March2014

This is a bit of a free form thought response to reading a very interesting article. I wrote a blog post recently on the role of menstrual taboo in Thailand limiting women’s access to the top...

Full Fight Video Toyota Tournament fight – February 15, 2014 – Fight begins at minute 3:30 At the time of this fight Tanadet (Poda) had a record of 48 wins, 13 losses, 1 draw. before the...

Sancherng Narupai (red) vs Manasak S  Rajchai (blue) – this fight is likely from 1986. I love Sancherng’s (red) crouched approach for the first two rounds, the way he gets so still and just swallows up...

We all know the bro (or the female version) who says “Let’s go light” in sparring, and then whacks you. Or, when you get a hit in they suddenly step it up two notches in a...

I learned a ton training with Sakmongkol in Pattaya for 7 weeks, as well in my time at Petchrungruang Gym. You can see my daily blog posts of my time with Sakmongkol here if you want...

  One of the coolest things about meeting and training with PhetJee Jaa was that we were able to get video of 5 fights of hers that were stuck on old camera SD cards. The video...

Petchrungruang Gym – Pattaya Above is my video review of Petchrungruang Gym, where I spent about 6 weeks during my recent stay in Pattaya. For those that have not been following, I was doing a full...

I was very excited and shocked to learn that my Muay Thai hero, the 12-year-old phenomenon Phetjeejaa O. Meekhun, trains at her family gym just a 30 second walk through a chicken farm from where I’ve...

A little bit ago I learned these pull-ups for clinch, seeing Bank do them at Petchrungruang Gym. Bank is Kru Nu’s young Nak Muay son, about 40 kg. They seemed pretty good so I added them...

This is PhetJee Jaa’s first fight in 4 months, since the Muay Thai Authority ban on mix girl vs. boy fighting stopped her from fighting on Thai TV at Aswindum, against boys. Those fights were earning...