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Day 15 – First Training After My Fight My shin is a little swollen from checking a kick in my last fight so I wasn’t sure whether I’d be able to kick on it today.  It’s...

Yesterday was Sunday, so I tried something a little different and did a long run in the morning – got lost trying to do the loop I did last time but exploring is fun – and...

This is going to be a bit short because I’m very tired and it was a long, full day.  I trained this morning at Petchrungruang Pattaya gym and wrote a blog post about that experience. My...

I am so, so sore today.  That’s a good feeling in some ways and unpleasant in other, more obvious, ways.  As I was shadowboxing and warming up before clinch training, Sakmongkol put on his bellypad, shinguards...

We arranged a private session for clinch instruction just before regular afternoon training today.  I wasn’t in a good mood entering the gym, which is unfortunate because my attitude and how I’m “read” by trainers is...

Even though it’s Sunday, which is usually a rest day, Sakmongkol invited me to come train with him for two hours in the morning because he didn’t want to do padwork yesterday.  He had let me...

Today was my first double session.  There is no Muay Thai in the morning but they gym is open all day, so I got up and headed over to arrive at the gym by 9:00 AM. ...

I crashed at 8 PM last night, right after dinner.  I hadn’t slept since my nap before afternoon training at Lanna the day before, so I was definitely running on low sleep and having traveled and...

– This is part of what is likely a series of articles on western female sexuality in Thai gyms – it’s a big topic and I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, and this...

The Inherent Nature of Thai Clinch This video was shot about 25-30 minutes into a clinching session at the tail end of afternoon training.  Initially, everyone jumped in to help Big with his clinch because he...