MUAY THAI BIBLE EDITORIAL

Muay Thai Bible is written and edited by a small editorial team of practitioners, researchers, and writers. We are not a single-author blog and we do not pretend to be. The byline on every article is the editorial team, which is responsible for the accuracy of what you read.

Most of the team trains Muay Thai actively. Some are professional fighters, some are amateur competitors, some are long-time recreational nak muay. Several have spent extended training stays in Thailand at the camps we cover in the training camp directory. Our backgrounds cover the technical, historical, and cultural dimensions of the sport.

HOW THIS SITE IS RESEARCHED

Every technical claim — how a strike scores, how a technique works, how an injury heals — is checked against multiple primary sources before it goes live. For fighter profiles, we pull from career records, archival fight footage, and interviews. For history articles, we use Thai-language sources where translation is reliable and clearly flag where consensus is contested.

For nutrition, conditioning, and sports medicine, we lean on the published sports science literature and clearly distinguish what is settled from what is folk knowledge or unverified gym lore. When we say something like “shin conditioning takes years, not weeks,” that's a claim we can defend with both the physiology of bone remodeling and the lived experience of long-time nak muay. When we report something contested — like the lineage claims around Muay Chaiya — we state it as contested rather than picking a side.

EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES

• No paid placements. Camps, gyms, and equipment listings are not sponsored. Recommendations reflect what we actually think.
• Honest about uncertainty.Where the evidence is thin or the debate is real, we say so. We don't fabricate certainty.
• Authentic vocabulary.We use the Thai terminology of the sport (mongkol, sok, kao, jai yen, dern, sarama) and explain it. We don't flatten it into Western boxing language.
• Practical over flashy.Content is calibrated to what actually helps a practitioner, not what generates the most clicks. We'll write a 1,500-word teep guide if the teep deserves it.
• Updates over deletes. When the sport changes — new rules at Lumpinee, women admitted to stadiums, new promotions — we update the existing page rather than orphan it.

CORRECTIONS & FEEDBACK

If you find an error — factual, technical, or cultural — we want to know. Use the About page feedback form. Corrections are made publicly and quickly. Anonymous feedback is fine; identified corrections from credentialed fighters and trainers move to the top of the queue.

CONTENT YOU CAN START WITH

If you are new to the site, here is how we suggest exploring:

• The Beginner Guide — start-to-finish first-time orientation.
• The technique encyclopedia — every strike, defense, combination, and counter with visual guides.
• The FAQ — 30+ honest answers to the questions everyone asks.
• The blog — long-form essays on training, fighters, and culture.