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Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Training Ruup & Composure

above my vlog on ruup. In Thai "ruup" (รูป) is an image, a photo, a figure.... composure. In Muay Thai, "ruup" is your posture and composure, and it's incredibly important for fighters. When you break someone else's ruup, you are emphatically dominant. When your ruup is broken, it marks against you strongly. I've lost fights with broken ruup, as my oppo...

Bonus: Sparring Training With Yodkhunpon 10 Rounds - w/ commentary

Not only is this Patreon dedicated to documentary projects like the Muay Thai Library, interviews with legends, and the Kaimuay Diaries, it also shares my experience of all this documentary work and training, as a fighter. Every month I create Technique vlogs discussing my thoughts on techniques that are changing my Muay Thai, as a fighter, and may change yours as well. This is something new in...

Jaroensap Kiatbanchong - Silky Power (63 min)

Finding Jaroensap was almost as wonderful an adventure as it was to be so surprised by his sweetness when we finally met face-to-face. His gym is tucked way in the back of a small community. The guards at the front entrance were sure there was a gym if I followed this road, and a lady running a small restaurant remembered there was a gym over there (pointing generally) but couldn't remember wha...

Found Fights! Rob Kaman & Dutch Kickboxing vs Muay Thai in 1982

One of the more obscure histories in Muay Thai as it relates to the fighting styles around the world are early Muay Thai vs Kickboxing matches. This is just a gem of a find, sent to us by a great patron supporter. It's a 4 fight Dutch Kickboxing card from January of 1982. It gives us a real sense of this pioneering time, and it's a card that featured Rob Kaman's first televised fight in Thailan...

Translation Project: Thongbai Jarernmuang vs Adul vs Pornpichit 2 Fights from 1960s (English subtitles)

This post is open to the public, but it comes to everyone through the support of our patrons. We've begun paying a Thai to English translator to bring the commentary found on classic fights to life.  This is the latest translation.  - Kevin

Why Thongbai?

A huge part of the Muay Thai Library project is the idea of Preserve The Legacy. Sylvie and I are filming with legends...

Arjan Surat - His Old School Tough & Defensive Style (94 min)

Arjan Surat is an amazing figure in Thailand's Muay Thai. He has been a trainer, manager of fighters, since the Golden Age. You'll see him in the corner of Legends, wrapping Boonlai's hands, Karuhat apparently ran away from him after only 1 time hitting pads - and yet when Karuhat was cornering me for a fight in Bangkok and the decision went to my opponent in a result that left many scratching ...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Closing the Door In Long Guard (11 min)

Kevin and I are calling this "closing the door," in the way that you might hear Kevin yelling at me in a fight to "pull her off the ropes!" It's a command, or a shorthand, a reminder. That phrase may sometimes be used to refer to a check hook in boxing, to nail your opponent as they're trying to come back after you, but we're using it to describe this technique of hitting the long guard hard af...

Arjan Pipa JockyGym - The Roots of Femeu (77 min)

Arjan Pipa is a legend among trainers. He's responsible for training Femeu phenoms like Silapathai, Saenchai, Somrak and Lerdsila out of the Jocky Gym in Bangkok. He's turning 59 this year but is still just full of energy and playfulness. He tells me to "be the monkey" and he walks the talk, all the time, every movement. He's wonderful at explaining and expressing the importance of rhythm and t...

Samransak Muangsurin - Muay Maat Legend Keys to Powerful Hands (61 min)

The whole Muangsurin Gym was well-known for their heavy handed fighters, just hard as sh*t, tough, aggressive, Muay Maat experts. Some went on to have successful careers in Western Boxing as well. Samransak was a star of the gym. He's not very big and, in fact, in many of the photos of him during his heyday he's much smaller than his opponents, but the width of his back is just somethi...

Muay Thai Bones Podcast - #17 (Apple & Android) Heavy Sparring, 24/7 Ruup, Gamblers Make it Real, Thor (1 hrs, 46 min)

Casting from our apartment in Pattaya episode 17 comes in more manageably at under two hours. We dive into a lot of the deeper focuses Sylvie is taking in her training in her 3.0 approach, the physical and mental differences that are often beneath techniques that don't always get a lot of attention. And we talk sparring big time. Throw in some discussion of the important role gamblers play in t...

Luktum Sityodtong 2 - Stepouts, Fakes & Teeps (74 min)

This is Luktum's second entry into the Muay Thai Library (watch the first on positioning and trips here), and I'm very happy every time I get to work with him. He's a classic Femeu Style, relaxed and evasive, but never running away. Rather, he stays within range of his opponent and has a kind of "Matador" quality of ...

Rambaa Somdet M16 and the Art of the Stinging Attack 2 (67 min)

Rambaa's mascot is a bee. Well, it's a flexing bee with its tongue out, to be more specific, but all of those things are completely in line with Rambaa's style. He's showy, he's a little crazy ("Rambaa" is a nickname, Somdet was his fight name. The alias literally means "lunatic" and was fitting for his persona when a stadium fighter in Bangkok in the 90s), and he absolutely stings, and stings ...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Static Block for Balance

My "technique vlogs" are not instructional, so much as investigative. It's something I'm working on as a fighter, that I'm thinking a lot about, so I make these videos to kind of think out loud about the technique, rather than teach it or instruct it or whatever. This one, however, I think is so massively important for any and all of Muay Thai, because at its base it's about balance. B...

Dieselnoi On Attacking the Legs - Mini Bonus Clip (10 min)

Occasionally we find little gems like this, going through older footage, and when they surface we put out a short piece as a bonus to our patrons. A little over a year ago, Dielsenoi came to my gym as part of our Legends in Residence project, and these Fairtex thigh pads had been brought in as a gift to another of our trainers, who was happy to let Dieselnoi try them on and see what he could do...

Kru Manop Yuangyai 2 - The Art of the Sweep (57 min)

Kru Manop is incredible. If you've watched his previous session in the Muay Thai Library, you know that he can dive into the minute details of a technique and is incredibly patient in working through each of the minutiae through high repetition. It's brilliant for learning technique remotely (meaning via video) and it's perfect for our "long form" format. That is especially so in this session, ...

Paidaeng vs Chamuakpet Translated to English | 1994 Classic Fight

This is a public post, so everyone can get access to this history. 

Kevin and I like to watch movies. Lots of movies, old and new... everything. Kevin is older than I am, so often he has references to movies that I don't. A movie could have been groundbreaking at a time that now we take for granted, but even just knowing that context, even though it's from a different time, can make ...

Wichannoi & Dieselnoi Library Coffee Podcast #9 (Apple and Android)

Above is our commentary audio podcast, discussing the awesome Wichannoi & Dieselnoi conversation I shared here, This is not the usual Library Coffee podcast, that often follows our filming with a legend, but rather is our special reaction to the translation project itself, our experience of many of the ideas brou...

A Conversation With Wichannoi and Dieselnoi: Ultimate Legends | Bonus

Bonus material, be sure to turn on English subt

Yodkhunpon Special Intensive - The Whole Elbow Style (70 min)

The Yodkhupon Intensive

First a little detour giving the context for this session. If you'd like you can skip to the next section and get right to. it. Above is a special entry into the Library. It's Yodkhunpon, who is always incredible and whose technique and style are just seemingly endless, and yet highly unique to him. So he's always wonderful to study. But this is a special session...

Dieselnoi vs Samart (1982) - Stadium Audio version & in color - notes on Samart & Dieselnoi's record

Dieselnoi vs Samart was the "Fight of the Century," the fight that famed promoter OneSongchai said he never would have permitted himself (it was promoted by Klaew Sor. Tanikul). Two giants, two Legends, GOAT vs GOAT for who would be named Fighter of the Year in 1982. And there was no way to see it, until video surfaced, like finding the "Holy Grail of Muay Thai," and this discovery came from so...

Thailand Pinsinchai - The Beauty of Clinch (57 min)

Thailand Pinsinchai is a powerful, finessed, all-around fighter. His technique is one of the cleanest, clearest taught styles in the entire Library. In his first session in the Muay Thai Library [ watch his first session here: Attacking Shell ] he takes me through a whole introduction to every part of Muay Thai. I en...

Muay Thai Bones Podcast - #16 (Apple & Android) High Rep Training, Diamond Guard, Sylvie 3.0, Muay Thai as Thai Male Maturity, Identity and Performance (2 hrs, 44 min)

Another awesome Muay Thai Bones podcast comes your way, episode 16. There is no podcast like it on earth, focusing on all the ways Thailand's Muay Thai touches life, not only in daily ways - if you practice it, but on big ideas like those of Philosophy, Spirituality, Ideology too. Because Muay Thai is a way of life in Thailand, it touches our way of life, and the lives of people all over the wo...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - The Diamond Guard

This particular vlog is a two-for-one, in a way. I'm focusing on the Diamond Guard, which is a block/guard that came out of a number of influences (Kaensak, Archie Moore, Frazier, Muay Boran, Somrak... the list goes on) and that's the "technique" I'm playing with, but the second element is HOW I'm working on that technique, which is more or less taking something that I am interested in and maki...

Over $2,000 Raised for Krus and Legends By Patrons So Far

The Patreon Muay Thai Library is a very special thing. Not only have we documented nearly 100 hours of the Muay Thai that is unique to Thailand, but the long-form instruction format allows viewers to really see these Legends, these incredible Krus, who they are and how they are. It has changed lives and allowed people who may never have met these Legends to feel like they know...

Chanchai Sor. Tummarungsri - The King of Teeps (54 min)

Get ready. Some people love super technical breakdowns. And some people love all the details of the teep. In this session you get both, and it's a real treat. Chanchai was a super accomplished Femeu style fighter of the Golden Age, perhaps one of the greatest teep specialists of all time.  He was Lumpinee Champion at 118 lb and 126 lb, and in this session he dissects the teep in a...

Muay Thai Bones Podcast - #15 (Apple & Android) Fight Stacks, Heart Rate & Who Legends Respect, Covid-19 and the Future of Muay Thai, Buddhistic Yoniso (2 hrs, 54 min)

Here is the much awaited Episode 15 of Muay Thai Bones. We film these usually while we are driving across country and having our epic conversations, but a change in Sylvie's fight locations, and then the Covid-19 lockdown gave us a bit of drought on Muay Thai Bones podcasts, but we really missed doing them, and plan to do them more frequently. We may have to not just have them in car rides. The...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Mental Gym, Beginning to Advanced Visualization (19 min)

 This Sylvie's Technique Vlog is shot at a time when most of us are experiencing "social distancing," "self isolating," or "shelter in place," depending on how it's called. But we're at home, quarantined to varying degrees, and largely locked out of our gyms. This technique vlog is perfect for these circumstances because it requires no equipment, no instruction, no sweat,...

Archived Muay Thai Bones Podcast #4 (Apple & Android) - Sodium, Dieselnoi Mentoring, Shame, Switching Stance (2 hrs, 15 min)

This is an archived podcast, the 4th of the Muay Thai Bones series that hadn't yet been entered into Patreon until now. At this point we are all the way up to episode #14, but we're back logging, adding older episodes so they will be available to Patreons who may have missed them before they were available by subscription. If you'd like to see all the 2020-03-23 07:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Covid-19 Addition: Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Training Yourself Anywhere (15 min)

If you are new to my Patreon I try to put up one full length technique vlog, discussing vlog style (not demoing) techniques I'm working on. Because so many people are out of the gym right now I thought it would be best to switch it a little and talk about what one can do training oneself.  Watch the video above.

You can't always get to the gym. Maybe you're traveling. Maybe ...

Chamuakpet Hapalang 2 - Muay Khao Internal Attacks (65 min)

This is the 2nd Library session with Chamuakpet, watch the first session here. 

Chamuakpet Hapalang is a recurring name on the "Top 5" All-Time Best Yodmuay, according to the great fighters of Thailand. He is as good a fighter as there ever was. He's complimented for being well-rounded, using all weapons a...