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Training With Sakmongkol – Fear and Heart – Day 4 – WKO Pattaya
January 19, 2014Even though it’s Sunday, which is usually a rest day, Sakmongkol invited me to come train with him for two hours in the morning because he didn’t want to do padwork yesterday. He had let me... -
Why Your Muay Thai Dreams Might Not Come True in Thailand – The Two Great Fears for Fighting
December 13, 2013(above) my video introduction the common fight fears of gassing out and shin pain, the video below shows Den talking about what to do for fight conditioning Some Tough Talk One of the advantages of training... -
De-Masking – Removing Fear Piece By Piece
November 19, 2009Last night I started work back at a place I left a few months ago to open up more time for me to focus on training. When I returned, another woman who’d worked there years ago... -
Keys to Higher Traditional Muay Thai: Spacing, Continue, Angles, Tempo & Rhythm
November 14, 2025The above graphic represents 5 keys I’ve drawn out of our many years of filming the Muay Thai Library project (with probably over 100 Thai krus and legends of the sport), as well as being ringside... -
The Pain of Not Belonging
January 22, 2023I listened, recently, to a book about how women are mostly concerned/afraid about protection and men are mostly concerned/afraid about feeling shame. There was interesting research into how babies, just naturally, fall along the male/female line... -
“I’ve got the bravest little sister. Maaaan, I’ve got such a brave sister.”
April 28, 2021The downstairs floor of the house I grew up in was always significantly cooler than the upper floor of the house. The floors were concrete, whereas upstairs was unfinished wood that offered splinters and creaky betrayals... -
The Menstrual Cycle & Muay Thai Training: Important for Female* Fighters & Those That Coach Them
December 1, 2020*The phrase “Female Fighters” is used in the title for brevity and discovery, read as: “People Who Menstruate”. Read more of my Gendered Experience articles here. There are a lot of reasons why talking about the... -
Using Your Legs in Muay Thai Clinch & Clinch Basics
August 29, 2020It is no exaggeration to say that there is nowhere else in the world like Thailand to teach you how to clinch. Yes, it’s the high level of technique and deep pockets of knowledge, the sheer...
