Currently Reading: Sakmongkol

What makes a good day good or a bad day bad? Some days, everything goes right, and on some really horrible days everything goes wrong. But generally speaking, it’s one thing that flavors your interpretation of...

Having learned from our experiences from our first trip down to Pattaya three months ago, Kevin and I decided that we’d have our...

This is just a short post to direct your attention to a great article that includes a great little interview with Sakmongkol, and an even better highlighting of his wonderful career. I really look forward to...

Muay Farang has a really nice article by Roberto Cassarino on Muay Thai Scoring. Do read it to get the most of what is written below. How Muay Thai is Scored in Thailand There really is...

I learned a ton training with Sakmongkol in Pattaya for 7 weeks, as well in my time at Petchrungruang Gym. You can see my daily blog posts of my time with Sakmongkol here if you want...

I’ve only come back to training at WKO with Sakmongkol in the past few days because of the stitches I received after my fight last Wednesday.  It feels so good to be back to hitting things...

*** A quick note on how these days are numbered: I go by only counting actual days of training with Sakmongkol, so I’ve been in Pattaya longer than 26 days and these two days actually have...

Day 23 – Use Your Advantages This morning on the way to Petchrungruang I was actually retching on the bike and continued to feel really nauseated as I was warming up.  Given that Kru Nu is...

Day 21 – Low Kick In my fight on Friday I landed some low kicks, something that the Patriarch at Petchrungruang and Sakmongkol have had me working on previously and what Kru Mutt had asked for...

Day 19 – It’s About Recovery and Throw It Like You Mean It This morning at Petchrungruang I was starting to feel difficulty in throwing kicks with full force because I wasn’t breathing properly.  Yesterday –...