Currently Reading: Muay Thai

You can read all of my Muay Thai clinch articles here. Caley Reece, one of the best female clinch fighters in the world, said something interesting along the lines of “Always train clinch with gloves, you...

I sat quietly, wrapping my hands in the main room of the gym, facing the ring. The light in the mornings pours in with impunity and sometimes it’s hard to focus on the farther edges of...

There is a natural division in western feminist thinking, and in some way this post is about that divide. But much more it is about the situational ethics, the principles we may want to protect and...

The above is a heat map that works as a kind of answer to the question “Who Loves Muay Thai in Thailand?” As well as a listing of the top provinces on that map. The data...

Two vlog updates from this week. The first is from Bangkok when I visited the National Library trying to track down an article from 1972 which supposedly relates the famous “woman in the ring” event at...

I’ve posted and talked about this fight elsewhere, but recently the video was sent to me by someone who has been practicing Muay Thai for more than a decade, and who I know to be interested...

To begin, these are my observations as a female fighter in Thailand who has pursued learning clinch for 3+ years. Other female fighters may have had other experiences, but difference of experience does not mean that...

The above video is responsible for a very quick improvement in knee pain I started experiencing earlier this week. I’d had this knee pain before but never did anything for it – I’m not sure why...

June 12, 2015 – I don’t know what I was expecting when we pulled up to the Grand Boxing Stadium, but when I actually saw the front of it, kind of in a strip-mall and looking...

There is a saying, “the more things change, the more things stay the same.” That’s kind of Thailand in a nut-shell. My daily grind is more or less the same thing over and over again; it’s...