- The afternoon training session is from 4 til 7 pm.
Hey there, how you doin'?
There's a future champion right here.
Another future champion right here.
Really cool kids.
But yeah, they start super young here as I mentioned before.
(mellow music)
My favourite form of transport in Thailand, the tuktuk.
Just finished a back and biceps training session
in Fitness Thailand, the gym, in a previous video.
If you haven't seen that, go and check that out.
Right now, I'm off to Lanna Muay Thai here in Chiangmai
to do a Muay Thai training class.
Had to do a review on that camp.
So, come and join me.
Haven't been to Lanna in about three years,
but this time I'm gonna film it.
Hopefully gonna film myself,
and see what all the fuss is all about, after three years.
So, Lanna Muay Thai, here we come.
(mellow music)
Alright, so 150 Baht to get to Lanna Muay Thai.
Memories, guys, memories.
I just can't remember where the entrance is.
450 Baht.
(mellow music)
Alright, it's almost just past four o'clock
in the afternoon.
I'm about to start a Muay Thai training class here.
There are two rings here, check this out.
Check this out.
Apparently this is the big ring, right here,
where the guys only train,
and then the smaller ring, just there, for the girls.
I don't make the rules around here.
I just spoke to a girl about it.
Yeah, it's not cool, but that's just how they play here.
♪ Yeah, stallin' out, while I pull another mind trick ♪
♪ Slowin' down, every time I stay inside it ♪
♪ Come and get it I'm not offended a slight bit ♪
♪ Pushin wide, but I stay alive with alignment ♪
♪ Long time, that's forever and ever ♪
♪ I keep coming back, from a better endeavour ♪
♪ I say case closed, it's an end of an era ♪
♪ But then it's like God damn I'm getting better than ever ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
♪ Inside, boy it's deep down ♪
♪ I got a thing, for the king, ♪
♪ Muthafucka be better be crowned ♪
♪ I'm just riding the beat now ♪
♪ Cause when I get up on the mic, I'm providing a beatdown ♪
♪ Been a while since I made that promise ♪
♪ The motive been loco, now my nickname Thomas ♪
♪ Boy the rap game, always wanna say they honest ♪
♪ I need a plane, so they can't switch lanes on us now ♪
(laughter)
- Training. Training starts young here.
- (speaks in foreign language)
♪ I'm better than I ever been, yeah ♪
♪ Okay it's time to get out my face now ♪
- It's time for a break.
(shouting)
He's like, eight years old, this kid.
Look at him!
Size zero pants.
(shouting)
Alright, check out this guy.
He's currently the best fighter in this gym.
Watch.
(kicking, yelling)
- [Brad] Fuck.
This guy is insane. This guy is insane.
I've never-- I'm lost for words.
Alright, I might just go back into my little corner and cry.
And just, I so suck at this.
These guys, they start training
when they're like eight years old, and, I mean,
there's little kids running around here now,
and they're, like, eight.
I was playing video games when I was eight.
These kids, they all sleep in the same room here,
behind that wall, they all sleep in the same room,
and they all wake up and train and that's all they do.
No Game of Thrones, no iPads, no computer games,
no Google, it's all Muay Thai and that's it.
♪ And I cannot wait, I don't even have a break lever ♪
♪ That's the only way you gonna get the same letter ♪
(yelling, kicking)
♪ Wait whoa, what did he say ♪
♪ Lemme run it right back for the replay ♪
♪ Cliche but I really know I'm due next ♪
♪ They do less, in a month, than I finish every weekday ♪
♪ Right now, pipe down, let the dude work ♪
♪ I ploughed my sound, made it move first ♪
♪ I know my road is inevitable ♪
♪ On the low bro, I'm better than ever before ♪
♪ You in the way of my move ♪
(yelling)
- New technique.
♪ Living for the minute, I get it, I'm on the way out ♪
♪ Doing what I want, tell everybody to stay out ♪
♪ This is for the people that creepin' up on the same route ♪
- Alright folks, I'm gonna finish my training session
at two and a half hours, as opposed to three hours,
which is the full training session here.
Is it 6:30?
- Uh, I think it's six o'clock.
- Two hours is good enough.
It's good enough for me, man.
- You're done.
- I'm done.
- We're gonna do an ab session and stretch next.
- Yeah, I'll do that.
- Oh, okay.
- But I'm finished, the actual--
- Yeah, yeah, me too.
Alright, just eat that.
- [Brad] How good is the watermelon?
- So good.
- What was your name again?
- Nick.
- And yours?
- Brad.
- From Australia.
- America.
- America, whereabouts in America?
- Seattle.
- Mate, what do you think about this place?
Your honest opinion.
- This is a great place for a beginner to come.
- It is, it is really good actually.
- Teach you all the basics.
- I'm gonna tell these people, don't be intimidated
by the guys that I was filming before, the pro guys.
- Yeah, they've been doing it their whole life.
- They've been doing it since before they were born.
- Yeah.
- Whereas I've been doing it on and off
for no more than two and a half years.
- I've been doing it, like, three months.
- Three months.
(laughter)
- Look at this, guys.
Like, future champion right there.
He'll be in Lumpini Stadium in about ten years from now.
- Yeah, yeah.
All of 'em will.
There's an even littler guy.
Did you see the little-- he's like three.
- Yeah, three?
I shit you not.
And you mentioned before, Nick, that all the kids,
they sleep in the same room?
- Mm-hmm. Over there.
- [Brad] Behind that glass window there,
there is a room there.
- [Nick] Yeah, there's a room full of beds.
- There's a room full of beds,
and all the kids share the same room.
- No separation between the beds, there's like--
- That's crazy.
Alright, everybody, that's it.
I've finished, I've done all my stretching.
Lanna Muay Thai's just behind me, the sign.
Again, I'll throw the map up of this place
on your screen so you can see it for yourself,
but the afternoon training session is from 4 til 7 pm.
Hey there, how you doin'?
There's a future champion right here.
Another future champion right here.
Really cool kids, but yeah,
they start super young here, as I mentioned before.
So, I've been told that, I'm hungry,
I haven't eaten dinner yet, but, like a three-minute walk
from Lanna Muay Thai, there's all these Thai restaurants
that you can eat at, and get, like, really cheap meals,
like 30, 40, 50 Baht, which is like two Australian dollars.
One, two, three Australian dollars.
Ciao!
- Bye!
- (speaks in foreign language)
- Really, really awesome people.
So, well now I'm getting something to eat now,
and, just keep it, like, really local,
and then, if there's a massage place somewhere along here,
then I'll drop in and get a massage.
Again, three to 400 Baht, which is like,
less than 20 dollars Australian.
And you pay, like, 60, 70 Australian dollars
for the same thing back home.
So, I'll walk around and get some dinner, and then,
maybe have a massage first, then get some dinner afterwards.
So, come and join me, and let's see what I can find.
(mellow music)
So, literally just on the side of the road, here,
about a five-minute walk from Lanna Muay Thai,
and 25 Baht.
Not bad, huh?
- Would you like spicy?
- A little bit spicy.
A little spicy.
(laughter)
Look at that face.
It's probably a lot. It's probably a lot.
I just discovered something on my little walk
from Lanna Muay Thai.
Behind me are some really, really nice
set of apartments right there.
I'm not sure if you can stay in those apartments,
if they're for rent.
The name of the apartments is,
I have to turn the camera around so you can see.
Subsomboon Apartment.
So have a look, I mean, they're quite nice, right?
So if you're looking at doing a training camp,
you know, some one or two months at Lanna Muay Thai,
you could probably stay in that building.
I can't see why not.
You'd have to Google that.
Subsomboon Apartment.
And Lanna Muay Thai is literally, like, a two-minute walk
down this street, and all these little shops here
are like places you can eat local Thai food.
Alright, my friends.
It is about seven o'clock at night now, eight o'clock,
seven o'clock, something like that,
and I had my dinner, which is the egg omelette
that you saw before, at that side stand,
that cost 25 Baht or something,
so I had two servings of that.
I had four eggs, in total, and I decided
to go with the egg omelette because, you know,
eggs, slow-digesting protein overnight.
Yes, I know, some people are watching this going
"That's crazy, you're on a holiday."
I get it, but it's more or less a training holiday for me,
so I need to keep it in mind that if I'm lifting weights
in the gym, I do need to consider
the amount of protein that I'm getting.
Anyway, aside from that, it was fantastic.
The egg omelette was dirt cheap, tasted amazing.
All the locals eat there, and, I'm literally just--
I've gotta find a taxi.
And there are no taxis along here, it seems.
So I have to find my way back to the main road
so I can get a taxi back to my apartment
on Soi 17 at Nimman.
So, I hope you enjoyed this video.
Come, if you come to Chiangmai,
definitely check out Lanna Muay Thai
if you want to taste Muay Thai,
you want to get a bit of a sense of what Muay Thai is like
and you feel like you need that bit of fitness
in your vacation, definitely come and check it out.
450 Baht, 20 Australian dollars, you can't go wrong.
Yeah. And if you want to eat something after Lanna Muay Thai
then you can definitely come along this street.
There are plenty of little Thai places.
Cheap, cheap, cheap food, and you'll have the best time.
Let me know if you come here.
Hope you enjoyed this video, and I'll see you tomorrow.
Ciao.
(mellow music)