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#124 Kru San Sitmonchai #2 - Muay Maat At The Right Pace (62 min)

Note: We had a bit of a technical issue with the drive-up audio intro in the main video. Audio kicks in at about the 7 min mark. Here is the drive-up intro for everyone, on its own. I set the scene and talk a little about Hua Hin, and about Kru San as a trainer 2022-07-20 02:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post

#123 Samson Isaan 4 - Secrets to Pressure Fighting (122 min)

This is our 4th entry of Samson Isaan into the Muay Thai Library and it's the most elaborate and developed in terms of expressing his style. The thing with Samson is he's a taxi driver and when he retired he never became an instructor at a gym; it was actually us getting him to teach me for his first entry into the Library and then bringing him ...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog #39 - Committing to Throwing 3s in Sparring (19 min)

This is something I started on about a year and a half ago. It was Kevin's idea as training framework to have me focus on only throwing in 3s, any strike but always 3 of them (or more!), in sparring as a way to help me progress beyond a lot of "one hit wonder" striking. It was hard and to be honest about it, I hated it. It was ...

#122 Tappaya Sit Or. - Muay Khao Strength In Femeu (82 min)

Tappaya is the owner and head of the Sor. Klinmee Gym in Pattaya, where he brought up his cousins, Sudsakorn (THAI FIGHT) and Sinsamut (ONE) Sor. Klinmee; his nephew (on source said uncle, despite age) is Somdet "Rambaa" Sit Or.; his older brother now teaches in Japan and was both a Muay Thai fighter and had a successful western boxing career, Y...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog #38 - Head Diving, Small Changes In Balance (21 min)

Voicing my Library session with Kaisuwit Nor Pattaya (Kru Pern) really was an Eureka! experience for me. He was telling me something I've been aware of previously, but knowing and KNOWING are different things, and in the moment I was voicing the session I came to really know what he was talking about. Since then, I've really been focusi...

#120 Kaisuwit Nor Pattaya - Muay Maat and Centrifugal Power (64 min)

Kaisuwit, or Pi Pern, is a big part of the local Hua Hin Muay Thai community. He's been teaching and promoting fights for a long time and puts a lot of his heart and soul into giving opportunities to the young fighters in and around the Western Region. He's good friends with Kaensak and Karuhat, and grew up in the same "class" as that age of Yod...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Training Around Injury (15 min)

I'm no stranger to injury. Something hurts at all times and learning to train around such issues is just part of the game. In my years of training through pain, as well as training around pain, I've come to really appreciate that the mental approach you take makes all the difference in what you get out of, rather than ...

#119 Burklerk Pinsinchai 2 - Mastering Space with a Legend (1 hr, 47 min)

This session was filmed in January, 2016, before the Muay Thai Library even existed! Burklerk Pinsinchai is an incredible teacher, a vast resource of technical knowledge and practice, and this session is in many ways a Cliff's Notes to techniques and strategies I've learned in filming the Muay Thai Library in the years since then. I see...

Karuhat Interview | Had His First Fight at 16, Went Onto Become a Legend [turn on English Subtitles]

[turn on English Subtitles, above] - This interview happened impromptu as we were just casually chatting to Karuhat in our livingroom and I asked him about how old he was when he first fought (I knew how old he was when he started in Muay Thai already) and was absolutely shocked by the answer and following story. So we set up the camera and mics...

#118 Phettho Sitjaopho - Muay Femeu Excellence (70 min)

Alright y'all. Many of you have asked for either of the Sitjaopho twins to be added to the Muay Thai Library and here we have Kru F, Phettho.

He has to be one of the most-loved Krus in all of Thailand, by the English-speaking students who pass through and often return to the Sitjaopho gym in Hua Hin. Meeting him and training with him for t...

We Brought Karuhat to Get PRP Treatment for His Knee: Remaking Superman

Karuhat is somewhat on the young end of the scale of Golden Age Legends, just dipping his toes into his 50s, still agile and full of swagger. Three years ago, however, he hurt his knee while training a student who didn't know what he was doing and was very large, and this single moment resulted in a torn meniscus. Karuhat still moves and glides ...

#117 Kru Kin Por Promin - Muay Boran Precision, Balance & Flow (93 min)

Kru Kin is amazing. He's so clean, so precise, so fast and smooth and on balance. All of these things would make an incredible ring fighter, which he was in his youth, but all those elements are also necessary - and probably exaggerated - for Muay Boran. 

Some of you have asked specifically for Muay Boran in the Muay Thai Library, and...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Improving Your Footwork Using a Footwork Grid (17 Min)

Footwork is really important in Muay Thai. It's not singular, meaning there aren't choreographed steps that everyone learns and repeats; rather, everyone establishes a kind of footwork to create the balance and flow needed to carry out Muay Thai. Everyone walks with one foot in front of the other, but everyone has a particular gait... footwork i...

#116 Samson Isaan 3 - Dern Pressure Fighting & Defense (44 min)

There's nobody quite like Samson. He was Muay Khao, a prolifically successful Western Style Boxer, Fighter of the Year in 1991, an absolute relentless force in the ring, and amidst all of that his playful, cheeky boyishness has never faded.  To be the kind of fighter Samson was, defense was a must and I don't think he gets the credit he des...

Launching The Muay Thai Library Instagram - clips, legend profiles, Library vlogs and more

We've just launched The Muay Thai Library on Instagram and it's pretty exciting. Everything we do in the Muay Thai Library project is long form and in-depth, and for a long time we stayed away from pretty much everything short on social media, but the Library h...

Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Pressure Fighting Working on Getting In / Staying In (28 min)

This is a little bit of a different version of a Technique Vlog. It's not just one technique, it's a a discussion of development and natural evolution of where I'm going in my own process as a forward, Muay Khao fighter. This is, as I say in the video, a "quilt" of techniques that all come together to aid in my efforts to get in and stay in, as ...

#115 Eagle Den Junlaphan 2 - Boxing Within Muay Thai (66 min)

What I took from this session personally were all the ways I felt close range boxing skills could compliment Muay Thai inside fighting. I hope you get as much out of it as I did! 

This is Den "Eagle" Junlaphan's second entry into the Muay Thai Library and I highly recommend you check out the first (linked below). He emphasizes jan...