Her First Kickboxing Match | Complete Breakdown 

I appreciate how you aren't afraid to show your emotions. A lot of martial arts coaches feel the need to always act like a robot and you're just you (as best we can tell as viewers)

Excellent work, Natalia -- that's super cool to hear about how much you've inspired those younger gals. Your opponent had skills, too -- great match 👏

For all the asshole vibes Mike tries to give out, this video was very telling with regards to what he's actually like with people, and why Wonderboy said he's way nicer in real life than you'd think he is! XD Big grats to Natalia.

I don't know you young lady, but I just wanted to say I'm proud of you because that took a lot of guts to get out there. You couldn't have a better coach and that helps a lot, but in the end it was you who walked out there and fought alone in the circle. Well done!

Cheers! I love to see this. I stared MMA at 41. I'm still training. I am putting serious thought into accepting 1 or 2 Kick Boxing/Muy Thai fights, and an MMA match or 2. I will be documenting my journey. TLDR: Videos like this inspire me to display my journey. No matter how difficult.

Pkb seems so interesting.

That was a great fight, thanks for sharing the whole experience with us Natalia and Coach Mike! I look forward to seeing where you go from here.

First time competing jitters are real, even at the amateur level (I never went pro in kickboxing or MMA). I was puking in the locker room beforehand, I was really nervous. She handled it really well! And performed admirably too. Well done! The post fight fugue is also pretty strange.

I haven't even watched yet, but just want to give mad respect to Natalia for both going to her first kickboxing match and for allowing us all to watch this breakdown. They both take a lot of guts :)

What an awesome showing! Most people have no idea how much guts it takes to do what she did and that was damn impressive for a first outing. I loved the breakdown and honest reactions. Thanks for sharing!

Man if I could give this video ten thumbs up, I would. Mike, I'm so grateful you shared this. It's very heartening to see your coaching and the repoire you guys have. You really care about the success of your students. And Natalia, you are AWESOME! I'm a chubby mom of two who recently started Muay Thai. For the last few years after the kids go to bed I've been watching hundreds and hundreds of boxing and MMA videos, thinking I could never do that kind of thing in a million years. One of my father-in-law's favorite things to say to me is, "If a man wanted to beat you up, there's just nothing you could do about it." He likes to tell me that if my husband wanted to beat me that I couldn't do anything (which is absurd because my husband is a gentle man and would never do that. My father-in-law can't seem to comprehend that). He says it again and again. I didn't really know what to say, so I just stayed quiet. With all this radical feminist stuff now I see a lot of women around me who are (understandably) angry at being vulnerable, angry about guys who have been putting them down their whole lives, and they get caught in the trap of thinking they are physically the same as men. But that's not reality, and getting caught in that thinking ultimately isn't helpful. I joined Muay Thai and he found out and gave me an earful. And every time I trained with the guys I was aware of how much smaller and weaker I was. And I kept hearing him say those things in my head and after a while I thought, "Well...what's the point?" I got caught in that hole for a long time. It kept me from going. But that's when I realized there's a whole other part to training. There's a whole other fight going on in my head. I thought I was the only one having to deal with it. But as I talked to the other people at my gym, I realized a lot of other people were dealing with that in their own ways. They would get beat down...but they came back. Men and women. One time after I started training, my father-in-law was watching a crime show on TV. They showed CCTV footage of a woman being brutally assaulted by a man on a train. And the conversation got around to self defense and he sat down at the table and said the thing he always loves to say. He wanted to remind me that I was no match for a man. That time I looked at him and said, "Maybe not. But I can make myself hard to hurt." And he laughed. But who cares? I've come to realize that type of exchange is just another type of sparring. It's just another opportunity for training. I want to get in that ring and do a real fight some day. Thanks again Natalia and Mike :)

Its crazy how you can tell nearly everything important you need to know about a person by watching them fight. This lady has a solid mindset. She will go far.

Congratulations Natalia! Your first time competing in kickboxing went way better than mine. It makes me incredibly happy to see other women competing, as I don’t get a lot of competition in tournaments in my division brackets. Keep inspiring more young women, and hopefully we’ll have more women competing and pushing us to get better. Great job!

I know I am way behind, but big props to Nat, She really brings life to the channel. A huge inspiration of woman and all of us! Thanks Natalia!!!

Mike is being nice, supportive, loving... the fuck is this, opposite day or something? On serious note: great job and tip of the head to both the fighter and the coach

Great job! Way more present in the moment than I have been on any of my PKBs for sure. Mental conditioning is huge

Super cool! Thanks for going online and showing us this! Motivates me so much and gives Big inspiration. Thank you both ❤️

Great job and congratulations on winning your first fight Natalia! I'm a small dude and I have lost my first two fights thus far. But I want to keep on going for the same reasons you stated. I have a past of abuse and bullying and ever since then I have been fighting to get control back, and my martial arts journey helps me with that. You are inspiring Natalia and this video is of great help. I hope you keep at it! I can't wait to see you in your next bout!

Oh' no! Another World Warrior enters the Street Fighter arena! Great Job!

Too Cool!! Super Proud to be apart of this Gym and crew of great training partners!!

never expected to cry from an icymike video but here we are :") well done Natalia

My 8 and 4 yr olds love spending time with me watching fights. But they both get excited watching women compete. My 8 Yr old trains karate with me once a week and does kick boxing at school. And my 4yr old is chomping at the bit to join us on the mat. I'll be showing them this video tomorrow. Thank you for sharing

Great message to start the year. Great job, you two. 👏

Love the advice: "You're going to get tired and hit either way ..."! She just went for it and got it done!

She's such a badass. I'm happy for her and I know Mike is proud. This makes me so happy. 🙂

I recently had my first Simi contact Point Muay Thai fight Last November and I won the concepts and principles you teach on this channel helped out a lot and I should have my next on on the 28th of this month (I have been watching you for about 3 years now) Thanks Mike 😁

Really good job by Natalia. Especially in talking about dealing with the stress and pushing through. You're definitely an inspiration.

This whole video is amazing. Great athlete, great coach! Natalia, keep being your best and you will inspire others, guaranteed.

thanks for showing this! just seeing women do this is really inspiring, like "i want to do be a badass like her", especially knowing there's something like pkb, not so intimidating as a newbie

I'm smiles ear to ear, more like this, please!

Love these coaching videos. Congrats to you two!

That was amazing, so inspirational! Having trained at a gym, I didn't even know that these were an option or if they're new? I assumed it was straight to an amateur match. Loved hearing the journey you both went through, looking forward to seeing more.

Great video. Congratulations on your win.

GREAT STUFF! Good work, Natalia. Also, thanks to Mike for making this kind of thing possible and being a force for good in the combat sports community! I look forward to seeing more of these videos.

Mike's reaction when he finds out she won is classic! I want a coach like that, lol.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Mike.

I just love this! Natalia is awesome and already inspiring so many women like myself!!

3:42 "put the right behind that" and it lands clean 3:50 "jab jab" doubles up on the jab, then proceeds to follow up with the right Not only does she have the ability to listen to her corner and implement what they are telling her to do, but she can even build the instructions off of each other in the heat of the moment. Very impressive stuff.

Congrats!!

I know that proud dad feel my from when my ten year old daughter does her grading fights at her karate club.

Awesome. Well done Natalia. And it's great that the whole video is added after you've done the breakdown. Thanks for sharing.

That in everyway was so cool!

An amazing video, and very inspirational as well. Well trained, well coached and well fought. Thank you.

Congrats on the win and being inspirational.

That was AWESOME! Natalia rocked it! So excited for her!

That is awesome (for both of you!). Thanks for sharing.

great video coach 🔥

Just the first 30 seconds of the video provided so much insight.

Nice! I really enjoy the fights and breakdowns.

Huge congratulations to Natalia on winning her first fight! It was very cool hearing about it form her perspective. I remember I would get the "upset stomach" on sparring days, so watching her fight was enlightening. And yes have more videos with Natalia please.

Awesome, Natalia! That was a good win versus a very tough and game oponent. Inspiring for sure!

Loved this video, amazing you inspired some of the youth, they need it.

Need more women like this in the world. Gotta keep inspiring the little ones.💖 This is amazing.

Love this! Great job!

Wow thanks for your realism and vulnerability in this video. I wish i knew about PKBs. I probably would have used them to gain confidence to compete. Great job! It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there.

Awesome video! Really proud of Natalia. I thought she fought a really smart fight despite the nerves.

Good job and well done!

Great video thanks for the upload

That's so awesome. I love that she's getting out there and getting acclaim. Badass.

Congrats! And an inspirational video! In several ways.

Great job Natalia and Hard to Hurt.

You go girl! Bravo! Keep after it!

Congrats! I would've strait up cried with those little girls!

Great stuff, genuinely put a big smile on my face. Props to Natalia!

Well done to both of you.

Love this!

congratulations!

Phenomenal work girl! There will be many times where are you feedback. And there will be many times that you fail! But the only direction is forward and up!!! You just prove to yourself how capable you are! Do it again. And again! Learn, adapt! The moment we stop learning something. We become stagnant! There is no perfection. Only exceeding expectations. God bless y’all!

I am going to fight in a kickboxing tournament in October and I'm so excited, win or lose its gonna be fun

I like the energy in this whole video. Mike and Sensei seth’s content (ok I watched a lot of old UFC and boxing as well), as weird as it might sound, got me to return to martial arts in my 30’s. So even though Mike can’t fight himself out of a wet paper bag made out of aikido, his students are really amazing. It really gives you a vibe that I need to go find a gym and start trauning.

1:31 That right hand though your fighter could have basically ended the fight with that if it was full contact, real nice shot funnily enough the girl in yellow shin pads got much better at the end of the second round once she listened to you yell "jab jab jab" to your fighter and decided to do it herself lol

More Natalia vids YES!! 👏🏻👊

I love this. Proper kickboxing!

Yooo this looks really fun

Good job Nat.

🔥🔥respect she did really good

Good job, Natalia!!

Awesome first time in the ring, Natalia! Brings back memories of my own brain blank my first time. And good on you for being an inspiration for other women.

Awesome, congrats😁

Great job!

Very wholesome. Nice

Very cool, congrats

Great job Natalia!! She should be proud 🙂

As a first-time competitor, you can be nervous but over time you'll gain more confidence. This looks like a great way to make combat sport accessible to everyone with a lot of fun . Your body shows nervousness when confronting your opponent. In the combat sport when you have fun you show less nervousness and are aware of what's happening, you pick up the opponent's strategies and tehiques fighting styles too!

I cried a bit. Amazing.

That was very cool. Looks like a lot of fun. And a great way to make combat sports accessible to everyone. Its a great entry level way of finding out if you enjoy competing or not.

My first pkb tmr in Greensboro got a little cold but I’m exited

that was amazing!

Fantastic!

It's like, the way the camera is, there's a real feel to it. I'm actually feeling the jitters as she walks out onto the floor as if I'm there and not safe behind my keyboard.

Beautiful to see. Thanks so much for sharing with everyone Natalia. @hard2hurt thanks for doing this Mike, would love to see more like this.

In the UK they are often called interclub. A little different but also similar. Well done to everyone who gets up and does anything like this. The fear of fatigue is real

We took a few of our newer guys to an event like this. I wish we had more in our area

Way to go!

Great job to both ladies, excellent work, and courage to put yourself out there like that. Talia definitely one round 2 but I think the other girl definitely won round 1. Talia seemed like she was starting to feel comfortable in there, and was finding her rhythm, bummer there wasn't a 3rd round. Again good job, and hope to see more videos like this.

Swamp Fox BJJ/Carolina Kickboxing Academy that's what's up! Florence is my hometown but I live in NH now and train various combat sports up here. I've always wanted to train at that place when I'm visiting and never can cause I only visit for holidays lol

That’s cool! I wanna train up and try one of these

Inspiring!!! 🤩

She is solid. Awesome for her first fight.

Am I just in a mood or something? This video just keeps getting more amazing. "I always tell my kids 'If you have something nice to say about somebody, go and say it to them.'"