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Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

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Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

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Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

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Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai fighters, trainers and promotors. You can find us on Instagram here: The Female Fight Experience Smokin' Joe Bridget ThakrarSmokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar által

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Cheyanne Hunt is a pro Muaythai fighter out of The Iron Fist Gym in the Gold Coast. In this episode Cheyanne chats about her insane daily routine, her progression up and down several weight classes over the years and how her fight style has evolved. Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay…

Brooke is currently living, training, promoting and mumming in Puerto Escondido Mexico along with other half of the Fighting Farrells, Eddie and of course their son Flame. They are, quite frankly an incredible team. They backed themselves to start and subsequently sell a successful gym in their early 20s, and then sold up/packed up and moved to Tha…

Ben Bonafede is a strength and conditioning coach who specialises in supporting combat athletes to perform at their best. His technical knowledge is outstanding; few in the field really understand the methods and techniques for training fighters like Ben does. Listen in for practical tips to build speed, power and performance to help improve your f…

Our very first guest Michelle Russell came back for round 2!!! ⁣Michelle is a pro Muaythai (sometimes MMA) fighter and trainer at The Ring Gym. Michelle is a beautiful fighter with killer instincts in the ring and is just a general superb human. In this ep she chats about her drive to stay busy, what it means to be a role model in the gym and we ri…

We had so many requests for Abby Nelson to come on the pod. She is a head official on IFMA, an executive on the international board, an official on One Championship and many local shows. She’s a trail blazer and role model for women being the first woman in a number of her roles including ring director. Abby gave us the run down on being an officia…

Welcome to the first ep of 2024! This week, we were delighted to be joined by Chloe Dean from Khaoboy Muaythai. ⁣ Chloe was operating on about an hour's sleep when we recorded, and still managed to absolutely blow us away with her motivation, determination and general outlook on life. Chloe shared a pretty dark history pre-Muay Thai. It's a stark d…

Our final pod of the year is our annual Christmas Q&A. Hear our reflections on 2023, lots of pregnancy/training related Q&As and also some live-workshopping of how we plan to improve things for 2024. Thank you so much for the support this year! Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they interview some of Australia's best Muay Thai…

Grace is a PT, gym owner, Mum and pro Muaythai fighter. She has this infectious energy that lights up the room. In this ep we chat about her origins in bodybuilding, crying during sparring and why she always looks so damn happy in fight week. We also had the privilege and honour of her daughter Frankie joining us for this chat. Join hosts Smokin' J…

Helen from ACSA is glowing example of the progression an athlete can make when they follow the pathways we are lucky enough to have here in Australia. From Interclubs to Amateurs, to turning Pro and inspiring the next gen following behind her, Helen keeps levelling up each time she steps in the ring. In this ep Helen chats with us about starting Mu…

This year Kayla Nassis made a decision to defer the final year of her Engineering degree so she can muaythai/eat/sleep/repeat and travel the world. And, can we tell you listeners, she seems pretty stoked with her decision.⁣ Kayla fights out of Sitshoothon under the guidance of Airam. She chats with us about her 10 fights to date, fighting in Thaila…

Our guest this week is Tandia Singleton from Nukzu Muaythai and she has already fought most of our previous Australian guests. Living in Cairns the opportunities aren't as plentiful and Tandia has a habit of saying yes to most chances to fight just to keep her experience ticking up. ⁣ ⁣ In this ep we chat about her modest training facilities above …

Our guest this week is 23 year old Swiss fighter Zoe Neuschwander, currently training out of Phuket Fight Club in Thailand.⁣ With origins in kickboxing, Zoe understands the nuanced difference with Muaythai more than most. After competing/dominating in K1, she crossed codes and has been deliberate in honing her craft ever since. Wanting to give Muay…

Allegra Vickas has always been a competitor, whether that's on the footy field or in her amateur boxing career before she turned her focus to Muaythai at age 31. Allegra is one of those fighters that just loves to bang. She could take or leave the socials, the fanfare, the drop outs, the politics. She's just as happy fighting in front of a handful …

Jordan Bell is the fourth athlete announced in the Infliction 4 Woman coming up in December and the only fighter we hadn't yet interviewed - so we had to sort that out ASAP! Fighting out of Skadi Performance since day one, Jordan chats with us about her immediate love for the sport, the timing of her COVID baby and her recent return to the ring. Jo…

Amanda Juniku from Modern Warrior Muaythai is a different animal these days. A switch has been flipped and she is without doubt in the best shape of her life. She's recently tuned up her nutrition, added boxing to the mix and has her eyes set on fighting abroad. She's coming off the back of a ridiculous win on Eruption Muay Thai which needs to be r…

This week on the podcast is Penny "The Smiling Assassin" Godfrey from Boars Martial Arts. Penny chats with us about her recent fight in New York including the joys of trying to water load on a long haul flight. A hairdresser by day, Penny is by all accounts a very girly girl...with the exception of her love of punching people in the face. Join host…

Amber Kitchen is a One Championship athlete and former WBC National Champion. She recently packed up her life and moved 7 hours away to Leeds to join Bad Company , training under Richard Smith, and boy oh boy can you see the intensity go up to a 12. In this chat Amber shares more on her life growing up living and breathing Muay Thai along with her …

Erin Carter is a pro Muay Thai fighter and coach fighting and training out of World Fitness Cartel Chirnside. At just 25 years old, she has only been in the sport for four years, two of those were through COVID, and she's already had 13 fights (10 amateur, 3 pro) and is currently undefeated. On Oct 14th Erin has a WBC State title fight on the line …

Smilla Sundell from Fairtex is an 18 year old superstar of Muay Thai. She is the current ONE Strawweight Muay Thai World Champion and ONE's youngest ever champion. She has a world title defence lined up with Allycia Rodriguez from Phuket Fight Club on September 29th on a card that is not to be missed. You'll love this chat with Smilla. Join hosts S…

Holly Nguyen is one very tough customer. You may have seen her on Muay Thai League recently where her shoulder popped out mid-fight vs FFE alumni Michelle Russell and this tough biarch just popped that sucker back in and kept on fighting. In this pod Holly shares with us her very rough start in the sport, being severely mis-matched at a very young …

Mr. Bear reads excerpts from The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature, edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart. Discover delightful and informative essays on creating graphic narratives, poetry comics, and literary collage, along with exercises to jump-start your own creative practice! Plus, enjoy a trip to Miss Mousie’s Apothekarium for…

The Queen of Muay Thai, Julie Kitchen joins us this week. She is a now retired, pro Muaythai fighter and 14 x World Champion. While she has hung up the gloves, she's still very involved in the sport commentating, hosting, promoting and also managing her talented daughter Amber Kitchen. Join hosts Smokin' Joe Coverdale and Bridget Thakrar as they in…

Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu has the highest number of pro fights in Thailand of any non-Thai, male or female, in the world. She's an active fighter and long-time documentarian of both her own experiences as a fighter, as well as researching, writing, filming and archiving the history of Muay Thai with focus on the Golden Age (80s-late 90s). She’s a fig…

Mr. Bear reads from Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s stunning book of essays, I’M AFRAID THAT I KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT MYSELF NOW, TO GO BACK TO WHO I KNEW BEFORE, AND OH LORD, WHO WILL I BE AFTER I’VE KNOWN ALL THAT I CAN? Also featuring the music of Awna Teixeira (plus a mini-interview with the artist!) and a trip to Miss Mousie’s Apothekarium for a specia…

We have another killer from across the dutch on the podcast this week, Kaitlyn Tucker from Lucky Nine in Timaru, Aotearoa New Zealand. Kaitlyn has featured in the Australian scene a couple of times recently fighting on Muay Thai Grand Prix and Infliction. On the pod she chats with us about growing up as one of 7 kids, the positive impact she had en…

We are thrilled to bring you our first MMA athlete, Lisa Kyriacou from Absolute MMA. Lisa had an outstanding and composed debut on One Championship recently against a super tough opponent in Nat Wondergirl. She chats with us about and how her shit talking opponents fire her up, what it's like rolling around the ground with a bunch of dudes and her …

Angie Parr is an 8 time USA champion and 2 x world champion, with 47 fights under her belt including 4 boxing matches. She's also the co-owner and trainer at Boonchu Gym and she has a teep that will turn your insides out. Angie chats with us about her busy Muay Thai career, what it's like raising three combat sports obsessed kids, and how she knew …

This one is for the Muay Thai nerds 🤓⁣. Nong Bee chats with us about the ins and outs of reffing, her excellent snappy insta content, the basics she implores every fighter knows and what its like controlling the ring with 90kg fighters. ⁣Bee is jumping in the ring at rebellion_muaythai this week against yet another graduate of the muaythaivictoria …

Mr. Bear reads from A.A. Milne's WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG, short poems and long pauses for your summer enjoyment. Also featuring a sweet song by the talented Dan Nielsen and a quick trip to Miss Mousie's Apothekarium!