Currently Reading: Muay Thai

Sean “Muay Thai Guy” Fagan invited me to the August Nak Muay Nation training camp at Khongsitta Gym in Bangkok. We scheduled two days, allowing me to take part in 4 sessions with the group that...

  above, YouTube video of Andrew Zimmern receiving his Sak Yant You can read about my own Sak Yant experiences here Since the airing of Andrew Zimmern’s Driven By Food I’ve already received a lot of...

I descend the steep stairs at the front of WKO, holding on to the handrail as the deep drop between each metal platform is designed for someone taller than I am, and feel the hot afternoon...

Training with the legend Karuhat is some of my favorite time spent doing anything. There’s something about his energy that really speaks to me. There simply is nobody else who fights like Karuhat, whose name means...

May 27, 2016 – “The Verona” at Prachin Buri – the video above has some audio problems This was one of the rare occasions where I got to fight with other fighters from my gym. I...

It’s very hard to learn the clinch anywhere in the world outside of Thailand. Truth told, it’s hard in Thailand also. Part of that is that the clinch is not really instructed so much as learned through...

A few years ago I was listening to a podcast of a bunch of East Coast dudes talking about Muay Thai. They were laughing about how people who don’t know anything about the sport will ask...

On August 23rd at 9pm EST the Travel Channel airs Driven By Food with Andrew Zimmern, the Bangkok episode. I was one his hosts in Bangkok, showing him Muay Thai and Sak Yant in the city....

In the world of sports, there are always wins and losses. I’ve always been a proponent of the idea that losses are ultimately good for you, because competing is a chance for feedback and only ever...

Rambaa Somdet M16 is a world renowned Thai fighter who was the first Thai to hold an MMA world championship title. I’ve been training with him the last 10 days, leading up to some important fights....