Currently Reading: Muay Thai

Here is JR on the bike after his brilliant win last night – huge, fast combos ending in body shots or leg kicks that just overwhelmed his opponent – and the Lanna boys, with the Kalare...

Between 10 am – 12 pm EST Streaming video from Thailand, that is the goal. I experimented some with a Google Hangout before my last fight, and it had mixed result. Tonight I’m going to my...

  Flow I’ve been working with Daeng in padwork for the past few days.  We’ve worked together before, but only a few times and it came to light recently that he was under the impression that...

I saw this posted on her Facebook page of Chantal Ughi (World Champion Muay Thai fighter living and fighting in Bangkok). There are 3 types of Thai trainers in Thailand: 1. the ones who only make...

Be Careful What You (Might Not Be) Ask(ing) For 1. After a really difficult and rewarding (and valuable) session of padholding this morning with Daeng, I was thrilled to tell my husband that Daeng is really...

The Ubiquitous Remedy Before my first fight upon returning to Thailand for this year-long stay I was told by one of my trainers that I had to go to the pharmacy and pick up some things. ...

 A Word of Warning A couple weeks after arriving at Lanna I was chatting with Andy before morning training.  It was probably 6:15 AM and we’d just returned to the gym after a run at the...

 Brother My brother Shane and I are close in disposition and age; he is two years my elder.  As the younger siblings we were subjected to both the physical maturity and emotional immaturity of our older...

Twenty seconds into sparring with Den this afternoon, I’m already frustrated.  There are hundreds of reasons why I shouldn’t be: Den has 300 fights to his name and  that doesn’t happen without countless hours of training,...

The Problem In my 20th fight I experienced great difficulty with the clinch.  My opponent was bigger than I, which isn’t the problem really, even though it would seem that her strength or tendency to rest...