Currently Reading: Muay Thai

My sister, Nyxi, and I follow her mother into a small practice studio on the Naropa campus. The room is spare and has no windows, with just a minimal amount of space between the piano at...

As the older form of Muay Thai – the kaimuay – and its culture begins to breakdown under the wet of colonial neoisms, the bird cages hung empty – once filled with chittering birds of luck,...

I keep my tempo slow and steady, feeling my weight shift from one foot to the other as I throw punches: jab, cross, hook… shift, shift… cross, uppercut, hook. Chatchai first watches me from behind, assessing...

Sabai I focus fiercely on the pads strapped to each forearm of my trainer, Kru Den, as he calls out which strikes he wants me to throw into them. He calls for a kick and I...

After my last Kard Chuek fight, I had a decent black eye and some scratches on the left side of my face from the rope wraps. The impact had occurred mostly in the first round, while...

see Kevin’s beautiful photos from the event here Some of my thoughts and experiences of this past weekend, as part of a big event. The Tourism Authority of Thailand has a catchphrase, which I think is...

I listened, recently, to a book about how women are mostly concerned/afraid about protection and men are mostly concerned/afraid about feeling shame. There was interesting research into how babies, just naturally, fall along the male/female line...

I’m startled awake by a sound on the front deck of my kuti, a little stand alone, elevated, single-room hut. This is a meditation center and there are maybe 5 kutis on this side of the...

Fight #269 – The plastic I sat cross-legged on crinkled as I changed position, the hard blades of grass that sat outside its limits bit at my thighs with every shifted pose. A group of high...

We’ve heard how much everyone has been enjoying the Muay Thai Bones over the years, thank you for sending us messages on how you listen to our epic deep dives into Muay Thai. We know the...