Currently Reading: Muay Thai

November 25, 2015 – Sattahip, Loi Krathong Festival – full fight video above You know when you’re at a festival. There’s no question of, “is it here?” because it’s all fluorescent lights, blaring bass over the...

Buying a Mongkol for myself the first time, almost two years ago, was a very important moment for me. Traditionally, Mongkol are traditionally given to fighters by their masters or are handed down as part of...

November 17, 2015 – Thepprasit Stadium, Pi Nu’s Birthday and my brother John’s Birthday – full fight video above The Day of the Fight – Pi Nu’s Birthday The gym had been transformed from a haven...

Sak Yant, My Belief and Muay Thai Invulnerability There are, to me, significant differences between the invulnerability of those who deflect bullets, and the invulnerability of those who absorb bullets but keep moving forward. The second...

My dad is not a complicated guy. The things he needs to be comfortable and happy are very simple and have largely been the same for the 32 years I’ve known him. The difficulty is in...

Sataanmuanglek Numponthep – Magician A few days a go a clinch video swept across Facebook, featuring the young fighter Sataanmuanglek Numponthep just looking incredible in “man in the middle” training. This kind of training is very...

November 9, 2015 – Udon Thani – full fight video above A man at my gym who I really like, who Pi Nu calls “Small Man,” (his name is Bpiak) had booked this fight for me...

Somewhere around my 55th fight, I started filming “post fight updates,” a kind of vlog immediately upon exiting the ring from a fight. The idea was to get the raw emotion or experience right after a...

November 8, 2015 – Chon Buri, Buffalo Racing Festival – full fight video above We had to park at the very end of this long road that was all lined with cars already and dead-ended into...

One of a fighter’s greatest and most difficult tasks is dealing with fear. I always get nervous before fights and at the beginning of my fight career I rejected the word “fear” to describe what I...