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Muay Dee Wi Tee Thai  มวยดีวิถีไทย  – รายการมวยไทย This afternoon I went to the gym to check my weight and while I was there discovered that there would be a film crew from Thai TV Channel...

This is the first part of a pair of posts I wrote on why you should fight and how you know if you’re ready to fight.  You can find the second article here: How Do You...

Last week Kevin and I arrived at the gym at 8:00 PM, after evening training, in order to hitch a ride down to Wung’s fight at Kalare Stadium.  It was as it always is at that...

I got cut by an elbow in the first round of my most recent fight at Kalare Stadium.  It happened at about 1:20 when I had my opponent’s back to the ropes and I over turned...

  Last week my husband started taking private boxing lessons from one of the trainers at the gym who gets very little attention from westerners.   A little background about Neung: When we have gotten to...

Wung is one of my favorite things about Lanna.  For a long time he scared me, but it’s more accurate to say I was intimidated by him.  Wung’s the kind of guy who doesn’t bother learning...

The first few months I trained with Master K I learned quickly.  Going from “nothing” to “anything” is actually a much bigger difference to the eye than it is in the abstract.  I remember how excited...

I get excited by the idea of fighting with other fighters from the gym – I like the shared experience of preparations, watching each other get our hands wrapped in order of who fights first, the...

No two trainers are alike.  Nook is an exceptional and individual character in innumerate ways, some of the most notable being that he manages to communicate 90% of the time without uttering actual words.  His grunts...

  Power in Modesty? I just read an online article on the topic of Evangelical clothing stores popping up “all over” Brazil. The author is quick to note that Brazil is “known for it’s tiny bikinis,”...