Like many of her fellow fighters, Kedzie is a transplant, having relocated to Albuquerque specifically to train at Jackson’s. Regardless of gender, to watch two highly trained athletes ply their trade is a great and exciting experience,” she says. “A fight is a fight a fighter is a fighter. And while women’s MMA doesn’t garner the grand following of the men's, that doesn’t change how Kedzie feels about the game. The female contingent of Team Jackson includes three pro mixed martial artists, two pro boxers and several amateurs. Kedzie is one of 60 professional mixed martial arts competitors training at Jackson’s MMA gym. "After a training session, I become kind of a hermit I spend a lot of time reading or watching movies.” “It's very hard to keep a balanced life between training and staying motivated and maintaining outside, separate interests," she says. Those very things she loves about fighting also make the fighting life taxing, even upon those who wouldn’t trade it for anything. "But I really enjoy the process the conditioning, the sparring, the weight cutting, etc.-all present different challenges that must be overcome day by day.” She wants to win her fights more than anything in the world, she adds. "Although the fight itself is only about 15 minutes, the training camp and experience of preparing for that 15 minutes of war is incredibly gratifying.” Don't get her wrong. “Fighting is an art that combines mental strength with physical exertion," she says. In fact, it gets in the way fighters fueled by emotion can grow careless. Despite how it appears, malice is often absent from the cage. Still, as a competitor, she’s more than ready to throw down. She considers herself nonconfrontational and says she's never been in a real street fight. It’s somehow incongruous to watch this cheerful woman talk about how much she loves to fight.
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