Looking For a Precise, Detail Oriented Coach in Thailand

[David Irish]

Hey there, I'm searching for a detail orientated coach.  Starting from the feet, with precise postural adjustments up to the actual strikes themselves. Interested if anyone has come across coaches like this around Thailand (I've found former Lumpinee and Raja champs are most intelligent and able to translate their knowledge in the most efficient and effective way ) but any particular names and addresses would be of huge help.

[Tyler Byers]

4 hours ago, David Irish said:

Hey there, I'm searching for a detail orientated coach.  Starting from the feet, with precise postural adjustments up to the actual strikes themselves. Interested if anyone has come across coaches like this around Thailand (I've found former Lumpinee and Raja champs are most intelligent and able to translate their knowledge in the most efficient and effective way ) but any particular names and addresses would be of huge help.

Hi David. I notice you are in Pai. I would suggest Kru Suk who is nearby. He just opened his new gym there, I believe it is called Border Pai Muay Thai Gym. The phone number is +66 093 389 5528. He has trained a few champions and notable fighters from the Meenayothin Gym in BKK. You can tell him I sent you. If you can't get a hold of him let me know and we'll figure it out.

 

[Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu]

Chatchai Sasakul in Bangkok. 100%: Chatchai is all about balance and weight transfer. Everything is the legs and feet, then not breaking the frame with your upper body. But man, the way he can generate power from such simple and minimal (economical) movement is just incredible. It doesn't require translation between the boxing movements and Muay Thai, and he was a very good Muay Thai fighter before he went into boxing, so he's able to bring it all together.

Manop in Chiang Mai: this is again a big point about balance. Manop is kind of rangy, but he understands and can articulate small details about footwork and leg/stance for balance and power. His English is pretty good as far as I have seen, but I mostly speak Thai with him so I'm not totally sure how he explains things in English. But he is able to articulate the nuances into words, so I imagine he does so in English as well. Detail-oriented, for sure.

Burklerk in Lampang: his technique is Old School, but it's absolutely useful to contemporary Muay Thai as well. He's really good at breaking down the minute differences between what you're doing and what he wants you to do, but it's not verbal. You have to watch and imitate. But he'll totally point out exactly where the difference is, so you don't have to play "guess what's wrong," you just have to pin-point the adjustment and he's very good at helping you see that. His balance is great, he's scary, and his distance is one that literally any sized fighter has an advantage fighting at.

 

[Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu]

On 7/27/2019 at 5:57 PM, David Irish said:

Hey there, I'm searching for a detail orientated coach.  Starting from the feet, with precise postural adjustments up to the actual strikes themselves.

I think it really matters if you are talking about taking a few private sessions, or you are just talking about training at a gym. The Thai way does not really involve constant and repeated corrections (that produces stress and lack of flow which is not conductive to fighting), but there are krus that can and will be corrective in a private, as that is what westerners want, and it happens to be how they in particular think. The Krus Sylvie lists are pretty precise. Of all of them I would think that Manop is the most precise. He has a lot of experience training westerners as the head trainer at Yokkao, and now with his own gym it seems that he brought a lot of that precision to his approach. In Sylvie's session with him we were shocked at some of the very tiny details he brought out (timing on when the heel came down for instance, after a kick, made a huge difference).

You can watch the full 90 minute session as a patron here:

#55 Manop Manop Gym - The Art of the Teep (90 min) watch it here 

You can see beautiful slow motion of his technically beautiful teep here:

 

You can watch a segment of a session with Chatchai here:

#64 Chatchai Sasakul - Elements of Boxing (72 min) watch it here 

 

Here is a segment with Burklerk, you can watch his session here:

#17 Burklerk PInsinchai - Dynamic Symmetry (82 min) watch it here