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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...

  Just a little bagwork drill/game that I ran into in the gym by one of my favorite young fighters, Jatukam. Jatukam is 14 or 15 years old and just crushes his competition at Lumpinee and...

There’s a new little girl at the Petchrungruang Gym.  She’s been there for maybe 2 months now, only in the afternoons, but she’s serious.  For a long time I didn’t know her name – I found...

Kick Where it Hurts This is another installment of Sylvie’s Tips where I seek to share some of the things my Thai trainers are teaching. The other day Kru Nu landed a couple leg kicks on...

The kids at Petchrungruang train before school, so they’re running at 5:30 AM and out the door for school by 7:00.  Morning training for me is at 9:00 AM, after Kru Nu has gone back to...

There’s sparring in the Petchrungruang gym every day.  In fact, most of the training that the kids do is just clinching and sparring together in an endless cycle of playing for dominance and trying tricks from...

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...

Afternoon training at Petchrungruang yesterday was a pendulum swinging between, “hey, that’s not so bad,” to “holy hell, I’m never going to make it through this.”  I didn’t feel well, mostly fatigued and feeling a little...

a video introduction to Jai Bamroong, the Patriarch of Petchrungruang Gym, is looking at me through his thick, Coke bottle glasses and his eyes are glimmering under his slicked back hair. His question is in Thai...

The above video is the last round of my first attempt at slowing down my bagwork to focus on footwork and cutting out excessive steps – tiny foot shuffles I use for adjustment and filler.  The...