Currently Reading: Female Fighters

New Way A few of us have come to realize that female fighters are not going to make the opportunities, change the conversation and take the stage just using the male-favored Gym-Is-Your-Manager approach that often means...

At my last fight I was really excited for the final bout of the night, which was two women I’d fought recently going against each other.  They had both attacked me with thigh kicks and I...

Phetjee Jaa’s Videos – You can read all my posts on PhetJee Jaa here. those interested in...

I’ve been watching the number on my Facebook page for a couple days now, observing the number of likes ticking upward toward 1,000.  And there it is!  I think when I first came to Thailand I...

Following my written review of Buffalo Girls, opening in NYC at the IFC Center on Nov. 14th, I had the opportunity to interview Director Todd Kellstein. I loved the film and was very excited to speak...

Following my written review of Buffalo Girls, opening in NYC at the IFC Center on Nov. 14th, I had the opportunity to interview Director Todd Kellstein. I loved the film and was very excited to speak...

Child Boxers: Stam and Pet Also see my Skype Interview with Director Todd Kellstein Buffalo Girls opens on a shot of the rice fields of rural Thailand.  The wet and green of the landscape under sunlight...

A few months ago I was interviewed at they gym by a fellow who is an international journalist for the PRI, which is an affiliate of the BBC.  He introduced himself as David Hecht and the...

photo source, credit: Josephine Runeboom (2011) I wrote about Lindsay Scheer two years ago in a blog post titled “Undo” in which I quoted a statement from her Facebook page following a fluke accident involving the...

Form and Function and Sex: The Killer Butt Women’s bodies occupy a strange cross-section of form and function in the world of athletics.  This is not to say that male bodies do not hold complex positions...