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Burklerk’s Family Run Muay Thai Gym in Lampang Thailand
October 11, 2016above, a walk through of Burklerk’s Gym in Lampang – filmed in May 2016 A Video Tour of Burklerk’s Gym Burklerk’s gym is located down a neighborhood street lined with gated residences. His gym is not... -
10 Min with Dieselnoi – Strategy, Knees, Stance, Turns and Double Plum
October 9, 2016This was my second time training with Dieselnoi, so it was a continuation of some of the foundations he laid out for me last time. He focused more on strategy and tactics in this session. The... -
Better Muay Thai Photography Coming to 8limbs.Us
October 6, 2016When we first moved to Thailand I was constantly in awe of how many beautiful things there were to look at. The plants are all so different from what I grew up around (Colorado); the colors... -
Namkabuan vs Matee and Models of Muay Thai Masculinity
October 3, 2016Just watch these two fights between Namkabuan Nongkeepahuyut and Matee Jedeepitak from 1994, the Golden Age of Muay Thai. Just watch and then don’t sleep for a week because you’ll keep watching them. When I had... -
Musical Tones and Muay Thai – Re-purposing Mental Pathways
October 2, 2016I wrote recently about my 22 years of experience as a musician, growing up playing the violin since about age 2. The post was about deliberate practice and what all those years of learning the violin... -
A Mosaic of Knowledge – The Multi-Gym Approach
September 28, 2016A guest post from my husband, part of his series: A Husband’s Point of View New York and New Jersey 2007-2012 The Edge – NJ (classes) Master K’s Basement – Patterson NJ (privates – Master K)... -
The Rush of Stillness | The Notes of Silence Between Notes
September 27, 2016The more I watch Muay Thai, the more I fall in love with the stillness of it. The explosion of movement and the collision of limbs and trunks and bodies is exciting in contrast to that... -
Yodwicha Clinch Techniques – Lock Escape, Turn and Knee
September 25, 2016Up in the mountains of Khao Yai Thiang, a 4 km climb up a narrow road lined with bushes and branches which reach out and brush the open windows of the car, is the Kem Muaythai... -
Challenges in Positioning in the Gym as a Nak Muay Ying
September 23, 2016The first side of this coin is always present, like an undercurrent that you can kind of push out of your conscious mind for periods of time before it flares back up and forces you to... -
Prairie Dog Fences – The Power of Being Able to See
September 20, 2016My first job was over the summer when I was 13 years old, employed by the City of Boulder to build trailheads, plant shrubs and restore an historic ranch up on the mountain. It was thankless,...