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            click to go to PayPal.com – pay to recipient lannamuaythai123@gmail.com Khem Visits Lanna Muay Thai I’ve written before about Khem here. This is an update on how Khem is doing,...

  Today on my afternoon run I passed by a soccer field with a bunch of guys playing.  They were really good, clearly having spent a lot of time playing soccer.  I loved soccer when I...

 Taking Inspiration from Jack Dempsey I’ve been focusing lately on something my husband found in the book Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching, Aggressive Defense by the all-time boxing great Jack Dempsey – that the power of your...

  Here I am taking a break on my run to give a little Video share of what’s happening with my 54th fight coming up on Monday. The bugs are really making a racket. I’m up...

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...

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...

Things Being Worked on in the Clinch This is my first clinching practice in a couple of weeks and the video is just the last three or so minutes of abut 25-30 minutes of clinch at...

Drilling Blocks, Speed and HIIT Daeng has decided I need to be faster.  So, instead of running home from the lake four times per week (14 km, including one lap around the lake) he has switched...

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...