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Be Careful What You (Might Not Be) Ask(ing) For 1. After a really difficult and rewarding (and valuable) session of padholding this morning with Daeng, I was thrilled to tell my husband that Daeng is really...

This is a photo of Nam, the wonderful girl I wrote about in Expect the Unexpected two weeks ago.  I went to the gym this afternoon (Sunday, “off day”) for some light training in the afternoon...

 A Word of Warning A couple weeks after arriving at Lanna I was chatting with Andy before morning training.  It was probably 6:15 AM and we’d just returned to the gym after a run at the...

  There’s a street vendor cart right below my balcony (well, many floors below my balcony, but a direct fall/jump) that sells the most delicious fried chicken.  Sometimes I step out and look over the railing...

I can’t leave this damn dog alone.  She’s let loose in the parking lot next to the gym (which also happens to be the yard of apartments adjacent, where she lives) and her little piggy body...

Twenty seconds into sparring with Den this afternoon, I’m already frustrated.  There are hundreds of reasons why I shouldn’t be: Den has 300 fights to his name and  that doesn’t happen without countless hours of training,...

Prior to moving to Thailand, I lived in the Hudson Valley of New York.  Master K, Kaensak, Augie, Ray Velez (whether in NJ or NYC) and Nat Fuz were all over an hour commute away –...

The Problem In my 20th fight I experienced great difficulty with the clinch.  My opponent was bigger than I, which isn’t the problem really, even though it would seem that her strength or tendency to rest...

I got the gym a little after 4:00 this afternoon.  It had rained heavily for almost an hour and the air was only recently cleared of the heaving movement of wind.  Nook was directing two young...

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