May2012

The Comeback Dog I had last Friday off because I was fighting on Saturday.  At breakfast on Friday a kid from the camp came in and told me that it’s a pain when I’m not there...

I got to sleep in until 6:00 this morning and when I woke up the mountains were shrouded in a beautiful veil of mist.  I had a little difficulty shaking off the sleepiness that grips me...

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I’ve been back in Thailand for six weeks and this is my fourth fight in that time.  I lost the two previous fights for reasons that had more to do with mental blocks than physical technique,...

This fight was frustrating.  I’d just lost in a similar way to my previous opponent, with her backing up and me unable to close the distance for my strikes to land.  The similarity between my previous...

This opponent’s Ram Muay was the most beautiful I have seen and I recommend that you watch it. She is an amateur boxer for the Thai National Games so her punches were really quick, tight and...

Master K used to teach down in Virginia and so he has a somewhat expansive collection of students up and down the East Coast.  He has taught at most gyms in NYC and has certified many...

It's been said to me countless times, "สบาย ๆ."  It means "relax," basically and it deals mainly with the aesthetic of Muay Thai and how it looks effortless, calm and flatly unemotional until it explodes in...

The second time Thay-Win held pads for me he would periodically stop, take a step back and look at me with a kind of stern consideration. I asked him what he was doing and he said,...