July2015

Everyone is talking about Buakaw’s loss to a Russian fighter last night in Hong Kong. I stopped into my usual grocer and was at the checkout counter when one of the baggers behind me started going...

You can read all of my Muay Thai clinch articles here. Caley Reece, one of the best female clinch fighters in the world, said something interesting along the lines of “Always train clinch with gloves, you...

When I came home the other day my husband Kevin was interested in how I would view this promotional video (above), shot to highlight fitness model, Muay Thai practitioner and lifter Aurora LZ – who I’ve...

I sat quietly, wrapping my hands in the main room of the gym, facing the ring. The light in the mornings pours in with impunity and sometimes it’s hard to focus on the farther edges of...

There is a natural division in western feminist thinking, and in some way this post is about that divide. But much more it is about the situational ethics, the principles we may want to protect and...

The above is a heat map that works as a kind of answer to the question “Who Loves Muay Thai in Thailand?” As well as a listing of the top provinces on that map. The data...

Two vlog updates from this week. The first is from Bangkok when I visited the National Library trying to track down an article from 1972 which supposedly relates the famous “woman in the ring” event at...

guest post, Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu – a husband’s point of view It has been my hope in this series to give something of my perspective, my experience as a husband, in watching Sylvie do what no...

I’ve posted and talked about this fight elsewhere, but recently the video was sent to me by someone who has been practicing Muay Thai for more than a decade, and who I know to be interested...