5 Years ago Sylvie wrote this article on all the responses people had surrounding this Meme made about her and Lumpinee Stadium. It's hard to believe how fast things have changed. Read about opinion and female fighting in Thailand.

We should have included this in our last Newsletter, but this great video surfaced of Dieselnoi lightly sparring with a visiting Japanese fighter. What's beautiful in this is that you can see just how skilled and balanced Dieselnoi is, softly dominating every exchange. My favorite moment is when the Japanese fighter spins around and Dieselnoi meets him with a kick.

Lion Fight Champ vs WBC Champ, a full fight video finally came out. My thoughts from a Thailand style perspective: Amy (who I put in my p4p top 10 before this fight) seemed to really struggle with fatigue early on, even pretty expressly late in the 2nd round. In Thailand showing fatigue is a pretty big scoring demerit because it reveals that you are being effected and you are breaking ruup....Amy improved covering for her fatigue as the fight went on, and in fact was sometimes very dynamic out of it. She adopted beautiful rope fighting to conserve herself at times...read the rest of my thoughts here.

Old newsreel footage.

Serge posts this pretty detailed history of one of the more remarkable Somrak. Matches taken, where he came from, his path to boxing. Lots I've never heard before. Unfortunately the "Why he never won a stadium belt" is not discussed. If you don't know who Somrak is, these Muay Thai Scholar highlights will help.

This story (read details of it here) surfaced on Thai Facebook about how the headkick master Jampatong, who had the laurels of beating Samart twice, knocking out Chamuakpet, Saengchern, etc, had the legend Wichannoi come into camp when he faced the Muay Khao monster Panomtuanlek (and others). They would be fighting for Jampatong's 118 lb Raja belt. The foundation of Jampatong's training was 400 kicks, 400 headkicks. You can study Jampatong's headkick mastery in the Library here.

If you missed this definite watch. It used to be available to only some patrons but we made it public for everyone to enjoy. 4 supreme legends of the sport: Namkabuan, Karuhat, Chatchai and Dieselnoi.

Karuhat tells us that Jomvo and Samart were drinking buddies. Here they fight in the ring in a Thai language. Sadly Jomvo passed away this last month from COVID at the age of 61.

Rambaa was one of the most flamboyant fighters of his generation, it's great to see him thrive.  You can study him in the Muay Thai Library here.

Back in 2017 these were the books and podcasts that I had compiled in my Mental Training resource list. Take a look, there is probably something you'd benefit from.

A really beautifully shot art house film about a 40 year old black playwright in a crisis. She decides to go back to her childhood passion and become a rap artist. Everyone in Muay Thai is trying to remake themselves. This film gives reflection on what making yourself means & thoughts of authenticity