Training guides from the camp floor

The MAVINN Muay Thai Blog

Everything here is written at our two camps in Bangkok and Pattaya, where the same drills are run with beginners in their first week and with fighters preparing for Rajadamnern. This Muay Thai blog covers technique, conditioning, and what training in Thailand is actually like.

Written and checked by the coaching team, including Namsaknoi, Kaolan and Denkaosan. Meet the coaches.

New to the sport? Start with How to Learn Muay Thai, then read what a first class is like.

  • 30 guides published
  • Written at 2 gyms
  • New guides every month
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Every guide, sorted

What is in this Muay Thai blog

Seven subjects, thirty guides. Grouped by what you are trying to do, not by the date we published them.

What Muay Thai actually is

The sport itself, how it is scored, and how it differs from the striking arts it gets confused with.

4 guides

Your first weeks

What actually happens in a beginner class, and what nobody tells you before the first one.

4 guides

Technique and striking

The mechanics behind each strike, and why the Thai version differs from the kickboxing one.

5 guides

Training at home and online

What you can build without a gym, and the point where you stop making progress alone.

6 guides

Training in Thailand

Camps, costs, stadiums, and how to choose where to spend your training trip.

5 guides

The fighter's world

Fight preparation, the culture around the sport, and what it takes to compete.

4 guides

Strength and conditioning

The work outside the ring that decides how you look in round four.

2 guides
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Latest guides

The same thirty guides in publication order, newest at the top.

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