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Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Barefist Training vs Training with Bag Gloves

My vlogs are just me talking about my experiences with techniques over the years.

About 6 years ago I broke my hand in a fight. As I was recovering from that, training around it, I started in earnest with "barefist" training, which I learned from Sifu McInnes (Robert "Sifu" McInnes is in View Post

Muay Thai 4 MMA | Chamuakpet’s Knee Pressure: Lessons from the Library

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 2nd written for us by Ryan Wagner who writes for 2021-02-12 07:58:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Yodpitak Chor Nateetong - Femeu Knees & the Art of Spacing (80 min)

Kru Tak is one of these teachers who has a definite style, which is Femeu (Thai for "artful"), slick, playful but punishing, and supremely hard to stand in front of. And yet, the depth of his knowledge and keenness of insight into what your style is, allows him to improve any level, any ...

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Sylvie's Technique Vlog - The Non-Switch Lead Kick

My technique vlogs aren't demo videos. They are just plain old discussions of my personal experiences in training techniques that I work on as a fighter. They are just vlogging about the things I've discovered around techniques. 

This technique is one that I've kind of be work...

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Muay Thai Bones Podcast #21 - How to Beat Saenchai, The Magic of Technique, Westerners & Aggression, Namkabuan (1 hr, 40 min)

Welcome to episode 21 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 t...

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Tepniramit Sitsamnao | Defend and Punish: Old School Pattaya Muay (75 min)

Tepniramit is a very cool entry to the Library, and sessions like this are a big part of what our documentary project is about. We have entries with absolute Legends, the best of the best fighters of all time (2021-01-15 07:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Muay Thai 4 MMA | The Teep as a System: Lessons from the Library

Our note: This column focuses on the application of the muay that is documented in the Muay Thai Library from legends, elite krus & fighters from all over Thailand, preserving the lega...

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Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Getting on Your Toes

This one is something I've been working on in cycles. I get instructed or corrected on it, I work on it, I get better at it, then it falls away as something I've already taken care of and I end up flat-footed again - maybe only in small moments - because I'm no longer thinking about it. So the ti...

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Best of BKK Muay Thai: fights you missed, My End of Year Awards: vol 4 (Jan, 2021)

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...

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A MTBs Podcast Shard - To Wrestle With the Angel (26 min)

This is an unusual addendum to our usual podcasting, as it's only one topic. Kevin made a film short, which he titled To Wrestle With the Angel, which is about my sparring with the Golden Age Legend Yodkhunpon. It's an enormous undertaking, sparring an hour every morning, 6 days per week for what...

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Yodwicha Por Boonsit 3 - Spearing the Middle, Fighting With Rhythm (66 min)

I was very excited to get more of Yodwicha for the Muay Thai Library, not only because he's an excellent teacher and I love his Muay Khao style, but also because he's developed a great deal over the time since we last filmed with him a few years ago. He is, perhaps, of the last generation of true...

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Sylvie's Technique Vlog - How to Use Bagwork in Thailand

My change in understanding the purpose, or aim, of bagwork in so far as how it's used in Thailand is a very recent one. I've been wailing on the bag for years and years, not without benefit, not without purpose, but I've recently come to understand that many Thai pedagogies don't use bag...

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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 T...

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Khunpinit Giattawan Freestyle: Southern Power Femeu Style (71 min)

Khunpinit trained at and fought out of the Kaewsamrit Gym, alongside Anuwat; Khunpinit fought Saenchai (4x) during the time that Saenchai was a formidable stadium fighter, and he gave up weight against Attachai (2x), which is just crazy to me. He was 112 lb and 122 lb Lumpinee Stadium Champion an...

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Best of BKK Muay Thai: fights you missed, fights coming up: vol 3 (Dec, 2020)

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...

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Sylvie's Technique Vlog #22 - Guard: Palms Facing Outward (17 min)

This technique is something I've only been working with for less than a month, so it's truly something that I'm still learning a lot about just by experimenting with it in my training as I go. This vlog is really about things I've discovered, or am currently discovering, within that short period ...

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Muay Thai Bones Podcast #19 (Apple & Android) - Scoring Like Poker, Kemical X, Menstrual Cycles & Training

Another insanely amazing podcast clocking in at 4 hours. Come with us as we drive from Phatthailong in the South of Thailand, talking all things deep and of concern to us, and hopefully our listeners and supporters too! The audio is above, or you can watch it all on YouTube.

This is a podca...

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Pairojnoi Sor. Siamchai - Balance, Footwork & Intensity (61 min)

Pairojnoi has a very unassuming energy. He's lightly awkward but notably very sweet even in short exchanges. If given a hundred guesses, I'd likely not have connected him to his Golden Age self, where he was half of the 'Fight of the Century" against "Rambo," which is an all-you-can-eat buffet of...

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Best of BKK Muay Thai: fights you missed, fights coming up: vol 2 (early Nov, 2020)

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 an experiment we're starting a "Bangkok Muay Thai" column, written by...

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Hippy Singmanee 3 - Basics of Balance, Rhythm & Footwork (75 min)

I love learning from Hippy. Not only is actually just being around him enjoyable - he's a wonderful story teller, he's charming, his "game face" is awesome...

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Sylvie's Technique Vlog #21 - Your Ambient Footwork (15 min)

This is a concept that I've only recently been working on, even though I've worked on elements that are kind of "adjacent" to it. I call this "Ambient Footwork" because it's how you move between everything else. It isn't the same as "Jang-wa", which I've also talked about in a Technique Vlog, but...

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Best of BKK Muay Thai: fights you missed, fights coming up: vol 1 (Oct 2020)

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 an experiment we're starting a "Bangkok Muay Thai" column, written by Phan Kế...

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Wangchannoi Sor. Palangchai #2 - The Secret Powers of a Cool Heart (77 min)

We, and so many of you, loved 1st Wangchannoi's session (watch that one here) so much that we went back and got another one for the Muay Thai Library, one week later, to elaborate on what he was teaching in the first o...

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A Day With Sangtiennoi: What An Authentic Muay Thai Gym is Like (70 min)

Always looking to create new kinds of content, made possible through the support of patrons. This is a detailed look at the experience of training at one of the more "authentic" gyms of Thailand, the home of Sangtiennoi Sor. Rungroj. 

I went to go and train and film with Wangchannoi a ...

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My Interview With Legend Padejseuk Pitsanurachan (English subs)

Above is a (public) interview with Silver/Golden Age Legend, Padejseuk, be sure to turn on English subtitles (the cc icon on YouTube). He's 64 years old and an incredible energy that mixes his sweetness, thoughtfulness, joy, and comes through his gleeful manner of speaking - but his body is made ...

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Wangchannoi Sor Palangchai #1 - Deadly Step Counter Fighting (72 min)

Wangchannoi was known as "Little Chivas," a nickname he got for his tendency to party after his fights. The year he became Fighter of the Year in 1993, his nickname changed to "Mr. 33 Second Punch," for his 33 second ...

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Muay Thai Bones Podcast - #18 (Apple & Android) The End of Muay Khao, Really a Fighter?, Werewolf Within, Millimeters (2 hrs, 10 min)

The newest Muay Thai Bones is up! We're on the road again, this time coming back from filming Muay Thai Library session in Bangkok (Wangchannoi and Hippy) heading home to Pattaya. Come along with us as we dive the depths of Muay Thai. This is a good one!

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Sylvie's Technique Vlog #20 - Jang-wa, Rhythm and Timing

This technique vlog is a bit different in that it's more a concept than a direct technique, but it's an elementary concept that affects every technique you will ever use. Jang-wa is rhythm and timing. There's the technique of throwing a cross, but then there's jang-wa, ...

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WBC Champ "Eagle" Den Junlaphan - The Roots of His Boxing Movement (63 min)

Kru Den has a small gym, Eagle Gym in Pattaya. He's a 2x WBC World Champion at "Straw Weight" or "Minimum Weight", according to his Wikipedia entry, making him the 3rd WBC World Champion to be added to the Muay Thai Library.  (Chatchai Sasakul and Samart Payakaroon are the other 2, so far.)<...

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Padejseuk Pitsanurachan - Old School Greatness (67 min)

Arjan Padejseuk is a wonderful entry into the Library, really special for me personally. He's a Silver/Golden Age fighter, won Fighter of the Year in 1979, and is one of only a few of fighters ever to defeat Dieselnoi in his prime (Wichannoi, Kaopong & Padejseuk). He was an adroit elbow fight...

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