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Muay Thai Black Belt

Having the Stomach for Muay Thai

They had no explanation on why I am feeling like this, nor do they know for sure what's wrong with me. But the professional decision was

Our Muay Thai Journeys

Kevin's words struck me hard. In our journey for the penultimate enlightenment of Muay Thai, I forgot that Sylvie and Kevin were both al

The Search For Our Muay Thai Coach

It was so tempting to find people from headlines and billboards. But sometimes, it is better to take a chance on people who have been doing

When Over Confidence Goes Wrong

Taunting, trash talking, rivalries are but a few tools to hype up fights, either to sell tickets, pay-per-views or just gain followership. T

Through the Eyes of Nat #1 - Fighting, Boxing, Muay Thai and the Similarity.

During the fight, the room is pretty much silent. Sum it up, boxing fights allude a tensed and serious atmosphere.

Skipping the Skipping

Where it comes to selling the actual idea of skipping, I am in tension. For starters, I was once like you, frustrated and annoyed at the not

Back to Onyx, 3 months later.

"Stronger!" "Turn your hips more!" "Kick faster!" The instructions came thick and fast, atypical of the Onyx trainers, but my mind was just a hazy blur. I tried my best to make my body obey, fighting through the fog of fatigue and throwing out punches and kicks as commanded, but everything came out 2 seconds slower. "10 kicks!" The staple command that we are all so familiar with, but dread with inevitable fear. I exhaled sharply, placed my left foot forward, and swivelled my

Beating the Fear

In the line of mixed martial arts, there are probably hundreds if not thousands of new budding fighters, all with different styles and attitudes. But one thing that all new fighters will feel regardless of creed or diction, is fear. This fear when mismanaged, can stunt the growth and potential of the fighter; conversely, it can make the fighter stronger than ever before. To me, when I first fought sometime ago, fear was the crippling feeling of dread that wraps its long slend

Losing

Nobody likes losing. But the nature of these sports dictate that there will be either a winner, a loser or worse, a draw. Of course, winning is always very shiok, and nice, but everyone loses. My trainer, Jack (@soonkueh) always tells me, "Some day, some how, a fighter has to lose". Onyx doesn't like losing. But we've had our fair share of losing as well. Sometimes, we lose on points, sometimes, by referee stoppage/KOs. We don't like losing, so we train hard, and we work the

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