CategoryMuay Thai

Sylvie's Tips - Training the Long Guard on the Bag
16 hours ago

Sylvie’s Tips: Training Long Guard on the Bag | Firming Up

above, my short Sylvie’s Tips on how I’m practicing Long Guard on the bag lately Everything little thing we do on the bag is repetition, even unconscious things can be “trained” into you. Simply taking a time out and walking back from the bag to reset during your rounds is that kind of small element. The further I get in my Muay Thai journey, the more I’m examining my bagwork (and shadow) for unconscious elements that I’m accidentally, or even non-efficiently training. It’s about awareness, so that I can figure out how to get my training into the ring with me 

How to Help Stitches Heal Faster - healthcare
1 day ago

How to Help Stitches Heal Faster

above, my short video showing the application of liquid stitches I’ve written before a kind of “Stitches 101” post, a guide on how to Care for Stitches in Thailand covering all the basics. That’s a good place to start if you have questions about receiving stitches, healing time, training with them, scarring, etc. This post is kind of the update to those basics, like how every time I discover something new about treating knots and bruises on my shins I’ll make a video to update that information. My stitch count is now up to 129 stitches. That’s a lot and 

10 Minutes with Kru Thailand Pinsinchai - Santai Muay Thai Gym
2 days ago

10 Minutes with Thailand Pinsinchai | Santai Muay Thai, San Kamphaeng

I wasn’t sure what to expect from my private with Kru Thailand, as I was not very familiar with him as a fighter. He was a Rajadamnern (118 lb), Lumpinee and Thailand champion (122 lb), out of the famed Pinsinchai gym, you can read the Siam Fight Mag interview of him here. What was very quickly evident was his comfort, familiarity and keenness in focusing in on techniques when instructing, with precision. One of the things that westerners can crave when coming to Thailand is technical, corrective instruction and Kru Thailand is all that. Not only is his Muay incredibly 

5 days ago

Fight 169 – Sylvie Petchrungruang vs Namwan Senyendtaafo

December 24, 2016 – Loi Kroh, Chiang Mai – full fight with audio commentary above This was one night after my loss to Thanonchanok Kaewsamrit, when I had pretty bad food poisoning. So, I was feeling awesome in the sense that I was no longer suffering from the poisoning, but still a little tired from the stress to my body over that ordeal. This was my 3rd fight in 4 days. Nothing extra remarkable, just notable. This opponent was, incidentally, a teammate from the sport school that Thanonchanok is from. I’d never seen or fought her before, Namwan, so there was 

Kard Chuek for Women - What it Felt Like What it Means
1 week ago

Kard Chuek for Women – What it Felt Like, What it Means

the televised broadcast feed of my Kard Chuek fight, June 16 2017 – if you cannot see, link here What Kard Chuek Was Like I feel simultaneously like I have so much to say about my experience fighting Kard Chuek, and yet not much at all to really express other than how much I loved it. There is an additional freedom to the minimalism of ropes instead of gloves, the way taking headgear and shinguards off just frees you up – the same reason runners wear the lightest, tiniest shorts and air-light shoes. And then there’s the part of it 

Freedom and Personal Power - Muay Thai
1 week ago

Body Conscious – Finding Freedom and Personal Power

After struggling out of my wet sports bra, I stood in front of Kevin who was lying on the bed and waved my hands around animatedly while regaling him with the stories of evening training. I slipped off the rest of my clothes as I laughed about clinching, probably with a string of cuss words flowing out as I recounted the events. “Jesus,” Kevin said, looking at me, “I should take a picture.” I was feeling pretty good, do it, I said and kept talking. So Kevin snapped a few photos of my body before I disappeared into the shower, just 

Kru Fund
1 week ago

Starting the Kru Fund

At the start of my documentary project of the Muay Thai Library – which seeks to archive long-form training videos with some of the best krus and ex-fighters in Thailand while also chronicling my personal growth as a fighter through this process – I wanted to give something more to the amazing men that have become part of the subject of this unique Library. We stand at a turning point in Muay Thai (there have been many already), in which the generation of men from the Golden Age are starting to recede from public view; some no longer train students, some of them have 

2 weeks ago

Fight 168 – Sylvie Petchrungruang vs Thanonchanok Kaewsamrit

December 23, 2016 – Kawilla Stadium, Chiang Mai – full fight video with commentary above Oh man, this was a rough one. I fought two days before against Hongpet Liangprasert and had won by TKO, so on my rest day between these two fights I had gone up to the Pettonpung Gym in Mae Rim to clinch a bit with Phetlilaa. She’s wrenched on my neck pretty good and that gave me some nice Gumby neck, but that’s not a huge deal. Happens often enough. But somehow I’d caught a horrid case of food poisoning at dinner on that same 

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