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Jeff told me that he had been planning a big, three-month endeavor to Thailand. He read books about Buddhism and travel during lulls while we waited for the next frame to arrive. He told me about the culture, land, people, and scenery, and about Muay Thai. I was mesmerized by a world so different from the one we were used to, which consisted of work, my beautiful wife (fiancée-to-be at the time, who kept me sane), television, and the incessant day-in, day-out cycle. Here was something new and revitalizing, something that captured my imagination, and I ran with it a mile a minute. He told me about his plans for a trip into the jungle where he would ride elephants, ride down the river on floats constructed of bamboo, and reach an Indian village that 99.9% of the outside world had never ventured to.

He then started to tell me about Muay Thai, the art of eight limbs, where you may box or kick box, and if that is not enough, you can use your sharp elbows and knees to release a melee of strikes on your opponent. He told me that Muay Thai originated in Thailand and that kids, bred to be fighters, could have over 100 fights already under their belt by the age of fifteen!