Currently Reading: Muay Thai

Following my written review of Buffalo Girls, opening in NYC at the IFC Center on Nov. 14th, I had the opportunity to interview Director Todd Kellstein. I loved the film and was very excited to speak...

8limbs.us is the result of a Kickstarter campaign that garnered more support than I ever imagined.  The way Kickstarter works is that good folks can become “backers” on a project by funding in pre-set increments (set...

Child Boxers: Stam and Pet Also see my Skype Interview with Director Todd Kellstein Buffalo Girls opens on a shot of the rice fields of rural Thailand.  The wet and green of the landscape under sunlight...

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....