Not starting her career as early as young boxers, Janet Todd only started practicing Muay Thai while she was a student at the universe at the University of California, USA.
Starting his career quite late, growing up in the environment that Muay Thai was not too attention, it was not until 31 years old to have the first great success such as the bronze medal of the IFMA World Championship, the World Games Bronze Medal and an IFMA Pan American Championship gold medal.
“Indeed, I don't have much faith in myself before starting the journey to One Championship,” Todd recounted.
“In contrast to many other strong” tiger “boxers, I am not a person with a very strong personality, even quite shy. Perhaps, overcoming my own shyness after every training session is the formula that makes me succeed on the stage.”
So how was the shy girl Janet Todd became a confident champion?
“For a person with a soft personality like me, fostering confidence is what must be done. But finding the formula for it is not easy,” the A Atomweight One Kickboxing champion admitted.
“The confidence comes and goes like a wave: When you first step on the stage, you will be confident about yourself. But later, when you encounter more good opponents and have more lessons on the floor, you will feel your knowledge on the Muay floor is pitiful. Along with that, your confidence will go away, and it will affect the way you dispute.”
“I think I have just really changed since I was aware of what I was good at and which techniques I could use to take advantage of the match.”
And yet, with the champion Janet Todd, it is equally important to overcome itself in each training session.
“The most difficult part of training is that you have to constantly motivate yourself. Even if my body feels exhausted, when my mind says” enough, Janet “, I have to continue. I have to tell myself that I can do it, be able to overcome this, to promote to make myself better.”
“JT” added that she often wrote these assertions down to paper to concretize them in her head. However, even without the subconscious energy she has, Janet Todd will look for hope and dreams to overcome pain and fatigue in every training session.
“My mission is to continue to learn what motivates myself, finding out who I am and what my ability is. It's a way to motivate me to make more progress,” she explained.