Currently Reading: Muay Thai

I am so, so sore today.  That’s a good feeling in some ways and unpleasant in other, more obvious, ways.  As I was shadowboxing and warming up before clinch training, Sakmongkol put on his bellypad, shinguards...

This afternoon’s clinching session started with me shadowing in the ring, warming up.  Sakmongkol taught me a knee that he was working on with Sifu McInnes and his son last night.  Basically it’s a long straight...

We arranged a private session for clinch instruction just before regular afternoon training today.  I wasn’t in a good mood entering the gym, which is unfortunate because my attitude and how I’m “read” by trainers is...

Even though it’s Sunday, which is usually a rest day, Sakmongkol invited me to come train with him for two hours in the morning because he didn’t want to do padwork yesterday.  He had let me...

Today was my first double session.  There is no Muay Thai in the morning but they gym is open all day, so I got up and headed over to arrive at the gym by 9:00 AM. ...

I crashed at 8 PM last night, right after dinner.  I hadn’t slept since my nap before afternoon training at Lanna the day before, so I was definitely running on low sleep and having traveled and...

Our flight to Bangkok from Chiang Mai was at 6:55 AM, so we were up and heading out the door by 5:30.  We weren’t sure if we’d be able to easily find a rot daeng (share...

about 900 km from Chiang Mai – an hour and 20 minute flight, just South of Bangkok Sakmongkol, Pattaya and Clinch In a shoot-from-the-hip decision, considered over the past few weeks and really decided over the...

Our apartment building has a ramp into the main parking area, a 40 foot stretch of concrete on all sides to walk through until your each the glass doors in the back, which require a key-card...

– This is part of what is likely a series of articles on western female sexuality in Thai gyms – it’s a big topic and I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, and this...