Currently Reading: Camp Experience

The other morning I was in the ring with Nook, trying my best to stay composed and focused on my own goals whilst he did his best to turn the whole ordeal into a game that...

About the time I started really posting on my Facebook page that Kevin and I were going to be moving to Thailand, I also started noticing the comments of a guy in Illinois whose avatar (profile...

  I was all ready to have a less-than-hardcore afternoon training session because I’m pretty beat today from not getting enough sleep last night.  But it wasn’t in the cards for me, apparently: while doing padwork...

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...

It’s the Sunday before my next fight and Kevin and I headed over to the gym to get some ring work done in the afternoon. When we first got to the gym it was empty.  Nook...

  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...

  Ever since Den hit my nose in padwork and it started spurting blood like a B-movie, he’s been asking me before every training session whether I think I can fight on the 17th.  “If not,”...

  Flow I’ve been working with Daeng in padwork for the past few days.  We’ve worked together before, but only a few times and it came to light recently that he was under the impression that...

Be Careful What You (Might Not Be) Ask(ing) For 1. After a really difficult and rewarding (and valuable) session of padholding this morning with Daeng, I was thrilled to tell my husband that Daeng is really...