Currently Reading: Technique

My most recent fight illuminated a lot of holes in my fighting, but it also demonstrated for me that adjustments can be made at short notice.  I really wanted to land punches in this fight because...

I’m going to try to keep a weekly log of what I’m working on each week so others can follow along with my training and thinking process, which may be interesting. It should be published each...

  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...

  A couple weeks ago Andy showed me how to hold the bag during knees in order to strengthen my forearms and shoulders for the clinch.  This video is a demonstration of that technique: use your...

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...

These three videos are a continuation of the work I did with Sakmongkol in Colorado before I left for Thailand. The first part of my session with him can be seen here: Sakmongkol | Essential Clinch...

The Problem In my 20th fight I experienced great difficulty with the clinch.  My opponent was bigger than I, which isn’t the problem really, even though it would seem that her strength or tendency to rest...

After 45 minutes or so of sparring with Den yesterday he finally broke down for me what I was doing wrong with my attempts to land kicks on him.  (I landed maybe 5 in that time,...