Currently Reading: Muay Thai

A few months ago I was interviewed at they gym by a fellow who is an international journalist for the PRI, which is an affiliate of the BBC.  He introduced himself as David Hecht and the...

The small cats are about 5 months old.  I hesitated to get close to any of them at first, not purely out of caution but because I felt a personal need to acclimate to such a...

I’ve noted over time that there are drastic differences between how a fight looks in the ring as a fighter or referee, beside the ring as a judge at the feet of the action, and then...

photo source, credit: Josephine Runeboom (2011) I wrote about Lindsay Scheer two years ago in a blog post titled “Undo” in which I quoted a statement from her Facebook page following a fluke accident involving the...

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...