January2014

This afternoon’s clinching session started with me shadowing in the ring, warming up.  Sakmongkol taught me a knee that he was working on with Sifu McInnes and his son last night.  Basically it’s a long straight...

We arranged a private session for clinch instruction just before regular afternoon training today.  I wasn’t in a good mood entering the gym, which is unfortunate because my attitude and how I’m “read” by trainers is...

Even though it’s Sunday, which is usually a rest day, Sakmongkol invited me to come train with him for two hours in the morning because he didn’t want to do padwork yesterday.  He had let me...

Today was my first double session.  There is no Muay Thai in the morning but they gym is open all day, so I got up and headed over to arrive at the gym by 9:00 AM. ...

  I’ve been in Pattaya getting instruction from Sakmongkol and one of the first things he did (day 2) was show me how he wants me to knee a bag. He was watching me do the...

January 1, 2014 – Loi Kroh Ring, Chiang Mai I took an extra week between this fight and the last one, mainly because when I got back to training after the last one and kicked on...

I crashed at 8 PM last night, right after dinner.  I hadn’t slept since my nap before afternoon training at Lanna the day before, so I was definitely running on low sleep and having traveled and...

Our flight to Bangkok from Chiang Mai was at 6:55 AM, so we were up and heading out the door by 5:30.  We weren’t sure if we’d be able to easily find a rot daeng (share...

With a very heavy heart I read the news this morning that Mauricio Zingano – husband and trainer to UFC contender Cat Zingano – has passed away.  The sadness of his passing touches on numerous levels:...

about 900 km from Chiang Mai – an hour and 20 minute flight, just South of Bangkok Sakmongkol, Pattaya and Clinch In a shoot-from-the-hip decision, considered over the past few weeks and really decided over the...