Currently Reading: Muay Thai

 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...

I got the gym a little after 4:00 this afternoon.  It had rained heavily for almost an hour and the air was only recently cleared of the heaving movement of wind.  Nook was directing two young...

There aren’t a great number of professional female Muay Thai fighters in the west and fewer still in the USA.  I came across Roxy “Balboa” Richardson just as she was preparing for her retirement fight this...

A few years back I was making a film about Natalie Fuz’s final Muay Thai fight before her retirement in December of 2009.  I got a media pass to film at Friday Night Fights at the...

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After 45 minutes or so of sparring with Den yesterday he finally broke down for me what I was doing wrong with my attempts to land kicks on him.  (I landed maybe 5 in that time,...

After an intense padwork-turned-sparring session with Nook in the morning, I was pretty satisfied with the effort I’d put in but had definitely experienced difficulty in feeling positively about myself and my performance.  In between morning...