Mohammed Hijab – I Came For Dawah and Ended Up in the Ring

Here in Bangkok

with my good friend here,

the taxi driver.

What's your name? Tongkap. Tongkap. Tongkap. Tongkap. Tongk.

Tongk. Tong. Very good. Very beautiful. Very nice

country.

I saw a white man,

European.

Looks like a European guy.

And, he was,

he was being very abusive and abrasive to

the foot massagers.

So I had to intervene, see, and he

was not expecting it.

We're here in Bangkok. This guy here, the

white guy, as you can see him,

he's been abusive to these foot massages,

like, you would be be shocked. Let me

show you something.

Tell me. This guy is giving you a

hard time. Yeah?

Yeah. This man here giving you a hard

time? Yeah. What's he doing?

What's he doing?

Yeah. Really noisy and, Very being abusive. Yeah.

Yeah.

Why are you doing this, brother? What country

are you from?

What country are you from?

Why you come to Thailand to create a

problem with these women?

Why?

Don't do that again. Yeah?

You're gonna do that again? Yeah. I'm not.

Alright. Don't do that again. Yeah?

Don't do that again.

That's what I thought. And I think,

I'm seeing more and more of this, kind

of phenomena around as,

European tourists

coming and,

with a very kind of entitled attitude, especially

to,

people in the service

industry acting in a very rambunctious manner. So

I'm with brother Khasib.

He's,

Moroccan guy.

He's,

doing Muay Thai here in Muay Thai.

In Bangkok. And living in the gym. Yeah.

Living in the gym. We just had a

fruit. What that what's that called? Fruit. Beautiful

fruit. It's mongoose, too. It's unbelievable, isn't it?

It's unbelievable,

bro. It's tasty, bro. What do you think

of living in Thailand? Living in Thailand, bro,

is like the best decision, but you need

to be focused because it's cost money for

training, for living, and eating. You need to

be smart. You need to find a job

you can do online in Super Future. Is

That what you're doing? Yeah? Yeah. That's what

I'm doing.

Maybe we'll see you tomorrow then. Yeah? See

you tomorrow. Thank you very much. Thank you.

So you can actually you can,

like, you know the equivalent of Uber. You

get an Uber Uber motorbike.

So this is it. Let's get it.

Alright. So, Kasim, you're gonna teach us now

the basics of elbows. Yeah? Mysore. This is

basic for Mysore,

elbows. What's Mysore? Mysore. Yeah. Hold on this

test. When you have this test, with your

shoulder, your protect,

your mouth Yeah. And when you got it,

you try you need to have your fingers

on your chest Yeah. Hands open and your

cortex. You

go up to down like a cycle. You

know? Like a cycle. Cycle. Okay. And be

careful. You have your distance. Yep. Make 1

step

to throw the elbow.

1 step throw the elbow. But be careful.

You need to stand up because he can't

give you an elbow back. Okay?

Uh-huh. So distance

and more distance again.

Uh-huh. Distance.

You cannot turn your elbow back. Yeah. Yeah.

This

ends and try again and this ends again.

And I'm sure you can. So first,

walk to the body.

I'd say, you you don't know where to

strike the other spot. Up, down, and throw

again in the elbow. Okay? Yeah. All the

things together is going to happen. Down. And

look. Yeah. Your back.

We're about to eat this food now. Tell

me what what is this?

This 1 is like chicken Yeah. With basil.

Yeah.

With spicy.

Okay. This 1 is 1 egg. Yeah.

Fried egg. Yeah. This rice. This 1 is,

like, typical

meal of, like, way of a fighter because

you need protein

Yes. After the training. You need it. For

the vitamin, we eat fruit, and now for

protein, we're going to eat chicken

and eggs. Perfect.

Alright.

We're in the streets now, the man.

Let's go.

Do you know it's got beautiful weather, Thailand,

you know?

Tropical weather. Fantastic weather.

It's very high humidity, though.

So I'm in the gym, and,

I've been coming here,

quite a lot actually and been doing the

the sessions here. They've got open sessions for

everyone. That's what in Thailand I mean, I'm

in Bangkok. Don't forget. I mean, most people

come to Thailand. They come to Phuket

and other places like that for more time.

But Bangkok has got its fair share of,

gyms as well.

And, I mean, 1 particular gym called Jetty

Gym

who are known for, let's say, for example,

clinching,

which is a particular

maneuver or technical

style even

in Muay Thai.

And,

yeah, I'm doing a lot of private here

with the guys.

And, you know, the pad sessions can actually

be quite a fantastic workout, to be honest

with you, the pad sessions.

And,

did you show the bags? You got the

bags here.

It's the ring. It's the the the sparring

there. It's the sparring and stuff like that.

And,

yeah, it's pretty good.