Think Muay Thai is a sport only for men? Think again. Meet Emily Wahby, a professional fighter and trainer who’s KO’ing the sport’s gender stereotypes. These are her struggles, successes and words of wisdom.
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00:00In the beginning, I think more or less for 6-7 months I was rejected in every way.
00:08When we were wearing gloves, it was not a light.
00:12I returned almost every night with my eyes black.
00:20I started to make it worse, then I decided to make a match
00:26and I wanted to make it easier, by moving into a group agonist,
00:30which was completely masculine.
00:32At a certain point, they proposed to make a match,
00:34and I accepted it, and from there it started everything.
00:40Ascoltate, you have to believe in everything,
00:43do whatever you have in mind.
00:56I was born in Morocco.
00:58I was born here at the age of 10.
01:06My test is allostimamente riddata by my mother.
01:12My mother has tried to ostacify everything.
01:16I understand it too,
01:18because it's not easy to think that your daughter
01:20would go into the ring and take a pic.
01:26In Thailand, the last tournament,
01:32I had to do a tournament and maintain a certain type of weight.
01:35So I did a week where I did two times a day
01:38and I ate only once.
01:39I remember that I arrived in the final,
01:41I remember that I was going to do the weight
01:43before I was going to do the weight
01:44because I couldn't do it anymore.
01:45And when I won,
01:47it was a beautiful satisfaction
01:49because I was really low at the emotional level.
01:52I had to say that
01:56I hadn't seen the women and women
01:58that I don't see that
01:59they are completely different.
02:01And it's not true that
02:02this is not a female spot.
02:04At least...
02:05I'm even more fast.
02:06Back!
02:07This is this!
02:08When it comes to someone, it's important characters and when it comes to me, it's a little bad.
02:20But once it starts the lesson, it changes the idea almost immediately.
02:28When it comes to a woman, she wants to do it.
02:32I have women of all ages, women of all ages, men of all ages and men of all ages.
02:43Being a combatant is even more complex because you can confront yourself with the other person
02:48but also with you because you have to go with your instinct.
02:51In the end, you have to put in a square where you have to play with the other person
02:55and you have to protect yourself.
02:59So, the fear of staying there and confronting yourself with the other person.
03:04To become a fighter, in my opinion, you have to have the constance of going on
03:09despite everything, whatever.
03:11There cannot be a reason for which you can stop.
03:15Bye.
03:16Bye.
03:17Bye.
03:18Bye.
03:19Bye.
03:20Bye.
03:21Bye.