Tear it down to build it up again

To my great dismay, both my hands developed scrapes on the knuckles in the first week of training. I tried to push through it, only to have them get infected. I had to back off from punching for some time, which was a blessing in disguise. From the first day at the camp, I've been criticized for every lower body technique I've thrown including my knees, kicks, and foot jabs. I have had the luxury of only being able to work my lower body techniques for the past two weeks. I've been able to use this time to really focus on the small technique adjustments that the trainers have been giving me. Initially, every change made all my techniques feel forced, awkward, and consumed three times more energy to throw with 1/4 as much power, which explains why the trainers keep telling me to relax. Every so often, my body relaxes, and the motion happens without overthinking. This is immediately followed by an, "Aaaaaaahhhh! Good good!" from my pad holder. After a couple weeks, and over several thousand repetitions, the techniques are beginning to come more naturally and more importantly, it isn't tiring me out as much.
In my training at Evolve, our pad rounds involved a lot more movement and action reaction. However, here the pad rounds seem to revolve around repetition and building speed. Having never had a pad round that involved throwing over 50 kicks on top of everything else, much less 5 in a row, I'd like to think I'm justifiably tired. I've still got just over a month of training left, hopefully I can hang with the Thais by the time I leave.

On a side note, I thought it was curious how hard of a time they were giving me about my technique. There were many other farang training at the camp who had similar if not worse technique than me, but the trainers seem to let it go. From what I can decipher from their broken english, it seems the trainers recognized I had powerful kicks, they just wanted to make a few small adjustments. The fact that they are pushing me as opposed to just lazily holding pads for me gives me a small boost of confidence in that they seem to see a little potential. Lets hope I'm right about that :).