Currently Reading: Female Fighters

Niamh Griffin (@griffinniamh on Twitter) raises important points about World Muay Thai Angels in her post “Muay Thai Angels – a step forward or backwards” What I find most interesting is how Muay Thai is being...

  I had lunch with Alicia Nowak yesterday, a young Polish woman who lives and trains Muay Thai in Vienna. We met through my Muay Thai Facebook page and I was surprised as we sat together...

I read a post by Emma Thomas on her great new Under The Ropes blog this morning, on the subject of “Gym Hoppers and the Importance of Loyalty in Muay Thai”.  It’s an interesting topic and...

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...

by Emma Thomas After my last fight, I wasn’t feeling my best. I’d given a poor performance and felt like I’d let down and disappointed a lot of people, including myself. It...

  Anne Quinlan Interview – Part 1 I first met Anne Quinlan without really meeting her.  I had a fight at the Kalare Night Bazaar in Chiang Mai and she was part of a group comprised...

Muay Thai Warriors – Chiang Mai – June 28th 2013 Thakoon Pongsupha, who is one of the kindest supporters of Muay Thai I have met in Thailand and who runs the highly-recommended Sasiprapa Gym in Bangkok...

clips of Niamh Griffin above Female Muay Thai in Documentary I was watching a 2002 documentary that followed 3 fighters in Bangkok – the future writer of A Fighter’s Heart Sam Sheridan, a Thai female fighter,...

Iman Barlow vs Fani Peloumpi Thanks to the new openness of Iman’s father, who has protectively guarded filming of Iman’s fights since she was a young girl, we have fantastic coverage of Iman in action vs...

(aired 4/23/2013 on Thai television – translation & subtitling is mine) Sud Suay Muay Thai I first became aware of this video the day after it aired on Channel 7 by a British woman who trains...