Currently Reading: Muay Thai

I’m pushing my hands into my gloves for morning padwork when I see a flurry of movement, almost like a shadow, out of the corner of my eye. I hear the sounds of alarm from various...

I had the opportunity to meet this group from various gyms around Australia, as they all came together for a training excursion at two gyms in Pattaya: Sityodtong and Winner Muay Thai (the new gym from...

This post is about an Instagram photography project that gives light to the female Thai faces of Chiang Mai Muay Thai (and male faces too). You can check out that Instagram here. This post is also...

above: one of the clinch drills Arjan Surat used, my partner Tessa Simpson I went over to Dejrat Gym to have a private session and film for Patreon with Arjan Surat, who is an amazing “time...

December 5, 2016 – Lumpinee Park, Bangkok – above, full fight with commentary This fight was just an incredible opportunity. There was nothing in the fight itself that looked good on paper for me: it was...

November 17, 2016 – Loi Kroh, Chiang Mai – full fight video above Having just beaten the champ, Thanonchanok, the night before in a somewhat un-credible and unexpected experience for me, I was riding pretty high...

Dean Potter was one of those rare men who found himself inextricably drawn to the world of what lay people call “extreme sports.” In an interview I watched with him, he said he doesn’t like the...

I’m stopped on the side of a street off a main road, On Nut Road, in Bangkok. There are small shops, a lot of large residential buildings, and some very loud construction that I’m trying to plug...

As the gym grows quiet with all the boys chittering fading away as they leave for the night, I sit on the edge of the ring with Pi Nu and listen to his woes. He loves...

Kem’s gym in the Khao Yai mountains of Khorat is just an incredible place. It’s beautiful, it feels remote and like the “middle of nowhere” locations for training montages in movies like “Kickboxer” or old Kung...