbucks before training was gone in the wind..but it was really interesting spending the afternoon at the station,a lot of badlooking guys in cuffs and they even had a big poster with pictures of wanted people,the guy at the top is worth 5 million bath!!!I will definetely keep an eye up for him!!

wow this turned out to become a long post,but back again on the king and country proud thing,

Its sad that we swedes dont show so much proudness for our country and heritage,I`ve been reading a lot lately about our history,and we got a lot of things to be proud of,we could easily had become a part of denmark at some occacions if some smart and brave people didnt succed with their tasks and battles.wort thinking about i think.

At last i would like to gratulate Sandra Och Pelle and welcome little Eddie in this world!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Live the King

Henke

p.s. the picture is from the poster of the gala on the 19:of december,me and my opponet.

sweet sunday

Today is Sunday,and that means HOLIDAY!!!,the gym is closed on sundays,so i went to the beach with some friends,and it was really hot today,but when i sat down in my beach chair,all the fuckin clouds in thailand came to greet me....so im still as white as the day i arrived at the airport one month ago!!
But white is what everybody here wants to be!,u will never see a thai licking sun at a beach,instead they like to bring an umbrella if its sunny,or why not a skimask..still remember first time i saw a guy with a skimask,in the middle of the day,i was inside a 7 eleven and he came in,and i thought he was robbing the place(to many movies),but all he wanted was a pack of smokes..its rather easy i guess,the poor people working in the ricefields and so on,they got really black skin,but the rich and glamourous stays inside during the day,wich gives them white skin,so basically the darker skin u got,the poorer u are.and all the beutiful people in the soap operas wich is playing 24/7 here is ofcourse very white.So all u ladies leaving for thailand,be aware when u buy skinproducts in the stores here(bodylotion etc..)almost all products contains somekind of whitening lotion!!

Took massage last night(120b) felt sorry for the old lady,my legs were a mess,the weeks hard training had made all the muscles all cramped up and rockhard,she lasted 40 minutes then she had to take a break.it seemed lika a legit massageplace,but then the boss of the place asked me if i wanted to go upstairs,for a more intimate massage.
-Many beutiful girls upstairs,he said.
Im fine,I responded,just really need a good massage..

Last night i ate at a mexican restaurant,then i went to the movies,i saw Surrogates,with Bruce Willis,wasnt good at all,like a rip off of I ROBOT.
thats how i spend my saturdays night out here in thailand..
Its 1 month until its time to step into the ring,so now all focus is on training,and its a tough life,i have to start watch my wheight to,and thats one of the hardest things,like torture really,you train like a madman and your body is screaming for food,but you cant eat how much u want and more sad,what u want:( after some weeks u could kill for a pizza...
The worst wheightloss i have made,was at the last Swedish Championship,I was gonna fight at -81kg,so ihad to cut down 5kgs and it was a struggle,more on the pshycological level then then fhysical,i dreamt about food all the time.
But i just barely made the wheigh inn,in the morning,and then i could eat to get my power back for the fight,and it turned out i was gonna fight like 18.00 o clock,and i won the fight,and made it to the finals,I got back to the hotel at around 20,00 an when i checked my wheight the scale said 86,4kg!!! and next morning we had to check wheight again for the finalfights,so i had to loose 5.5kg in a few hours,now that was a struggle...
But this time im fighting in -86kg,so it wont be to bad,actually im like 82kg now,so ihave some muscles to gain.

now its time to looka the game thats playing..liverpool man u!!!!!!!!!!
fridens liljor
henke

My new hobby

Just finished a meal of chicken with cashewnuts,and this is my new hobby,by now i train 2 sessions a day,and my brain has got used to this very monotom lifestyle,eat,train,sleep,eat..

I started the day with a morning run,and came back and had a protein shake,and then took a nap(zzz)woke up and went to Carrefour(a big supermarketchain,from france i think)
and they have food court,this is the shit!!! u charge a foodcreditcard wit an amount of your choice,and then u can use it in any of the 25 small foodshops,its mainly thaifood,but they have sushi,pasta,pizza aswell(i had all 3 today..)
but its a really good idea,we should have that in sweden.
After that i went inside the supermarket,and bought egg,minced pork(for my morning omelette)
anf coffee and some other stuff,got back to my room and had a big cup of coffee and read my book,this is my youga of the day,a good book and coffee,its so relaxing..
Then i took my bike to training,and today was my best session so far,my trainers arms gave up after 4 rounds,from the pounding of my kicks,tha last rounds i was only allowed to knee..

wow,itr getting late,and im off to say goodbye to a friend who is leaving tomorrow.

ha det bäst allihop!!

henke

Some sweet and some sour..

Just got back from a flee market,i love thai markets,a lot of funny games,and second hand clothes(u can find some cool vintage tshirts..) i almost won at bingo,i split the win with another guy,so we had to draw sticks and his stick was unfortunatly longer than mine:(

But i took the lose lika a man and bought an ice cream!!

Now im sitting and chilling as usual at Sanya Apartments,Sanya is my friend Skylabs sister,so this is my 2 home here,they have beutiful rooms,kingsize bed,sofa,tv,aircon,fridge,dvd,tv,the works for only 490 B=100kr per natt!!!

Ok,enough with the commercials(did i mention the splendid coffee they have;)

I really miss my brothers company,and its gonna be a while until i can speak swedish with someone.

So whats been going on?

Ok,i start with a funny thing,last day at the camp,a big fat arab came,and wanted to fight me,right now right here he said!! ha ha,all the coaches got excited,and i stood up and said bring it,but instead he got back on his bike and took off..he he there is a lot of idiots in this town i guess..

And now for something not so funny,i got the schedule for the world championship next week,and an email from the swedish headcoach,and all of the fighters have to stay at a certain hotel(luxury),they booked up all 700 rooms for us,and its gonna be real expensive it turns out,i have to stay there for 2 weeks and ofcourse im payin for it myself...sucks big time!!!!

ok,now its time to go to the market and buy a watermelon shake and something to eat,and ofcourse some weetabix for breakfast tomorrow.

warn greetings from mr lingnoi

not a nice awakening...

woke up this morning(not a blue song;),in the middle of the night,someone was banging on my door,and lights flashing outside,as i opened the door,i saw 3 police officers,and my stomach turned around,and my blood froze,is was barely awake,but the only thing i could think about,was that something happened to freddie,but it turned out that some idiot had stole my motorbike,infact he was sitting on the pavement,handcuffed and apolagizing..

a few hours earlier he had stolen my bike,i had forgot to lock the handlebar,so he had walked away with it and then outside,his girlfriend started her motorbike,and he had, held on the her so they could get away,but lucky for me,someone had seem them and he understood that they probably had stolen it,since the engine wasnt running.

I had to go with them to the police station,and i knew that this would take a while,im no stranger to the police station here,infact i was there last week,and paid fines(i intend to forget my helmet:) and last week it took me a hour to sort things out,so i knew this would take a while...

9 o clock in the morning i could go home,and i couldnt go back to sleep,because of the light,and the fact that they are building a new hotel on my backyard..so you could just imagine how my training was...i sucked!!

Anyway,now its soon 21.00 in the night and its freddies last saturday here,so i guess maybe we go out and check things out

Ha en trevlig helg där hemma o veva på ni på stadt,så gästerna får krossad is!!!he he'

puss

no more beach

Siting here eating my bowl of weetabix,just chilling before its of to training,the weather is getting hotter now,and i cant spend the days outside anymore in the daytime,i did that mistake yesterday,it was a really nice day,so we went to the beach,i was in the shade all the time,and afterwards i put on my shoes and ran straight to the gym from the beach,and i was feeling really lame from all the heat,and when i came to the gym,i felt it was a mistake to have spend the day at the beach,and now,the trainers push me more everyday.

So last night training started with 50 kicks per leg,i really like to start work the bag,to get my rythm and pace,but no no,and after the kicks straight in to the ring to work the pads,5 rounds and 2 rounds of boxing,and then 200 knees on the bag,i was a mess after this,so there is no more beach for me now,i have to realize im not here backpacking;)

But last night was a lot of fun,i got freetickets for a CARABAO concert(once again its good to hang with skylab),they are like Thailands answer to Gyllene tider..he he,exept they are all bikers,so all the bikers in thailand was there,including bandidos,HA and those guys so there were like 50 policemen,because there is always a lot of fighting at their concerts,and skylab was gonna go with us so for us there was a 100% chance of us ending up in a fight.But he couldnt come,so it was for the better.

On monday freddie is going back home,so thats sad and i will miss his company alot,but then i can start put 100% focus on my training,wich is good,now its like 5 weeks left for my rumble in the ring,so it feels good.

ok,time to finnish my coffe and then its of to gladiatorschool;)

love u all

hanky

Basic Life

Right now the rain is poring down outside,and I just saw that Denmark came out as winners from last nights bout with Sweden,that sucks..

Life over here is good as always,its pretty basic and my days intend to look the same,day by day..

i wake up,as always to late..i have to stop my latenight pokersessions! and then i take my bike and speed of to my brothers hotel,and there we eat,and drink coffee and chill out,and then its time for training,and 3 hours later when the training is finished,we go and eat somewhere,last night we treated us with a real nice seafood restaurant,where we ate 2 big snappers and oysters and raw tigershrimps as starters,and a nice crisp chardonnay..very nice and unfortunatly very expensive too..

And in the evenings we mostly hangout on the terrace of the hotel,reading books or playing online poker.So exxept from training im not doing much over here.

I lost 4kg already,and my stamina has increased alot in this little time,my trainers want me to fight soon,but my headtrainer(Becker)back home,says no fights before the IMFA In Bangkok next month,and he is probably right,2 years ago i was gonna compete in the IMFA,but 2o days

before i had a fight and i injured my knee,and couldnt fight for over a year,so it gor the best that i relax and focus for tje IMFA.

I already have a fight scheduled for the 19 of december,its looks to be a really big gala,Posters is already out here,they usually put out posters and advertise 1 week before the fightnights.

I gonna fight a italian guy named christian,i have seen him fight before in bangkok on the tsunami charity gala,so he is gonna be a tough one to crack,I`ve seen pictures of him with several belts.Seems like a good fight,and i think the money will be good(it will pay my ticket to bali).

Now im gonna order a big cup of coffee and read the last pages of "the lost symbol" of Dan Brown,its really good like all of his books,i know the movies suck,but the books is the shit.

ok have a nice day back home,and thanks to krikelin o nastic and sandy,who actually reads my posts;)

puss o kram på er.

Henke

A Portrait of a Legend

Thought i write a piece about one of my best friends SKYLAB.

Lets start with his name,even that has a story,the same week as he was born the first international Spacelab ,that was in orbit around earth,crashed down in the gulf of thailand,so his parents ended up naming him after the Spacelab wich was called SKYLAB.

He is born in a small village in the norteast of thailand,and started with Muay Thai when he was just a boy to help his family with money,I once asked him how old he was when he had his first fight,he dont remember the age ,only that he was 28kg!!!After some time he and his 2 brothers starting make a name for themselves in the Muay Thai scene,their fightingname beeing Chuknalai,at this time skylab used to change his name to get easy fights in small fighting venues,and when he fought he put his shorts on inside and out,because he had his real name on the shorts,but one time he forgot,and when they were gonna start fighting,his opponent glanced down at the shorts,and then turned around and climbed out of the ring:)

But at the age of 18 and over 150+ fights he stopped fighting,and he became head of his village and shortly over 2 nearby villages to.For those of u that dont understand what that means lets just start explaining about the life in the countryside of norteast thailand,its very tough,a life isnt worth as much as back home,and there is still killings between the villages,mostly over land disputes,and the head of ones village is like a godfather,sure the police comes if someone has been killed,but its the family of the involved that has to set the record straight,it always come down to money.

EXAMPLES:

ok,here is some stuff i experienced from my time up there.

1.Bad boy Ded boy

There was a young teen that got caught stealing motorbikes,he went to prison and once he was out,he got caught again,for the same thing,he got back in jail,and once out,the cops went to his home and found once again stolen bikes,they shoot him right there,in his home,there was some people that wanted the cops to go to prison,but the whole village voted about it and the cops went free....

2.Cash is King

a young boy in my village shot another young teen in the head,and their families had a big meeting the day after and the only subject was money,it ended up with that the family of the murdurer,had to pay the ded teens dad 150 000b(30 tusen kr) and 50 000b for the police,and one week later the dad of the ded teen drove in our camp,with the new car he bought,and he was actually smiling and showing of his new ride...sick

So the content of this is that the people are tough,and mostpart of the top Thaiboxers come from this poor part of thailand.

Ok,here is another story for u,Sometimes they have molam parties in thailand,and its just crazy,let me explain,take a ricefield,build a stage,book some bad perfomers,and invite all the nearby villages and u got a molam party,I`ve been to several and the record is 58 minutes...,thats how long it took before they started fighting,and i dont mean rallarsvingar and stuff,these guys got axes,knifes u name it..its really scary,im pretty sure some of the guys i`ve seen afterwards didnt make it,but now back to the story(skylabs sister told me this story at a party,they think its a real funny story)

ok,molam party,and one guy wants to fight with skylab and take over as head of one village,and they start. Skylabs weapon of choice is a machete,his opponents prefer an axe,not long into the fight skylabs slashes his opponent with a bad cut on his head,and he backs of,but at the next molam party,some guys come to skylab and says that the guy want a "rematch" and here is the funny part,when he walks up on skylab,he is wearing a big motorbike helmet,this was the end of the funny storie,and everybody was laughing,and i asked skylab what happend in the fight,and he said:aha,that funny to,because he had helmet but i cut him in the stomach!!i asked if he died,and the answer was maybe.

Wow this turned out to be a long post,and i havnt got far in my portrait of my friend,but maybe i will post a part 2 if soméone is intrested to know more.

time for bed i guess

henke

Living La Vida Loca

Sitting and sweating at freddies hotel as always(they got free internet,so i intend to stay here a lot..)

and the female staff is right now fighting about freddie and giving him dirty proposals,ha ha the ladies over here are something else!!Yesterday was a very relaxed Sunday,didnt do anything really,i realized i havnt relaxed since i got here,i really should take a day at the beach and go for a swim like a normal tourist..

Todays training was as tough as ever,i started the day with a REALLY spicy thai dish,and then went to starbucks for a BIG cup of coffee,this resulted in 30 minutes nightnare in the toilet,i think i lost all the food i ate since i got here,maybe even the foccacia i ate at paginini before i went to the airport:)

So training was rough,since i had no energy in my poor body.

Just came back from a game of snooker with Skylab,he is such a character,last night 2 iraq guys where playing with their bikes and disturbing his snooker game,they didnt stop so he just did as he always does,he knocked them out,and then their friends wanted to call the police,but Skylab has his own idea...he called the police himself because he wanted money from the iraq guys,because he hurt his knuckles..i think i will write a post about him.

Now i will try my luck at pokerstars and then its of to bed.

Chok dee

Sponsors

U might think that somoene who is gonna compete for the national Swedish Team at the IMFA 2009 World Championship,that is held every year in Bangkok,shouldnt have to pay for the ticket down here,hotel,and training fees and on and on,..

Well the thing is that i have to pay for everything myself,i wouldnt be surprised if i had to pay some fee for competing aswell.

Therefore,i spend this summer working my ass of,so i can get down here,and theres been little time for me to train this summer,so now im not even close to my fightingshape,but i have 7 weeks so it wont be a problem.

But there is no need for me to be bitching about this,has been like this since i started train Muay Thai.

But there is some people back home,that helped me on my preparation for the IMFA Championship.

First of all i would like to thank my homecamp FightCampWarberg for always backing me up,and also Magnus and Björn At Kvantum for their help,and at last Johan the owner and founder of the new Fighting and Clothing Brand RING KING,wich i think will be very big soon.

And also to the people that has tried.

Kap kun kap

easy life

Hello si!!!

First of all i have to admit that i made a mistake in my last post,the camp im staying at now is called Sitjaipedtch,i wrote the post right after training,and i mixed up the names,i just came back from training now aswell,and lets just say i aint crisp...the trainers are really pushing me hard,me and my trainer start the day with a long run,all the way to the base of Buddha hill( a small mountain with a monestary on the top),and i run all the way to the top and then back again ,and then back to the camp,and ofcourse my trainer stay on his motorbike the whole time:)

Then i start of with some round at the bags,(1 round here is 4 minutes) and then its time for the pad rounds,and they are tough,almost only double kicks,and each round we finish of with 10 kicks per leg.

But i really likes this camp,i will go up nort this month to train at my other homecamp,but im thinking about staying at this camp for the duration of my stay.

Otherwise there is not much happening over here,im just chilling in the days,and tomorrow is sunday,so the camp is closed,so maybe its a good time to go to the beach and work on my tan:)

and take my first swim in the ocean...

Ok take care back home.

Hanky Panky

Lingnoi Sor. Plaenchit

Today has been a good day,went to bed early last night,but couldnt sleep,when its raining down here,its sure is raining,sounded like the roof of my room would cave in.

Woke up and went to freddies(my brother) room,and we had a coffee,and Skylab was already there,so i knew something was going down;) And after 15 minutes Ajarn came,he is a holy man,that does budda tatoes,and now it was freddies time to get one,or 2 as it turned out.

After 90 minutes of pain it was done,really beutiful,i will upload some pictures tomorrow,i need to buy something for my laptop first.

Sor.Pleanchit

I went to Sor. Plaenchit( camp) at 4 o clock,and I was really looking forward to kick some pads(been months since last time) I got a really good wibe when i got there,the trainers was really nice,and one even know who i was ,when i introduced myself as Lingnoi(small monkey,my nickname down here)

It was only me and a young thai ,training,its lowseason here now.(Perfect!!)

Started skipping rope and then hit the bag for a while,and then it was time to show my skills with the pads.

Felt a bit rusty in the beginning,but the thechnics were there and when i started loosing up,my kicks were getting back in shape.

The last round we were joking a round a bit and i showed my range of thechnics,and i got credit and big smiles from the others trainers.

And as he was massaging me with cold water after the pads,he asked me if i can fight next week,

i said i need 2 week to make power,so i guess i will fight in 2 weeks,and as i left he said:

Lingnoi Sor Plaenchit,see u tomorrow na?

So today has been a good day,and its only 8 o clock now.

So tomorrow i will upload some pics from over here.

Over and out from here,wich is paradise by the way;) he he

Henke

Framme i mitt paradis

Sawaat dii Krap!!!
Ok where do istart..hmm my time in Thailand started earlier than expected,as i was sitting in the boring terminal in Helsinki near my gate,reading my book,all of a sudden 200 thais came in(apparently the berrypicking season is over in Finland) and they werent quiet like the rest of us,they made a hell of noise in that terminal,because they spent 2 months in finland picking berries,and now they were all gonna go back so all of the gamblings debts had to be cleared out,i enjoyed every second of it,on the plane i sat down next to a young thai named shadow,and a old thaiwoman,wich was perfect because she didnt eat falang(thai for european) food,so i got dubble servings!!!!

When i landed,my friend Skylab picked us up(me and fredde)and then the welcome party started,we went to another friend and sat in the street drinking some beers and made some barbeque thai style,and then went out in the neon night!!

So today ive been pretty tired,been to the beach and then went to a thaicamp and checked it out,i will go there tomorrow and train,its pretty cool camp,everything is woredown and dirty,just the way i like it,if camps are brand new and everything ist the latest shit,then its not for me.

Ok so i will tell u tomorrow about the camp,until then have good one!!
now i will go to the cinema and see what they are showinh this week.

kram
Henke

On my way....

Im writing for u now from the airport,im trying to keep my mind busy,and try to forget that i soon gonna sit in a fuckin tin can a mile up in the sky,and its blowing like hell today(good for u arild,but its sucks for me;)Before i wasnt scared of flying,but i was in a inscident one time on my way back from thailand,and since that i`ve had butterflies the size of elephants in my stomach,maybe its an age thing..
Anyway,im going to thailand to train and get some ring time,and im also gonna reprezent Sweden in IFMA World championship,wich takes place in bangkok 27 nov-to 5 dec.Im gonna fight in the A class in -86kg.

Ok,its time to go to the gate i guess.

Have a nice day,and to my family and friends,i miss u already!!!!!!

henke

R.I.P. SPARTACUS

ok,my first post here i would like to dedicate to my best friends dog Spartacus who recently passed away..we all miss u spartacus!!

ok,so i have blog now i guess...

a So now the summer is over,and its getting to cold to wear my flip flops,so im headed to thailand as usual;),for u that dont know me,i`ve been spending a looot of time in thailand the rescent years,and i consider it my second home.And when i stay in thailand,i mean i stay in Thailand,and not in phuket or some,backpackerhippie place..,I actually got 2 places were i hang out,the first being a small village in the northeast of thailand called baan sangkeaw(u wont find it in any map or lonelyplanet guide;)this small village is very famous in thailand,because its the home of my friend Puja Sor.Suwanne,a super star in Thaiboxning,and thats were i stay,at the camp called Sor Suwanne.
My other place is Pattaya,were my best friend Skylab stays,its a big and noisy town and a real difference to the laidback and quietness of baan sangkaew,but its got everything that u need after weeks in the countryside such as McDonalds,Starbucks,beaches and when u hang out with Skylab,u know something is gonna happen..for good or for worse..
Ok time now to pack my bags,when i write my next post i guess i will be sitting in the tropical heat of thailand and as always i will be wearing my flip flops;)
over and out
Henke