Vicky Ochala interview · ข่าว Ireland

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Fansview Combat Sports interviews Vicky Ochala ahead of a Rumble Championships bout in about two weeks. She introduces herself as a Team KF Martial Arts fighter training full-time after returning from a Thailand camp where she also had several fights. Her camp routine is twice daily, six days a week, mixing morning boxing or pads and S&C with evening K1 and striking. She says her weight is comfortable for this bout but she plans to drop a class when she turns pro. Looking past the Rumble fight, she targets the World Championships in Madrid and hopes to fit in another bout in October, then possibly one more in December. She discusses a head injury in January that kept her out after December bouts and delayed a hoped-for March return, forcing rest from pads and heart-rate training and a difficult identity shift after a strong prior striking year with title wins. She says travel helped her reset and closes with encouragement for women staying in a male-dominated sport.

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I'm here today with Vicki. Um, and we will talk about her upcoming fight in two weeks on Rumble. And yeah, Vicki, what's your day-to-day life look like for your upcoming fight? Um, okay. Thank you for having me. Um, so, uh, wait, will I introduce myself? I'll introduce myself. Okay, so my name is Vicki Ochala. Um, I'm fighting a team KF and I'm fighting on Rumble Championships in two weeks. Um, so at the moment I'm training full-time. I just got back from Thailand. Uh, which I did a training camp there and I had a few fights out there as well. So yeah, I got back home, got back straight into a straight back into a wake call. Um, which I wouldn't have any other way. But yeah, I'm training twice a day, six days a week. Um some days I have boxing training in the morning, some days I have pads, um SNC and then of K1 and striking every evening. So yeah, that's bas have to cut a lot of weight or no. >> Uh my weight so the way I'm fighting after this is actually like I'm quite comfortable with where I'm at. Um I'd like to move down a weight category for when I'm fighting pro. So, that would be a bit more of a wake up, but at the moment, it's it's not too bad. >> Okay. Oh, that's great. So, what what are your plans for after your next fight? Like, do you have anything big coming? >> Um, I'd love to just get another fight in as much. I'd love to get as many fights as possible in. So, um the next one after this fight, I think, is the World Championships for me in Madrid. So, that would be a big one. But I'm hoping to get maybe another fight lined up in October just before and yeah, then off to the World Championships and then hopefully finish the year off with another fight in December. >> Ah, that's great. So, I've heard you had an head injury in January. So, how did this affect you? Like, yeah, like what what happened and how did you handle everything in around Yeah. So, I've been out of fighting for since actually my last fight before my fights in Thailand were in December. So, I was really excited to get back in the ring kind of come March. Um, but unfortunately I had a bit of a head injury in January. Um, I mean I'm in the sport where this these things happen. like it's just it's part of the sport. But I don't really think it's talked about enough because um yeah, it was quite challenging. It was quite tough to to get through like your brain is obviously it's where your thoughts are created. It's where your real like your perception of reality is created in your brain. So, um, yeah, it was quite challenging because on top of that as well, when you suffer with any brain injury or concussion or whatever it is, you're not really able to hit pads, you're not really able to train to raise your heart rate. So, I think as an athlete, like all of that is a way for us to kind of Sorry. I think uh I'm just going to cut out Yeah, I think as athletes we use training as a way to like almost like escape not escape out of our bodies but we use it as a release. So when that wasn't around to do it was quite it was quite challenging you know and you have a lot of time to think you have a lot of time that you don't have when you're in camp and when you're training and fighting all the time. So it was something it was something that I had to get used to and kind of create a new identity around you know. >> Yeah. So so what changed for you? >> Um so for me I think last year I had such a I had such a great year when it comes to striking like I won a few titles and I finished on a really big high. Finished the year on a big high. But so I think that became such a big part of my identity that when all of that was taken away from me, I had to kind of find my feet back on the ground of like, okay, well, I don't have this at the moment. Um, so who am I? Like when I actually looked at deep down like I kind of my identity was I'm a fighter, but now I'm I don't have that for the next few months. So I'm not a fighter. I'm someone who fights, but who else am I? you know, like I'm a I'm a sister, I'm a daughter, I'm I'm an artist, and I kind of had to yeah, kind of reshape my my identity. But yeah, it was a process. So, I went traveling for a little bit. Um, and yeah, I've come back and I'm feel so much so much more fulfilled and so much happier and like I really know myself a lot better. Oh, that's that's great. So, I'm happy to hear that. >> Um, yeah. Like, do you have any advice for female fighters that think about to quit because it's obviously a ma male dominated sport. So, do you have any advice for them to keep going? >> Yeah, I think it's it is challenging as a female to be in a male dominated sport. Like, I can I can feel it myself. It's like you're up against men even when you're sparring, when you're doing drills. Like I train with the teens, some of the teens who are 17 and they're so much younger, but just because of the weight and you know the size difference when it comes to men who train who are professional fighters and stuff like it's it's challenging. So I think like the best thing you can do is just it's just keep going. Just keep pushing because every woman that stays in the sport and every woman who you know wins a fight, wins a title, you don't even have to win. just go out there and do it. You're paving the way for the next girl and you're inspiring someone that's coming after you as well, you know, no matter what age you are, no matter Yeah. Like it's it's it's always there's always someone watching and sometimes you're not even aware of it, but there's always someone watching and you're inspiring them through your own actions. >> Yeah. Think I think that's it for now. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much for your time. >> Yeah. Glory.