CategoryMuay Thai

Langsuan1000 30 day challenge
1 day ago

The #Langsuan1000 30 Day Challenge! – 1,000 Knees and 1,000 Teeps

Train Like a Legend – For The Love of Muay Khao I’ve vlogged about how when I trained and filmed with legendary Golden Age knee fighter, and Fighter of the Year Langsuan he told me that to properly train as a Muay Khao fighter I should be doing 1,000 knees and a 1,000 teeps per session. Which was frightening. But as usual, I just dove right in. Dieselnoi, the King of Knees, had also told me something similar, that Muay Khao fighters have to train like nobody else, heaping loads of work after everyone has quit in the gym. I 

Ketogenic Diet and Muay Thai
4 days ago

The Ketogenic Diet and Muay Thai | How I Gave Up the Carb and Saved My Mind

The Keto Diet, ketogenesis: The keto diet features very low carb (- 20 g), moderate protein, and high fats, designed to switch the body from sugar-burning to ketone-burning, with suggested benefits of mental clarity, recovery and anti-inflammation, and weight loss (for those that need it), making use of hormone and metabolic responses evolved in humans through long periods of fasting or lean eating. What follows is not an expert telling, you can Google about and find more on all the things I bring up, but it is my telling. The full article, including a vlog discussion of how I’m appreciating 

1 month ago

About That Staph – A Vlog and Notes on Staph Infection In Thailand

I open this vlog (above) by saying that if you train in Thailand, for any amount of time honestly, you have a possibility of acquiring a Staph. infection, or what in Thailand is called “fee“. This isn’t because Thailand gyms are filthy, this is because this climate and the conditions of contact with other bodies and equipment, the propensity for getting small scratches from Velco on gloves or shinpads, from shaving, from scratching at a bug bite or the bug bite itself… it all just helps infections thrive. In the video I do say that it’s not necessarily indicative of your 

What Muay Femeu Means - The Piano and the Drum Blog post
1 month ago

Muay Khao vs Muay Femeu (what it means) – A Little Story

The Piano and the Drum Karuhat glances behind his shoulder to check how close the nearest ear is, then leans in toward me and lowers his voice to say something along the lines of, “I could totally take him; he’s not fit, just look at how tubby he is.” There’s an earnestness in Karuhat’s voice that’s a little surprising, as the man he’s talking about is a friend of his and they’ve been talking shit to each other across the ropes, while Karuhat trains me in the ring, for the last 15 minutes or so. The man he’s referring to 

1 month ago

New Feature: Slo-Mo Geek Out Rambaa Clinch – In Depth Library Discussion

watch the full hour of this study here listen to the study as a podcast here This is a new endeavor for Patreon content. The “Slo-Mo Geek Out” title is pending, but right now it’s super accurate because we’ve taken an excerpt from a regular Muay Thai Library session and slowed it down (slo-mo), in order to really see how everything flows out and in, and then Kevin and I do voiceover and “geek out” over how incredible all this movement, technique and continuity is from the best practitioners and teachers in the world. This first episode is an excerpt from 

Analysis Metaphysics and Muay Thai - Kevin's Instagram
1 month ago

Analysis, Metaphysics and Muay Thai | Kevin’s Instagram

My husband is a metaphysical thinker; an endless analyzer; a lover of maps, graphs and diagrams; and a beautiful writer. He also happens to have been with me since day one of training Muay Thai in Master K’s basement and is, in fact, the person responsible for me ever having seen Muay Thai in the first place. While he is not himself a fighter, he has seen and experienced all of this Muay Thai journey with me. And, as such a prolific thinker and watcher, what he sees and understands is wonderfully unhindered by the pesky struggle of personal metamorphosis 

2 months ago

New Patreon Series – Kaimuay Diary | Episode 1 – Maintenance Mode

above is a 5 minute trailer for episode 1 of my new Patreon series Kaimuay Diary – I don’t write about my home gym, Petchrungruang, very often, given how much I have written on Muay Thai. Part of this is that I’m 6 years into my fulltime life as a fighter in Thailand, now with over 200 fights in the country, and the day-t0-day has become a little invisible to me, so I don’t think to post about it at all. At the beginning, everything is remarkable. But over the years those things become part of the routine and you don’t 

Accidentally Disrespecting you Kru
2 months ago

“I Know My Body” and Accidentally Disrespecting Your Kru in Thailand

Pattaya, Thailand – This isn’t a lecture from on high on how you should be, we all come to Thailand for different aims and purposes. It’s about how you might be offending your Thai instructor without realizing it at all, and a little on how you can re-balance the situation. Kru Nu is sitting on the dark, polished wooden bench that runs the length of the far side of the gym. He’s pinching the skin of his stomach between his fingers and frowning while I finish my set of curls. He’s gained a few kilos of weight since I’ve been 

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