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Post your movie suggestions.. I’m going to start with Blessed with Venom, John Wayne Parr’s Documentary about his life in Thailand

Just leaving this here, Emma Thomas's rather complete list of Muay Thai documentaries and shows: https://undertheropes.com/2014/07/08/muay-thai-documentaries-and-tv-shows-the-directory/

Share you book recommendations I’m currently reading Mike Tyson’s book, not his bestseller life story ‘Undisputed Truth’ (although awesome and recommended too) but the book ’Iron Ambition’ about his life with Cus D’amato his first trainer who basically built a world champion. https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Ambition-Lessons-Learned-Champion/dp/0751559598/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=iron+ambition&qid=1587802810&sr=8-2

The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance Kindle Edition by Steven Kotler Great book on the development of performance flow. Really changed our thinking, or sharpened our thinking about what to pursue in training and how to get there.

Chael Sonnen's book, A VIP Pass to Enightmenment https://www.amazon.co.uk/Voice-Reason-V-I-P-Pass-Enlightenment-ebook/dp/B00839LZYK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GIPUAJZX0AMI&dchild=1&keywords=chael+sonnen&qid=1587797361&sprefix=chael+so%2Caps%2C337&sr=8-1 Ya don't even have to be an MMA fan to love it. It's honest and funny, plus not too long and letters not too small. My fave story was his first time getting busted for a fight at school. Principals office, calls his dad. Dad shows, quiet and serious, little Chael terrified of his strict dad. Taken home in the truck, but Dad has to stop for gas. Go in to pay, and his dad says, "You want a coke?". Dumbstruck, the kid quietly nods and gets one. Dad says, "No no, get a bigger coke". So he sheepishly does". Then tells him, "Which candy bar you want?" Confused as hell, but he just goes along with it. They go home in silence. That night little Chael's hiding, listening down from the banister. Overhears Dad on the phone laughing and bragging to his uncle with pride about how his son got into his first fight that day. That's the stuff people wanna read

When u guys speak of golden age Muay Thai, this is golden age western boxing with exceptional flow and dern... thought maybe u would enjoy, some have unbelievable endings!!

Great read! definitely a hybrid of the two! Even the way Dieselnoi wears his shorts is the same as the game character!

This thread is Totally amazing

Well thanks for putting such great content online and for being (intentionally or not) The Motivator haha Oh sweet, thank you so much for this - i wish I had asked it before. I’m definitely going to check both and maybe write here how I found them in case anyone else is interested!

No doubt played into the aesthetic inspiration!

Sagat is 'inspired' or rather, ripped off from the character Reiba, from the 70s manga 'Karate Master'. Right down to the eyepatch (although to their credit, they put it on the other eye That + taking a recognisable, easy to pronounce name, and a busted moveset = many many broken nintendo controllers.

Sylvie makes the interesting point that "Dieselnoi" is not easy to pronounce in Japanese, while Sagat is much more so.

The two fighters facing off before their June bout:

This is not an original observation on my part, but I definitely have been thinking about it and weighing the possibility for some time, gathering evidence. The first time I read the suggestion was in this blog post from 2015, which points out that that in Street Fighter II "Sagat" was much lankier; unfortunately though the author perpetuated the false history that Sagat had beaten Dieselnoi which he takes as a knock against his own suggestion: A graphic from the blog post:

Was the World Free-Style Martial Arts Championships held in Bangkok in 1982 the Premise for Street Fighter Itself? A bit of further evidence for the looming presence of Dieselnoi as absolutely unbeatable in the Japanese mind was his performance at the World Free-Style Martial Arts Championships held in Bangkok in 1982, 8 months before Dieselnoi would beat Samart. The Japanese brought a huge contingent of fighters set on proving that they could hang with the Thais. All of the Japanese fighters were beaten, and some were blown out by the Thais (except for one who won because the Thai was disqualified for clowning him). Dieselnoi took only a minute and a half to destroy his Japanese counterpart in the final. Dieselnoi giggled to us, recounting that he cut his knee on his opponent's tooth, showing us the scar that remains to this day. While other prominent Thais participated and prevailed, like Nongkai, I'm sure none of them made the immense impression that Dieselnoi made. The report from Black Belt magazine: Dieselnoi Just Ragdolling An Opponent at the Event If you want to see what kind of stories came back to Japan from this event, two and half years before Dieselnoi would dispatch with Sagat, it wasn't just the 1:30 1st round obliteration of the Japanese fighter in the championship round. It was likely these kinds of matchups against international competition in earlier rounds. Here is faces a TKD fighter at the championships: watch it here You can see where seeds of the mythic proportions of a giant fighter from Thailand must have been planted in the Japanese martial arts community. If there was a nightmare boogieman figure of the unbeatable fighter from Thailand, it wasn't Sagat Petchyindee, it was Dieselnoi. This was Sagat-like. Both Dieselnoi and "Sagat" Lorded Over an International "World Championship: Note, in the first version of Street Fighter the World Championship "Sagat" is hosting (The World Fighting Championship[1] (ワールドバトルトーナメント Wārudo Batoru Tōnamento?, "World Battle Tournament") to prove his greatness, is very much like the one that Dieselnoi dominated in 1982. Sagat Petchyindee was not a part of that Championship. It may not be a stretch to imagine that the entire physical premise of Street Fighter engagements was inspired by that 1982 World Championships in Bangkok. Black Belt magazine some years later would over-dramatically remember this championship as "...the meanest, no-holds-barred tournament in the Far East". "Sagat" is the "Emperor of Muay Thai". As the Black Belt Magazine article tells us, at the time of the event Dieselnoi was known as the "King of the Ring".

Namphon is my favorite (underrated) fighter. I just love him and his dignity. Known for his relentless fighting, getting cut a ton, it seems like he was on the short end of some decisions that maybe were reputation decisions, a lack of respect for his game. He owned Dekkers in their first fight, but was given the loss. In one of his fights against Samart it seems he just couldn't climb out of the "he's just a knee fighter" rep, as Samart dangle-armed his way to victory. This fight is one of my favorites of his. He fights the entire fight backwards, from the bell, vs the bigger, more powerful punching Orono. He out-femeu'd him, made him chase and chase. And in the 4th unleased beautiful, overwhelming boxing. But that doesn't mean it wasn't an exciting fight. Orono keeps on coming, building more and more momentum to a possible decision win. So much good stuff in this fight. Lots of windshield wiper frame offs, long guard shocks to take the pace of the powerful southpaw's punches.

With the help of Dave Jones who is helping us all with tech support and design, kind of sponsoring Sylvie through his efforts, we've been able to relaunch the Store on Sylvie's 8limbsus site, and have started filling it with some awesome stuff. You can find it here: Sylvie Store. You'll find not only Sylvie shirts and shorts (which help raise money for the Kru Fund, but also Karuhat merchandise that goes completely to supporting him, and other awesome stuff like the first documentary made on Sylvie. Time to check it out.