Currently Reading: Chiang Mai

Extremely Painful – and Beneficial I wrote some time ago about processes that help to speed healing the regular knots and bruises that one acquires through training and in fights. These treatments are really indispensable for...

A short while ago I started giving free English language lessons to Tor, who is a 19-year-old Thai fighter at Lanna and also happens to be Daeng’s son (one of my favorite trainers).  I’m not a...

Video Journal Update #79 A few of my thoughts today, taking a break from my run. I talk about the training cycle, and adjustments I’m making, as well as the time off post-fight hangover. I’m fighting...

Growing up in Colorado had innumerate perks that I only came to appreciate long after I took them for granted.  City kids in New York and Philadelphia learn how to handle themselves on public transportation from...

            click to go to PayPal.com – pay to lannamuaythai123@gmail.com Khem Lanna Muay Thai meet Khem and his mother in this video I first met Khem about a year ago when...

  August 12, 2013 – Kalare Stadium, Chiang Mai – First rounds in Thailand are very different than in the West.  Many times fighters use the round to “feel out” an opponent, displaying speed and skill...

The Golden Horse Monastery- Muay Thai The above is the opening scene of the documentary Buddha’s Lost Children, which I had the opportunity to watch recently. It follows the work of the Golden Horse Monastery, and...

  Big is probably my favorite fighter at the camp.  He’s got the kind of energy that makes me smile just by seeing him.  He swaggers around, unable to pass by a bag without hitting it,...

(above: 5 minute film) Fighting the Dream – Muay Thai Film Short Some time ago I got a message on my Facebook page from Rosie Brown, a freelance journalist based in Bangkok, asking if I’d be...

   Photo Exhibition – July 19, 2013 I’ve posted about the marvelous Muay Thai photographs of Maestoso Top and Piyarat Jeasukon in Photographs from Chiang Mai Students and again with Muay Thai Resurrection. You can see some...