Currently Reading: Muay Thai

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...

Drilling Blocks, Speed and HIIT Daeng has decided I need to be faster.  So, instead of running home from the lake four times per week (14 km, including one lap around the lake) he has switched...

A short while ago I started giving free English language lessons to Tor, who is a 19-year-old Thai fighter at Lanna and also happens to be Daeng’s son (one of my favorite trainers).  I’m not a...

Video Journal Update #79 A few of my thoughts today, taking a break from my run. I talk about the training cycle, and adjustments I’m making, as well as the time off post-fight hangover. I’m fighting...

Shadow Boxing Experiment I was sent a video from a fellow female fighter out in New Jersey named Raquel Harris, who is gearing up for an 8 Woman tournament in the Bronx.  The video showed her...

Growing up in Colorado had innumerate perks that I only came to appreciate long after I took them for granted.  City kids in New York and Philadelphia learn how to handle themselves on public transportation from...

            click to go to PayPal.com – pay to lannamuaythai123@gmail.com Khem Lanna Muay Thai meet Khem and his mother in this video I first met Khem about a year ago when...

Muay Thai – Kneeing over the Block The other day I was finishing up my afternoon training with knees on the bag, which is my usual.  It was pounding rain outside, creating this kind of end-of-the-world...