Memories form Bangkok December 2015: Recently we saw young Rolex Sitsongpeenong get a KO win at Lumpinee over a vastly more experienced, and older, opponent who had never been knocked out before. Rolex has just turned 17 and is an incredibly gentle and smart young man, who really impressed me...
One of my goals when I opened Jax Muay Thai five years ago was to take a team to the Thai Boxing Association’s Muay Thai World Expo. It’s North America’s longest running and largest amateur Muay Thai tournament, with 800-plus fighters representing more than 200...
Are you a fighter or a martial artist? I’ve been thinking about this question for a couple of decades, but I’ve only recently started trying to articulate it. Martial arts have been an integral part of my life for so long that it’s just part of...
Mental Training for Martial Arts—The Missing Link! In the six years since starting JMT and becoming a full-time coach, I’ve learned that mental training is probably the most neglected aspect of martial arts for most students. Ironically, it’s probably the element of martial arts that can...
What a year 2019 was for JMT and I know that it was just the start of fantastic things to come in 2020. We started the year off with a trip to Boston in the middle of a Blizzard for Austin to fight and beat one of...
What better time to train than now? For many of us facing social isolation this is the perfect opportunity to practice more. This extra time is a gift. It’s what many of us have secretly been asking for. Hours without distractions, no frustrating commute, no colleagues...
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela Our teammate, coach and friend Omar Lee was involved in a single...
I’d planned to write this post a few months ago. With the start of the year, we had been getting a lot of new members coming into Jax Muay Thai. As we chatted about the JMT curriculum and choice of classes, I found myself verbalizing...
If youth is wasted on the young, I have to admit I was the poster child as far as martial arts training goes. Pursuing a passion when you are young is one thing, but obsessively overtraining is quite another. That was me. About 10 years...
