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Muay Thai Bones Podcast #21 - How to Beat Saenchai, The Magic of Technique, Westerners & Aggression, Namkabuan (1 hr, 40 min) (Patreon)

Published:

2021-01-25 09:58:16

Edited:

2021-02-24 04:09:06

Imported:

2021-08

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Welcome to episode 21 of the Muay Thai Bones podcast. As a patron you get the audio version (above) and the reading notes to all the interesting things that we reference in our talk. We call it the best in-depth Muay Thai podcast in the world, diving down philosophical and historical aspects of the sport. Thank you everyone for supporting this content, hope you enjoy this episode.

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episode 21 - subjects and timestamps (subtract 20 seconds for the audio version)

1. Namkabuan & the fragility of legends (0:20 on video)

2. What does the "magic" of Muay Thai consist of? (27:27 on video)

3. How to beat Saenchai - master of psychology (52:48 on video)

4. The colonialism of aggression (1:14:55 on video)

Reading Notes

1.Namkabuan and the Fragility of Legends

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Namkabuan receiving radiation treatment (above)

it was mentioned that Dieselnoi drove up to see Namkabuan in support, here is a photo of that. Napadej, Dieselnoi, Pudpadnoi & Arjan Pramot, among others.

You can watch Namkabuan in the Muay Thai Library here:

watch the Namkabuan Library session here

Kevin's original description of Namkabuan and the death of his brother Namphon, 4 years ago, recounting the death of Namkabuan's brother:

read it here

(above, Namkabuan's brother Namphon before he passed).

this was a quick video Namkabuan put up with his brother Namphon, before his passing, basically Namphon saying he's taking care of your health: watch it here - you can see how much Namkabuan loves him.

2. The Magic of Thailand's Muay Thai

This is from my study of Karuhat in the Sylvie Intensive series, part of Karuhat's "techne" as a southpaw fighter. Kevin identified 4 internal games Karuhat was teaching:

read the article here: The Secrets of Karuhat’s Style – Four Internal Games From Southpaw

Watch over 30 hours of Karuhat teaching me his style in the Sylvie Intensive. 100% of the proceeds go to the legends in this independent series (separate from Patreon):

watch the series with Karuhat here

Kevin mentions this fight in the "magic" of Thai technique discussion (below)

3. How to Beat Saechai

Sylvie references these two fights as differing opponent tactics and Saenchai responses:

watch the above here

mentioned is Saenchai's fight when he knocked out Kem Sor. Ploenjit (early in his career) with a sweep:

watch it here

the Muay Thai Library session with Khunpinit is referenced in the podcast, an example of how to tension your opponent:

watch it here

4. Westerners, Aggression and Colonialism

read the full "Modernization of Muay Thai Timeline" article here

Understanding the Thai relation of masculinity to violence read this article:

Thai Masculinity: Postioning Nak Muay Between Monkhood and Nak Leng – Peter Vail

a bit more on the self-civilizing movements within 19th century, early 20th century Thailand. The stark gender divisions, which to us feel very "Thai" were likely adoptions of European "civilized" examples: Ka and Krop - Europeans were somewhat horrified by not only topless women, but also the lack of visual distinction between males and females in the common classes.

This session with Arjan Surat is mentioned. After this session Arjan Surat, one of the toughest trainers in Thailand, talked to us about how MMA is not a gentleman's sport, so is unlike Muay Thai: