25/11/2025
Ok, these are 36 seconds from the worst massage in my life.
To my greatest surprise Chiang Mai is not full of great massages. I haven't been to the posh spas but it has been shocking to me that most massages a normal person can get are actually rubbish. It's a scale of rubbishness but still... I didn't expect that at all.
So what is it that makes a massage a bad one?
1. Repeating the same technique over and over again for 20 minutes.
2. Poor technique - pressing on bones, rubbing skin, twisting the wrong way, overstretching, poking etc.
3. Pressing down too fast and too deep disregarding all signals of unbearable pain coming from your victim.
4. Poor attention or even complete lack of presence and awareness of what you are doing.
Even one of these will greatly contribute to a bad experience for the client. And sometimes you might get all of them in a single treatment!
