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A few days ago Kru Mutt at WKO asked me if I wanted to fight in China in three weeks.  I don’t.  But throughout my afternoon session at WKO there was a back-and-forth between us about...

Having learned from our experiences from our first trip down to Pattaya three months ago, Kevin and I decided that we’d have our...

Some of the questions raised by this article were followed up here: Do Women have a Commitment Advantage in Muay Thai This post also lead to me writing about the Myth of Overtraining and how Endurance...

Guest Post Last night we reached our 2nd year anniversary in Thailand, and Sylvie fought her 34th fight of the year, giving her 62 since we moved here so she could devote herself to being the...

My Goals Goals are important things. They give us context and room for what we want to achieve, they make us believe in ourselves in a focused way. My initial goal when I first moved to...

this post will make the most sense if you watch at least the 1st 12 mins of this video lecture We are all trying to improve our Muay Thai, but one of the difficulties in plotting...

We all know the bro (or the female version) who says “Let’s go light” in sparring, and then whacks you. Or, when you get a hit in they suddenly step it up two notches in a...

I’ve only come back to training at WKO with Sakmongkol in the past few days because of the stitches I received after my fight last Wednesday.  It feels so good to be back to hitting things...

Day 23 – Use Your Advantages This morning on the way to Petchrungruang I was actually retching on the bike and continued to feel really nauseated as I was warming up.  Given that Kru Nu is...

Day 13 – Padwork and Clinch Today was a full day.  Damn.  I had some good, hard padwork with Kru Nu at Petchrungruang and he really pushed me, telling me to rest tomorrow.  Then I did...