We hooked up with Ryan Yong who recently fought at the Muay Thai Charity Shield in KL hosted by the Persatuan Tomoi Gombak. It was Ryan's 1st experience fighting in an event bout. Ryan Yong, representing Sabah, a member of Kinabalu Fighters gym and sponsored by Furious Style Kickboxing gym, he won via 4th round KO against his opponent.
This post records his experience and his thoughts about his training.
This post records his experience and his thoughts about his training.
1. Congratulation Ryan on your win in the Muay Thai Charity event. Just to start off tell us a bit about yourself.
Thanks man, I was born in the Philippines raised in
malaysia. which makes me half Chinese & half Filipino and migrated over to
Canada for further studies. I was studying International Marketing in high school
but Im now going for constructional science and project management.
2. What was the 1s martial art u got involve with?
2. What was the 1s martial art u got involve with?
Well as far as I can remember the first
martial arts I got into when I was 11 yrs old was karate, really tried to get
into it but it seem a lil odd to me so I quit right before I was going for my
yellow belt.
3. How did you get involved with Muay Thai?
3. How did you get involved with Muay Thai?
Well, the first thing that started it all was the UFC . I remember watching my
favourite fighter then who was Chuck Lidelll and Rampage, and said " hey I
want do that , looks fun." so a year passed and I was back in Malaysia, I
was soooo bored because there wasnt much to do and finally I found Kinabalu Fighters and the rest was history (laugh). Well it started when I really wanted to
sharpen my stand up skills specifically for MMA.
4. What made you decide to take the fight and join the Muay Thai Charity Shield?
4. What made you decide to take the fight and join the Muay Thai Charity Shield?
When i saw the mayors cup and when julian,
rudy and kyo fought over at sandakan is what made me wanna do something similar
lol. i just love fighting hahaha.
5. Tell us about your training and preparation.
5. Tell us about your training and preparation.
Wow training was hard actually, (laugh) prep
for the fight was kinda intense especially on the first 3 weeks but after the last 2 weeks
before fight day I was more composed, more ready, my stamina improved a lot
compared to how it was. and special thanks to Julian for helping me out
with my cardio which is one of the reason why I came out of that fight in 1
piece.
* Ryan Yong's 5 week training program required him to train 6 times a week. Every Monday / Wednesday was a 1 hour warm up & circuit training; follow by drills and light sparring. Tuesdays / Thursday & Fridays were techniques by Furious Style gym plus hard sparring, Saturday are simple cardio exercises.
6. Were you nervous before the fight?
* Ryan Yong's 5 week training program required him to train 6 times a week. Every Monday / Wednesday was a 1 hour warm up & circuit training; follow by drills and light sparring. Tuesdays / Thursday & Fridays were techniques by Furious Style gym plus hard sparring, Saturday are simple cardio exercises.
6. Were you nervous before the fight?
Wow nervous, let me tell you... I have never
been that nervous before but I did my best to hide it (laughs). Which I think was
one of the things I did in the fight haha. Answer is ,yes I was nervous as
hell.
7. Tell us about your fight, round by round if you could remember.
7. Tell us about your fight, round by round if you could remember.
Well round 1 was kind of a feeling out
process which quickly turned into a all out fight because my opponent started
to throw heavy kicks in the beginning and ended the round quite evenly.
But as the round progressed my opponent was starting to show a lack of stamina and I waited till the 4th round till I caught him with a straight 1,2 combo and dropped him again after with a high kick to the head to end it mid way through 4th round.
8. Which part of the training helped you in the fight (in your opinion)?
But as the round progressed my opponent was starting to show a lack of stamina and I waited till the 4th round till I caught him with a straight 1,2 combo and dropped him again after with a high kick to the head to end it mid way through 4th round.
8. Which part of the training helped you in the fight (in your opinion)?
Stamina most definitely and the
thai clinch moves by Mr. Antonio.
9. Tell us how you feel about the whole thing? Training, fighting for this event?
9. Tell us how you feel about the whole thing? Training, fighting for this event?
It was a great experience and I would like
to do it again but I have to finish my studies.
10. Any words for the readers or anything you would like to say?
10. Any words for the readers or anything you would like to say?
Sabahan has some fighters they just gotta be
put on the map, we may not be able to be as strong as Kelantan people yet, but
we'll get there slowly but surely. Build it up from the ground to the top and
last thing train hard fighters!
* We thank Ryan Yong for his short interview and hope that there will be more Sabahan fighters competing on the ring locally or internationally. If you know about a fighter that is doing so, do contact FightBah at the comment section and we will help spread the news.
This is FightBah signing out.
* All pictures credit to Persatuan Tomoi Gombak & Ryan Yong.
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