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Eat Your Heart Out – Calories for Muay Thai Training
August 15, 2012About a week ago two guys showed up to the gym and both decided simultaneously that Thais only eat two meals per day. Maybe they’d asked the trainers how they should be eating by asking what... -
The Weight of Intent – Morning Muay Thai Training
July 22, 2012Got up at the regular time this morning to go train with Andy at the gym. He’s down from Hill Camp “for a limited time only,” so I sucked up losing my one day to sleep... -
Surround – Thoughts on My 17th Muay Thai Fight
June 10, 2012It felt like forever between my last fight and this one, even though it was only 14 days. There wasn’t a big group of folks coming along in one big truck like usual, so it was... -
Mind Matter: Mental Training
June 5, 2012One of the more difficult aspects of adopting a consistent mental training regimen is being able to identify and acknowledge the numerous ways in which one has been already training negative mental practices. It’s actually the... -
Muay Thai Clinch Technique With Taywin
June 1, 2012A few days ago I watched the whole gym shift into the two rings while I worked outside of them. Everyone was clinching except me. As one of very few women at the gym I do... -
“Glap Maa” – The Comeback Dog
May 31, 2012The Comeback Dog I had last Friday off because I was fighting on Saturday. At breakfast on Friday a kid from the camp came in and told me that it’s a pain when I’m not there... -
Welcome to 8 Limbs Us – the Coming Together
May 27, 2012A New Muay Thai Blog and Much More If you already subscribe to my SylvieMuay WordPress blog, please resubscribe at my new website as my blog has moved. Just add your email in the upper right... -
Scoring Muay Thai Fights
May 20, 2012Master K used to teach down in Virginia and so he has a somewhat expansive collection of students up and down the East Coast. He has taught at most gyms in NYC and has certified many... -
Sabai, Sabai
May 15, 2012It's been said to me countless times, "สบาย ๆ." It means "relax," basically and it deals mainly with the aesthetic of Muay Thai and how it looks effortless, calm and flatly unemotional until it explodes in...