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Podcast: Dirty White Belt Radio
Episode: BETA Academy: Nakapan Phungephorn, Laurie Porsch, Luis Candelas
Description: You know Nakapan Phungephorn as a high-level jiujitsu black belt and Muay Thai practitioner, as well as the head of BETA Academy in DC. In three weeks, Nakapan returns to the MMA cage for the first time in 15 years. He talks to us about why he made this decision. about the trip to Thailand in 1994 that jumpstarted his Muay Thai career, about how he got the idea of opening a school from Leo Dalla, about martial arts politics, and why he's stopped eating meat.
Plus, we talk to BETA Academy students about what makes their school a special place to...