Currently Reading: Muay Thai

Clinch Essentials Brooks Miller, a fellow student of Master K’s, posted this excellent breakdown of the basics of Thai clinch technique on my Facebook page, one of the most under-trained aspects of Muay Thai, a sub-art...

This day of training was wonderful and terrible all at once.  I woke up tired and just stayed that way all day.  I was able to push through it and surprised myself in training, discovering little...

About 4 months before I left for Thailand I was beginning my sincere efforts to learn the Thai language.  Master K told me I should learn “The Muay Thai Song” in Thai and perform it as...

A few days ago I watched the whole gym shift into the two rings while I worked outside of them.  Everyone was clinching except me.  As one of very few women at the gym I do...

I got to sleep in until 6:00 this morning and when I woke up the mountains were shrouded in a beautiful veil of mist.  I had a little difficulty shaking off the sleepiness that grips me...

A New Muay Thai Blog and Much More If you already subscribe to my SylvieMuay WordPress blog, please resubscribe at my new website as my blog has moved.  Just add your email in the upper right...

Master K used to teach down in Virginia and so he has a somewhat expansive collection of students up and down the East Coast.  He has taught at most gyms in NYC and has certified many...

It's been said to me countless times, "สบาย ๆ."  It means "relax," basically and it deals mainly with the aesthetic of Muay Thai and how it looks effortless, calm and flatly unemotional until it explodes in...

The second time Thay-Win held pads for me he would periodically stop, take a step back and look at me with a kind of stern consideration. I asked him what he was doing and he said,...

I couldn't sleep last night.  My mind was all over the place, but I got stuck thinking about the repetitive "life stories" of guys on the numerous seasons of The Ultimate Fighter that I've seen.  It's...