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Five Concepts Behind Traditional Muay Thai - Spacing, Continue, Angles, Tempo & Rhythm

Keys to Higher Traditional Muay Thai: Spacing, Continue, Angles, Tempo & Rhythm

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#162 Songkram Por. Paoin - Balanced Pressure Fighting in Sets as a Small Fighter (84 mins)

Songkram Por. Paoin is the "younger" brother among a pair of twins, with Chana, who was also a fighter. Songkram started first, at about the age of 13, and his brother took up fighting when Songkra...

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#161 Muangchai Kittikasem - The Straight & the Rotational (60 min)

Muangchai reportedly fought around 100 Muay Thai fights before transitioning into Boxing in the Golden Age. As the legend goes, he took his first Muay Thai fight before ever training (Karuhat also ...

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#160 SiKing "Don King" Giatpayatai - The S. Ploenjit Chop Kick, with rhythm & distance control (1hr, 20min)

What is so incredible about this session is really two things. It is a documentation of an Old School very effective kick (which itself is SiKing's own synthesis of two classic styles), a masterful...

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#159 Lakhin Wassantasit # 2 | The Art of Close Power Fighting - Muay Maat (1 hr, 23 mins)

The Muay Maat style has so many fans and an aura about it and Thailand has had some remarkable hands heavy fighters, especially of small stature. We visiting again with Lakhin one of the most fierc...

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On Pull-ups & Strength Conditioning for Thai Clinch | Sylvie Interview (28 min)

above, Kevin's informal interview of me on my return to pull-ups and my experiences with adding weight training

When we filmed with Chatpon for the Muay Thai Library, the very moment...

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8 Favorite Moments From The Golden Age

One of the most beautiful things about the Golden Age of Muay Thai is that aside from the incredible skill of the fighters and the depth of talent, the sport was filled with style, sanae (aura, cha...

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#158 Chatpon Dejrat - The Art of Relentless Mid-Clinch & Muay Khao Persistence (62 min)

Chatpon is the only fighter from the Dejrat Gym to fight on the OneSongchai promotion. In this session he teaches a pure, unadulterated Muay Khao, which is expressed in his ethic, aesthetic, and fo...

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93 Details To Improve Your Muay Thai (30 min)

[Kevin writing]

One of the things that has happened while Sylvie has been fighting like a demon for years, and filming the Muay Thai Library, training up all the things she's been learning ev...

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Yodkhunpon's Fast, Trapping Anti-Clinch Reversal from Outside Position - (8 min, public)

Above is 8 minutes of Yodkhunpon teaching his clinch reversal from the recent session: #156 Yodkhunpon "The Elb...

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#157 Rainbow Sor. Prantalay | Profound, Dynamic Basics, Build Your Whole Style (1 hr, 42 mins)

Rainbow is a fighter from the Golden Age. Although (I believe) he didn't win stadium titles, he fought nearly all the top names of the OneSongchai promotion during his time, and after he retired fr...

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Karuhat Update - 2 Weeks Post ACL Reconstruction

Yesterday was very rough in Karuhat's recovery from his ACL reconstruction and MCL repair. We went to get his sutures removed, which went well by itself, but the surgeon demonstrated again this str...

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Karuhat 12 Days Post ACL Surgery - Update

On May 5th, Karuhat underwent an ACL reconstruction and repair on both sides of his meniscus. He stayed in the hospital for 2 nights, for observation but also just to give him around-the-clock care...

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Getting the Legend Karuhat Reconstructive ACL Surgery - taking care

Perhaps there is nothing more significant than the care for legends themselves, in the hope of preserving the legacy of the Muay Thai they created, out of the glory of their bodies, their training ...

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#156 Yodkhunpon "The Elbow Hunter" Sittraipum - 5 | offensive teeping, clinch reversals, elbow defense (1 hr, 28 min)

Learning from the greatest elbow fighter in Thai history.

Those of you who have been patrons for many years will already be somewhat familiar with Yodkhunpon and his terrifyingly smooth M...

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Our manifesto of values

We've been thinking about our values, the things that make all the fighting and training, the writing and the entire Muay Thai Library project so meaningful to us and others, and it felt like a ver...

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#155 - Khaosai Galaxy | Relaxing With Power (72 mins)

Khaosai Galaxy is probably Thailand's most famous boxer, reaching further into renown than any of their lengthy list of boxing World Champio

Khaosai Galaxy is probably Thailand's most famous ...

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#154 Hemrat Chaoraioi at TDet99 | Infinite Training, How To Train in Thailand (1 hr, 24 min)

Kru Hem is on of the head trainers at TDet99, a gambler's gym, a true Bangkok kaimuay, and the gym that serves as the "training camp" for many high-profile stadium fighters and names, incl...

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#153 Noppadet Sor. Rewadee | Muay Dtae, precision femeur kicker (1 hr, 9 min)

You can see Noppadet in our "Jam Session" with Dieselnoi from a few years ago where he acted mostly as an aid to Dieselnoi, but we're absolutely delighted to get Kru Nop's own session and his own b...

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Helping Dieselnoi See - Cataract Surgery a Success!

above, Dieselnoi, one of the greatest fighters in Thai history, hitting his fighter pose in the wa...

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#152 Bangsaen Tor. Kotsan #2 | High Level Ruup & Control Over Space (Boxing & Muay Thai)

This is Bangsaen's 2nd entry into the Muay Thai Library. I recommend watching the first session, but it's not important to see it before this one; you can watch in any order. He was an established ...

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Fight #283 Kard Chuek (Sylvie's Commentary) - full fight

[Kevin writing]

We put all of Sylvie's fights up now with commentary on YouTube, you can see video of (practically) every single fight in her progressively historic career in 2024-12-12 05:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post

If You Are In Northern Bangkok 3 Gyms To Visit

A Trinity of Training Experiences

Often when we film for the Muay Thai Library viewers and students don't really have a sense of the relationship of gyms to each other on the...

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#151 Chatchai Sasakul #5 - Developing Feeling in Hands (Muay Thai & Boxing)

Perhaps the most popular Kru in the entire Library, his teachings can change your Muay Thai (or boxing). It's been more than 3 years since we've had him in the MTL, it was time fo...

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The Most Authentic Muay Thai Gyms in Thailand

Introduction: Why Muay Thai Gym Authenticity?

above, Sylvie fight 284 (274t...

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Old Muay Thai Magazines and Preserving Articles & Photos of Fighters & Krus

 

In my effort to understand and celebrate the great Muay Thai of Thailand's past, I've begu...

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The Virtue of Muay Thai Festival Fighting - fighting within the culture of the art, for and by the Thai people - Fight 282

Kevin writing - Sylvie's full record

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4 Minutes with Chatchai Sasakul - Balance & Power Bringing Boxing to Muay Thai

The next session in the Muay Thai Library will be with Chatchai Sasakul, a legend in the history Thailand's Muay Thai and boxing. A long time fighter in the Golden Age who faced many of the best of...

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Muay Khao Study Notes: The Disappearing Style of Golden Age Muay Thai, Learning from Lamnammoon

 

[Kevin writing...]

These are Sylvie's study notes from her study of Lamnammoon's Muay Khao...

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#150 Lamnammoon Sor Sumalee #2 - Muay Khao Timing (!), Space & Structure (1 hr, 42 min)

Lamnammoon is a young, late Golden Age Legend. He fought incredible battles with top names, the young dao rung "rising star" against established yodmuay. He is a true Muay Kh...

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