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November 26, 2013 – some thoughts before my 63rd fight.   Follow my Muay Thai writings by email you can read them right from your Inbox...

Sometimes it’s hard to love the things you love.  You don’t “choose” to love something, necessarily, but you do choose to believe in the love you have for it at times when you are not feeling...

Nicknames Thais have a bunch of names – first there’s the given name, which is usually auspicious and something that remarks on the future wealth and good luck of the named child.  These names can be...

Nong Jeen is trainer Neung’s six-year-old daughter.  She lives most of the time with Neung’s mother, probably due to school – it’s not unusual at all in Thailand for the rearing of children to be shared...

Crowd Sourcing and Kickstarter As some of you may know – and some of you might have indeed taken part in this – my website 8limbs.us was made possible through crowd sourcing, specifically Kickstarter.  The cost...

there is a lot of GIF media in this post, so you may want to give it time to load.  Isolate any GIF by just clicking on it. The Post Last week I put up a...

Asian Correspondent Interview Just to keep everyone in the loop it is a pretty busy week or so coming up. Not only am I fighting Sunday, my 3rd fight in 10 days (yeah!) – there are...

   meet Khem and his mother in this video – The Lanna Boys Kicked for Khem Kaitburin Muay Thai – based in Oxfordshire, England – has organized a fundraiser to help with the significant...

This is a follow up to a post I wrote about a week ago called Keep Moving – The Importance of Training With Injury, on the topic of what one can learn from the experience of...

The Injury I’ve written before on my attitude regarding injuries, mainly that you’re either hurt and you can keep training/fighting or you’re injured and you have to suck it up and sit out.  But even if...