Currently Reading: Mental Training for Muay Thai

This is a follow up to a post I wrote about a week ago called Keep Moving – The Importance of Training With Injury, on the topic of what one can learn from the experience of...

The Injury I’ve written before on my attitude regarding injuries, mainly that you’re either hurt and you can keep training/fighting or you’re injured and you have to suck it up and sit out.  But even if...

  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...

Swimming the North Pole and Other Impossible Things In this TED talk Lewis Pugh talks about an insane expedition to swim at the North Pole as a means of raising awareness of melting ice caps.  There...

Laurie Berenson is a student of Casey VanBrookhoven in New Jersey, USA.  While I’ve never met Laurie, she wrote to me through my Facebook Muay Thai page and it turns out we know and have trained...

Leading Up to My 48th Fight I’ve had some pretty big gaps (for me) between my last few fights, with full weeks in between.  In that time I’ve adjusted my training somewhat (increased mileage) and I’ve...

by Emma Thomas After my last fight, I wasn’t feeling my best. I’d given a poor performance and felt like I’d let down and disappointed a lot of people, including myself. It...

I get lots of emails and private messages from women (and men) from all around the world sharing their own Muay Thai passions – women from beginners to advanced fighters – and I truly enjoy and...

What Taking Fights Means I have a fight scheduled for June 28th on a fairly big card put on by Thakoon of Sasiprapa Gym.  When my parents were here I fought twice in two weeks in...

Training Joy – Muay Thai After my last loss I felt terribly, not because I’d lost necessarily – it was perhaps my best fight yet in terms of performance and being free in the ring, trying...