Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2015 2:02:27 GMT 7
The young fighters were waiting for Frances Watthanaya at the gym when she arrived to start afternoon training. The kids looked agitated; something was wrong. Two of the girls, Min and Bee, ran up to Frances when she crested the dirt hill.
"Ann can't come anymore," they said. "Her father won't let her train. She wants you to go talk to him. Now!"
Frances wasn't totally surprised to hear her Muay Thai student Ann was missing. In Wor. Watthana's two short months of existence, 12-year-old Ann had been one if its most dedicated students, though always against her father's wishes. She had told Frances just a month earlier, "My dad doesn't want me to train because he says I have to help out at home, but I told him if he didn't let me train, I'd drop out of school!" A subversive sparkle had lit up Ann's eyes, and Frances didn't know whether to be proud or concerned.............continues -
fightland.vice.com/blog/just-three-hours-a-day-isaan-girls-and-the-importance-of-muay-thai
"Ann can't come anymore," they said. "Her father won't let her train. She wants you to go talk to him. Now!"
Frances wasn't totally surprised to hear her Muay Thai student Ann was missing. In Wor. Watthana's two short months of existence, 12-year-old Ann had been one if its most dedicated students, though always against her father's wishes. She had told Frances just a month earlier, "My dad doesn't want me to train because he says I have to help out at home, but I told him if he didn't let me train, I'd drop out of school!" A subversive sparkle had lit up Ann's eyes, and Frances didn't know whether to be proud or concerned.............continues -
fightland.vice.com/blog/just-three-hours-a-day-isaan-girls-and-the-importance-of-muay-thai
