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Hi, I recently spent 2 weeks training at Sinbi and I would like to share my experience. Now keep in mind, I barely did any Muay Thai prior to training at Sinbi, so I have no reference to compare my training too, except for my boxing background. Furthermore, I will try to keep my review short and to the point. Overall, I enjoyed training at Sinbi, however it felt like I was in fat camp. I’m not sure if this was the norm because I never did so much conditioning, especially in boxing. When I was boxing, I’ll would do my roadwork and calisthenics on my own time, with the exception of jump roping. In the boxing gym, I would focus on the heavy bag, mitt work and sparring. However, with all the conditioning that we did at Sinbi, I was surprised that we never did any jump rope or body weight squats. I always assumed that was part of the training. The trainers at Sinbi were awesome. They were patient enough to help me with my techniques and they were very friendly. But oddly enough, each trainer had their own way of executing a technique. Now for the part that I didn’t like, but had nothing to do with Sinbi were the small group of wannabe tough guys. They were annoying and obnoxious. I won’t go into details, but they were toxic. However, when it came to sparring, they were decent. But they did carry themselves as if they were top notch. As mentioned before, I did enjoy myself training there but I wouldn’t really want to go back. Hopefully next time I would find a gym that doesn’t have annoying foreigners. Hopefully my review would give some help if you ever decide to train at Sinbi.

I've been concussed once. If I could know then what I know now, I would have gone HARD keto to recover from that. Carbs and sugar aren't good for the brain, aren't good for inflammation, and fats and ketones are very good for the brain during that time of recovery. Once you're sensitive to concussions though, there's nothing you can really do. You just have to make the call for yourself. If you're worried about it, you'll keep being worried about it and should devise a plan for whatever degree you're comfortable engaging in that kind of activity. You can't really "Google" your way to a resolution, it's a very personal choice and experience of what affects you or doesn't.

Can't think of a perfect analogy world sport that's the other way around, where its decline in the west could be saved by an uptake in the East. Skateboarding might be the closest to mind, over 50% of the market from the US and an originally a US thing. But the stable participation rates and rises now are in Asia, and possible growth areas look like Japan. Where would skating rate on your graph relative to the Krav Maga and Thai for popularity? Like the UFC boom that carried Thai up in its tide along with BJJ and stuff, skaters had Tony Hawk video games in... damn...late 90s? Early 2000s or something? Caused a spike in popularity, first major events, TV, and inspired tonnes of kids to take it up. Even funnier, it might be the only sports video game in history to actually get young people *off* a couch. But like your Thai popularity, it flattened off over time - heard some say that the key demographic of 9-18 year olds is down to half of what it was 15 years ago. But it will never really die. The fact that stuff like jazz music, stamp collecting, theology etc.. even still exist should convince us that pretty much anything should survive with effort. Even though skating is down, they're making it to the Olympics for the first time now.

Howdy, In the West folks tend to do some padwork, maybe a total of 3 explosive and then relaxed sets. Not too much. In Thailand we don't do that at all, we just get the oil massage (with the Thai linament, it warms you up) and some light shadowboxing and maybe some stretching. I've seen studies that say that a kind of explosive, out-of-breath for a minute warmup about 10 minutes before a race (running) shows improved times for runners. So I kind of go hard in my shadow the fight before mine, then relax. I've never trained combos or anything before a fight. But I do visualize for myself, which is something you could maybe guide your fighters through or at least tell them to do for 5 minutes.

There is no way to see YouTube trends, that I know of, but YouTube is the 2nd largest Search Engine in the World. What the Olympics will do is that it will fill classes with youth, around the world. And youth entry is a huge factor in the health and popularity of a sport. Whether this would translate into long term health is another question. Olympic entry was a huge stimulus to TKD for instance, but that growth also had some notorious deleterious effects as well. I believe there are regular Lumpinee fights coming to UFC Fight Pass. Jason Strout (of NYC) I heard is moving to Bangkok to do the commentary. That is pretty cool. It would be nice to have just regular ol' nothing special stadium fighting moving through the media pipeline.