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Judging Youth – Young, Great Male (and Female) Thai Fighters
January 16, 2015There has been some vague criticism toward me regarding the age of the Thai opponents I’ve been fighting. I have attempted to elevate the criticisms to a point of discussion by addressing the various facts about... -
The Modernization of Muay Thai – A Timeline
January 10, 2015Kevin put together the nice graphic above for me, the below timeline was co-authored by Kevin and myself I’ve been reading through Peter Vail’s November 2014 article: Muay Thai: Inventing Tradition for a National Symbol.PDF and... -
The Real Men of Muay Thai – Worn Like Stones by Water
January 9, 2015Guest Post by Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu There is a very touching piece written by Lindsey Newhall for Fightland: Life of a Pad-Man: A Muay Thai Trainer’s Remorse. The pinnacle of the story is where Dam, a... -
Awakening Female Muay Thai Awards – Journalist of the Year 2014
January 6, 2015The results are in for the Awakening Female Muay Thai Community Voted Awards and it is pretty awesome to have won the 2014 “Journalist of the Year”. For those who don’t know me or are maybe... -
short film – A Day of My Training – Love the Grind
January 3, 2015above – our short film on a typical day of my training here in Pattaya (25 min) – วิดีโอซ้อมมวยกิจวัตรประจำวันค่ะ อยู่ที่พัทยาค่ะ We’ve been wanting to do this for a while, making a full day of training in... -
Disappointments & Falling In Love Again – Honey Badger training in Thailand
January 3, 2015a Guest Post by Honey Badger MG I had traveled 22 hours and spent a week traveling the country with my fiancé. We explored the cities, visited the wats, and bathed elephants in a river surrounded... -
Vlogging Every Day of January 2015 – My Muay Thai Diary
January 1, 2015I asked my Facebook followers what they would like more of from me in 2015 and one of the things they suggested is that I vlog more. So I’m trying an experiment and posting a vlog... -
Little Tiger Miyauchi Ayaka vs Faa Chiang Rai S. Sakonthom – 102 lb WBC Inter. Championship 2014 – Pattaya
January 1, 2015This was a fight (above) I really wanted to see. It happened in July of 2014 and was a little under the radar. I had been hoping that Little Tiger would fight in the Queen’s Cup... -
Endurance is a Skill – The Practice of Belief and Fatigue in Overtraining
December 29, 2014This post is a continuation of thinking presented in The Myth of Overtraining: Endurance Physical and Mental for Muay Thai and also The Fragility of Western Masculinity before it. For those that have a significant belief... -
A Letter of Correspondence – How Muay Thai Helps Us Through Struggles
December 26, 2014I received this communication some time ago and I was moved by the excitement and passion this woman gets from and puts into her Muay Thai. I asked her to write a bit more about how...
