My vlogs are just me talking about my experiences with techniques over the years.
About 6 years ago I broke my hand in a fight. As I was recovering from that, training around it, I started in earnest with "barefist" training, which I learned from Sifu McInnes (Robert "Sifu" McInnes is in the Muay Thai Library here<...
2021-02-21 13:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Our note: Out of the enthusiastic study & support of all our patrons we've begun hiring passionate writers to add to the incredible things going on here. This article is the 2nd written for us by Ryan Wagner who writes for the Fight Site, - want to read something good, chec...
2021-02-12 07:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Kru Tak is one of these teachers who has a definite style, which is Femeu (Thai for "artful"), slick, playful but punishing, and supremely hard to stand in front of. And yet, the depth of his knowledge and keenness of insight into what your style is, allows him to improve any level, any style, any technique. He's very smart, very knowledgeable, and very personable, which makes working ...
2021-02-05 06:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post
My technique vlogs aren't demo videos. They are just plain old discussions of my personal experiences in training techniques that I work on as a fighter. They are just vlogging about the things I've discovered around techniques.
This technique is one that I've kind of be working on, on and off, for many years. It more or less developed over time on its own, but I have focus...
2021-01-30 05:05:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to episode 21 of the Muay Thai Bones podcast. As a patron you get the audio version (above) and the reading notes to all the interesting things that we reference in our talk. We call it the best in-depth Muay Thai podcast in the world, diving down philosophical and historical aspects of the sport. Thank you everyone for supporting this content, hope you enjoy this episode.
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2021-01-25 09:58:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Tepniramit is a very cool entry to the Library, and sessions like this are a big part of what our documentary project is about. We have entries with absolute Legends, the best of the best fighters of all time (the legends tag is here), but we also find it really important to...
2021-01-15 07:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Our note: This column focuses on the application of the muay that is documented in the Muay Thai Library from legends, elite krus & fighters from all over Thailand, preserving the legacy of Thailand's heritage, but in the context of MMA. We feel it's important to build bridges from t...
2021-01-10 02:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is something I've been working on in cycles. I get instructed or corrected on it, I work on it, I get better at it, then it falls away as something I've already taken care of and I end up flat-footed again - maybe only in small moments - because I'm no longer thinking about it. So the title of this Technique Vlog is about Getting on Your Toes, but that's not the technique really; secre...
2021-01-05 10:10:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Note: With the passionate support we've gotten from patrons we are always looking to find ways to give everyone better, in-depth content, and also to help support others who are passionate in their work in Muay Thai. As a continued experiment we've starting this "Bangkok Muay Thai" column, written by Phan Kế Sơn who covers Bangkok Stadium Muay Thai on Twitter (follow him for the late...
2021-01-04 11:06:40 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an unusual addendum to our usual podcasting, as it's only one topic. Kevin made a film short, which he titled To Wrestle With the Angel, which is about my sparring with the Golden Age Legend Yodkhunpon. It's an enormous undertaking, sparring an hour every morning, 6 days per week for what is going on 6 months or more now. We talk about the film short, but also about what the film is att...
2021-01-02 02:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I was very excited to get more of Yodwicha for the Muay Thai Library, not only because he's an excellent teacher and I love his Muay Khao style, but also because he's developed a great deal over the time since we last filmed with him a few years ago. He is, perhaps, of the last generation of true Muay Khao of contemporary stadium Muay Thai (although I hope maybe we're just experiencing an air-b...
2020-12-24 10:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
My change in understanding the purpose, or aim, of bagwork in so far as how it's used in Thailand is a very recent one. I've been wailing on the bag for years and years, not without benefit, not without purpose, but I've recently come to understand that many Thai pedagogies don't use bagwork for the purposes that I've been using it for. Instead, it's meant as a kind of more nuanced too...
2020-12-22 07:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We're trying something a bit new with this episode, a shorter version, more frequent shot on the couch rather than driving across Thailand on the way home from a fight. We still speak in depth, covering all kinds of topics as they connect to Muay Thai; but we're looking to making the Muay Thai Bones Podcast more frequent and, perhaps in the shorter versions, more accessible. We'll still h...
2020-12-20 10:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Khunpinit trained at and fought out of the Kaewsamrit Gym, alongside Anuwat; Khunpinit fought Saenchai (4x) during the time that Saenchai was a formidable stadium fighter, and he gave up weight against Attachai (2x), which is just crazy to me. He was 112 lb and 122 lb Lumpinee Stadium Champion and, to me, he fits neatly in the school of Karuhat, Attachai, and Namsaknoi in terms of style. But he...
2020-12-08 07:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Note: With the passionate support we've gotten from patrons we are always looking to find ways to give everyone better, in-depth content, and also to help support others who are passionate in their work in Muay Thai. As a continued experiment we've starting this "Bangkok Muay Thai" column, written by Phan Kế Sơn who covers Bangkok Stadium Muay Thai on Twitter (follow him for the late...
2020-12-03 10:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This technique is something I've only been working with for less than a month, so it's truly something that I'm still learning a lot about just by experimenting with it in my training as I go. This vlog is really about things I've discovered, or am currently discovering, within that short period of time and onward. That's what these Patreon technique vlogs are all about. Not demoing things, but...
2020-12-02 09:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Another insanely amazing podcast clocking in at 4 hours. Come with us as we drive from Phatthailong in the South of Thailand, talking all things deep and of concern to us, and hopefully our listeners and supporters too! The audio is above, or you can watch it all on YouTube.
This is a podcast episode many have been waiting for, as we talk about some of what I'm doing to track possible dif...
2020-11-25 08:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Pairojnoi has a very unassuming energy. He's lightly awkward but notably very sweet even in short exchanges. If given a hundred guesses, I'd likely not have connected him to his Golden Age self, where he was half of the 'Fight of the Century" against "Rambo," which is an all-you-can-eat buffet of two punchers, loading each other's plates until they spill over. It's incredible. He's not a brawle...
2020-11-19 08:04:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Note: With the passionate support we've gotten from patrons we are always looking to find ways to give everyone better, in-depth content, and also to help support others who are passionate in their work in Muay Thai. As an experiment we're starting a "Bangkok Muay Thai" column, written by Phan Kế Sơn who covers Bangkok Stadium Muay Thai on Twitter (follow him for the latest of what's...
2020-11-11 04:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I love learning from Hippy. Not only is actually just being around him enjoyable - he's a wonderful story teller, he's charming, his "game face" is awesome, and he's always got an entourage around - but what he teaches is really inspiring for my own proce...
2020-11-06 04:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a concept that I've only recently been working on, even though I've worked on elements that are kind of "adjacent" to it. I call this "Ambient Footwork" because it's how you move between everything else. It isn't the same as "Jang-wa", which I've also talked about in a Technique Vlog, but it is a required element to make your "Jang-wa" work. Ambient Footwork is one of the harder th...
2020-10-31 06:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
With the passionate support we've gotten from patrons we are always looking to find ways to give everyone better, in-depth content, and also to help support others who are passionate in their work in Muay Thai. As an experiment we're starting a "Bangkok Muay Thai" column, written by Phan Kế Sơn who covers Bangkok Stadium Muay Thai on Twitter (follow him for the latest of what's happening...
2020-10-30 08:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
We, and so many of you, loved 1st Wangchannoi's session (watch that one here) so much that we went back and got another one for the Muay Thai Library, one week later, to elaborate on what he was teaching in the first one. We don't usually do this, filming and publishing sessions back to back, but he's such a le...
2020-10-21 17:21:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Always looking to create new kinds of content, made possible through the support of patrons. This is a detailed look at the experience of training at one of the more "authentic" gyms of Thailand, the home of Sangtiennoi Sor. Rungroj.
I went to go and train and film with Wangchannoi a 2nd time for the Muay Thai Library, that session is coming up soon, and wanted to get extra work in ...
2020-10-15 10:55:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Above is a (public) interview with Silver/Golden Age Legend, Padejseuk, be sure to turn on English subtitles (the cc icon on YouTube). He's 64 years old and an incredible energy that mixes his sweetness, thoughtfulness, joy, and comes through his gleeful manner of speaking - but his body is made out of blades and anvils. Just touching his shins, his elbows, his forearms... the man is a weapon.<...
2020-10-03 11:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Wangchannoi was known as "Little Chivas," a nickname he got for his tendency to party after his fights. The year he became Fighter of the Year in 1993, his nickname changed to "Mr. 33 Second Punch," for his 33 second KO of Namkabuan Nongkheepahuyut in the opening round of their fight. Wangchannoi was Lumpinee St...
2020-10-01 18:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The newest Muay Thai Bones is up! We're on the road again, this time coming back from filming Muay Thai Library session in Bangkok (Wangchannoi and Hippy) heading home to Pattaya. Come along with us as we dive the depths of Muay Thai. This is a good one!
Apple & Android: Read my quick article 2020-09-29 16:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This technique vlog is a bit different in that it's more a concept than a direct technique, but it's an elementary concept that affects every technique you will ever use. Jang-wa is rhythm and timing. There's the technique of throwing a cross, but then there's jang-wa, which is what allows you to land it. There's the technique for a powerful elbow, but you need ja...
2020-09-26 09:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Kru Den has a small gym, Eagle Gym in Pattaya. He's a 2x WBC World Champion at "Straw Weight" or "Minimum Weight", according to his Wikipedia entry, making him the 3rd WBC World Champion to be added to the Muay Thai Library. (Chatchai Sasakul and Samart Payakaroon are the other 2, so far.)
If you're new to Patreon, a bit of clarification is that I'm a Muay Thai fighter and the Libra...
2020-09-20 11:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Arjan Padejseuk is a wonderful entry into the Library, really special for me personally. He's a Silver/Golden Age fighter, won Fighter of the Year in 1979, and is one of only a few of fighters ever to defeat Dieselnoi in his prime (Wichannoi, Kaopong & Padejseuk). He was an adroit elbow fighter from that time, although as a well-rounded fighter rather than a specialist. His name means to "f...
2020-09-07 17:43:44 +0000 UTC View Post