Currently Reading: Muay Thai

June 25, 2016 – Chiang Rai – full video above This was the first of 3 fights in 4 days up in the North. I had no idea who my opponent was and when we got...

above, 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...

This 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...

When 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...

Just 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...

I 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 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 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...

Up 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...

The 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...