if you're interested in doing a muay thai training camp specifically here in thailand
then this is the video for you i'm currently here at rawai muay thai training
camp it is in khao lak which is a beautiful town in the province of pangna in southern
thailand and by the end of this video you'll know not just a little bit more about
muay thai but exactly what it's like when you do a muay thai training camp in thailand and all
of the beautiful experiences that come with it this is going to be a great video so
strap in roll the intro and when we get back we'll be doing our first lesson
and learning a little bit about muay thai my name is paddy doyle and this is my little
honda dream and welcome to next level adventures right now we are attempting to visit
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incredible country together okay welcome now it's the middle of the day okay so everybody
is napping and getting out of the heat because normally the trainings are in the morning the
afternoon and you can do additional one-on-one lessons now the way this video is going to work
is firstly let me just show you around the camp so you can expect to know what you get for your
money because basically everything is inclusive right your accommodation the facilities the gym
the muay thai training the incredible location so yes let's talk about the accommodations
when you sign up to a muay thai training camp your accommodation is included and it's not too
shabby you basically get your own room but apart from having a really big comfortable bed a smart
tv an outside balcony to dry your clothes and your workout and stuff you also have a kitchen
full fridge freezer microwave sink pots and pans so you can take care of your own diet you can buy
your own ingredients from the supermarket down on the beach and just take care of your own nutrition
being able to make yourself feel at home is really important because you might be here for weeks
maybe months it really depends on yourself so the accommodation was quality okay we're about to
start our uh first group training and uh they're coming any minute starts at four and it's so less
than ten minutes so what i thought i would do is walk around the gym and show you a little bit
more in detail what there is here so there's 15 of these bad boys punch bags and they go all the way
down actually there's even more there's probably 25 because there's even more on the other side
and then in the middle there are four full-size rings with boxing gloves and plenty of pads and
i'm going to go over here because it looks like there's a gym as well yes there is a huge gym here
light air con lots of machines lots of weights and the the people who are going to be training
in the group session uh five of them are girls and then there's a couple of guys that i've seen and
one of the interesting stories i was speaking to a girl last night she's from holland and she just
flew all the way here and she's quitting drinking she's eating healthy and she's just training for
a month and because she just told me she can only focus really on her health and on her mind when
she's away from work when she's away from home so she's flown here and she's yeah she's killing
it she did two training sessions last night went for a run this morning went for a training
session again this morning so these girls are extremely passionate and the guy who's here
as well they're extremely passionate about fitness about muay thai about losing weight about
getting technically good some of these people are professionals that train here full time so that's
going to be great to learn from them to look at their technique and copy them and uh what else
have we got here yeah previous travelers who've come here trained here and then gone on to
fight and win their own professional bouts okay that was a quick look around the gym and shortly after it was time
for the training to begin we started off with just a few bits of running
skipping and stretching just to get warmed up i can't even skip okay warm up complete wraps complete and now uh
we're just gonna i don't know what we're gonna do and because it was my first training session
the trainer wanted to just test my knowledge on boxing if i had any so he asked me
to throw a jab a hook and an uppercut low kick high kick and then he
taught me some extra moves okay i'm straight in the ring apparently so we're going
to do some shadow boxing and he's got the pads you will sweat buckets it is an absolute guarantee
here at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in southern thailand and i was having so much fun and the
best part is everyone else around you is all in it together and everyone's at different levels there
are absolute amateurs and beginners just like me there are people who are out here training
semi-professionally even professionally but together as a group we all just i don't know
there's a sort of camaraderie there's a real sense of togetherness and a real sense of motivation and
it's it's just great and super fun to be around so we've practiced some of the basic moves i
did okay actually i did okay he's like yeah okay by far my favorite part of the workout
is the pad work you get to just let a bit of your frustrations out practice your
kicks and practice your technique muay thai has a very different stance to traditional boxing
and i was finding it a little bit difficult and the hardest part is i
always want to go sideways on and jab like that yeah why is that western
boxing i don't know good yeah great it's amazing how much better you get just within
the first few hours to be honest the trainers are really good at correcting your form and giving you
the specifics to muay thai and i quickly realized that it's actually kind of like a dance and when
i did realize that my trainer was not best pleased the second hour you just basically do drills you
go from one section of the gym to the other three rounds in the ring or three rounds on the punch
bags running around doing weights doing circuits pad work shadow boxing lifting things throwing
things you are gonna have a workout and you're gonna sweat and you're gonna feel great and
like i keep saying because everyone is there together there's a real group vibe and i'm
one of those kind of people that needs to be working out with other people for me to work
hard otherwise i'll just get lazy and go home okay so the uh the training session is basically
finished and now the semi-pros and the pros are just sparring and it's really good to watch
the first one is the small girl from germany and she doesn't stand a chance but i think the
whole point is to teach her to never give up um okay yes okay that was awesome what an experience to watch
those guys spa and uh so anyway after the training you can come to the beach because obviously the
best thing about doing a muay thai training camp on the west coast of thailand is it's sunset
every single night into the andaman sea and it is just this crazy golden color and the sea is so
flat and calm and there's people skating out here in the back and a lot of people come down from
bangkok for the surfing season which has just begun so don't worry i'll do a whole video later
on this channel about this surfing scene and this entire area because it's so cool i just all of
a sudden feel like i'm in bali or something or sri lanka people's surfing out to the sea throwing
frisbee volleyball hanging out at this incredibly beautiful beach here in caulac and this is a
stone's throw from the muay thai training camp so um i actually i kind of fancy going for a run
because even though i got to sweat a lot um i didn't really get enough of my energy out so
i actually feel like a really nice long run i can see i think i can see cows at the far end
of the beach so i'll let you know if it is cows and there's all these hot people from
bangkok with like dark skin who you know thai people normally don't go in the
sun but these guys live in the sea surfing and they're so bronzed and beautiful
so i really like this place okay day two group session four o'clock let's
do this i'm a bit late okay and then after our warm-up i'm back in the ring doing more
pad work and it's amazing just one day later my footwork is on point i'm still making a
little bit of mistakes here and there but yeah i'm i'm loving the technical side to it and getting the footwork right and doing the
counting and just getting the basics right first and then if you were going to be here for a month
if you were going to be here for longer once you get your timing once you get your technical
side and it becomes drilled into you you're going to see a massive improvement i can see a
massive improvement i've only been in one day right kick one all right it is the end of my experience here
at rawai i just want to say a massive thank you to you guys for watching i hope you learned
something and i hope you are interested in doing a muay thai training camp and i hope it's
dispelled some of the myths that you don't need to be willing to fight someone in the
ring it's purely fitness it's purely mental health physical health group bonding just
togetherness and if you do want to come here and learn how to knock someone out and then get in
the ring with someone then that's also an option but the highlights which you'll see in the next
few videos is in the evenings and on days off from training going down to the beach at memories and
surfing and enjoying all of the amazing sunsets and as you'll see in the next video i spent
two days on a massive fishing boat a charter adventure with everyone who works here trains here
we had an incredible time going to the silliman islands and that's just another example of things
that you can do as a group when you're working out here at muay thai but you'll see that in the
next video thanks for watching i had a great time
