Hard Knock Life

Another Olympics come and gone, watching the boxing and the TKD, you can’t help wonder when they’re going to implement electronic scoring. There were so many shady calls.   I saw a clip on tv, where this inventor has essentially fitted sensors in the gloves and body armor… any blows that have enough force behind them will register.  Seems like a no brainer.

If and when Muay Thai does make it into the Olympics where going to run into the same issues with judging.  Anyway, I don’t want to get side tracked this post isn’t about the scoring or judging.

Big Congrats to Somjit and Manus for securing some bling for the Kingdom. One fighter who won’t sharing the spotlight is Amnat Ruenroeng.  Despite losing in the quarter finals, I find his story more compelling then any gold medal.  I wanted to share this article from the Bangkok post with you guys.  You can read the original article here.

I’m a huge sucker for these types of stories, anyway a huge congratulations to Amnat for making it as far as he did.  I hope good things can happen for him. Read more

Shooting for 2016

Let the Push begin!

So it’s no secret that the folks at the IMF and WMC have been lobbying for this for a while. It looks like they’re coming down the marketing home stretch. One of the primary goals of the WMC since it was established in 1995 was to get Muay Thai into the Olympic Games.

The committee has been trying to drum up support internationally for quite some time. The world championships are a direct result of this effort. Read more