Currently Reading: Lanna Muay Thai

After 45 minutes or so of sparring with Den yesterday he finally broke down for me what I was doing wrong with my attempts to land kicks on him.  (I landed maybe 5 in that time,...

There’s a saying that “it’s not how many times you fall, it’s how many times you get back up,” or variations thereof.  The funny thing about this life affirmation, to me anyway, is that in a...

I stopped at the waterfall to record a video journal update, three days before my 19th fight.  There’s a little puppy (two actually, but only one cares that I come by) en route who has decided...

I love the gym at night.  As it the sun goes down the space beneath the tin roof starts to darken at the farthest reaches first, slowly being swallowed up to to the side with no...

Wednesday, June 20th was my 18th Muay Thai fight and 6th since I’ve arrived in Thailand 11 weeks ago. When I first contemplated getting into the ring – actually fighting – my husband asked me how...

I’m posting an example of my average daily workout, 6 days a week generally.  It seems reasonable on a number of levels to do this, not only for my own sake so that I can look...

It felt like forever between my last fight and this one, even though it was only 14 days.  There wasn’t a big group of folks coming along in one big truck like usual, so it was...

Elbows are pointy and bony and can be painful.  Mine are really little and pointy and very painful; or so I’m told.  Taywin has instructed me before on how to dig the elbows down into the...

This day of training was wonderful and terrible all at once.  I woke up tired and just stayed that way all day.  I was able to push through it and surprised myself in training, discovering little...

A few days ago I watched the whole gym shift into the two rings while I worked outside of them.  Everyone was clinching except me.  As one of very few women at the gym I do...