Sunday, 3 March 2013

Muay thai boxers and schooling

In most Thai gyms they have a group of young boxers who live in the gym and go to school.  It varies from gym to gym what they do about schooling.
Some gyms let the boys decide if they go to school or not, some encourage it, some .... not so much
 I'm going to be talking about a gym called Galaxy and also Krungthep thonburi gym.( they are in one place for the meantime while a new gym is built)

One of my favorite boxers at this gym is Taksin Lek
He is 17 years old an amazing fighter has more than 200 fights, and has been fighting since he was 8 years old.



He has such a strong clinch on him .. he can out clinch the bigger guys.

I really like this boy, hes respectful, talented and smart too.. and he still goes to school . 
The van takes 3 or 4 or them to school every day... driven by the trainer.
They start training at 6 with a run and normal training, and they are finished in time to shower and go to school.
there are also guys that don't go to school anymore. when I ask them what they are going to do when they finish fighting they shrug their shoulders.





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