Currently Reading: Muay Thai

Muay Farang has a really nice article by Roberto Cassarino on Muay Thai Scoring. Do read it to get the most of what is written below. How Muay Thai is Scored in Thailand There really is...

Motorbike Rental in Pattaya We shot this video outside of where we rented our Honda Scoopy automatic motorbike for 6 weeks in Pattaya. This doesn’t pretend to be some kind of comprehensive review, I’m sure there...

extended highlights of his last Rajadamnern fight above “Big” (Pornsawanlek Kiat Busaba ) is my favorite fighter at Lanna, and probably my favorite person there as well. He just has this incredible energy that is somewhere...

My Goals Goals are important things. They give us context and room for what we want to achieve, they make us believe in ourselves in a focused way. My initial goal when I first moved to...

this post will make the most sense if you watch at least the 1st 12 mins of this video lecture We are all trying to improve our Muay Thai, but one of the difficulties in plotting...

This is a bit of a free form thought response to reading a very interesting article. I wrote a blog post recently on the role of menstrual taboo in Thailand limiting women’s access to the top...

Full Fight Video Toyota Tournament fight – February 15, 2014 – Fight begins at minute 3:30 At the time of this fight Tanadet (Poda) had a record of 48 wins, 13 losses, 1 draw. before the...

Sancherng Narupai (red) vs Manasak S  Rajchai (blue) – this fight is likely from 1986. I love Sancherng’s (red) crouched approach for the first two rounds, the way he gets so still and just swallows up...

We all know the bro (or the female version) who says “Let’s go light” in sparring, and then whacks you. Or, when you get a hit in they suddenly step it up two notches in a...

I learned a ton training with Sakmongkol in Pattaya for 7 weeks, as well in my time at Petchrungruang Gym. You can see my daily blog posts of my time with Sakmongkol here if you want...