Fighters
He fights like someone who memorised the entire Muay Thai textbook and then practised it until it became instinct. Here is the full story of the most exciting young fighter in the sport.
History
Opened in 1945 on a boulevard designed to impress Europeans and make an argument for sovereignty, Rajadamnern is the oldest major Muay Thai stadium in Bangkok. Here is the full story.
Fighters
Saenchai, Buakaw, Rodtang. Three completely different fighters. One thing they all share. An honest account of the names that defined Muay Thai in the era most of us grew up watching.
Training
The gym you start at shapes your first months in the sport. Here is a clear, honest guide to finding the right one, with specific advice for men, women, and children.
Training
Everyone tells you to go. The heat, the gyms, the pace, the transformation. What nobody tells you are the smaller things. Here is what the brochure leaves out.
Training
Every major brand covered, where to buy in Bangkok and beyond, what to avoid, and when to go custom. The guide nobody gives you when you start training.
Gear
Shin guards protect you and your training partners from the accumulated damage of hard kicking exchanges. If you are still working out what else you need before [your first class](/clinch/first-muay-thai-class/), see our full beginner guide. Here is how to choose the right pair and avoid the beginner mistakes that make training unnecessarily painful.
Gear
Do you want to be known as the person at the gym with the smelly mitts? Think carefully. Because every gym has one. Here is how to make sure it is not you.
Gear
Your wrists are the most important thing to protect in Muay Thai training, and the wrap is how you protect them. Here are the main wrapping styles, what each one does, and why the wraps you buy matter.
Technique
One of Muay Thai's best knockout weapons, thrown with a speed and grace that means it has often already landed before you registered the movement. Here is the complete breakdown, the fighters who throw it best, and how to defend against it.
Technique
Every Muay Thai fighter throws the teep. Only a few use it the way Saenchai and Superlek do. Here is what separates a good teep from an exceptional one.
Technique
Most people outside Thailand have never really seen the clinch. Not what it actually is. Here is the third dimension of Muay Thai that beginners miss and champions master.
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