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Katie S. is a small Hawaiian-Asian freshman girl who I instruct as co-president of a global martial arts club at my college. Katie has a shocking natural affinity for learning new techniques; she picks up Brazilian Jiu Jitsu like a sponge. However, she is still learning and gets tapped out by more powerful guys who …

Note: In celebration of my blog’s 1-year-anniversary, I’m posting this article that first appeared in MMASS Media Magazine in print. The (uncensored) version of that article below was reprinted with their permission. I once heard somebody say that losing a fight feels like sucking a thousand dicks in front of your mother, on stage. That’s …

The following article was written by my friend Elisa Chan, who trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai Kickboxing, and Krav Maga in Sydney, Australia.  Enter Elisa Chan. From a young age athletes are taught to value the win—to overpower their opponents and bring home a trophy to prove it. The more I compete in Brazilian …

Muscle mass is important for martial artists. Anyone who tells you differently probably thinks Tai Chi is a valid form of self defense. Too little muscle mass and your technique will quickly lag behind as you’re overpowered by a less technical opponent. On the other hand, too much muscle mass means that your heart will …

Before I flew to Thailand to train Muay Thai I spent three months in the University town of Missoula, Montana. While I was there I started training with a group of really chill guys at a place called “Great Northern Fight Club.” After practice one day I noticed a worn out piece of paper on …

Professional Boxing coach Peter Simon visited Tiger Muay Thai as a guest instructor back in March, and the two of us met a couple times to talk about boxing’s role in modern Mixed Martial Arts. Peter’s role at the camp was to teach traditional western boxing for MMA fighters. Boxing for MMA is seeing a …

Clayton Mortensen used to be a skinny bastard. Let me back up a little bit and let him explain that himself though. I’m very excited to bring you another fresh perspective on your quest to become faster, stronger, and more effective in your combat sport of choice. This weekt’s topic will be mass gaining, and …

I wrote an entire article about the nuances of elephant riding and the way that I came about making this video, but the entire text was lost, so instead I will post the video as is and let it speak for itself. This video was shot before Phi Phi. In ten minutes I’m leaving to …

Editor’s Note: Newly contributing author Heather Michael wrote a great reflection on the ways we react to tragedies like concentration camps, tsunamis, or more specifically, the beating of five young tourists. Her words have helped me put my own thoughts in perspective, so I asked her to write up this article. Reflections on Viktor Frankl, …

It’s been a week since I witnessed the beatings of five tourists by the Phi Phi police. Since then my eyewitness account has gained international attention through the media and this blog. Believe me when I say I look forward to the day when I can put that tragic night behind me, but that time …

If you are one of the victims, PLEASE CONTACT ME ASAP. Until I’ve accounted for everyone I will not let up the search. Just tell me you’re safe and what happened after the police separated us. If you need help I can still direct people to come find you. Like I told you that night, …

I recorded this video after I got home from my first fight to document the moment (because even in my worst states I’m taking notes… it’s just the way I work). I’ve already written about my thoughts on the fight extensively, including the fight footage, but I wanted to share this with everyone. It’s completely …

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video (below) is worth ten thousand. This is a video of one of my good friends, Nus from Australia, getting a traditional bamboo tattoo by the artist “Master Oh” who teaches Muay Boran and Krabi Krabong at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket, Thailand. I have a …

I’ll get to the cockroaches bit in a minute (actually it wasn’t a cockroach, more like a flying preying mantis, but you say tow-mah-to I say tow-may-to, yeah?) Just scroll down if you want the gory details. I took 3rd place in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tournament hosted by EMAC in Bangkok. Bangkok was a …

If you’re a gym manager then this is the page you’re looking for. Fighters: I provide cost effective, HD video footage of your fights, training, and a personal interview. My last project with Ray Elbe of Tiger Muay Thai brought in over 1,000 unique page views in the first week it was published, back when …

Nobody likes a loser. Especially poor losers. I am neither, which is why I won’t make any excuses about why I lost my match against Chris Eleftheriou from Australia at the Tiger Muay Thai BBQ Beatdown 34. He trained hard for the fight, I trained hard for the fight. I uploaded a video of my …

Less than two hours ago I lost my first fight at Tiger Muay Thai. I pushed hard from the first bell, maybe too hard, too wild. Dropped my hands, pushed him against the ropes, clinched up and threw knees. All it took was a couple well placed hooks and uppercuts and I was thrown against …

The fight takes place on Saturday night, February 26th (in Thailand, 15 hours ahead of PST) as part of Tiger Muay Thai’s “BBQ Beatdown/Smoker Fights” series. It will be my first Muay Thai fight ever.

This video documents my second private lessons with Tiger Muay Thai trainer “Max.” I ate too much spicy Tom Kha the night before and had to run off to the bathroom a few times. My toes are blistered raw from the mats and as you can see I did my best to tape them up. Australian fighter Elisa Chan is around to commentate. I’m going to miss her featuring in my videos; she flew back to Oz this week.

Guest reporter Elisa Chan spars Krabi Krabong with Tiger Muay Thai instructor Yogi Simon, then asks him about the differences between Muay Boran and modern Muay Thai, the utility of knife fighting, and the adventures that led him to Phuket.

Ray Elbe is not a man easily captured in words. We had a chance to sit down for an interview in Tiger Muay Thai’s MMA cage after one of the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practices he ran last week. Ray was composed and at ease speaking into the camera as I kneeled in the center of the ring trying not to drip sweat from my own forehead onto the lens.

This www.millerwilliamsaction.com video takes you along with me and some of my fighter friends at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket as we go on a hunt for creepy crawlies for dinner at the Chalong Temple Market. Not for the faint of heart– graphic footage of squirting bug juice with crunchy sound effects that will make you cringe.

The five most important bargaining strategies I’ve learned so far:

1) Immediately frown and shake your head at the vendor’s initial price. Really get into the acting aspect of the entire exchange–it can be fun and most vendors have a good sense of humor about it.

2) By default, automatically counter-offer at 50% of the price they’re asking.

3) Keep the bargaining cheerful and friendly but make it clear you don’t mind walking away from the negotiation.

4) Use the words “Discount,” “Too expensive,” and “Bargain” liberally.

5) Try walking away if the vendor isn’t budging. They’ll often call you back with a lower price. If they don’t, check another vendor’s price or come back in a few minutes and try again.

The word “ravenous” usually implies hunger for food, but in this case it became quite clear that for Farangs, these Thai cab drivers had a different kind of hunger—the hunger which we know all too well in the world of Western Capitalism. The kind of hunger which only grows with each feeding. That is to say, money hunger.

Have you ever had an anaconda–the biggest snake of all the big ass snakes, which is capable of swallowing entire gazelles in the wild–open its jaws just inches from your genitals? I didn’t think so.

Bibimbap is a delicious Korean food that literally means mixed meal because it is a mix of rice, vegetables, chili pepper paste and meat. I learned that the “mixing” is essential because when the woman sitting next to me on my flight to Korea saw my pathetic attempt at mixing it myself, she took the bowl from me and spent a good three minutes meticulously stirring the ingredients together. After she was done the bibimbap was much tastier.

Miller Williams December Highlights from Miller Williams on Vimeo. Enjoy the video featuring the Miller Men snowboarding/skiing trip at Winter Park in Colorado and various other stuff I did during the month of December in Missoula, Montana. Miller

A young girl, 18 maybe, steals glances at me from behind The American Pageant, and finally she tells me that her name is Emma. Well, that’s not my real name, she admits, chewing on her nails one at a time. I ask her how she can read about American History at five in the morning and she smiles, revealing an orange bottle of Adderal in her Coach purse. Emma wants to curate the Smithsonian, I learn. She’s going to Stanford in the fall. The other girls sprawl out on leather Laz-E-Boy’s while chain smoking and sipping diet coke. They each have stories, lives, and ambitions beyond undressing for truckers. Just another night at Pussycats.

This is more or less the answer I’ve been giving people. I’ll say “that’s easy,” and as you look into my eyes you might miss the betraying flash of emotions. I’ll say “I like to feel alive and fighting makes me feel alive,” and as I look at you I might recognize a familiar flash of confusion, disgust even. I’ll say “wanna see me light my hand on fire?” in an attempt to slap your mind into forgetting the exchange we just had long enough for me to avoid the inevitable follow up questions that harass me as I rest my head each night, yet cannot answer for myself, let alone for you. Then I might light my hand on fire, because I like doing things that sound like a bad idea, and my knuckles are kinda hairy anyways.

These people, my parents, had actually disagreed so often and so vehemently that my dad wouldn’t sign the dotted line on my birth certificate to give me a name, so they ended up not giving me a first name, which resulted in the hilarious mish-mash of last names, “Miller Williams.” I couldn’t help cracking a joke that would make them both squirm. This has been fun—maybe next time we can go to Disneyland together.

I also like to win. And dominate. So does that make me a spineless shark looking for a quick ego fix? Of course not, a shark without a spine is really just a jellyfish. It’s a legitimate question that not enough guys ask themselves, though. Each time I face someone I know is more technical than me I am scared but also excited. And I feel more down to earth, more humble afterwards. It teaches me that I am but a speck in this large universe—something that can be easy to forget at the height of male testosterone intoxication.