(groans) (laughter)
(groaning)
(intense electronic music)
♪ We been going bigger from the start, yeah ♪
♪ Keep it way up, going down and leave a mark, yeah ♪
- Good morning everybody, 7th of December, 2018.
I'm at AKA Muay Thai here in Phuket, Thailand.
There's a bunch of cats running around, fighting each other,
which is the perfect place for a cat fight, I guess.
'Bout to start a beginner Muay Thai class here.
It's my first time training here at AKA,
so Rob's just gonna drive the camera,
just gonna give you the highlights of this place,
in the middle of the jungle, and it should be fun.
I'm feeling pretty tired actually, but um quickly pan.
This is what it looks like, class starts in about 30 minutes
and ah it's gonna be fun.
- Gonna be amazing.
(Thai dance music)
CBuzzer)
(Thai dance music)
- Good enough?
- Ah ha ha, thank you.
- Video, perfect. - Yes, thank you.
- My pleasure. - All right, look at me.
All right that's how you're supposed to do a wrap,
there we go.
There we go, there's the video right there.
(laughs)
I'll have to re-watch the video, in slow-motion,
20 times to learn how to do it properly.
("East Meets West" by Nu Alkemi$t)
(exhales)
- [Camera Woman] Don't you sweat on me.
Sweat on me, it's like spraying all over my face.
("We Ride" by Feeki)
(Thuds)
- Okay, Okay
- Hey
- All right
- All right, one more
- One more
(Laughing)
(Upbeat music)
(Laughing)
- Ahh, yes
(Laughing)
(Thuds)
(Yells in foreign language)
- Kick left, okay
Ah yes, one more
and power
not power, not combo
(Grunting)
No, no, again
(Laughing)
Die
(Laughing)
- That was good, it was really good
I feel a lot more awake today than yesterday
(Deep breath)
(Grunt)
(deep bass music)
- There's some ah, couple of rounds with the instructor
was good, high intensity, little bit of technique
the guys awesome, Pat
- [Camera Woman] Nice energy
- Yeah, really good energy, really cool guy
- [Camera Woman] Really, really nice
- I'd probably do a private with him.
- [Camera Woman] Like, also, I noticed that he is noticing
that your not mindful, like your not being as present
as you need to be and he's calling you on it.
- He's calling out, that's right.
- [Camera Woman] Yeah.
- With that high kick, every time.
- [Camera Woman] Or just, just he's like, he can see
your distracted
- That's right
- [Camera Woman] He's calling you on it
- That's right, he is.
Good pickup
- [Camera Woman] It's good.
- Good fun, I'm glad you've seen that.
- [Camera Woman] Yeah.
- Good pickup.
(Intense Thai music)
(Background training)
- [Brad Newton] All right, everybody
that's the end of the beginner class
well it's actually an open class
for all levels, here at
what's the name of the gym?
- [Camera Woman] AKA
- AKA, we've been trying different gyms around
here, so I'm losing track.
Anyway so first time here at AKA, amazing gym actually
it's actually one of my favourite one's
first time here, ah eight til ten class
ah, all levels in the once class.
Highly recommend coming and checking this place out.
It's in Rawai, I'll throw the map up.
It's like a ten, fifteen scooter ride from
Tiger Muay Thai and all the main gyms down on Soi Ta-iad.
But, um this gym, this place is pretty good
they've got like, a weight area, they've got like a air dyne
area upstairs, ah where the pro fighters
do there thing up there with ropes and things like that
ah, they've got like a nice little cafe, next
to the main training floor, ah there got a couple
of rings, really really nice.
Um, when we come back to Thailand, 'cause were flying out
literally in two days from now
we're defiantly gonna come back to this place
and do some more training here.
But, basically Muay Thai, BJJ, MMA.
Um, they run these classes throughout the day
with Muay Thai, morning eight til ten
afternoon, four til six, I think from memory
and then yeah, they do three month packages
and blablablah it's on their website check it out.
But anyway, amazing experience for someone like me
that's kinda beginner-intermediate um it was
a fun class, great trainers, great people
met a few people from, met a guy from Czech Republic
met a Canadian dude, awesome guy if your watching
this, your awesome and um and then yeah
great place, but um, if you come here
let me know, message me and um and then yeah
maybe we'll cross paths one day
but otherwise, see you here in Phuket, goodbye
(Upbeat Thai music)