I just discovered that Romanian-American actress and martial artist
Florina Petcu has a martial arts blog.
If you've seen Spike Lee's Inside Man, you'll remember Florina Petcu stealing the show as the stunning Albanian woman with the parking tickets.
It's a little hard to believe that one woman could be so beautiful, so talented as an actress and also so physically capable as to take the silver medal at the world IFMA Muay Thai boxing championships in Thailand.
Florina simply kicks ass.
She writes:
The bell rang and the fight started. The Russian attacked with a series of punches. It was war. And I wasn't going to make it easy for her. I tried to respect the game plan I made with my trainer and get in the clinch but the referee didn't like that and she would break the clinch every time. It was frustrating but I couldn't show it. After the first round I went to the corner and Joe told me to change the strategy. I did. It was working. We both fought our hearts out and I didn't make it easy for the Russian girl nor did she for me. There was a moment somewhere between the first and second round where I felt something hard to define, like a switch almost that made me understand what a true warrior is, what it means to truly fight with all my heart, where victory was less important than the fight itself. It was a tough fight, it was a true war, a fight meant to be the final of a World championship. The moment they announced the Russian as the winner I felt disappointed but I knew I left it all in the ring. I had no regrets. The team was supportive and encouraging. It kept me strong. It was all over. I got the silver.
