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 do...
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...
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 2018-11-08 09:30:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
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.
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2018-11-06 15:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 t...
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 2018-10-30 12:41:35 +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 2018-10-23 12:28:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
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 h...
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 Gro...
2018-10-12 11:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
(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 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...
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 Petchyin...
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 ra...
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 ...
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 go...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 s...
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 ...
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 ki...
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 da...
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 m...
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 the...
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 f...
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...
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