Muay Thai Bones Podcast #20 - 90 Min Edition: 15 Rules for Muay Thai, Building My Own Training

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 have our epic, long, car-ride version when we drive to fights; we just have this in-between as well. If you have suggestions for topics you'd like us to talk about leave them in comments please!

In this episode we cover only a few subjects in our 90 minutes, but with great expansion and depth. We start out with a post of "My 15 Rules for Muay Thai" that was posted to my Instagram a while back and got quite a few responses from readers, including some requests for clarification on a couple of the items on the list. So, here, we go into explanation on just a couple points but really focus in and elaborate on the "steer clear of the politics and the powerful," what that means and why that is.

In our last Muay Thai Bones Episode we talked a bit about the change to my training but talked so much about some elements of those changes that we never got around to what my training actually looks like. So, we cover that here.

We also finish up with a conversation about how emotional investments are not separate or separable from this kind of process that I'm working through in my path as a fighter. Lots and lots of elements and factors go into what those emotional landscapes look like, and they change over time, go sideways and back down and up again, which is to be expected.

So, welcome to the 90 Minute Muay Thai Bones!

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Reading Notes

original post on my Instagram 

2016 Blog Post on the Multi-Gym, Multi-Trainer Approach

Kevin's blog post on how I have always combined training opportunities 

What Does "Zatoichi-ing It" Mean?

watch the original series of Zatoichi films, listed here, to know what Zatoichi-ing it means 

My 2016 Article: The Romance of Being a Wandering Fighter in Thailand:

read that article here  - which touches on the Ronin-like, Nora experience of fighting outside of the gym system

Kevin's Film on the Funeral of Sirimongkol

This film has footage of Samson and Sagat playing around outside, which is mentioned in the podcast

watch Kevin's film short here 

Kevin's Short Film on My Training With Yodkhunpon and Andrey:

The second main topic of the podcast is how I pieced together my training with 3.0 in view, after I left Petchrungruang Gym, this video shows what some of that is like:

watch the 45 minute capture of part of my typical day of training 

The Free Solo Documentary film 

referenced at the end of the podcast talking about the difficulties of my path:

watch the trailer here 

watch my vlog on whether it is normal to feel like crying in sparring on YouTube