I will add, it doesn't matter how physically good or well prepared you are, if you aren't mentally strong enough or cut out for a sport as hard as this, it is as well to realise it, and either enjoy it as a keep fit, self defence form of exercise, or look elsewhere, when Toddy came over he was teaching Taekwondo as he thought nobody would want muay Thai until a few students started asking, it's very hard, and takes total commitment to acquire the necessary attributes