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Leaving Pain to Weakness, From Shame to Strength
April 25, 2021I woke up shivering, my teeth ground together and my temples aching from the pressure. My fingertips felt numb as I consciously uncoiled them from the sleeping bag, which I was clutching around my body. Only... -
Infomercial Heroes, Clark Kent and Peter Parker
April 19, 2021I’m starting to write again on my blog. There is a lot of amazing content on my Patreon, which I spend most of my off-training hours creating for my wonderful patron supporters, but I want to... -
Vlog #365 – How Karuhat Reads You Before You Strike and More Magic
April 17, 2021Much has happened in the last weeks, some of it quite painful. This post is about my return. I had a chance to train with Karuhat for a few days following our attendance of Namkabuan’s Funeral... -
The Menstrual Cycle & Muay Thai Training: Important for Female* Fighters & Those That Coach Them
December 1, 2020*The phrase “Female Fighters” is used in the title for brevity and discovery, read as: “People Who Menstruate”. Read more of my Gendered Experience articles here. There are a lot of reasons why talking about the... -
What It Is Like to Train At Sangtiennoi’s Muay Thai Gym – Clinching With a Champion
October 16, 2020We shot more than an hour of my training at Sangtiennoi’s gym about 40 minutes north of Bangkok, just to give everyone a sense of what it is like to train there. It is one of... -
Muay Thai Bones Podcast ep 18 – and so much more
October 4, 2020Lots to get caught up on! The Muay Thai Bones podcast is back, with an episode covering some of the more psychological aspects of Muay Thai and being a fighter, as well as the preciousness of... -
Study of the Muay Thai Diamond Guard – A New Guard from Old Ways
September 23, 2020I’m writing this to create a resource chain for anyone else who wants to take a deep dive into exploring this technique. I’ve been working on a side project, along with Sylvie 3.0, a process of... -
Using Your Legs in Muay Thai Clinch & Clinch Basics
August 29, 2020It is no exaggeration to say that there is nowhere else in the world like Thailand to teach you how to clinch. Yes, it’s the high level of technique and deep pockets of knowledge, the sheer... -
The Vipassana of Feeling Your Kick, Part 1 an Introduction
June 12, 2020This video is “Part I” of a Sylvie’s Technique Vlog that I’m filming, examining the simple but very detailed way in which we can all learn to “feel” our techniques. Feeling is so important. It’s more... -
When Hippy Fought Chatchai as a Boy in His Own Words
June 6, 2020Below is a story told by the incredible yodmuay Hippy Singmanee. He posted this on his Facebook Page (and the story is apparently in his biography, but I don’t know where you can buy this). You...