Currently Reading: Kalare

full fight video Part 1 above, part 2 below: May 1, 2015 – Kalare Night Bazaar, Chiang Mai There’s a familiarity that never goes away for me when it comes to traveling routes. Even when every...

February 9, 2015 – Kalare Stadium, Chiang Mai (full fight video above) I’m sitting on the mat against the tin siding of the Kalare Stadium in Chiang Mai.  It’s a place I know fairly well, having...

August 30th, 2013 – Kalare Stadium, Chiang Mai –  There was a lot of back and forth regarding who I would be fighting on this night and it wound up being Sud Siam Sor Sumalee, who...

I saw my photo on a big fight poster outside the venue, a close up The Set Up: My fight on the Queen’s Birthday (51st fight, August 12th) was initially intended to be a face-off with...

August 12, 2013 – Kalare Stadium, Chiang Mai I told Den I wanted to fight on the Queen’s Birthday, which is a big holiday (including celebrations to the effect of Mother’s Day) and is pretty much...

The Fiftieth Fight – July 26, 2013 Four years ago, when I visited Thailand for the first time and had two fights in Chiang Mai, I was climbing into the back of Andy’s truck after what...

  49th Fight – Yodying Sor. Sumalee 7/16/13 – This fight was my shortest turn-around yet with only four days between fights.  As such, I didn’t really have much training in between.  I fought Friday night,...

I was told just prior to my 47th fight that I would be fighting on the 12th, a rematch against Faa Chiang Rai, with whom I’ve fought twice now.  The first was a draw, the second...

Before the Fight My friend Robyn has come from Pennsylvania to visit and train with me at camp.  Robyn is amazing.  She’s been doing martial arts since she was only 4 years old and, through the...

At the Gym Before the Fight I was meant to fight on Monday, February 25th but that turned out to be a holiday and there weren’t any fights in Chiang Mai that day. So when I...