Mariana de Lira is a Mexican Muay Thai fighter training under Carlos Singto Navarro at Baan Singto Muay Thai gym in Guadalajara. Mariana de Lira's stats: Record: 11-1 Fight Weight: 55 KG Legal Name: MARIANA DE LIRA ROSALES Fight Name: FURIA Date Of Birth: 24/01/1986 Please tell us about your Muay Thai history. I started training Muay Thai about 5 years ago. I just got to some MMA gym because a friend told me just to go to exercise ourselves. I trained very irregularly in that gym. Then I started listening to comments of one particular Muay Thai professor Carlos Navarro. Good comments and also comments about … [Read more...]
Work Less, Live More: On Moving To Tulum, Mexico
I met Bronwyn within a year of moving to Toronto over a decade ago. At the time she had recently returned from living in Korea. As long as I've known Bronwyn, she's remained untamed which qualifies her as a perfect candidate for an MBSB interview. What made you choose the expat life? I'm not sure I chose this life or it chose me yet. I do know that life "back home" did not fit with my philosophy of how I wanted to live. Why Tulum, Mexico? I was planning a cross country move when I made a brief yet life changing visit to the Mayan riviera. I sat there looking at the sea and it dawned on me that although Vancouver had water and a natural … [Read more...]
Full Circle Cuba – Returning To The Roots Of My Nomadic Life.
Four days ago sand filtered between my toes in Jibacoa, Cuba. Nine days ago lightening hit and blasted my ears in a boxing ring in Havana. Eleven days ago I said good-bye to my roommate in Toronto's Bloor West Village. Today I'm writing you from a new Toronto neighbourhood. A new home. A new landscape to dig deep into. It seems fitting that dancehall from a parked car mingles with the clicking of the keyboard as I write you. Tasting the sunshine in a downtown lush backyard is a rare event for me in Toronto. Over ten years of my life spent here within the past fifteen and this feels decadent. The decision to travel to Cuba was spontaneous. An invite from a … [Read more...]
Muay Thai Mexico: An Interview With Carlos Singto Navarro
Carlos Singto Navarro is a Muay Thai fighter, teacher and owner of Baan Singto in Guadalajara, Mexico. You can read his guest post on MBSB discussing Muay Thai, rebellion, self realization and the art of life here. Carlos Singto Navarro's stats: Record: 15-3 Fight Weight: 61.200 kg / 135 lbs, lightweight Legal Name: Carlos Arturo Navarro Macías Fight Name: Singto Sitmonchai Date Of Birth: 26. 04. 78 Please tell us about your Muay Thai history. My first contact with Muay Thai was in the year 1998 in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. Before my initial encounter I used to practice other martial arts such as Hap Ki … [Read more...]
Muay Thai – An Essay By Carlos Navarro Of Baan Singto
The following is a guest post by Carlos Navarro of Baan Singto Muay Thai gym in Guadalajara, Mexico. Note: I met Carlos while training at Sitmonchai Gym in 2011. I noticed Carlos upon my arrival to Sitmonchai amongst the other Foreign nak muays but what perhaps marks the moment that he truly stood out to me was the following: Carlos was sitting one the edge of one of the two rings at Sitmonchai watching a Foreigner shadow box. He stood up and showed the boxer how to follow through on a left hook. That was it. That was the initial defining moment for me. It was in that moment that I realized I could see myself train under … [Read more...]
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