Currently Reading: Muay Thai

The other morning I was in the ring with Nook, trying my best to stay composed and focused on my own goals whilst he did his best to turn the whole ordeal into a game that...

  You take all of the intensity of the training and funnel and filter it through the years that make up your training career, to the months ahead of the fight, to the six weeks you...

This morning I woke up without my alarm and could see a soft pink light peeking through the narrow parting of my floor-to-ceiling balcony curtains.  I got up and gathered my things before heading over to...

  I was all ready to have a less-than-hardcore afternoon training session because I’m pretty beat today from not getting enough sleep last night.  But it wasn’t in the cards for me, apparently: while doing padwork...

  A couple weeks ago Andy showed me how to hold the bag during knees in order to strengthen my forearms and shoulders for the clinch.  This video is a demonstration of that technique: use your...

Seeing fights that occur before or directly after my own bout is an entirely different experience from going to fight night as a spectator.  Tuesday night provided just such an opportunity and, having a scheduled border...

It’s four days after my 24th fight and I filmed a video journal update out at the Chiang Mai University fields where I like to do sprints.  It’s been a rough four days, emotionally speaking.  Just...

I’m a Sega Genesis girl.  We had Nintendo and Atari when I was a kid, but all my favorite games were for Genesis.  The game I played the most was Altered Beast, a completely ridiculous side-scrolling...

My general pattern over the past 5 months has been to fight every 14 days, giving me 10 full days of training between matches.  It’s a comfortable pattern and I like it.  It’s enough time to...

It’s one day before my 24th fight, my 12th fight here in Thailand since returning 5 months ago.  I have now officially fought more in Thailand than in the US (as I had 3 fights in...