Currently Reading: Camp Experience

Okay, the title is an overstatement, but I want to provide two substantial video examples (more than just a minute-long “clip”) from my recent training to show how size is not the determining factor in clinch...

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...

a video introduction to Jai Bamroong, the Patriarch of Petchrungruang Gym, is looking at me through his thick, Coke bottle glasses and his eyes are glimmering under his slicked back hair. His question is in Thai...

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...

I certainly don’t expect that there are many sports, arts, or even personal relationships that are entirely open to a student splitting themselves between two places.  To the most obvious point, the relationship between teacher and...

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

In the photo above are all cousins, at the center is Bam (6-7 years old, Den’s nephew); left is Den’s son Dtong (3 years old) and right is Badt (8-9 years old, Den’s nephew). As I...

Leaving Lanna We’ve made the decision to leave Lanna and Chiang Mai in order to head back down to Pattaya, to train again at WKO with Sakmongkol and at Petchrungruang Gym; we’re moving.  I announced it...

 Daeng – My Trainer at Lanna Daeng is one of my trainers at Lanna Muay Thai.  He doesn’t work with me regularly,  although every time we do work together I am very happy to learn something...

Petchrungruang Gym – Pattaya Above is my video review of Petchrungruang Gym, where I spent about 6 weeks during my recent stay in Pattaya. For those that have not been following, I was doing a full...