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Mental Training With Me - Chapters 1 & 2 (1 hour, 17 min)

(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 

2018-10-12 11:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post

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 applicable to all sports and arts). These posts include our reading group ...

Mental Training With Me: Live Discussion & Reading Group

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 it for a while now, I'm just going to go for it. I'm starting a readi...

#48 Dieselnoi Chor. Thanasukarn 2 - Jam Session (80 min)

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 consummate knee fighter, in this session you get to see his style, extempo...

The Winner of the Muay Thai Library Favorite Session

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 now have a winner! It is patron Reid Kho, who said his favorite sessi...

#47 Silapathai Jockygym - Master of Teep Distance (64 min)

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 essentially juggling his opponent with timing and angles and fakes tha...

Riding with Karuhat - Playlists (Patreon Magazine)

Patreon 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 protects the hand with about a half-inch of padding. They’re too big fo...

The Most Watched Krus in the Library

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 coming to the library for what they don't want to miss. That's those b...

Keto Update: Training & Fighting Fasted and Fat Adapted

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 update on how a few things are going for me. For about 3 weeks I've bee...

#46 Bluksek "Kru Noi" Sityodtong - Internal Knees & Elbows (59 min)

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 of champions in Thai history – but he has also been teaching in Sin...

Muay Thai and Memory: Meditation (film short, 20 min)

[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 Thai Library to have died after we have filmed with him - he was ass...

The Cremation Flower - Mourning Sirimongol Luksiripat

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 stem. At the base, behind the flower, is a yellow candle and a short ...

Kaimuay Diary - episode 2 | At the Edge of the Gym

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 selfishly has not wanted lots of westerners of various motivations and levels ...

#Diary - Momento, a Memory I want to keep forever

#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 eternally. Today I experienced a contender.  It was just this smal...

Langsuan Panyutapum - How To Train Traditional Muay Khao (66 min)

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, giving away some gloves signed by Langsuan, and some other good things too...

My Keto Diet as a Muay Thai Fighter - The Mental Advantage

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 that need it), making use of hormone and  metabolic responses evo...