Currently Reading: O. Meekhun

The Land of Gossip Thailand’s moniker, the Land of Smiles, is an earned one. But part of that is because smiling is the only “saving face” response to a myriad of situations taking place publicly: someone...

Muay Thai gyms are living, changing things.  I’ve written before that they go through phases and cycles, both good and bad. I experienced this at Lanna Muay Thai, over the course of the 2 years I...

In Sylvie’s Tips I try to capture on video various small techniques that I run into while training. The way that it happens in Thailand, things are seldom taught to you in the form of...

above: Saya Ito, me and Phetjee Jaa I’m standing outside the ring in the late evening, maybe around 7:30 PM, watching Japanese world champion Saya Ito crawl under the bottom rope to stand next to Phetjee...

Update 11/2015: PJJ’s opponent fought under the name Nong Ai in this fight, but I’ve been informed that she is Buakaw Lookboonmee, regarded by some as the best 100 lb female fighter in Isaan lately. I’ve...

a Guest Post by Honey Badger MG I had traveled 22 hours and spent a week traveling the country with my fiancé. We explored the cities, visited the wats, and bathed elephants in a river surrounded...

Above is the full video of Phetjee Jaa’s Loi Krathong fight (Nov. 6, 2014), where she gave up about 5 kilos to her opponent. She’s been banned from fighting boys any longer and her experience and...

O.Meekhun Clinch Pedagogy I clinch with the O. Meekhun kids everyday. Let me just say that the clinch technique of both PhetJee Jaa and Mawin, for kids, is just extraordinarily high. I’m a clinch fighter, it’s...

Okay, the title is an overstatement, but I want to provide two substantial video examples (more than just a minute-long “clip”) from my recent training to show how size is not the determining factor in clinch...

if you’d like to follow the PhetJee Jaa Documentary project click here. I’m standing next to the ladder, painted blue to match the corner, that leads up into the Muay Thai ring at a military university...