Patrons can listen to this session also as a podcast, along with our thoughts here.
Napapol is one of the "4 Lions of Thailand," a group of Western Boxing champions, which included Weerapol and Yodsanan as well. He came from Muay Thai and has a solid foundation from which he's able to teach, but like Chatchai Sasakul, his biggest career successes were Western Boxing. I ...
2019-10-04 16:57:02 +0000 UTC
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(video above) I feel loose, but explosive. My weight shifts forward and back without hesitation, there are a few gaps in the fluidity of movement, the way an engine might get an air bubble and hiccup, but I feel good. My fists, knees, and shins are making nice popping sounds against the leather teardrop bag and my eyes keep glancing up at the ring, where I can steal instruction offered to other fighters and students while they're on pads. Kevin is sitting on the couch just a short distance fr...
2019-09-24 07:26:48 +0000 UTC
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Lots of people ask me how I can fight so often, for so long, and my approach is pretty simple. I feel like I'm Saitama One Punch Man telling about my sit ups and push ups. But it's mostly a combination of continuous movement, developing pain tolerance, heat, hangs and squats. You train to be injured so injury isn't an obstacle. It's part of everything I do. I start out talking about today's recovery from a pretty good leg bashing I took last night, and then go into other things I regularly do...
2019-09-23 10:43:57 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Episode 10 of Muay Thai Bones. Lots of deep level discussion of Muay Thai, see below all the topics covered. This podcast was cut a little short of our usual super long format due to some technical difficulties (we're still getting the hand of this!), we talked for another hour and a half! But what we did capture is still really enjoyable. Thank you for supporting our exploration into this format.
iTunes: 2019-09-20 13:48:22 +0000 UTC
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Kevin and I rolled slowly down ever-narrowing streets, looking for Kru Mou's house, where he teaches Muay Thai to his students. We got to a bend that we weren't entirely sure we could fit down in the rental car, so I got out and walked, following the little blue dot on my GPS as it crawled toward the destination we had pinned on the map. Sometimes you'll hear the whack whack of pads being kicked, letting you know where a gym is. But my best guess in this case was just a large, wide g...
2019-09-19 04:32:15 +0000 UTC
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This is what I've been working on lately. As many of you know Dieselnoi, the King of Knees, has been at my gym Petchrungruang weekly, advising and mentoring everyone. He's there through my patron support through a project we are calling Legends in Residence. One of the awesome things of having him there is that I'm getting even more on his program, and part of that program is this very particular trick he has for creating power at very close distance, just by changing the angle of the step ba...
2019-09-16 03:12:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to Episode 9 of Muay Thai Bones. Lots of deep level discussion of Muay Thai, see below all the topics covered.
iTunes: Read this quick article to see how to add Muay Thai Bones podcast to iTunes or other subscription services. Easy to do! Just grab your exclusive RSS link.
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2019-09-11 09:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Patrons exclusively can subscribe to my podcasts on iTunes or other subscription podcast services, and it's pretty easy to do. This short article is how to do so, if you have any questions let me know! Not just iTunes, but all these subscription apps.
The Muay Thai Bones podcast is your chance to dr...
2019-09-05 10:12:57 +0000 UTC
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This Is a Supplemental Video
This is a raw feed supplement to the Sagat Petchyindee 4 Muay Thai Library session, which we are including because Sagat is an English speaker. This way you can watch the commentary version of the session here, and then if you wish study it listening just to Sagat.
You can also...
2019-09-04 08:04:33 +0000 UTC
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Above is the podcast version of the full Sagat Petchyindee Session 3 Muay Thai Library in audio form, as well as a 30 minute introduction podcast, what we are calling Library Coffee. Library Coffee is me and Kevin just sitting down fresh after I have filmed, or recorded my commentary, and drawing out the big ideas behind what is captured in the documentation. Putting them together in one podcast we hope allows patrons to thinking about the Library on the move, when you don't always have time ...
2019-09-04 08:02:48 +0000 UTC
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Patrons can listen to this session also as a podcast, along with our thoughts here.
Above is my third session with Sagat and probably my favorite so far. He is such an incredible energy - there is nobody like him - and his power and efficiency is just out of this world. But what I like so much about this one is the detail in which he goes through each thing that he s...
2019-09-04 08:01:56 +0000 UTC
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This is something I've been thinking a lot about lately, and working on, maybe you'll find it something you want to look into improving too. It started to become a big focus after my session with Namsaknoi (linked below), and then came into greater focus when training with Arjan Net, and with Dieselnoi in my gym right now.
These are Muay Thai Library sessions which illustrate the importance of foot position, if you'd like to dive into this:
#65 Namsa...
2019-08-23 03:03:58 +0000 UTC
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Bank, or Tongchai as he's called when he's fighting, stepped over the ropes into the ring and the blue satin robe around him slithered in after him. His gaze was on the floor, but his eyes didn't seem to register anything. He was lost inside himself; the fabric against his skin might as well have been on the rafters for how deep inside himself he was, even as he smiled at the referee who was checking his gloves. I looked to my left, where Kru Nu was standing, watching his son enter the ring t...
2019-08-21 07:15:16 +0000 UTC
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3 ways to study and think this material:
With this Muay Thai Library session we are...
2019-08-19 04:30:45 +0000 UTC
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We've always wanted to make an audio version of new Muay Thai Library sessions because we know that sitting down to watch for an hour every two weeks is sometimes more than that a schedule can handle. We put up a few audio tracks on soundcloud a while back and lots of people wrote to say how much they loved listening to them on the way to the gym to get excited for their work out, or on the way to work. But we wanted to do more than that.
Muay Thai Library as Podcast
2019-08-19 01:31:12 +0000 UTC
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This technique vlog is all about the small things we practice in training that end up playing out in fights, in particular how dominance in the ring has a performed component. The inspiration of the vlog was the legend Dieselnoi telling our Lumpinee fighter that he made an error in backing up after he had knocked down his opponent, and not forcing a count. If he had been counted many felt the fight would have been won. Fights can be decided on such small things. It caused me to think about al...
2019-08-15 08:38:14 +0000 UTC
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Lots of patrons have asked that we add past Muay Thai Bones podcasts to iTunes, exclusive for Patreon supporters, so we're doing that little by little. This is episode #5. Keep in mind as we go back in time audio quality may start to vary as we have been experimenting with and improving the tech along the way. If you are new to our Muay Thai Bones it's composed of our very long conversations on the road discussing Muay Thai in a very deep and detailed way. The response has been huge and suppo...
2019-08-13 05:08:35 +0000 UTC
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One of the great things about the Muay Thai Library, for me, is that it's an endeavor to preserve and archive the Muay of Thailand in all its variety. Golden Age Legends and great fighters of now are obvious gems, but you can find some truly incredible Muay Thai among the trainers who work, day in and day out, shaping the fighters of the next generation. Kru Cha is such a gem. He reminded me a bit of Kru San (Sitmonchai) - who is in the Library, the session is linked below -, in that he's a b...
2019-08-06 10:40:01 +0000 UTC
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If you are new to Muay Thai Bones it's a podcast Kevin and I started a few months ago on YouTube, and everyone is loving it. Here is our newest episode, I think the best one yet. We discussing everything imaginable about Muay Thai, and talk about how it touches all aspects of life.
Lots of people have asked for us to publish the podcast on iTunes so they can follow along more easily, so now all my patron supporters can subscribe to the cast on iTunes. iTunes:
2019-08-04 09:28:01 +0000 UTC
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Here is my technique vlog on my continual development in the Muay Thai Long Guard, a really important defensive position that you don't really hold, but use in conjunction with other guards and strikes. You want to build balance and contextual feeling with this guard, and that's what I'm focusing on right now.
You can watch related Muay Thai Library videos, some of them mentioned in the vlog, some related to the Long Guard itself:
Kru Daeng teaches a version of the Long...
2019-07-22 06:15:36 +0000 UTC
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There are many wonderful things in this session, several of them unique. For one, this is the first session I've produced highlighting a regular trainer from my own gym in Pattaya, Petchrungruang. Secondly, Kru Kai is one of the best Muay Khao padmen I've seen in all my travels across Thailand, so we get to look into what makes great Muay Khao padwork, what I'm calling proper dern. And, he's of a group of Muay Thai krus that may be relatively unknown, not "superstars" of another age, but ...
2019-07-19 08:18:43 +0000 UTC
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We're at Lumpinee Stadium. Bank is tipping his head forward, his gaze on the floor, as he listens to Dieselnoi's instructions on how he should approach his fight. Bank is "on deck," sitting next to trainers and cornermen from our gym, waiting for the fight before him to finish before entering the ring. He's shrouded in a royal blue cape, made of a kind of shiny satin material that is always too hot. With the Thai Oil and Vaseline all over your body, you feel beads of sweat run down your chest...
2019-07-15 08:14:44 +0000 UTC
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We had Dieselnoi come to Petchrungruang for a month between February and March. The idea was to take this absolutely incredible man, a tower from the Golden Age of Muay Thai and a pillar of the Muay Thai community in Thailand, who is more or less a satellite to the core of contemporary Muay Thai gyms. Dieselnoi has connections everywhere - I doubt there's a single city in Thailand where he couldn't find a friend who would host him. But his teaching is detached from the kind of practice he gre...
2019-07-11 05:33:07 +0000 UTC
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My technique vlogs for patrons is me talking shop in the gym, sharing things that I'm working on as a fighter, often techniques or strategies I've learned from legends and krus when filming for the Muay Thai Library, and things I've learned in fights and through my 7 years of training in Thailand. I'm always working on improving myself, so this is my offer to you so you can try out the similar things.
This one is about stretching yourself. I've had a long history of being overly critica...
2019-07-09 08:25:53 +0000 UTC
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Many of you have asked for this, now all of you have it: Namsaknoi is in the Muay Thai Library. He's a very charming person, playful but damn... when you feel him shift from his evasiveness to his "I'm just going to stand right here," you don't feel like he's so nice anymore. When I explained to him what the Library is, and that we want to capture his style, he just nodded thoughtfully and said, "okay, we'll spar and clinch." Perfect. His style comes out in everything he does. And he's able t...
2019-07-04 14:06:25 +0000 UTC
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I try to keep informing my patrons in long form vlogs detailing techniques I'm working on. Most of these come from techniques you'll find in the Muay Thai Libary. As I train with someone I pick up something that connects with me and I usually bring it into my training. I urge everyone to do this as it keeps your training fresh and alive, getting influences from beyond even your gym.
This technique is one I ran into a few times over the years, but maybe most forcefully in my Krongs...
2019-06-25 09:40:12 +0000 UTC
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Chatchai's original session in the Muay Thai Library - you can see it here - was voted as the most loved session of the entire archive. When you watch this one you can see why.
Chatchai is hands down one of the best instructors in the world. His focus on basics are useful for all levels, but his insight into balance, weight transfer, and how to move with relaxation but deliver total powe...
2019-06-18 07:56:04 +0000 UTC
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The driving force behind training with the best fighters, legends, and krus from all over Thailand is this understanding that something is being lost from the Muay Thai of Thailand. It's a documentary project more than a collection of cool moves. There is a legacy of Muay Thai, of techniques and pedagogies, and of characters and personalities that will disappear over time and it's our mission to preserve as much as we can. In some cases, there is a sense of urgency to that documentation.
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2019-06-17 07:42:39 +0000 UTC
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I'm starting to add the audio versions of past episodes of the Muay Thai Bones podcast so patrons can have access to them through iTunes and other 3rd party podcast subscriptions. The above audio is episode #6, number 7 has already been published on Patreon here.
iTunes: Read this quick article to...
2019-06-12 04:57:42 +0000 UTC
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Patreon just got better! If you are new to Muay Thai Bones it's a podcast my husband and I Kevin started a few months ago on YouTube, discussing everything under the sun in Muay Thai. The idea started because we have these epic trips crossing Thailand, usually after I have fought, and on these trips we have amazing conversations. We thought, why don't we just share these conversations with everyone? Some come on the road with us and talk about all things Muay Thai. This is our most recent one...
2019-06-10 16:47:41 +0000 UTC
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