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Arjan Surat at Dejrat Gym - Old School Master (37 min)

There are qualities in Arjan Surat that remind me of other Thai men I know, but there is absolutely nobody quite like him, the particular composite qualities that make him who he is. He's very gruff, very serious, swears a lot, criticizes a lot, corrects the tiniest details, and has one of the be...

Kaimuay Diaries - Episode 6 Dieselnoi In The House Pt 2: Bank

Dieselnoi came to Petchrungruang for a month, thanks very much to the support of you, my patrons. It was good for him – immensely so – to be around young, active stadium fighters. It filled him with something I’d never seen in him before. Not energy, because he has that in abundance, but a ...

Sagat Petchyindee - All the Strikes Tuned and Dangerous (101 min)

Before Sagat became a Street Fighter character he was known as the "Knockout King," terrorizing the national stadia of Thailand.  When you see the way he moves, with such power and efficiency, it's not hard to understand how he got that name. He's also just an amazing man to be around. His p...

Fight Philosophy: Shame and Why Fighting Signals the Glue of What Holds Us Together

Guest Post: by Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu

Sylvie and I were driving home from a 4 day training retreat with Karuhat in Bangkok, 4 days of spending morning and afternoon with one of the most gra...

Satanmuanglek Numpornthep - Beautiful Clinch Throws (65 min)

This session is focused on clinch throws. Satanmuanglek Numpornthep is an active fighter, both in Muay Thai and – in recent years – Western Boxing (he boxes under the name Satanmuanglek CP Freshmart, and already has a boxing title to his name - note, you can take privates with him at Chatchai...

Kaimuay Diaries - Episode 5 | Dieselnoi In the House Part 1 (52 min)

In this episode I follow Dieselnoi and his impact on Alex, one of the Petchrungruang fighters, at Rajadamnern stadium. Alex has been featured in previous Kaimuay Diaries, an Italian boy who has been raised like a Thai boy since he was 12. Now 17, Dieselnoi wanted to make make him more intense and...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Dieselnoi's Lowkick in the Clinch (12 min)

One of the biggest challenges I face as a Muay Khao fighter in Thailand is that every gym I fight against, and the stadia in which I fight, know that I'm going to clinch and knee. That's where I win.  I don't  know for sure if it stems from gambling interests or personal preference, but...

Jitti Jitti Gym - Close Range Dynamics (61 min)

There were two big reasons I wanted to get Jitti into the Muay Thai Library. Firstly, the Jitti Gym has been an established gym in Bangkok for decades, known for its good training and female inclusion. Secondly, Jitti himself holds a significant place in the history of western women fighting in T...

Boonlai Sor. Thanikul - Kicking Legend (66 min)

Finding Boonlai was a challenge in and to itself. We really wanted to film with him, and patrons again and again asked, but he was not easy to find and arrange with. 

He’s a brilliant figure of the Golden Age, fought against all the top names in his weight division – the best of th...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Dieselnoi Air Knees in the Corner (8 min)

The “Sylvie’s Technique Vlog” series is intended to be a kind of rumination on some of the things that I learn from the legends and krus I film with for the Muay Thai Library, or things I pick up from my trainer Kru Nu, or even just things that I see and start playing with. The interesting ...

The Jade Dragon Set - The Nature of the Boys (Patreon Magazine)

Patreon Magazine articles are more descriptive pieces exclusive for my patrons.

Bank is flexing into the mirror, cracking himself up and then looking at me to include me in the jest. He’s imitating a bodybuilder on stage, over-emphasizing poses but laughing too hard to be able to...

Tanadet Tor. Pran49 - Mastering Long Clinch (63 min)

About two years ago I wrote a public post on the extraordinary Long Clinch of Tanadet Tor. Pran49. If you read that post you'll get deeper insight into what is be...

The Full Sirimongkol Interview with English Subtitles

Edit: This Patreon post has been made Public, for all.

One of the things I'm trying to do with the Preserve The Legacy Muay Thai Library project is to create more interview opportunities with legends of the sport. It's a chance for the world to hear directly about the lives of past stars an...

Kru Manop Manop Gym - The Beauty of the Teep (90 min)

Kru Manop (I refer to him as Arjan - professor - in the video, he calls himself "kru") is probably best recognized as Saenchai’s padman. He worked together with Saenchai in Bangkok for years and has just opened his own gym in Chiang Mai. The space is beautiful and already set up to accommodate ...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Accelerating At the End of Strikes (10 min)

In today's technique vlog I talk about how to feel where the tension is in the strike, and to concentrating on feeling. This is something I'm working on and you can to. This is something I came to concentrate on more when filming again with Sagat for the Muay Thai Library a few weeks ago. That se...

Kaimuay Diaries - Episode 4 | Lumpinee As Outsider (51 min)

Aside from my Muay Thai Library sessions, magazine-like articles, technique vlogs and other exclusive features (see everything here), I'm trying to also produce regular episodes on a documentary series I'm calling Kaim...

The Late Legend Sirimongkol + General Tunwakom (82 min)

This is a very special entry into the Muay Thai Library, as it is very probably the last recording of Sirimongkol before his unexpected death last year. The session involves time with him explaining his fighting style, a 20 minute interview about his life. Sirimongkol was Fighter of the Year in 1...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - The Kem Pivot (12 min)

This is a new feature I'm bringing to my patrons, long form vlogs on particular techniques or principles I've been working on as a fighter. It's a way of just talking about -- and not just "demoing" -- techniques of Muay Thai. We are always working on something, and not getting it right, and feel...

Pi Nu's Hands - What is Good? (Patreon Magazine)

I turn my face away from Pi Nu and feel my chin start to quiver. Don’t cry. He takes a step closer to me, kind of bending at the hip and dipping his shoulder to look into my face as I try to hide it from him. I blink and look at him, catching the worry in his eyes as I meet his gaze. &...

Hi-Res Muay Thai Photo of the Month - A Serious Photographic Upgrade

Kevin writing: Several have been asking, so I'll be posting downloadable hi-res versions of photographs I'll be taking, that can be made into HQ, frameable prints, used as wall-papers or printed into posters. They'll try to capture some of the depth of what Sylvie is doing, as well, all ...

Technique Vlog - Dealing With Fear, How to Cut it Out

This is a new feature I'm bringing to patrons. Sylvie's Technique Vlog is something I had been doing for Nak Muay Nation members, but now I'm creating them for you. Usually in technique vlogs I take on specific Muay Thai techniques or principles that I'm working on and detail different aspects of...

Kem Kem Muaythai Gym - Mastering Everything In Between (80 min)

I really like training with Kem but, while watching this session for the voice recording, I was surprised by how good it was. Like really, really good. I’d enjoyed it while filming and actually doing the session, but rewatching it really revealed to me just how good he is as a teacher....

Yodkhunpon Sittraipum (Bonus Session 9) - Lethal Smoothness (72 min)

In bonus sessions I add to the Library imperfect but still very valuable commentary video. In this work with The Elbow Hunter we are testing camera settings with a new camera we got to improve the quality of our Muay Thai Library footage. The audio is almost non-existent, but my commentary will e...

The Fight Card to Change All Fight Cards | Thailand

[Kevin writing] - We're right in the middle of the Muay Khao Summit - if you don't know what that is you can read about it here, or follow it all through the 2018-12-20 14:12:12 +0000 UTC View Post

The Live Stream of the Muay Khao Summit

A message for all my patrons. This morning was the first session of the Muay Khao Summit, the greatest collection of Muay Khao instruction ever assembled on the planet! It's 9 days of seminar lead by legends of the sport and art. And the whole thing is being live streamed, twice a day. 

Yodkh...

Krongsak Prakong-Boranrat - That Shoving Energy (56 min)

Krongsak is one of these fighters who faced everyone, beat top names, and yet never gained a title to hang on the wall. When I asked him about this, he explained that big name gyms get the big name titles and that, in terms of opportunity and financial reward for non-title fights, he was satisfie...

123 All-Time Greatest Muay Thai Fighters of Thailand (1st 10)

There has been widespread interest in the hard-to-find book, 123 All-Time Greatest Muay Thai Fighters of Thailand, which catalogs the legends of the sport throughout the decades. So, I thought I should start sharing it with my patrons and I'm going to post 10 of the profiles at a ti...