00:00Hello, my name is Obed Hussein.
00:02When I was eight, my dad took me to this gym.
00:05I just fell in love with the sport after that.
00:07Before that, I used to play football.
00:09But after that, when I got introduced to Muay Thai,
00:12I just forgot about football.
00:14I just carried on doing Muay Thai and had loads of fights
00:18till I'm now 20.
00:20So about 12 years of fighting and stuff now.
00:23Football was really soft.
00:25People used to fall around easy and stuff.
00:27But Muay Thai was really hard, tough,
00:30like sparring, doing pads.
00:32It always took, like, when I used to train,
00:36I used to go home and just quickly fall asleep.
00:38That's how hard it used to be.
00:40But I like that because, you know,
00:42I'm just that person who likes to push myself all the time.
00:46And I like to see improvement in every fight.
00:50So it's like, train hard and then fight easy.
00:53Training with Jump Hop, it's like,
00:55training here is, like, my second home.
00:58It's been, like, I live...
01:00It's basically, like, training with my family, basically.
01:03Everyone's nice to me.
01:04Everyone's, like, friendly.
01:06We mess about, we get serious sometimes if you have, like, fights.
01:09Before I started, I used to do inter-clubs,
01:12which is, like, a friendly match.
01:14So there wasn't any winners or losers.
01:16I used to have loads of them, like, every...
01:18I had a few every week.
01:20And then I got into, like, tournaments as a kid.
01:24And I had around, like, 60, 70 amateur fights and junior fights.
01:57And then when I was 16, I moved to a professional,
01:59like, London and other ones.
02:01But this one, like, really big
02:02because it's in, like, my home city and stuff.
02:04And me and my dad are, like, heavy on, like, charity work.
02:08So we're doing, like, fundraising where I sparred.
02:11And I sparred, like, different people around the country and stuff
02:15to raise money for, like, care homes and hospitals and, like, food banks.
02:23And that brought, like, more people around me.
02:26And then I bring, I train, like, kids.
02:30I help with the kids' class, even the adults' class.
02:32I train people privately.
02:33In my next few fights, hopefully, I can get the big contract.
02:38I get signed to the biggest stage.
02:41And hopefully, one day, I can fight for the belt as well.
02:45It's helped me, like, mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally.
02:49It's truly a blessing to help these people around me,
02:53such as my dad, my mum, John Pop, my trainer,
02:56and my teammates around the world.
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