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I slept the night with my left hand cupped around my eye socket, keeping my eyebrow and cheek from touching the pillow so that the cut on my orbital bone wouldn’t open up again.  After the...

A few days before the Nov. 6th fight between Linda Ooms and Jemyma Betrian I had the opportunity to speak on the phone with Ooms and ask her about her upcoming fight.  I did not get...

I watched a documentary on YouTube last night on the subject of Muay Thai, “Born to Fight.”  At one point the owner/manager of the “most famous gym in Thailand” (according to the video), said one can...

I was in the locker room at Chok Sabai Gym, checking my email on my phone, when I got a message from my Muay Thai fighter friend Peelo, linking me to an article about a recent...

It’s the final week in Chiang Mai and in the last days between my first and second fights in Thailand.  The ups and downs of adjusting to the training schedule have leveled out to reveal that...

Today was utterly disorienting.  It began with a restless night and ran straight into a quiet, but difficult day of training.  I felt okay during the morning session and even going into the afternoon with a...

It’s almost exactly one week to the hour since I arrived in Chiang Mai.  I’ve been training every day since Sunday and my body feels exactly like it should given that situation.  I’m sore and exhausted,...

Last night I started work back at a place I left a few months ago to open up more time for me to focus on training.  When I returned, another woman who’d worked there years ago...

I’m training for a fight.  It’s a tough one. This past week I was able to do a lot of Muay Thai – the kind of work and strain I’d like to have on a regular basis,...

I’ve been spending the past two months trying to organize a one month trip to Thailand.  The idea started as a means to really build – through high repetition – my foundation in the basics of Muay...