Currently Reading: Mental Training for Muay Thai

I wrote a blog post on How You Know When You’re Ready To Fight in order to cover some of the things I often discuss with folks at the gym (or online) who would like to...

Anniversary – 1 Year April 6th was the one year anniversary of our arrival in Thailand.  It feels quite monumental, which is perhaps both strange and ordinary since I don’t really pay a great deal of...

A few days ago I sat on the edge of the ring, dripping sweat from my nose making a splatter pattern on the concrete a few feet below me while I loosened the laces on my...

Sepp Herberger: After the game is before the game – Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel The next game/opponent is always the toughest one – Das nächste Spiel/Der nächste Gegner ist immer das/der schwerste There...

This morning I woke up without my alarm and could see a soft pink light peeking through the narrow parting of my floor-to-ceiling balcony curtains.  I got up and gathered my things before heading over to...

It’s four days after my 24th fight and I filmed a video journal update out at the Chiang Mai University fields where I like to do sprints.  It’s been a rough four days, emotionally speaking.  Just...

I’m a Sega Genesis girl.  We had Nintendo and Atari when I was a kid, but all my favorite games were for Genesis.  The game I played the most was Altered Beast, a completely ridiculous side-scrolling...

My general pattern over the past 5 months has been to fight every 14 days, giving me 10 full days of training between matches.  It’s a comfortable pattern and I like it.  It’s enough time to...

  A few days before my 23rd fight I was in the ring with Nook doing padwork.  There wasn’t a lot of hitting of pads going on, not only because Nook loves to mess around and...

Intensity and Purpose I don’t believe I’ve ever trained harder than for my 22nd fight.  It’s a different world of training and fighting here in Thailand, so to the western reader that sentence may be interpreted...