-
Paul Banasiak’s Experiences as a Sponsored Fighter And Harsh Training Realities
April 8, 2017Listen to the Muay Thai Guys Realities of Being a Sponsored Fighter podcast here The recent Muay Thai Guys podcast covers the realities of being a sponsored fighter at a small sample of gyms in Thailand.... -
Fighting At the Bar in Pattaya – It’s Not What You Think
January 13, 2017Walking Street is one of the biggest tourist destinations in Thailand. It stretches across the waterfront on the southern tip of Pattaya and is a somewhat bizarre combination of a Red Light District and Boardwalk. It’s... -
TKO’d My Clinch Partner in Training – And it Was a Good Thing
October 22, 2016Sparring is not always “light and technical” in Thailand, read about that My chest already feels like it’s being squeezed by a fist from taking a nearly full-power, flying knee to the sternum as I was up... -
Stories of The Bottom Rope: Thailand’s Muay Thai and Prohibitions for Women
May 7, 2016I’ve written about the bottom rope before (articles at bottom) and this is my response to it coming up again recently. Interestingly, it was reintroduced by an American coach who was saying that his female fighters... -
Clinch Hell – Breaking Points, Crying and Growing Stronger
March 25, 2016When Taking Pity Takes Too Much We have a new woman at the gym. She’s only trained a handful of weeks, ever, and will have her first fight at the end of the month. So Pi... -
The Foreigner Who Has Fought the Most Times in Thailand? It’s a Woman
December 29, 2015As much as I hate it, because I’m shy and it’s awkward, it’s simply the truth that women in the fighting arts are often in a position of having to somewhat uncomfortably advocate for and promote ourselves.... -
20 Female Muay Thai Fighters I’ve Interviewed
May 30, 2015It was not my explicit intention to be an interviewer of female fighters, but from the very beginning I’ve found women that I wanted to talk to, to find out more about, and ultimately to share...