Currently Reading: Mental Training for Muay Thai

This post is a continuation of thinking presented in The Myth of Overtraining: Endurance Physical and Mental for Muay Thai and also The Fragility of Western Masculinity before it. For those that have a significant belief...

Winning and Mental Consequences It’s three days after my fight and I feel totally bummed out.  Thing is, I won my fight.  By all accounts it was one of my best and I felt really good...

I’m standing in the ring just a few feet away from my trainer, Sangwean.  He’s father to the best female fighter in the world, 12-year-old Phetjee Jaa O. Meekhun, and she’s kind of puttering around in...

I’m writing about something that in the West might feel or seem “impossible” to some, but quite honestly it’s not even extraordinary here in Thailand.  Fighting twice in a single night isn’t common, but it barely...

The above is information from Dave Grossman’s On Combat.  When Things Stop Functioning – Know Your State A frequent and nevertheless persistent disappointment many of us face in sparring and in fights is finding ourselves in...

The full Skype Interview (1 hour, 20 minutes) with Dr. John Gassaway on Getting Into Mental Training (above) – an mp3 version is available at the bottom of the post in 4 parts.  We’re talking online...

be patient, and watch him all the way On our way back from breakfast this morning I stopped to buy some fruit. While I delighted in the personality of the 80-year-old man who sells me pineapple...

The Losing Experience There’s a quote that goes like this, “You either win or you learn.”  It replaces the word “lose” in the coupling of either winning or losing and is meant to express the fact...

This piece flowed out of my experiences that led to writing The Fragility of Western Masculinity, and responses to this post lead to me writing Endurance is a Skill. Read All My Articles on Overtraining Preface...

Afternoon training at Petchrungruang yesterday was a pendulum swinging between, “hey, that’s not so bad,” to “holy hell, I’m never going to make it through this.”  I didn’t feel well, mostly fatigued and feeling a little...