Muay Thai: Beyond The Ring

Lost Origins of Muay Thai  How Muay Boran is coming to represent an entire family of Thai martial arts I began training Muay Thai in 1994. Most Muay Thai gyms, by large, teach the modern kic...

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You train how you fight and you fight how you train. I ran across this video in an article on Business Insider's website today (which is a reprint of the original article on We Are the Mighty tha...

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If you're in or near San Jose (the San Francisco Bay Area), you're more than welcome to join us. I don't think the press release mentions that we're bringing in a taco truck :)  Donnie- Sant...

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One of the greatest modern muay thai fighters died from a heart attack at age 43. According to Dutch news outlet, Bomroep Brabant, Dekkers collapsed earlier Wednesday while cycling in his home to...

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So, you want to get a gift for someone in your life who either trains muay thai, or perhaps MMA, but what the hell is muay thai, and where do you start looking? Perhaps you train, and you want to...

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Man, there is so much outright false anecdotal information out there on Muay Thai. Where to begin? I'm going to tackle shin conditioning, which is a topic that seems to be a source ripe with seri...

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Scroll up and you'll see a list of links directly below the Beyond the Ring header banner. That's a new feature on the blog - Page Navigation. Yeah, I'm about 15 years late to the HTML design par...

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Friday's lesson: Don't mess with Mohamed Salmo Miya. He has a temper. In fact, on Tuesday he bit a cobra to death in an act of revenge for it biting him. Which reminds me that biting is a very na...

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The San Jose Mercury News posted a story this morning with an interesting take on the potential affects that MMA is having on America's ability to compete at the Olympic level in wrestling. Essen...

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The following editorial comes from Joel Huncar, an instructor in muay thai and Filipino styles out of British Columbia, Canada. His commentary on the importance of humility and respect resonated ...

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Along the lines of women's self defense... A key tactic taught in women's self defense classes / seminars is to harden the target e.g. look pissed, stay off the phone while walking to your car, s...

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I've taken a lot of heat for publicly expressing my position that MMA is damaging to muay thai's image. And don't get me started on my opinion on how the "use" of muay thai in MMA fights is a rid...

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Let me start with this: My entire world view on fighting is has always been, and continues to be based on one simple concept: I fight to ensure that I or that those close to me survive a known th...

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Update - 3/28 - There will be a ton of Mexican food catered (for free).... please come hungry. Donnie- If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend, feel free to stop by the Muay Thai Aca...

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Daniel debuts his video on how to punch with real power. Having first hand experience on the receiving end of his strikes, I can attest that his techniques work. Even smaller people who use his s...

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Here's a how-to drill using the Maize Bag that trains your timing, footwork, distance, and punching skills. Working with a partner, strike the bag and hit it towards your partner as he in turn do...

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Just posted this on my Facebook page, but it's worth stating again... Experts say that to become proficient at a technique, you have to do it 10,000 times. Try 400 round kicks twice a week over 3...

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It's been a couple years since I posted a muay thai holiday gift guide...whoops.  I'm back at it, and that's all that matters, right? So, you want to get a gift for someone in your life who ...

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For me, it started with a bootleg VHS tape of fights at Lumpinee Stadium in 1992. Then, a couple weeks later I caught Paulo Tocha in Bloodsport on HBO, and in my teenage mind I was convinced. I d...

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So Black Friday has come and gone with some unsurprising violent outcomes across the United States. A woman in Southern California had the bright idea to discourage other shoppers from vying for ...

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Front leg kicks are usually used as set up strikes, whether you're in the cage, in the ring, or in the street. The right use of body mechanics can make it powerful, but its rare that a front leg ...

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Conditioning Secrets Finally Revealed Back in the late 90’s there was a T.V. show called “Breaking the Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed”. A masked magician woul...

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After fighting and dealing with three, I had to deal with twenty more who swarmed and encircled me. Didn’t see that coming. Punches, elbows, forearms, hammer fists and chops worked. Knocked out...

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How It Really Goes Down in a Multiple Attack If you get on the internet, you’ll find a large amount of information on multiple opponent fighting. A large percentage of it is crap, but not becau...

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We typically use this day to remember those soldiers who died in the course of serving their country in battle: our grandfathers, uncles, brothers, friends. But please also remember the men and w...

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