Currently Reading: Muay Thai

This is a follow up to a post I wrote about a week ago called Keep Moving – The Importance of Training With Injury, on the topic of what one can learn from the experience of...

Last week I noticed that my YouTube Channel had hit over 1.5 million views, which is an astounding number given where I started and what my intentions are.  It provides a time to reflect a little...

The Injury I’ve written before on my attitude regarding injuries, mainly that you’re either hurt and you can keep training/fighting or you’re injured and you have to suck it up and sit out.  But even if...

            click to go to PayPal.com – pay to recipient lannamuaythai123@gmail.com Khem Visits Lanna Muay Thai I’ve written before about Khem here. This is an update on how Khem is doing,...

I’ve done this before.  You’ll hear that from people quitting smoking, too.  In fact, my father quit smoking when I was a kid and I remember how difficult it was for him, but that was actually...

  Today on my afternoon run I passed by a soccer field with a bunch of guys playing.  They were really good, clearly having spent a lot of time playing soccer.  I loved soccer when I...

 Taking Inspiration from Jack Dempsey I’ve been focusing lately on something my husband found in the book Championship Fighting: Explosive Punching, Aggressive Defense by the all-time boxing great Jack Dempsey – that the power of your...

I read a post by Emma Thomas on her great new Under The Ropes blog this morning, on the subject of “Gym Hoppers and the Importance of Loyalty in Muay Thai”.  It’s an interesting topic and...

Extremely Painful – and Beneficial I wrote some time ago about processes that help to speed healing the regular knots and bruises that one acquires through training and in fights. These treatments are really indispensable for...

Things Being Worked on in the Clinch This is my first clinching practice in a couple of weeks and the video is just the last three or so minutes of abut 25-30 minutes of clinch at...