Currently Reading: Muay Thai

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...

I had just turned around from giving respect to my opponent’s corner, the sip of water that is ubiquitously offered still in my mouth, when the decision of my last fight was announced.  I didn’t really...

I went for my run this morning to loosen up my muscles after last night’s fight and as I was rounding the last bend before getting to the gym I suddenly got the chant from Kickboxer...

I stopped at the waterfall to record a video journal update, three days before my 19th fight.  There’s a little puppy (two actually, but only one cares that I come by) en route who has decided...

Brooks C. Miller taught a series of techniques that Buakaw does – any student of Suriya Sak is taught to watch and imitate Buakaw for his beautiful technique, so Brooks is doing right by Master K...