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November 13, 20180poi notes is a coach’s perspective series written by James Poidog, you can find other articles in the series here: poi notes Like Oil on Water 4 minute preview here – A couple things that are present through out this Intensive session and are immediately apparent are 1) balance being the most important thing and 2) actively using that balance vs passively. In the very beginning there is a sequence where Yod is correcting Sylvie on blocking in vs back; meaning that when checking a kick to stand in... -
October 4, 2018a new series of study articles examining the full-length sessions in the Intensives, written by James Poidog Yodkhunpon: The Unrelenting Pressure of The Oceanic Tide of Thailand Tidal Wave-: something overwhelming especially in quantity or volume-Merriam Webster dictionary definition Yodkhunpon is know by his fight name The Elbow Hunter. An apt name for a man who finished countless nak muay (muay Thai fighters) by one of the signature weapons of a Thai boxer- the elbow. Watch two of his fights in the Day 1 article here. To say that this... -
July 20, 2018Time to become a Yodkhunpon Sittraipum, “Elbow Hunter of 100 Stitches” fan, if you aren’t already! The Sylvie Study Intensive project, as you know, has thus far been devoted to the 30+ day intensive study of the fighting style of legendary Golden Age fighter Karuhat Sor. Supawan. The idea of the Intensive, and of this website, is to provide deep study of many styles and techniques, as well as offering those study videos on Demand to help funnel money towards the legends themselves. It’s an attempt to create a...
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November 4, 2018Last night Sylvie came home from her regular training at her gym, Petchrungruang here in Pattaya, and she was in the aftermath of a kind of realization. These times when she comes home are always full of animation, as... -
October 16, 2018a new series of study articles examining the full-length sessions in the Intensives, written by James Poidog Clairvoyant: having the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision. There’s a theme that happens organically in everyone of Sylvie’s Intensives. These themes are brought about naturally by the golden... -
July 15, 2018The video clip above is talking about the Thai concept of “yohm” (ยอม), which means to “submit to” or “allow” something, and how it helps describe the Golden Age style of fighting. Karuhat’s style is characterized by “mai yom”,...
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How to Stand – Listening to the Music and Not the Words
November 4, 2018Last night Sylvie came home from her regular training at her gym, Petchrungruang here in Pattaya, and she was in the aftermath of a kind of realization. These times when she comes home are always full... -
On Continuity – The Fighter Submerged in Being
May 28, 2018This may be something of a more esoteric Training Notes entry, but its ideas I’ve been working on and somewhat expressed in my discussion/interview vlog with Sylvie on the principle of Continuity. Continuity is perhaps the... -
The Art of Making Tea and the Battlefield – Components of Technique
April 18, 2018I’m not sure where I heard this – or in fact if I heard it from somewhere – so I’m going to treat it as my own because these thoughts come regularly to me as I...
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May 16, 2018This training vlog is not my usual ramble into the camera by myself, because I’m rambling into the camera as part of a discussion with my husband Kevin about some of the deeper soils we’ve been uncovering in this 6 weeks of my intensive training with Karuhat. Within the first couple weeks, Karuhat took a major leap in how he’s been instructing me. Not in method, really, but he’d been giving me little games to play and focus on in our long sparring sessions and I’d been improving as... -
May 13, 2018Above is my 7th training vlog in the Intensive series, just a day like all the rest, but somehow I seemed to reach a point where I just came over the hill. These 6 weeks have tested me in all the areas I am weak, but it has been making me strong, and somehow today, just a few hours ago, I came on out on the other side. It wasn’t a big revelation, it was just a feeling I got in shadowboxing. I liken it to glimpsing the shore.... -
May 7, 2018In this vlog – the podcast version is here for download – I start discussing a realization I had about what I’m calling Muay Thai literacy. There is not only the reaching for the meaning of particular words (knowing the right ‘move’ to make under certain circumstances), but there is also the forcing of your opponent into the circumstances that you want. For me this explains a bit of my growing frustration with myself as I’ve always felt a beat behind with Karuhat, as if I’m struggling to find... -
April 14, 2018Above is my 35 minute vlog on how training is going, and the particular kind of breakthrough I’ve come on, just in the last two days. I’ve struggled quite a bit pushing through all the extraordinary instruction I’ve been getting from both Chatchai and Karuhat, complicated by the fact that I’ve just been sick with fever and infection. Finally recovered I’m starting to see the light in my training too. I talk especially about how I’ve begun to flow with Karuhat and how doing voiceover has helped me get... -
April 8, 2018my post-training vlog #2. In this vlog I talk a little about how I’m gaining feeling for Chatchai’s weight-transfer, especially on the jab. Previously, in a more beginner stage, the transfer was almost entirely onto the back foot, but in this session I started to feel how it also is on the front foot a little, in a kind of tension. And Karuhat couldn’t make our last session so this morning he gave me about 2 hours of continuous sparring and teaching through sparring, which is his method. So... -
April 3, 2018Vlog from the 1st completely full day of training. Today, the first day, was a tad overwhelming. We had already proposed a very tight schedule for myself including all the time needed for voiceover, editing and uploading and it all got thrown out of whack as after my morning session with Chatchai, as Karuhat had trouble with the taxi and was about 2 hours late. This meant so much shadowboxing while I waited, which probably was a good thing, but it also meant that I was going from about...
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Time to become a Yodkhunpon Sittraipum, “Elbow Hunter of 100 Stitches” fan, if you aren’t already! The Sylvie Study... -
This is a companion piece to the Samson Isaan Muay Thai Library session which can be seen in its... -
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