No More 5 a.m. Starts (I Wish!)…

When I left the British Army all those years ago, I said to myself, “No more having to get up before the crack of dawn. No more 5 am starts. And definitely no more cold, wet, and miserable wintery mornings.”

I got one of the 3 right.

However, when you live in the Tropics—and especially in rural northeast Thailand, where people are much closer to nature and its cycles than those living in towns or cities—you quickly realise that early morning starts are the norm.

And I have to admit there is something about voluntarily waking, and getting, up in the dark to not only see the sunrise, but especially without the horizontal snow-storm or pelting rain and cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey! (I emphasise the ‘voluntarily’.)

So, another sunrises start. This time:

• 10-minutes rope flow (13.5 mm rope)
• 5 sets of 2 minutes on/1 minute off heavy club flow (2 x 2kg clubs)
• (I then did some basic gada 300’s but that was trying to see if I still remember how to do them. Not really is the general consensus. :D)

10 minutes rope flow:

Heavy club flow: