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1 day ago

Your Technique is Perfect, Right Now, The Way It Is | Mental Training Reading

We are doing a Muay Thai Mental Training Reading Group, together. On Facebook for everyone – you can join here – and on Patreon in live video conference call with my supporters – you can see our first session here. We’ve covered the first two chapters of the book The Inner Game of Tennis, and on Friday morning (Thai Time), we’ll meet and talk about chapters 3 & 4. This is a small, short book that changes people’s lives, as it teaches us to quiet down our Inner Coach, which gets in the way of our progress a lot of 

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1 week ago

Sylvie’s New Mental Training Reading Group | Live Discussion

Read Sylvie’s Post on the Mental Training Reading Group: LIVE edit: We’ve started an Open Group to discuss themes that come up As Sylvie’s Patreon has expanded, we’ve taken on new projects, all the in vein of increasing the awareness of legendary fighters, and their techniques – for instance in the Preserve The Legacy – Muay Thai Library project – and then by creating a new website sylviestudy.com which hosts in-depth study of Intensive Series with single legends, one at a time. I’m writing this to give a little insight into where we are headed, and to let you know 

Persisence Hunting and Muay Thai
3 weeks ago

Muay Thai Aesthetics, Keto, Persistence Hunting and the Shape of Time

Guest Post This is something of a series of quick meditations sewn together into a larger idea which has really captured my imagination. Be prepared, it joins together diverse topics like ancient hunting techniques, Golden Age fighting styles which have fallen out of fashion, the ketogenic diet, and the metaphysics of human Time. For a very long while I’ve pondered on the things that make Muay Thai in Thailand so very different than fighting aesthetics (and knowledge) found elsewhere in the world. I wrote some time ago about how importantly different the Thai sense of Time was, as is still 

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3 weeks ago

Our Female Fighter Voices | Female Fighter Collective

The Female Fighter Collective – we are now 6 The Female Fighter Collective was borne out of the idea that women’s voices are out there, they’re just not being shared. For many of us, we are the minority in our gyms and so the shared experiences with other women might come from other gyms, with women who are across the world. But how do you make those contact points? My friend Emma lives in Bangkok and during our friendship I’ve lived in Chiang Mai and then Pattaya. She and I have trained at very different gyms, under very different circumstances and 

Ebay for Dieselnoi
1 month ago

Dieselnoi and the 123 All-Time Greats Book

Bid on this incredible Dieselnoi autographed book In starting the Muay Thai Library – Preserve the Legacy project, the initial impetus was to document not only a vanishing knowledge of techniques, but also documenting the men who know those techniques in their bodies and minds, who have expressed themselves through the vocabulary of Muay Thai for decades. You can see how wonderful their Muay Thai is when you watch them in old fight videos, but you really get a sense for how it all fits together when you see these men in person. Their particular masculinities, mannerisms, ways of speaking 

The Muay Khao Summit and Clinch Bootcamp
1 month ago

My Muay Khao Summit and Clinch Bootcamp for Women | Pattaya

Sign up for the Muay Khao Summit now – deposit or full payment (here) It’s hard to describe all the influences that went into the idea of bringing together the greatest collection of Muay Khao (knee fighting) legends to one seminar-type event. But surely the seeds were buried in my own frustrations from the early part of my career of training in Thailand, when it was seemingly impossible to even find decent clinch training. Here I was in Thailand, and I couldn’t learn clinch. My size, my gender, my age, my relative inexperience, and aspects of conservative Thai culture all made developing as a clinch 

Chasing Len Wickwar
1 month ago

Most Fights Ever – Chasing Len Wickwar and the “Untouchable” Record

Like all great things in history, there may be a few versions of the exact number of fights documented in Len Wickwar’s professional fighting. “He killed a bear with his bare hands;” “No, he killed 3 bears!”  BoxRec sets Len Wickwar’s never-to-be-broken record at 470. So I’ve decided I’m going to go and break it. But, also like all great things in history, I aim to break it as a means to honor it, and the countless men (and some women) who have fought incredible numbers of bouts. The unsung Travis Fultons’s of MMA, the loads of professional boxers in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 

My Influence in the Gym
1 month ago

Impact and Influence on my Gym

Just under a month ago, I came home from fighting in Chiang Mai and training with Langsuan for the Muay Thai Library project. When I got back to my regular gym for training, I was committed to the #Langsuan1000 challenge of completing 1000 knees and 1000 teeps at each session, every day. This meant I was kneeing or teeping the bag pretty much any time I wasn’t in the ring doing padwork, clinching or sparring. When I skinned my knees from sweating and kneeing the bag, I had to move into the ring and do my knees in the corner, 

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