the Heading for the last year has been the success of the Mark O. Madsen.
With a muggert of another world hammered his name into the MMA granites with four wins in a row in 2018 and seems to get closer and closer to UFC dream in the crazy sport.
But no one triumphs without a spot. No bright moments in life without deprivation.
It has OL-sølvvinderen from Rio been able to nod in recognition. For the intense workout the last ten months of time have occurred in Copenhagen and on Funen in Odense and Svendborg. Therefore, Mark O. pendlet for dear life in the fight to be better in oktagonen.
A mission that is succeeding. But it’s not been a workable model in the longer term.
his family has constantly been in the home in Nykøbing Falster, and with four-five days in the car to and from other destinations in the country, many hours with his and mrs Maria’s daughters have never been to something.
It tells, while he toils to be combative for the next mission, which will take place in the K. B. Hall 9. march.
– I have wanted to find the everyday life, as I knew from refraction, where I had a fixed base with the coach. I know all about it, and that’s where I perform best. It has been tough having to commute four to five days a week, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
the Answer is the Olympian Gym, which will be opened in Maribo measly 25-minute drive from the home in Nykøbing 2. February. Here slams he cage up, so the conditions are as optimal as possible. And it is here, he is going to work out the majority of the time in the future.
– I will simply move more of my workouts home, he says.
– I have trained in Odense, Copenhagen and Svendborg. In the morning and late in the evening. It has therefore not been able to pay to drive back (to Nykøbing, ed.), and therefore spent the night in a caravan, when I was in Copenhagen, he says.
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Mark O. Madsen during training for the fight against Alexander Bordin in september. Photo: Philip Davali
– It has been some intense months, but now we have reached the point where I as a father can be home more and be with my children. So can I train in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon and train again in the evening, when in bed, he elaborates.
One thing is missing to the family. Something else has been the physical part. For it does not take much to sit in a car, when one ought to lie on a couch and get a massage, for some aching rods.
– It has pushed my refund. It is no doubt about that. It has given challenges to it, and the diet also, and I have not gotten the treatment I should. There, I have been squeezed, he says.
the Ambition is that the Olympian Gym must be more than one octagon. The role model is it, Mark O. Madsen experienced in the UNITED states, as he prepared himself for the fight in december.
– With the help of some investors, we will develop the concept so that it contains the fitness and crossfit also. As Randy Couture makes in the UNITED states. So you have all the options under the same roof, he explains with reference to the now-retired triple the UFC-champion who is a legend in the international martial arts.
Mark O. Madsen has already met with the attitude that Different enough not just is the site that should be able to go and become a MMA hotspot, as he puts it. But why not, he asks rhetorically.
– It’s all about getting the right people in. I had break nor freedom of choice in relation to sparring partners. But I got to the end. The challenges here are very similar, and I’m trying to solve it. But Rome was not built in a day, it comes.
– How is it to step in fresh snow. We do it to the best of my knowledge. We are going enough not to hit right every time, but you try to put his feet there, where the ice can carry, he says.
Completely get rid of pendleriet can Mark O. Madsen is not. Once a week, he will continue to take the trip to either Fyn or Copenhagen.
– But it is to live with. The days will be well spent, he says.
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On the road against new record
Mark O. with his wife, Maria, who is also his manager, before the fight against Matthew Bonner in december. Photo: René Schütze
at the time Of writing is his opponent in the K. B. Hall 9. march yet unknown. But the hope is to be able to publish part 2. February in Maribo. What in turn is certain is that the attendance in the now re-opened hall on Frederiksberg write a piece of Danish idrætshistorie.
For, after having appeared for the first 1200 people in Nykøbing Falster Hall in september – and since 1600 in Frederikshavn in december, is the bar raised for the olympic silver.
There can be 2800 people in the K. B. Hall. At the present time there sold 75 percent of the tickets – that is, in the vicinity of the 2100 tickets.
– It is almost unreal. The interest is so big with a little under seven weeks. Yesterday we rounded 75 percent, he says and refers to, that it is less than 700 seats available back.
And that in itself the promotion of the regatta has come in revolutions. The first had come in the weeks leading up to the regatta, where the majority of the tickets are usually sold. But how to play the piano is not in this delivery.
– As it looks now, it will be the biggest event on Danish soil ever. Such an event could not have been done just a year ago, he says.
Wow. It has been a bet, and when it succeed, so we are so sincerely happy and proud, he says.
At present, four of the largest and most well-known MMA fighters on the card 9. march. In addition to the Mark O. Madsen, is there a comeback for both Nicolas Dalby and Søren Bak. Finally, there is also Mads Burnell in action.
