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The above video is the last round of my first attempt at slowing down my bagwork to focus on footwork and cutting out excessive steps – tiny foot shuffles I use for adjustment and filler.  The...

A few days ago Kru Mutt at WKO asked me if I wanted to fight in China in three weeks.  I don’t.  But throughout my afternoon session at WKO there was a back-and-forth between us about...

I certainly don’t expect that there are many sports, arts, or even personal relationships that are entirely open to a student splitting themselves between two places.  To the most obvious point, the relationship between teacher and...

Having learned from our experiences from our first trip down to Pattaya three months ago, Kevin and I decided that we’d have our...

A couple people have asked me to describe what the warmup process before a fight is and what I do and don’t like about it.  I was asked about my experience, so that’s what this is. ...

Some of the questions raised by this article were followed up here: Do Women have a Commitment Advantage in Muay Thai This post also lead to me writing about the Myth of Overtraining and how Endurance...

In the photo above are all cousins, at the center is Bam (6-7 years old, Den’s nephew); left is Den’s son Dtong (3 years old) and right is Badt (8-9 years old, Den’s nephew). As I...

above video: my thoughts on just coming out from the 2 hrs of tattooing my sak yant. As one can see,...

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but this recent article on Ronda Rousey’s exceptionally crass criticisms and shit-talking of Cris “Cyborg” Justino paints a perfect picture for why shit-talking among female fighters has more...

 Daeng – My Trainer at Lanna Daeng is one of my trainers at Lanna Muay Thai.  He doesn’t work with me regularly,  although every time we do work together I am very happy to learn something...