This is the journey of a female Muy Thai pro-fighter

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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.

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