RODNEY VAN OOSSANEN I was 11 years old when I started practicing Teakwon-Do and and about 5 years later I passed the blue belt with brown slip. After that, when I had to take exams for the brown belt, I stopped practicing Teakwon-Do. Why? I found that you were doing too many exercises while I wanted more sparring. After a few years, I was now 19, I wanted to release my energy and started training again. This time at Survivor in Breda, Taekwon-Do I had traded for Thai boxing. Under the guidance of my trainer Jos Verbeijnen I soon started to enjoy it and started training more and more until eventually I was training 5 times a week. The Sundays were for running. After a year I switched to Sportstudio 85 in Hank, where I trained under Ron Troost. After Ron unfortunately passed away, Gerald Zwane brought me out in races in the N-Class after 1.5 Years. The transition to the C-Class followed and it became more and more technical. I thought it was fine. The level kept rising and after 5 years I returned to Breda. It was Leo Tuwannakotta who transferred a lot of technique and let me compete in the B-class. A few years later the gym was taken over by Ramon Dekker. Who doesn't know him? Together with Sel they brought me to the highest class. I learned a lot from them and am grateful for that. Not only technique, but also speed and especially perseverance. At the age of 30 I stopped competing. The combination of training very much and fighting matches proved increasingly difficult to combine with my work and my family. I did miss the sport, especially seeing athletes and fighters grow and decided to start teaching. Rodney's Gym was born and after first using the space of sports center Heijl, we have now found a beautiful new location at the Arkendonk. Here we can practice Thai Boxing, train, get tired but most of all get better. Thai Boxing is a wonderful sport. It brings you condition, strength, reactivity and.... It is also fun to do! Since 2022 I am a trainer in possession of the NOC/NSF diploma "Opleiding Trainer-Coach 3 Kickboxsen", the highest attainable diploma for a kickboxing trainer in the Netherlands.
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Lijndonk,
4907 Oosterhout,
The Netherlands
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