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Because I’m small, I think everyone is “tall.” Burklerk is not a big man and, in fact, it wasn’t until actually watching the footage we shot that I saw how similar we are in height, but...

Study with me as I learned from Tanadet here: #56 Tanadet Tor. Pran49 – Mastering Long Clinch (63 min) watch it here This post is in the spirit of this site, showing things in progress, as...

As much as I hate it, because I’m shy and it’s awkward, it’s simply the truth that women in the fighting arts are often in a position of having to somewhat uncomfortably advocate for and promote ourselves....

Sataanmuanglek Numponthep – Magician A few days a go a clinch video swept across Facebook, featuring the young fighter Sataanmuanglek Numponthep just looking incredible in “man in the middle” training. This kind of training is very...

One of the things I know a lot about from person experience is being cut in a fight. I’ve...

File this under The Culture of Muay. If you are to understand Muay Thai, I mean really understand it and see how it grew out of Thai society, and the forces that sustain and feed it...

The Land of Gossip Thailand’s moniker, the Land of Smiles, is an earned one. But part of that is because smiling is the only “saving face” response to a myriad of situations taking place publicly: someone...

This is about the story that helps explain why Thais believe women should not enter (or even touch) the famed rings of Bangkok. There are actually two stories, one of which I had never heard and...

I’ve always had an internal objection to this phrase, “train smarter, not harder.”  On the front of it, I think people should train however makes them feel the best and that can be from minimal to...

Some days you don’t feel like training. Like, even just getting out of bed is so exhausting and emotionally difficult that you’re on the verge of tears just getting ready to go. Then, when you get...