Currently Reading: Petchrungruang Gym

This is my interview with Tara James, an Australian fighter who also was a Women’s Muay Khao Summit attendee this past December. After the Summit finished, she went and trained at a gym she had really...

Just under a month ago, I came home from fighting in Chiang Mai and training with Langsuan for the Muay Thai Library project. When I got back to my regular gym for training, I was committed...

above is a 5 minute trailer for episode 1 of my new Patreon series Kaimuay Diary – I don’t write about my home gym, Petchrungruang, very often, given how much I have written on Muay Thai....

above, my extended interview with Gary Boyson, someone who plans on coming to Petchrungruang for years now. Listen to what Petchrungruang has been like, and why he’s fallen in love with it (27 min). He’s lost...

My bag swings away from me and in the pendulum peak away from me I glimpse inside the ring, where a 13-year-old boy is sparring with a man three or four times his size. The bag...

Team, a Thai boy who is my more or less regular clinch partner these days, is a good 3 inches shorter than I am, but he’s all muscle. When we clinch, I can use my reach...

An enormous vinyl poster of the moment in the ring when PTT won the Omnoi Isuzu tournament – a giant faux key in his hand to represent the truck he won and a cardboard sign reading...

Alex and Note are standing on opposite corners of the ring, wearing shinguards and gloves, hanging out like they’re about to do anything other than sparring. They’re totally relaxed, laughing, joking. Kru Nu is pacing around and...

I have never seen this before in my four and a half years in Thailand. One of my favorite moments ever in the gym. This kid stands about 3 feet tall, barely as tall as Pi...

This is the first 7 minutes of a 30+ minute private session with Pi Earn Petchrungruang. This post is to give you all an idea of the kind of content I’m going to be doing regularly...