Currently Reading: Muay Thai

I get excited by the idea of fighting with other fighters from the gym – I like the shared experience of preparations, watching each other get our hands wrapped in order of who fights first, the...

Form and Function and Sex: The Killer Butt Women’s bodies occupy a strange cross-section of form and function in the world of athletics.  This is not to say that male bodies do not hold complex positions...

My Video Journal Update – 10/21 Here I talk a little about my training and looking forward to my fight on Tuesday, as well as on Nov 3 my birthday....

My Memory One of my favorite memories in Thailand is of going to watch fights at Lumpinee Stadium.  The name alone holds so much intrigue and esteem toward what Muay Thai fighters strive for – to...

I get a lot of questions about diet and nutrition.  I feel a little uncomfortable offering advice about nutrition for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is that I don’t think that much about...

No two trainers are alike.  Nook is an exceptional and individual character in innumerate ways, some of the most notable being that he manages to communicate 90% of the time without uttering actual words.  His grunts...

  For those who don’t already follow, Rosy Hayward’s Female Muay Thai News, Archive and Rumors Facebook Group (open to anyone) is one of the heartbeats of female Muay Thai online conversation. A lot of world...

It’s incredible how much happens in a single evening.  Maybe it’s part of being “outside” of the culture in which one is immersed, as it attunes the mental and emotional feelers to everything and little details...

 Taking a Day Off I don’t really take days off from training.  My “day off” usually consists of half a day of training and I like it that way.  I’m not a “type A” personality who...

  Power in Modesty? I just read an online article on the topic of Evangelical clothing stores popping up “all over” Brazil. The author is quick to note that Brazil is “known for it’s tiny bikinis,”...