Rajadamnern 140 lb Champion 2005
I really, really like Berneung. He’s quite big for a Thai man and has a “big man” style, but his main tool is timing, rather than power. He takes up space and pressures his opponents down, and his techniques are beautiful. He’s been in my corner a few times, just...
2018-11-24 03:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
In this bonus session. Bonus sessions are more informally handled than Muay Thai Library entries, with less write up, but this is a great session with The Elbow Hunter, teaching his incredible Elbow and Knee Muay Khao pressure style. There is tons in this session, but a big part of it is watching how as a southpaw fighter you us...
2018-11-22 02:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This material has been made public in 2021, the full series with reading notes is here:
Mental Training Reading Group - The Intro (+Vipassana): Made Public
This is Sylvie's husband Kevin writing, starting a series of perspective pieces that will be part description and story telling, part scene-setting, a little bit of technique discussion, and all Muay Thai, in the biggest sense, because I'm stitching together the bird's eye and on up close in the incredible adventure Sylvie is ha...
2018-11-08 08:12:51 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I noticed that the commentary track on the last 30 minutes or so of the Library session was out of sync by a few seconds, enough to make it not quite right. The full session has been corrected, now you can watch it as I recorded it.
watch it here:
This session reveals the work I had been doing with Karuhat in my Karuhat Intensive series, over 30 hours of commentary video, On Demand. You get to see what all that instruction on weight transfer and continuity is leading tow...
2018-11-02 15:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This material has been made public in 2021, the full series with reading notes is here:
Mental Training Reading Group - The Intro (+Vipassana): Made Public
This material has been made public in 2021, the full series with reading notes is here:
Mental Training Reading Group - The Intro (+Vipassana): Made Public
Kaimuay Diaries is a documentary series exclusive for patrons
The intention behind Kaimuay Diaries is a kind of “fly on the wall” look at my gym, Petchrungruang. They’re a unique glimpse into the world of a camp and a study of the mundane, allowing the camera to just wait and watch in a...
2018-10-22 04:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
First off, I have to say that I was very lucky to even film with Chamuakpet, one of the greatest fighters in Thai history, because he is seldom in Thailand. He has been living and teaching in Japan for 20 years. I was alerted by a student of his that he was visiting, and I'm so happy to be able to add him to the Library, ...
2018-10-19 10:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post
(watch the 1 hr, 17 min video above)
This material has been made public in 2021, the full series with reading notes is here:
Mental Training Reading Group - The Intro (+Vipassana): Made Public
(watch the 30 minute intro video above)
Edit Update September, 2021: This was a 2018 Study Group I formed with some of my patrons , reading together the Inner Game of Tennis (beyond its title, it appl...
2018-10-05 16:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
STUDY Mental Training with Me. Starting October 4th/5th.
[edit: I've just opened a Facebook Group sharing around this reading group as well - become a member here]
I've been talking about...
2018-10-03 06:36:16 +0000 UTC View Post
With a legitimate claim to being the GOAT, Fighter of the Year Dieselnoi was forced to retire his 135 lb Lumpinee belt, after going down in weight in a huge cut and beating Samart Payakaroon, and then going up in weight and fighting Sagat Petchyindee (twice), cementing his superiority over the best of his generation. The cons...
2018-10-01 02:03:11 +0000 UTC View Post
A few months ago I asked everyone to vote and comment on what their favorite session was, and that I'd be giving away a signed pair of my favorite Thaismai gloves by random drawing (I used random.org for the drawing.) I want to thank everyone who participated, and we...
2018-09-23 01:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post
3x Rajadamnern Champion
When you watch Silapathai fight you'll see an incredible proficiency of the teep, mixed in with expertly timed explosive moments. He uses the teep over and over again as a tempo and space setter. It seems very simple to write it on paper, but when you’re watching it, it's an incredible feat of ...
2018-09-18 05:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Magazine - slow-brewed exclusive articles for patrons
I keep pulling at the fabric around my fingers, underneath the white rope wraps and tape that bind my hands (Kard Chuek). There’s a semi-padded sleeve that goes underneath the binding of the ropes, which kind of bulks them up but also pro...
2018-09-12 14:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Above is the breakdown of the role each ex-fighter, legend or kru has played in the Muay Thai Library, so far. My husband Kevin is way into graphics, so he's who made this estimate of the minutes watched by session, but functionally what's cool to me about the graphic is that it's an immediate visual cue to people who are first ...
2018-09-11 10:40:55 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are interested, start with my first article on my experiments with the keto diet: My Keto Diet as a Muay Thai Fighter - The Mental Advantage . The above is my vlog u...
2018-09-06 05:22:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an interesting entry into the Muay Thai Library, because Kru Noi is one of the early fighters out of the legendary gym, Sityodtong – the oldest gym in Pattaya, and the home of Master Yodtong who produced the greatest number...
2018-09-04 09:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post
[Kevin writing] This is a slow film, a reflection. I'm not a filmmaker, but for reasons unknown to me I was strongly motivated to make the above cut-together meditation upon the passing of Sirimongkol. He is the first subject of the Muay Th...
2018-09-02 10:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch my husband Kevin's short film on Muay Thai and Death here.
I’m spinning a paper flower, around and around, between my fingertips. The flower is off-white and a spire sticks up along the back of it, like a spike, twice the length of the black...
2018-08-30 09:54:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This is my second episode of Kaimuay Diary, which is something new I’m trying, as a way to share what the daily life in my gym looks like. As much as I share of my own journey online I seldom have talked in depth about my gym. Part of that is that I'd like to keep the gym my little secret. I don't want it to change, I selfishl...
2018-08-19 00:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post#Diary
In the movie "After Life," people are asked to choose only one memory to keep forever; but you only get that one. Everything else is lost. People choose their daughter's wedding, a birthday as a kid, a day at the park with the family. The kinds of things you treasure forever, that gave you a feeling you could exist in e...
2018-08-17 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This Muay Thai Library session was so good and inspiring it gave birth to a 1,000 knees & 1,000 teeps challenge for me. This is what he said a serious Muay Khao fighter of his day would train, so I dove right in. I've opened this up to a 30 day public challenge so everyone can try and push their limits along with me, givi...
2018-08-15 12:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2018-08-12 10:45:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I tug on the edge of my straw mat as Kevin and I try to align it away from a hanging bag in the back of the Thapae Stadium. As I’m pulling, the edge gets near to a pair of black shoes, the heels of them dented down from their wearer not putting their foot entirely into the show, but allowing their heels to fold the backs down ...
2018-08-08 02:39:55 +0000 UTC View Post
#Diary:
While driving up to a fight with Karuhat one time, I asked him who his favorite opponent was. He thought for a while, then said it was Kaensak, because they're styles are similar enough to make the fight fun and they've been friends since forever. Imagine that: you'd RATHER fight your friend. I asked him who he didn't ...
2018-08-04 17:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Ponsaknoi is one of these trainers who has an absolutely incredible lineage of students to his name. As a trainer at the legendary Jocky Gym, he’s had a hand in shaping names like Somrak Sor. Khamsing (Olympic Gold in Boxing, legend of Muay Thai), Lerdsila, Saenchai, and Silapathai, just to name a few. He’s not as old as ...
2018-07-28 12:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Beyond the Library - Interviews episode 1
2018-07-24 14:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post
