[Kevin writing, 30 min video above] - This isn't the usual Patreon fare, but as a bonus piece I'm always studying the Golden Age source material and occasionally come across something interesting worth really slowing down. A new channel has been posting remastered Golden Age fights, and one of these is the Samart vs Namphon rematch, showing the fight in full, which previously I had only seen in a highly edited version. I really wanted to take ...
2021-08-14 11:07:34 +0000 UTC
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This post is mostly for everyone new to the Muay Thai Library and this Patreon. One of the most difficult things when you join in support is that the Muay Thai Library is HUGE. It's at the time of this writing over 120 hours of commentary video. So Kevin and I sat down and made an intro video talking about what the Library is, how best to watch it to get the most out of it, and we also picked our 10 ...
2021-08-09 20:15:42 +0000 UTC
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This is a bit of a different format for my Technique Vlog, but one that I'm kind of excited about because it's really, truly, what I'm working on while I'm working on it. It's taken me a long time to become experimental in sparring; a year, basically. I would always be working on things, but I was mainly forcing myself to do about 3 things and failing to do them most of the time. I'm able to experiment more now, play more, me...
2021-08-06 07:42:35 +0000 UTC
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Chatchai has by far the most commented on and appreciated sessions in the Library, so I'm really happy to be able to now include this video. He is has been a Golden Age Muay Thai stadium fighter, a WBC World Boxing Champion, and a Thailand Coach of the Year. He is the best teacher I have filmed with, in field of amazing instructors. This entry is a special session I filmed with Chatchai a few years ago, it shows two days of work and progress, ...
2021-08-01 12:58:12 +0000 UTC
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This is episode 24 of the Muay Thai Bones podcast. As a patron you get the audio version (above), timestamps for topics and the reading notes to anything that we reference in our talk. We call it the best in-depth Muay Thai podcast in the world, diving down into the philosophical and historical aspects of the sport. Thank you everyone for supporting this content, hope you enjoy this episode.
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2021-07-20 08:41:36 +0000 UTC
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[Kevin writing, video above 56 mins] Above is my thorough going nearly frame by frame examination of one of my favorite wins of Sylvie's, Fight #228. Aside from the fact that several people have written to say that they learned a lot from the "breakdown", I wanted to write an accompanying article with the near hour long public video, for patrons, because there are very important principles to fighting included in the breakdown, principles...
2021-07-18 17:32:32 +0000 UTC
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I'm kind of stoked on the series on shadowboxing that has been unfolding on my channel for the past many months. Shadow is honestly so complex, even though it's so fundamental. Just because something is basic doesn't mean it's simple or easy. Some of the hardest things are categorically basic and foundational... balance, for example. Shadowboxing is hard because you're just put to it with little or no context, which isn't necessarily a bad thi...
2021-07-15 08:51:57 +0000 UTC
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This is one of my favorite sessions in the whole Library, it expresses so much what the Library is about: preserving and archiving the Muay that is disappearing from the world. Jampatong was a formidable head-kick KO artist of the Golden Age. He was 118 lb Rajadamnern Stadium Champion and has a string of KO victories over some of the greatest that the Golden Age has to offer: Sangtiennoi, Chamuakpet, Seancherng, just to name a few. And the gre...
2021-07-10 16:50:00 +0000 UTC
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I learned this technique a very long time ago, and I've been "working on it" in a kind of vague background sense for as long, but sometimes that's how these things go. You learn something and it simply doesn't mean anything to you at that time. Eventually it matters, and then you feel it.
Some of the stickiest points of using the hand on the opponent's chest are that your arm isn't strong enough, you aren't guarding your ...
2021-07-01 04:21:03 +0000 UTC
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This is episode 23 of the Muay Thai Bones podcast. As a patron you get the audio version (above), timestamps for topics and the reading notes to anything 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, and it is! Thank you everyone for supporting this content, hope you enjoy this episode.
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2021-06-23 13:05:55 +0000 UTC
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Pudpadnoi Worawut is a Legend among Legends. He's of an older generation than almost all the entries into the Muay Thai Library as he pre-dates the Golden Age, a true Silver Age Legend, so it is a great privilege and opportunity to document him. This is one of the great fighters of a largely disappearing era. He was Fighter of the Year in 1975, retired shortly after and moved to California for 2 years - before there were even any Muay Thai gym...
2021-06-19 04:25:15 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes I'm working on something that I've just learned from a Legend or Kru in the Muay Thai Library, sometimes I am running up against something that is frustrating me in the gym, and sometimes I'm forced into a situation due to injury. I find injuries quite beneficial, in the long run, since you can usually train around them. It happens that one of the aspects of Muay Thai that first drew me to it was that the strikes are meant to replace...
2021-05-28 04:55:12 +0000 UTC
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I first met Phetdam at Kem's gym a few years ago in Khao Yai, where I saw his awesome padstyle and he was still fighting occasionally. The last time I saw him there he had stitches in his eyebrow from the night before, the deep eggplant purple of his eyelid hanging slightly low as the swelling began to subside. I also had stitches in my face from a recent fight. We pointed at each other's wounds, exchanged how many stitches we each had receive...
2021-05-20 09:33:54 +0000 UTC
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2021-05-11 07:08:13 +0000 UTC
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Gulapkao (The White Rose) was 135 lb Rajadamnern Stadium Champion in the early Golden Age. He showed me a photo on his phone standing in the ring after winning (or defending) the belt, Wichannoi Pontawee standing next to him in the ring. "I was more nervous about my hero standing there with me than I was to have the belt," he said, laughing. Gulapkao, whose name means "White Rose," is the manager of the Jitmuangnon Gym in Nonthaburi, just outs...
2021-04-28 14:35:57 +0000 UTC
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It is inevitable that we will get fatigued - not "tired," but truly fatigued - at some point in our training progression. The "Part 2" of this Technique Vlog is the difference between training "around" fatigue and training "through" fatigue, both of which serve a purpose - one common purpose and then differing purposes. But both can employ the "Part 1" of this Technique Vlog, which is what I'm calling "foot flexibility," mostly because I alrea...
2021-04-21 03:29:13 +0000 UTC
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Be sure to turn on English Subtitles (cc on screen bottom right), for the interview above. If you'd like to read the English transcript it is at the bottom of this article. These video interviews are free to everyone, but they are made possible through patron support, literally preserving on video and in oral history the legacy of Thailand's great past and the men who built it. If there are things you'd like to know about Yodkhunpon you ca...
2021-04-16 08:42:25 +0000 UTC
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This video (above) was the very first time I met Namkabuan, or Pi Piaow (his playname means "pure," so another nickname for him as a fighter was "the pure warrior") way back in late 2016. This was before we'd even started the Muay Thai Library or Preserve the Legacy Project, but it is a nascent version of it. Videos like this gave birth to the Muay Thai Library. A seed that didn't know it would become a enormous tree. In the video I'm quite sh...
2021-04-11 02:33:00 +0000 UTC
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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 latest of what's happening in the stadia, and highligh...
2021-04-09 08:09:56 +0000 UTC
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It is absolutely incredible that Yodkhunpon, one of the most vicious fighters of the Golden Age, who claims 500 fights to his name and was simultaneous Lumpinee and Rajadamnern Champion at 118 lb in the Golden Age, basically carved himself out of marble using mostly the tool of shadowboxing. He was nearly 20 years old by the time he entered the Bangkok fight scene, having trained on a dirt-floor gym in rural Roi Et with practically no equipmen...
2021-04-07 13:35:08 +0000 UTC
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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 3rd written for us by Ryan Wagner who writes for the Fight Site, - want to read something good of his on the Fight Site, check his 2021-04-04 06:35:11 +0000 UTC
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This video above is my interview with the legendary Golden Age trainer of the Nongkipahayuthgym, Arjan Pramod (click CC to turn on the English Subtitles). He produced the 2nd most stadium champions in the Golden Age, only behind Arjan Yodtong of Sityodtong Gym. Nongkipahayut is a gym located in and named for the small town in Buriram of Nongki - I visited and filmed with him for the Muay Thai Library a few years ago, you can w...
2021-04-01 07:51:18 +0000 UTC
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Video above. There are obviously many things one can focus on in padwork and get a lot out of it, but this Technique Vlog is my own suggestion for what foci have been meaningful and beneficial for me, personally, in my career, as well as just pointing out the fact that focusing on something is way better than just submitting to the trap of being "good." You don't get anything out of being "good" at padwork. A lot of us tend t...
2021-03-25 04:07:07 +0000 UTC
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Above is my 10 minute interview with Khunpinit, with English translation. (Turn on English Subs by clicking the CC at the bottom right of the video frame.) With the help of patrons we're able to pay for translation of these Thai language interviews, and my Thai has finally gotten strong enough that I feel comfortable in conversation with them. I hope to be doing many more of these. These interviews are free to the public, though supported...
2021-03-23 07:32:24 +0000 UTC
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This is a very special entry to the Muay Thai Library and so, so much what the Preserve the Legacy Project is about. I've been saying that a few times lately, but this is really amazing. All over Thailand there are pockets of great styles and fight wisdom that are simply cut off from a rich future. Arjan Medprik was Bantamweight Lumpinee Champion in 1970, he's 71 years old in this session, and he's responsible for raising Tongchai Tor Si...
2021-03-19 08:30:19 +0000 UTC
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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 latest of what's happening in the stadia, a...
2021-03-10 02:04:33 +0000 UTC
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Be sure to turn on English Subtitles (cc on screen bottom right), for the interview above. If you'd like to read the English transcript it is at the bottom of this article.
One of the special things we are doing out of patron support is interviewing legends of the sport and letting them tell their own stories. I've been sparring a lot with Yodkhunpon, The Elbow Hunter of 100 Stitches, so I thought it would be great to sit down w...
2021-03-09 03:23:37 +0000 UTC
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This is an interview with Namkabuan Nongkeepahuyut (video above, turn on subtitles), 130 lb Lumpinee Champion for 6 straight years (this was an incredibly competitive weight class) and a Legend of the Golden Age. Namkabuan's career painted a broad stroke across weight classes, as he was able to fight top competition as he grew from a young teen into an adult, climbing the weight classes.
In this interview we talk about his career a...
2021-02-28 06:45:34 +0000 UTC
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I truly enjoyed working with Morakot, for a number of reasons, but mainly I'm always impressed (in the true sense of imprinting) by the way he eats space, stands in, and punishes. There are a handful of small bodied fighters who are scary as hell because of how they aren't afraid and just own space: Burklerk, Lakhin, Rambaa, and absolutely what Morakot demonstrates for me in this lesson checks that box.
Morakot filmed with me at the gym ...
2021-02-25 16:22:19 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to episode 22 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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2021-02-24 05:42:42 +0000 UTC
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