The Arts in This Family
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- Muay Thai: An Instructor's OverviewYour first class ends and your shins are humming. The instructor had you check a kick you barely saw, then showed you w…
- Muay Thai: A Beginner's First 90 DaysThree weeks in, you check a kick the way you were taught and your shin meets his shin with a sound like two pool cues c…
- Muay Thai and Kickboxing: What Actually DiffersThe trial class felt familiar and strange at once. The punches were punches. The kicks were kicks. Then the instructor…
- Shin Pain That Will Not Quit: Conditioning or InjuryIt is your third week of bag rounds. The kru calls for ten rear kicks each side to finish, and somewhere around kick si…
- No Power in the RoundhouseYour kru holds the pads and calls for the rear kick. You throw it the way you have thrown it for a month, stepping in,…
- Checking Kicks Without Eating ThemYour partner sets up behind a jab and throws the rear low kick again. You see it coming this time. You lift your leg, p…
- Clinch Helplessness: Your First Five Seconds After the GrabIt happens in the first clinch round of the month, every month. Your partner steps in off a jab, both hands land behind…
- Hands Down: Why Your Guard Keeps DisappearingYour coach has told you forty times. Hands up. You start every round with them up, high and correct, gloves at your che…
- Your Teep Keeps Getting CaughtOn the bag, your teep (push kick) is a piston. It lands in the middle, shoves the bag back on its chains, and comes hom…
- Range Is Three Fights: The Kicking Game, the Pocket, and the ClinchEvery coach has shouted it: "You're too close for that kick!" — usually half a second before a roundhouse launched from…
- The Southpaw Problem Is a Geometry ProblemEvery orthodox fighter has a southpaw story, and it is always the same shape: the drills were clean, the pad rounds wer…