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#124 Kru San Sitmonchai #2 - Muay Maat At The Right Pace (62 min)

Note: We had a bit of a technical issue with the drive-up audio intro in the main video. Audio kicks in at about the 7 min mark. Here is the drive-up intro for everyone, on its own. I set the scene and talk a little about Hua Hin, and about Kru San as a trainer watch it here:

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#123 Samson Isaan 4 - Secrets to Pressure Fighting (122 min)

This is our 4th entry of Samson Isaan into the Muay Thai Library and it's the most elaborate and developed in terms of expressing his style. The thing with Samson is he's a taxi driver and when he retired he never became an instructor at a gym; it was actually us getting him to teach me for his first entry into the Library and then bringing him into the Muay Khao Summit seminars that got him interested in teaching. He's his best when he's just moving around though, just doing his own style in...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog #39 - Committing to Throwing 3s in Sparring (19 min)

This is something I started on about a year and a half ago. It was Kevin's idea as training framework to have me focus on only throwing in 3s, any strike but always 3 of them (or more!), in sparring as a way to help me progress beyond a lot of "one hit wonder" striking. It was hard and to be honest about it, I hated it. It was hard to do under pressure, with counters coming back at you because generally you want to strike and get the hell out of there before being hit back; ...

#122 Tappaya Sit Or. - Muay Khao Strength In Femeu (82 min)

Tappaya is the owner and head of the Sor. Klinmee Gym in Pattaya, where he brought up his cousins, Sudsakorn (THAI FIGHT) and Sinsamut (ONE) Sor. Klinmee; his nephew (on source said uncle, despite age) is Somdet "Rambaa" Sit Or.; his older brother now teaches in Japan and was both a Muay Thai fighter and had a successful western boxing career, Yoktai Sit Or.; and I don't know what you call the uncle of your uncle, but Tepniramit is also in the Muay Thai Library with his Old School style. It's...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog #38 - Head Diving, Small Changes In Balance (21 min)

Voicing my Library session with Kaisuwit Nor Pattaya (Kru Pern) really was an Eureka! experience for me. He was telling me something I've been aware of previously, but knowing and KNOWING are different things, and in the moment I was voicing the session I came to really know what he was talking about. Since then, I've really been focusing on correcting my weight being slightly too far forward with my head past my feet, rather than over my hips and legs. This is one of those correctio...

#120 Kaisuwit Nor Pattaya - Muay Maat and Centrifugal Power (64 min)

Kaisuwit, or Pi Pern, is a big part of the local Hua Hin Muay Thai community. He's been teaching and promoting fights for a long time and puts a lot of his heart and soul into giving opportunities to the young fighters in and around the Western Region. He's good friends with Kaensak and Karuhat, and grew up in the same "class" as that age of Yodmuay, training alongside some of the names we love; but he never got into big streams of Muay Thai stadia and had a much more active career in western...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Training Around Injury (15 min)

I'm no stranger to injury. Something hurts at all times and learning to train around such issues is just part of the game. In my years of training through pain, as well as training around pain, I've come to really appreciate that the mental approach you take makes all the difference in what you get out of, rather than what you lose out on, that process.

This vlog was made just after I'd split open my shin in a fight and I'd spent the past 2 weeks sparring and ...

#119 Burklerk Pinsinchai 2 - Mastering Space with a Legend (1 hr, 47 min)

This session was filmed in January, 2016, before the Muay Thai Library even existed! Burklerk Pinsinchai is an incredible teacher, a vast resource of technical knowledge and practice, and this session is in many ways a Cliff's Notes to techniques and strategies I've learned in filming the Muay Thai Library in the years since then. I see so much of the Library in this session, yet Arjan Burklerk has his own beautiful style. He packs so much technique in such quick succession, we had t...

Karuhat Interview | Had His First Fight at 16, Went Onto Become a Legend [turn on English Subtitles]

[turn on English Subtitles, above] - This interview happened impromptu as we were just casually chatting to Karuhat in our livingroom and I asked him about how old he was when he first fought (I knew how old he was when he started in Muay Thai already) and was absolutely shocked by the answer and following story. So we set up the camera and mics and started talking about it. We knew Karuhat was surprisingly old already when he started, by Western ideas of Thai fighters. We all think the best ...

#118 Phettho Sitjaopho - Muay Femeu Excellence (70 min)

Alright y'all. Many of you have asked for either of the Sitjaopho twins to be added to the Muay Thai Library and here we have Kru F, Phettho.

He has to be one of the most-loved Krus in all of Thailand, by the English-speaking students who pass through and often return to the Sitjaopho gym in Hua Hin. Meeting him and training with him for this session, I totally get it. He's very chill, charismatic, and his technique is very legible and clean. What I like, personally, about his style and...

We Brought Karuhat to Get PRP Treatment for His Knee: Remaking Superman

Karuhat is somewhat on the young end of the scale of Golden Age Legends, just dipping his toes into his 50s, still agile and full of swagger. Three years ago, however, he hurt his knee while training a student who didn't know what he was doing and was very large, and this single moment resulted in a torn meniscus. Karuhat still moves and glides and melts, but he wears a knee brace and grimaces when the weather gets cold or damp and his knee starts to hurt. His physicality is very much a part ...

#117 Kru Kin Por Promin - Muay Boran Precision, Balance & Flow (93 min)

Kru Kin is amazing. He's so clean, so precise, so fast and smooth and on balance. All of these things would make an incredible ring fighter, which he was in his youth, but all those elements are also necessary - and probably exaggerated - for Muay Boran. 

Some of you have asked specifically for Muay Boran in the Muay Thai Library, and I hear you. True masters of it are difficult to access, but Kru Kin is definitely high on that chart of experts. What I like about this session so mu...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Improving Your Footwork Using a Footwork Grid (17 Min)

Footwork is really important in Muay Thai. It's not singular, meaning there aren't choreographed steps that everyone learns and repeats; rather, everyone establishes a kind of footwork to create the balance and flow needed to carry out Muay Thai. Everyone walks with one foot in front of the other, but everyone has a particular gait... footwork is like that.

I have encountered this 3x3 floor grid in a few different places, but I never really learned or thought to use it until recently, w...

#116 Samson Isaan 3 - Dern Pressure Fighting & Defense (44 min)

There's nobody quite like Samson. He was Muay Khao, a prolifically successful Western Style Boxer, Fighter of the Year in 1991, an absolute relentless force in the ring, and amidst all of that his playful, cheeky boyishness has never faded.  To be the kind of fighter Samson was, defense was a must and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves for how air-tight a lot of his technique was.

In this session we focus a great deal on how to defend for a forward style. Guards are meant...

Launching The Muay Thai Library Instagram - clips, legend profiles, Library vlogs and more

We've just launched The Muay Thai Library on Instagram and it's pretty exciting. Everything we do in the Muay Thai Library project is long form and in-depth, and for a long time we stayed away from pretty much everything short on social media, but the Library has grown so huge, and so full of information (with over 120 commentary hours) we felt we had to find other ways for people to enjoy and study the Libr...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Pressure Fighting Working on Getting In / Staying In (28 min)

This is a little bit of a different version of a Technique Vlog. It's not just one technique, it's a a discussion of development and natural evolution of where I'm going in my own process as a forward, Muay Khao fighter. This is, as I say in the video, a "quilt" of techniques that all come together to aid in my efforts to get in and stay in, as a short and inside fighter. Dieselnoi is tall, he still has to get in and stay in. I'm miniature, I have to get in and stay in. We can both use these ...

#115 Eagle Den Junlaphan 2 - Boxing Within Muay Thai (66 min)

What I took from this session personally were all the ways I felt close range boxing skills could compliment Muay Thai inside fighting. I hope you get as much out of it as I did! 

This is Den "Eagle" Junlaphan's second entry into the Muay Thai Library and I highly recommend you check out the first (linked below). He emphasizes jangwah or rhythm and timing, and ning being smooth and relaxed, above all else. He makes clear that balance and speed are what create powe...

#114 Kru Diesel 2 - The Beauty of Building a Muay Khao Fighter (1 hr, 16 min)

Welcome to the second Kru Diesel session in the Muay Thai Library documentation project! So good.

Kru Diesel is the builder of Muay Khao fighters in contemporary Muay Thai. He is already in the Muay Thai Library when he was the head trainer at F.A. Group (watch that amazing first session here), which under his guidance produced many strong fighters in this style and two big stars: Petchboonchu and Yothin F.A....

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Experiments In Sparring pt. 2 (1 hr)

This is my second time using this format for my Technique Vlog. It got a positive response the first time around and something that I like about it as an alternative to the single-technique version is that, because this is my real-time experimentation with these techniques, what I have to say in terms of expressing what I'm attempting, where it came from, and truly how it has found its way into my arsenal is far more broad and inclusive of many different elements and processes than t...

Muay Thai Bones Podcast #26 - Cloaking Female Sexuality & The Gym, The Kaimuay vs The Muay Thai Gym, MMA In Lumpinee (2 hrs, 37 min)

This is episode 26 of the Muay Thai Bones podcast. Thank you for listening along to our longform  passion for Muay Thai. In this podcast we take on one of the least talked about aspects of women training in a gym, and more historic changes at Lumpinee and in Thailand's Muay Thai.

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Muay Thai Bones Podcast #25 - Women In Lumpinee, Western Fighters & Customs of Authority, Gambling That Binds Community (2hrs, 54 min)

This is episode 25 of the Muay Thai Bones podcast it is a very special podcast. The topic of Women in Lumpinee has been such a huge one we wanted to wait to be able to talk about it lots and lots of depth. So we take a deep dive into this history changes time in Thailand's Muay Thai and women's fighting. Thank you for supporting the podcast! 

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#113 Arjan Yai Muangsupan - Golden Age Forms & Dynamics (119 min)

Arjan Yai was a trainer/padman at the famed and prestigious Sor. Ploenjit gym back in the Golden Age. He helped train 2x Fighter of the Year Kaensak (his session in the Library is linked at bottom), stadium champions and top fighters. Under his own admission, he says he was still learning back in those days but you can spot him in videos of fights, standing and hollering instructions ringside as Lumpinee crowds roar behind him. He has been a trainer and instructor for 4 decades now, raising b...

Muay Thai Bones Excerpt #1: On Clinch Transitions (51 min)

Hey everyone! We had published an excerpt from one of our early Muay Thai Bones podcasts on YouTube, pulling out 51 minutes where we discuss the development of vocabulary in clinch and the nature of sudden growth. We were just going to have this segment on my YouTube Channel, but several patrons noticed it and have thought it was a new podcast and have looked for it on audio. For this reason we ar...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - The Importance of Head Alignment (13 min)

I've previously made vlogs about knowing where your feet are, how you land, where you step, etc. This is a primary part of alignment and shouldn't be overlooked, and is more important than the head. Several years ago Chatchai Sasakul started me on this path with not breaking the frame. But because the body is a whole piece,  no matter how good your footwork is or your strikes are, you'll find that if your head...

#112 Chatchainoi Chaoraioi - The Best Padman in Thailand (64 min)

We've been actually trying to get this session filmed for the Muay Thai Library for years. It's the kind of thing you never seen documented. An absolutely elite padman's fighter-shaping style, explained and show. One of the most special things about Thailand is its filled with vast experience and knowledge, like that of Kru Chat, but we in the West will seldom come in contact with it, especially if we don't find our way to Thailand. 

Kru Chat, above, is in my experienced eyes the b...

#111 The Karuhat Rosetta Stone 7 - The Secrets of the Matador (83 min)

a few technical viewing issues on the app caused us to republish the Karuhat post here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57888361

I've known Karuhat for a number of years now and worked with him throughout, filming for the Library along the way. But it's actually been a few years since his last Muay Thai Library entry and I've come to understand and digest what he's taught me a great deal in that intervening tim...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - How to Train Clinch In Shadow (16 min)

(Video above) - Usually I start out my Technique Vlogs by saying that they aren't intended to be instructional or demonstrational, they're truly my ruminations and considerations about a technique that I'm currently interested in and working on. This one, however, is demonstrational in a sense, but really it's just to get your mind working so you can start working with it yourself in your own space.

A lot of us are experiencing closures, shutdowns, at-home training or limited training, ...

The FULL 1982 Holy Grail Fight Card All 8 Fights: Natural Stadium Audio (2 hrs, 45 min)

This is just a testament to this Patreon community, coming to together to celebrate and share the legendary Muay Thai of the past. One of my patrons found an old VHS of the 1982 Christmas Eve card that had the legendary, Holy Grail fight between GOATs Dieselnoi Chor Tanasukarn and Samart Payakaroon. Before the discovery of the tape of the fight there was no public preservation of Dieselnoi in the prime of his powers, for an entire fight, and suddenly with its publishing suddenly we could see ...

#110 Samson, Namkabuan, Dieselnoi & Karuhat! Muay Khao Summit Session (2 hrs)

This is a unique and remarkable entry for a number of reasons.  Our usual format for the Library is one Legend, long-form instruction for an hour, really getting into their own style and expression of Muay. This one is multiple Legends, riffing off of each other, one-upping each other, playing with each other, definitely teaching and demonstrating their own style but kind of all as an "Ode to Muay Khao." This footage comes from an incredible event we held, inviting women from all over th...

Building a Meta: Study of 4 Rounds of Sylvie Sparring with Yodkhunpon

[Kevin writing, video above]

This is a public post of material that is supported and made possible by my patrons. Not only in their support of the making of the Library and all of its rich history, but also in that Sylvie herself as a fighter AS a documentarian, and our patrons make possible her personal exploration of the Muay Thai of the Library. She has studied the art, first hand, like no other person in history...as a fighter. She is not only archiving the techniques and memory of ...