The Two Ladies in the Kingdom Podcast is now available on itunes!
Emma and I decided to try out a monthly podcast (above). We chat together on a regular basis and keep each other up to date on the fighters we both follow, which tend to be the fighters around our weight but also the well-known names that expand beyond our own possible opponents. We both share our experiences of living, training, fighting and in Emma’s case working as a teacher in Thailand on our respective pages and blogs (Under the Ropes FB and blog; Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu – Muay Thai FB, and 8limbs.us blog, videos, etc.) It seemed like a reasonable enough aim to do a podcast where we could talk about women in Muay Thai, experiences of living and fighting here in Thailand, what’s going on in the fight scene out here and try to answer some questions or give our insight into topics submitted by our current readers. There are a lot of podcasts out there, but I don’t know of any that are hosted by women fighters in Thailand.
Below is my introduction to the podcast, Emma’s blog post on it is here.
As our first attempt, I feel it went quite well. My biggest worry was that Emma and I would actually just gab the way we do casually, which is fun for us of course. I definitely think we can tighten things up a bit and, as an avid podcast listener, you’d think I would be more keen to the format of introducing all your topics to listeners, but we did rattle off quite a few names and discuss “current events” without giving proper introduction to what and who we were talking about. So, definitely taking note to be more careful and complete in the next go, but I’ll do my best to supply that information in this post so that listeners have a kind of “footnotes.”
The podcast can be downloaded or listened to above, at article top, and it’s been submitted to itunes and should be available for subscription there soon. Below is also is the video version of our podcast, via Skype, if you want to look at our talking heads – the audio is a touch out of sync, we’ll work on it!:
We’re still hammering out the process and I suspect that will continue to be the case as we go along, but the good news is that it was fun to do and I think the first shot turned out well for a debut podcast. Your suggestions and comments are welcome, and we’d love to get your questions or any topics you want covered in future episodes. You can comment on this blog post, you can send us private messages on either FB page, and you can email me at [email protected]
This Podcast’s Theme
A revisit to the idea of “Gym Hopping,” as it’s become a bit of a hot topic again as of late. Emma wrote a post for her blog a couple years back on “Gym Hoppers and the Importance of Loyalty in Muay Thai,” (written 2 and a half years ago) in which she criticizes a type of person who flits around from gym to gym or moves on without ever trying to stick things out, specifying that this type quickly criticizes their “old’ gym and often doesn’t offer thanks or credit for what they gained before moving on. That sounds irritating, and it is, but quite a few people who read the post disagreed with the title (it would seem) and defended moving between gyms to gain more experience,
