CategoryMuay Thai

Interviw with the Late Sirimongkol
1 day ago

Interview with the Late Sirimongkol Looksiripat – Fighter of the Year 1972

above, enable Closed Captions for English (CC) – 10 minutes of my interview with the great Sirimongkol, you can watch the full translated interview by supporting the project here. One of the things I’m trying to do with the Preserve The Legacy Muay Thai Library project is to create more interview opportunities with legends of the sport. It’s a chance for the world to hear directly about the lives of past stars and to let them speak for themselves. This involves not only being able to sit down and talk with these amazing men, but also arranging and paying for 

Come and Train with the GOAT - Dieselnoi
3 days ago

Train With Dieselnoi the GOAT at Petchrungruang Gym for a Month

Starting on February 15th, through March 15th 2019, Dieselnoi will be staying at my home gym in Pattaya (Petchrungruang) for the entire month. That’s 30 whole days! I’m truly excited for this. In December of the last year he was the “main event” – so to speak – of the Muay Khao Summit hosted at my gym, a chance for women to learn clinch and knees from Golden Age Legends who brought much of themselves out through the technique and heart of what Muay Khao is. But Dieselnoi is the King of Knees; he’s the father of the whole style 

The Day Jaidee Died - Soi Dog
4 days ago

The Day Jaidee Died – Losing My Dog

There is a phrase in Thai for what we call “unconscious,” usually for long stretches, like someone in a coma. Kao nohn dae mai roo, “they lie there but don’t know.” In a literal sense, our word also conveys “not knowing,” because what the Thai means by “know” is the conscious mind; and without it, you’re just meat. As I sat in the backseat of our rented car, my heart thumping through my chest in panic as I tried to relay directions to Kevin from the map on the phone, my dog laid there in my lap, wavering between knowing and 

negative thoughts are like antibotic resistant bacteria2
2 weeks ago

Mental Training – How Negative Thoughts Can Become Like MRSA

There’s a phrase, “it’s 90 percent mental.” I’m coming to realize that the more experience you gain. the more time you spend on a single, focused endeavor, the closer that 90 percent goes toward 99.9 percent. Or maybe it’s even all mental and we can escape the body in some kind of Nirvana-state of Muay… I don’t know yet. The other day an Instagram post from Mental Coach, Kara Loewentheil came up on my feed. I needed it. I have needed it: yesterday, today, probably a bunch of tomorrows. It’s an important lesson, and one that I’ll likely have to learn many times 

At the Feet of Legends
1 month ago

Defining “感覺” at the Feet of Legends – What the Summit Was Like | Guest Post

guest post by Josephine Kim, on her experiences at the 2018 Women’s Muay Khao Summit which brought women from around the world to train in the Muay Khao style with top Thai female champions, and legends of the style from the Golden Age – a Preserve The Legacy project. Defining “感覺” at the Feet of Legends Street view of the Petchrungruang boxing gym. The founding family’s warm hospitality made this refurbished pineapple farmhouse feel like a second home. Photo taken with Jojo’s iPhone. Preface: I have come across many “story collector items” over the years, but never before like this 

1 month ago

Is Petchrungruang Gym the Right Gym For You? | Interview Tara James

This is my interview with Tara James, an Australian fighter who also was a Women’s Muay Khao Summit attendee this past December. After the Summit finished, she went and trained at a gym she had really liked on a previous training visit, but found that – at this time – it was unexpectedly busy, and that the training she had hoped for wasn’t present.  So she decided to fly back down to Pattaya and join me at my much smaller gym, Petchrungruang, which is where the Summit had been hosted. I wanted to sit down with her and talk about 

Man vs Woman Fight - What Does it Mean.
1 month ago

Man vs Woman Fight – What Does it Mean? | Interview with Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu

Guest Post – Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu This is my interview of Sylvie on what was an extraordinary event that happened this week as Tara, a student at the gym and an attendee of the Women’s Muay Khao Summit fought a male opponent. I wanted to get some perspective on what Sylvie thought about the fight as fights between the genders are rare, and almost symbolize something almost ineffable. As we mention in the interview we can only think of four other adult women who have fought men in an organized fashion (though there surely are many other such fights which 

1 month ago

Fight 230 – Sylvie Petchrungruang vs Nanghong w/ 2nd Fight in One Day

Above is the fight video with commentary, my 230th fight and as it turned out, my 2nd fight of a single day. In the afternoon I fought in the center of Thailand in a televised Kard Chuek fight, and then drove to Chiang Mai for this one, with my hero the legend Karuhat Sor. Supawan in my corner all along the way. You can see my first fight of the day detailed at bottom in an edit Kevin put together. These are some awesome photos by Walt Zink from fight 230 as well: This is what Kevin wrote about this 

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