2x Lumpinee Champion, 2x Thailand Champion - Burklerk Pinsinchai
Arjan Burklerk is a very unique man among the legends of Muay Thai. He boasts one of the most winning records of the Golden Age having lost only 8 times in 170 fights, fought prolifically and against intensely good competition, had a 22 year career (that is crazy) out of the famed Bangkok Pinsinchai Gym, and has transitioned into becoming a unique instructor in an Old School style of Muay - not quite like a time ca...
2017-06-10 03:12:48 +0000 UTC
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I'm starting a new feature of the Patreon offering. Aside from the more-than-once-a-month regular Muay Thai Library entries, I'm adding bonus sessions to everyone pledging the suggested $5 pledge or more. This is the first of these sessions.
I don't really want to turn the Library into a Karuhat channel, so extra sessions with Karuhat who I'm working with a lot, will be bonus sessions, as will other sessions with Kru which might not quite measure up to Muay Thai Library standards (usuall...
2017-05-23 12:16:01 +0000 UTC
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Thailand Pinsinchai is a trainer at Santai Muay Thai in San Khampaeng, just outside of Chiang Mai.
Kru Thailand is one of these men who has refined his style over the years of his retirement from fighting but active time as a trainer. It’s like stock left on the stove at a low simmer - it just gets more potent and rich as it goes. I in shorthand call it an "attacking shell" because of the beautiful, closed, aggressive, balanced Muay he teaches, but of course it is much more than that.<...
2017-05-20 12:07:56 +0000 UTC
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This is the second part of a comprehensive session I had with Yodkhunpon, you can see the first part here where he introduced his famous slicing elbow. Yodkhunpon is the"The Elbow Hunter of 100 Stitches", and simultaneously held the Lumpinee and Rajadamnern 118 lb belts, a rare feat in the annals of Muay Thai history.
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2017-05-08 05:50:58 +0000 UTC
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Chatchai Sasakul is former WBC world boxing champion (1997) and Best Coach in Thailand (2007). He began as a Petchyindee Muay Thai fighter but made his mark on the world in boxing. He understands connections between boxing and Muay Thai.
I’ve heard it said that you can never be too good at the fundamentals. In the years that I’ve been full-time in the world of Muay Thai, my eyes have changed a lot, so that ...
2017-04-19 10:02:47 +0000 UTC
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Kem Muaythai Gym, more widely known as Kem Sitsongpeenong, one of the best fighters of his generation, shows me the building blocks of his system.
I can’t say enough about how beautiful Kem’s gym is, in the mountains of the Khao Yai area of Khorat. You have to drive up this steep hill on a road that looks like it must wash out several times each rainy season, winding up and down this mountain village that is a mix of resorts and homes of families - packs of little kids playing wild in the ...
2017-04-04 10:10:26 +0000 UTC
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There are incredible trainers and mentors all over Thailand. Part of what I'm trying to do with the Muay Thai Library is to archive the teachings, styles, and techniques of these masters and legends, but also to capture something of the men themselves. In the case of Andy Thomson, he has been a mentor to hundreds of westerners who have come to train and fight in Thailand. Andy and his partner Pom started one of the most famous gyms in the North of Thailand, Lanna Muay Thai (Gi...
2017-03-19 10:58:07 +0000 UTC
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The keys to technique - relaxation
This is my third session training with legendary Lumpinee fighter Karuhat Sor. Supawan. The first session can be found on Nak Muay Nation, for members there, and the next two are here on Patreon, for supporters of this documentary process. For those that don’t know of him - and there was a time I did not - Thais think of him with a kind of reverence. When he’s cornered at my fights television announcers point him out to the audience. His fight mo...
2017-03-05 10:52:06 +0000 UTC
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Yodwicha 2
Yodwicha is one of my favorite fighters to watch, especially in his Rajadamnern fights against other top Thai clinchers. He was voted Yod Muay or “Fighter of the Year” in a shared award with Sangmanee Sor. Tiempo a few years ago, which was interesting because their styles are total opposites. As a clincher, Yodwicha held a kind of odd position because people either loved or hated watching him because of his clinching style. He was still growing...
2017-02-15 10:29:27 +0000 UTC
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Sangtiennoi is a former Lumpinee and Rajadamnern Golden Age legend who fought and beat the best of the best. In this video he instructs me in both clinch and the general Muay Khao style that he specialized in.
I was sweating, sitting on the matted floor of AMA gym in New Jersey (USA), when I told the legend - who Thai publications call “the man” - Kaensak Sor. Ploenjit that I was moving to Thailand for a year. “Good,” he said, “get a lot of experience.” Then he wrote down a phone n...
2017-01-16 04:56:12 +0000 UTC
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Bonus Session: My own training explanation of How the clinch frame and clinch lock relate to each other -
This is the second time Kate Allen-Cottone (fighter and owner of VIII Limbs Academy in Philadelphia ) has come to visit me at Petchrungruang and work with me in clinch. The work presented here is at times more theoretical than the “put your hand here and your foot there,” kind of technical breakdown, but it includes ...
2016-12-29 06:43:52 +0000 UTC
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Yodkhunpon "The Elbow Hunter of 100 Stitches", simultaneously held the Lumpinee and Rajadamnern 118 lb belts, a rare feat in the annals of Muay Thai history.
The Petchrungruang gym where I train is encircled by small, one-room apartments. To the back is a chicken farm, where you can hear the roosters crowing at all hours and on weekends men will walk through the gym area holding fighting chickens under their arms. These things were noteable (and still are) when I first arrived,...
2016-12-13 00:57:39 +0000 UTC
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An hour with the "Top Master" Yod Sihan.
This is a private with Karuhat Sor. Supawan. I should say right now: he is my all-time favorite fighter and actually I want to be him, so badly. Some of what we’re working on here is an evolution off of things we worked on in another session, some of it is more thematic and strategic. The session because it’s about esential movements, rhythms and a fighting ethic, is a little bit complex and may be a difficult (it may take several ...
2016-11-28 09:40:25 +0000 UTC
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This session was an incredible influence on me as a fighter.
I had never heard of Namkabuan even after a few years in Thailand, to be honest. Sometimes even absolute legends slip through our fingers in the West as news about them comes to us haphazardly through YouTube. Straight out, he may be the the best fighter I've ever seen. He's no doubt one of the best of the best in the Golden Age of Muay Thai in the 90s and held the very competitive 130 lbs Lumpinee title for 6 st...
2016-11-19 03:17:19 +0000 UTC
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105 lb (1986) and 108 lb (1988) Lumpinee Champion
Hippy was absolute in his desire to focus on bringing knock out power to my kicks, which he taught me how to do as well as how to train myself toward the next step in a process of development. That’s enough to be thrilled over, but Hippy also worked with me on footwork, spacing, some fight theory involving both of those things and some keen pointers for clinch turns and locks as well. Looking at it on paper, that’s a lot t...
2016-11-02 05:38:21 +0000 UTC
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2016-10-22 07:57:47 +0000 UTC
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Joe and Gen are twin brothers and both were high-level fighters at the National Stadia of Bangkok. Their fight names were Hongthong Noi (Joe) and Hongthong Lek (Gen), and in 2013 the brothers opened their own gym in Chiang Mai and called it Hongthong Muay Thai.
Because my path in Thailand started in Chiang Mai, I’d seen Joe and Gen around at fights for years before finding myself training with Joe at their gym. Happily enough, Joe had spent years watching me fight as well and his expe...
2016-10-19 12:47:41 +0000 UTC
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Dieselnoi is a legend among legends. On paper, it seems like this is because he was an undefeatable champion at his weight who had to retire because nobody would fight him - the King of Knees, the “Sky Piercer,” and just a towering man. And indeed, the first time I ever laid eyes on him up in Chiang Mai at one of my first big fights, I didn’t know who he was but just his bare swagger and energy and charm made it evident from 100 feet away, “this guy is somebody.” Like a celebrity au...
2016-10-03 07:51:50 +0000 UTC
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In this technique vlog I share the small and large things I'm currently working on as a fighter, things I want to bring to the ring. A lot of these are specifically from my sessions with legends that I've been filming for members of
Nak Muay Nation
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articles on some of those sessions here
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2016-09-28 01:47:30 +0000 UTC
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It took me a long time to first understand the style of fighter that I am and then a while longer (and truthfully it’s still a work in progress) to embrace it. I was a clinch fighter before I even knew how to clinch and really before I even knew that was a thing. In the West we’re exposed to an impossibly small fraction of fighters throughout the history of Muay Thai, most of them very contemporary due to availability of footage through YouTube. So, discovering the different types of fighter...
2016-09-25 09:22:01 +0000 UTC
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I'm actually kind of proud of myself today. My afternoon st...
2016-09-24 05:06:23 +0000 UTC
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This is the first of regular Patreon Supporter content I'll be posting here on Patreon for everyone who is pledging to keep 8limbs.us going. Thank you to everyone! I've also begun a Closed Facebook Group for my Patreon supporters where you can follow this content and other more detailed news of my fighting:
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2016-09-06 13:15:34 +0000 UTC
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Things have gotten a little big difficult financially. I've always relied on my husband income as a consultant, but last week he lost his biggest client due to corporate restructuing, and now we're faced with having to truly make 8limbs.us self-sustaining. All this time I've also been generously supported by not only by family, friends and readers on Patreon, but also by my sponsors
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2016-09-06 10:54:33 +0000 UTC
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