Currently Reading: Muay Thai

Dave Poyer and Ikkari who is going to be a clothing sponsor for me, makes great vintage-themed and baked-in-design rashies and is about to launch their website, ready to sell to the public (January 1st, 2015)....

  I received this beautiful message from artist (and martial artist) Emma B., you can find her Facebook artist page here, she wrote to me that she wishes she could support me financially, but instead she...

  I was writing to female Muay Thai fighter Dalia Hosny, a veteran of fighting in Thailand (35 fights here), who was offering me very positive support and it made me think about how in some...

I’m standing in the ring just a few feet away from my trainer, Sangwean.  He’s father to the best female fighter in the world, 12-year-old Phetjee Jaa O. Meekhun, and she’s kind of puttering around in...

There’s a new little girl at the Petchrungruang Gym.  She’s been there for maybe 2 months now, only in the afternoons, but she’s serious.  For a long time I didn’t know her name – I found...

The real instruction doesn’t come until minute 1:40 but the thought to record Bai jumping in to practice knees with the boys was simply because it was pretty cute.  Then her dad came over to correct...

  There was an Internet meme created to try an smear my record and what I’m doing. It was posted most widely by the Warriors of the Mongkol Facebook page, though they very kindly deleted it...

the above photo is of my mother and me laying on a mat for hours in the middle of Isaan, under the stars, waiting for my fight to come up on the card For two weeks...

Above is the full video of Phetjee Jaa’s Loi Krathong fight (Nov. 6, 2014), where she gave up about 5 kilos to her opponent. She’s been banned from fighting boys any longer and her experience and...

video of the standing Buddha who just looms over you majestically (above) When you drive down Route 2256 to the Ranrai Jomthong Resort you descend down into a valley.  On the left side are some of...