Currently Reading: Muay Thai

In the dimming light of evening training, when the fluorescent bulbs above the ring become more severe, the Jade Dragon Set comes running through the gate and leap onto the tires that line the far side...

My bag swings away from me and in the pendulum peak away from me I glimpse inside the ring, where a 13-year-old boy is sparring with a man three or four times his size. The bag...

Yodkhunpon, the “Elbow Hunter of 100 Stitches,” has this favorite fahn sok forward elbow that he likes to teach. You have to lean forward and step around to the blind spot of your opponent, pretty much at the...

February 10, 2017 – Pak Thong Chai  full fight video here with commentary Nong Mat was not the opponent I was expecting when I arrived at the temple in Pak Thong Chai. I’d been told by...

My arms had just begun to sweat, ever so slightly, from the direct sunlight as we walked around the outside of the 20 chedi in the yard of Wat Phra Chedi Sao Lang in Lampang. It’s...

February 6, 2017 “Tiger King Muay Thai Day” – Bangkok, Thailand (3 rounds) – full fight video or  full fight video with commentary I got the call for this fight while I was driving home from...

January 29, 2017 – Lopburi, Thailand – called in on the morning of the fight – see full video here Pi Nu called me at about 7 AM and asked if I could fight that night,...

As I turn by motorbike onto the small side street, Soi 39, I see two little kids – maybe 5 years old – running arm and arm against some hedges taller than I am. I recognize...

Below is a 9 minute extended clip from my session with Sagat Petchyindee, the Thai fighter who was the inspiration for the Street Fighter character Sagat. He now is over 60 years of age, but scary...

The two front seats in the main part of the van are usually full beyond capacity. On most mornings, Angie and I share one seat, while Pi Nu’s wife and sister-in-law share the other. All the...