June2012

My friend Boomii came by today to pick up some of my shorts as examples to make custom Muay Thai shorts. Her family business makes uniforms in Thailand and there is a chance they could begin...

I had the rare and wonderful opportunity to train with Sakmongkol, one-on-one in Colorado before I left for Thailand.  I’m from Boulder and it turns out he teaches out of Zingano BJJ, which has two locations...

It felt like forever between my last fight and this one, even though it was only 14 days.  There wasn’t a big group of folks coming along in one big truck like usual, so it was...

When I first looked across the ring at my opponent she looked much bigger to me.  I thought she was taller and her legs looked big, but once we met in the middle to tap gloves...

Video was originally posted by nopstar of My Muay Thai – this is invaluable information on how to score and really watch sport Muay Thai. For further study read this article by Tony Myers on scoring...

One of the more difficult aspects of adopting a consistent mental training regimen is being able to identify and acknowledge the numerous ways in which one has been already training negative mental practices.  It’s actually the...

Elbows are pointy and bony and can be painful.  Mine are really little and pointy and very painful; or so I’m told.  Taywin has instructed me before on how to dig the elbows down into the...

Clinch Essentials Brooks Miller, a fellow student of Master K’s, posted this excellent breakdown of the basics of Thai clinch technique on my Facebook page, one of the most under-trained aspects of Muay Thai, a sub-art...

This day of training was wonderful and terrible all at once.  I woke up tired and just stayed that way all day.  I was able to push through it and surprised myself in training, discovering little...

About 4 months before I left for Thailand I was beginning my sincere efforts to learn the Thai language.  Master K told me I should learn “The Muay Thai Song” in Thai and perform it as...