Muay thai camps in thailand

draylander

I know that this is going to be a question that has come up in the past and will probaly come up again but for now i would appreciate any help you can give.
I want to head over to thailand around july, august and Im looking for a gym to train in. Can anyone recommend a good gym and could you give me info about prices and the areas etc..
Any feedback would be great
Thanks

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draylander wrote: »

I know that this is going to be a question that has come up in the past and will probaly come up again but for now i would appreciate any help you can give.
I want to head over to thailand around july, august and Im looking for a gym to train in. Can anyone recommend a good gym and could you give me info about prices and the areas etc..
Any feedback would be great
Thanks

Don't worry about old questions popping up again, we don't hammer people over the head about the search function.

We have a few M.T. fighters here who have trained in Thailand, who I'm sure will be more than willing to help you.

chprt

Nana plaza


best place to learn in thailand for sure:)

corkthai

depends,

do you want proper serious no fun training ? or do you want a bit of training and a bit of a holiday ?

hard core - living in camp, training twice a day , stick to bangkok.

Some training some beach , some nightlife, go to the islands, koh samui , phuket etc.

Ill give my two opinions of gyms ive been too.

1) WPT gym Bangkok - great for techique, one fo the best trainers in pimu
2) Jittis Gym Bangkok, good gym, lots of foreigners, a lot of english lads go to this gym

3) Muay thai plaza Bangkok (near lumpini) I enjoyed this gym. Great all round but cant stay in the camp

4) Rompo Bangkok - get to stay in the hotel above the gym and is not too far from sukhimvit road.

If you go to the islands i suppose you could try the WMC gyms in koh samui. good training there...well depends who is around really.

Ive only trained a few days in phuket , tiger seemed ok, sinbi , rawai same..did not like the falangs telling me how they had just fought last night and knocked the thai out, yet they ran out of breath after one round on the pads.

Are you training now ?? which club in Eire ?

Khannie

Corkthai summed it up nicely there. I would say it's worth using the search function to go back through threads though. There has been some good advice handed out over the years.

chupasart.com wrote: »

Nana plaza


best place to learn in thailand for sure:)

I think we've all learned a few things there alright.

DTB

If your in pattaya try RMB gym,real good pad men the best i have had this trip.I was in jittis today,just watching trainning looks class,gona give it a go tomorow.

martinh

hey darren when you back fancy a trip to rome italy looking for a girl fighter for italy 3weeks.ive a few going but havent the girl fighter.

martin

draylander

Thanks for all the replys so far. trying to work out how much im going to have to spend so still looking at gyms and accommadation and ...well everything involved! Thinking too hard = headache

comikbookguy

try www.muaythailand.com very good site loads of info might help you choose

_oveless

Something I've never understood was, with Dutch Thai boxing gyms being of such high standard, why not go to Holland instead? It's cheaper to get to and a lot less risky.

Khannie

Risky in what way like? I've never felt safer abroad than in Thailand. Lovely people. So many advantages to going there versus Holland. Better training. Warmer. Cheaper. Lady boys. etc. etc.

Dave Joyce

Dutch Thai boxing gyms being of such high standard

Well IF you are talking in Muaythai terms, they would be far from what they once were and lacking in a LOT of areas. K1 seems to be far more favourable in Holland at the moment.

chprt

I disagree


I think the training in holland is every bit as good.

when you go to thailand unless you get into a good gym, one that your going to fight out of, its just about making you hit hard pads and then you collpase and they move onto another paying victim...

Most camps people go to..."most" are for tourists so they dont correct anything in your technique, but just let you take loads of photos with them so you can stick them up on your face book page to look cool to the mates...

How many lads have went off to Thailand and came back from training there a million times better... very few in my opinion, they might be fitter and slightly stronger in the grapple, but again in my opinion thats about it. when you go there you have the time to train twice a day, where here with you job n all lifes hassles you dont get that time....


Now I am not saying holland is the answer but in my opinion its a closer cheaper more learning focussed more european apporach to thai and thai training and thai fighting.

Someone who I trust like a brother told me once... "your not a thai so dont ****ing stand there trying to fight like one" the dutch like to move a bit more and focus more on hitting and moving some thing that works well in eire and the uk, unless you get a bad company or tony myres lad to fight

My lads have yet to go to thailand and i hope they dont go there for training, you can train every bit as hard in ireland as you can in thailand you just have to find the time in your day for it

In my opinion if you want to holiday and train a bit thailand is for you


if you want to spend a year fighting, get a good gym in thailand n away you go

if you want 2 spend to weeks and get marked results in your fightin grooves... head to holland


did the dutch not prove what they can do in Slamm 5 recently... dont forget that please


paddy


ps i aint an expert by any means its just my opinion... if you want an expert answer ask Khannie... ahem ahem

_oveless

Khannie wrote: »

Risky in what way like? I've never felt safer abroad than in Thailand. Lovely people. So many advantages to going there versus Holland. Better training. Warmer. Cheaper. Lady boys. etc. etc.

Well there is the civil unrest that has been ongoing for some time now, things could get better or they could get a lot worse. Apart from that though the main concern would be health as temprature/humidity, local environment, food water etc. can cause a lot of problems for europeans. I think a quick flight to holland where the muay thai and kickboxing is world class makes more sense.

Dave Joyce

did the dutch not prove what they can do in Slamm 5 recently... dont forget that please

Granted Paddy, BUT that's just Dekkers/Sprong and the guys who want to fight PROPER Thai rules and THEY are in the minority over there. Most Dutch camps won't fight with elbows and hardly want to fight with clinch (ala K1). Secondly, they don't exactly embrace the whole aspect of Muaythai (Wai Kru/Ram Muay), but I guess it depends on which side of THAT arguement you come down on.

I do see where you're coming from in terms of guys going off for 2 weeks to Thailand, training in a "famous" camp and thinking they know ALL about Muaythai, then yes 2 weeks in Holland would proberly do them better, BUT do they understand the ART of Muaythai any better??? Guarantee the Dutch will enforce the thinking that you HAVE to be Thai to win in Thailand cause they don't bother their asses to really understand the scoring. Don't know how many times I've Dutch guys think they won fights cause they were more aggressive, boxed/kicked more and still lost while their opponent was actually scoring Thai style.

where the muay thai and kickboxing is world class makes more sense.

Ahhh, now that makes sense now.

foams

chupasart.com wrote: »

did the dutch not prove what they can do in Slamm 5 recently... dont forget that please

Bovy and Anuwat both lost but are shot fighters and are just coming to europe to pick up there retirement fund. yodsanklai and Saiyok both won.

_oveless

Has there been a large scale shift from Thai to K1 in Holland?

comikbookguy

lots of gyms in Holland now almost exclusively K1 style, also not too many gyms there will train 2 x day or at least will only allow strangers, guests to train in the evening, Siam Warriors recent show in feb or march was a very good display of the clash of styles between dutch and thai style, good level dutch guys all except one soundly beaten by thai stlyle fighters from Siam Warriors, Josh Palmer v Angelo Wilkes and Shane Cadogan v Illyas el Haj great examples of this

comikbookguy

foams wrote: »

Bovy and Anuwat both lost but are shot fighters and are just coming to europe to pick up there retirement fund. yodsanklai and Saiyok both won.

very true they are shot , would be interesting to see the real on form top operators from both countries challenging each other

jimmay

corkthai wrote: »

depends,

do you want proper serious no fun training ? or do you want a bit of training and a bit of a holiday ?

hard core - living in camp, training twice a day , stick to bangkok.

Some training some beach , some nightlife, go to the islands, koh samui , phuket etc.

Ill give my two opinions of gyms ive been too.

1) WPT gym Bangkok - great for techique, one fo the best trainers in pimu
2) Jittis Gym Bangkok, good gym, lots of foreigners, a lot of english lads go to this gym

3) Muay thai plaza Bangkok (near lumpini) I enjoyed this gym. Great all round but cant stay in the camp

4) Rompo Bangkok - get to stay in the hotel above the gym and is not too far from sukhimvit road.

If you go to the islands i suppose you could try the WMC gyms in koh samui. good training there...well depends who is around really.

Ive only trained a few days in phuket , tiger seemed ok, sinbi , rawai same..did not like the falangs telling me how they had just fought last night and knocked the thai out, yet they ran out of breath after one round on the pads.

Are you training now ?? which club in Eire ?

Hi,

I'm also planning on heading over to Thailand soon to do some training. At the moment the only martial arts experience I have is some boxercise classes however I am more interested in the general fitness itinerary experience (running/weights/fighting technique/healthy eating etc.) than to attempt to be the next Bruce Lee! I would be quite fit however and would take it seriously and want somewhere professional with decent facilities.

I'm hoping to train from start of June for about 6-8 wks, then chill out and meet up with friends/travel around for 4-6 wks after.

I'm looking to be close to beach so it seems more tropical and I can feel more relaxed during my training days. Initially I was thinking Phuket however I am slightly put off from reading that it's the worst area for the rain, the most expensive in Thailand and also quite sleazy due to the sex trade?

Which gym looked the best set-up in Phuket? I suppose everyone looks for different things and I could always just visit each of them but I was hoping to try and organise something beforehand. Also I hadn't considered Koh Samui and there isn't as much info on the WMC site as the ones in Phuket.

Would appreciate any suggestions/info.