THE CAMP F.A. GROUP GYM
THE CAMP F.A. GROUP GYM
Special report by Serge TREFEU (2013)
The camp.F.A. Group Gym exists since a few years, he was created in 2007 by Mr Surapol Prasetpharn, a businessman passionate of boxing who it is associated with the current manager of the camp Boontham Luangyawee.
At the beginning, Boontham, a former boxer, had to go up his own camp in the northeast of the Thailand to Nongkhai. His camp was called “Bor Plaa Boonchu Gym” (The park of the fish Boonchu) in relation with the name of the restaurant ” Boonchu Fish ” which had created Boontham. In his camp he formed some good boxers as Petboonchu and Fahmeechai but had to close the camp because his business, the restaurant, worked not much. Boontham thus left, with his boxers, settling down in the capital where he opened a new camp by means of Surapol Prasetpharn. Surapol which has parts in the company F.A. Group Company has to name the camp simply FA GROUP GYM.
SURAPOL PRASETPHARN
BOONTHAM LUANGYAWEE
The name of the camp thus makes reference to the company F.A. Group which is a company of food chemicals, this company sponsors the camp for a long time. The offices of the company F.A. Group is just behind the camp of boxing.
The F.A. Group Gym is situated next to the famous stadium TV7 which is near the big park Chatuchak, the real lung of oxygen in Bangkok. The boxers make moreover their daily jogging in the park, it is a jooging more pleasant than in streets polluted by the Thai megalopolis.
This camp includes only about ten fighters but very high levels. The first champion of the F.A. Group Gym was Fahmeechai who has took the belt of Lumpinee in 122 lbs. Then it was Petboonchu who took the belt of Thailand in 105 lbs. And today the boy wonder who fight in 135 lbs became the star of the camp. This extraordinary fighter has already conquered nine belts in only 22 years. He gained champion’s belt of the Lumpinee in 118 lbs, in 126 lbs, in 130 lbs and in 135 lbs, champion’s belt of Thailand in 105 lbs, in 108 lbs, in 112 lbs and in 122 lbs, and finally World champion WMC’s belt in 135 lbs, a unique record!
His trophies are exposed with prides in a showcase to the entrance of the camp…
LUMPINEE BELT
THAILAND BELT
RADJA BELT
Petboonchu (The diamond Boonchu) nicknamed “Khoun Khao Rim Kong” (The killer knee of the river Kong) beat great champions as Seanchai Sor Kingstar, Wuttidet Lookprabat, Jomthong Chuwattana, Nong O Kaiyanghadaogym, Singdam Kiatmuu 9, Panomrunglek Kiatmuu 9, Orono Wor Petchpun, Phetmankong Kaiyanghadaogym, Saketdao Petpayathai, Wanchalerm Aooddonmuang, Diesellek Aooddonmuang and Tongchai Sitthongsak!
PETBOONCHU F.A. GROUP
Other champions of the camp are Petsakon F.A. Group and Yatkonpon F.A. Group. Petsakon gained champion’s belt of Thailand in 105 lbs and World champion WMC’s belt in 105 lbs, when has Yatkonpon he gained champion’s belt of the Radja in 140 lbs!
PETSAKON F.A. GROUP
YATKONPON F.A. GROUP
The camp also counts very good fighters as Panom Topkingboxing wich was in 2012 Thailand Champion in 154 lbs and World Champion WPMF in 160 lbs, Petch Udon, Petchpiti, Petchdantai, Mueangpetch, Lekkhla, Phetsuwat, Phetmongkon and Petchboonchuay…
The FA GROUP GYM is a camp ” Muay Khao ” (Strong in knees). The techniques of knees are specialities of the camp which became the trademark of the FA GROUP GYM. The clinch is so enormously worked in this camp. Today, the champion Petboonchu F.A. Group is one of the best fighters in clinch of the Thai circuit.
The boxers are supervised by three trainers whose main trainer is other one than the former great champion Paytoun Seansawat says “Thailand Pinsinchai” who was three times a champion of the Lumpinee, the champion of the Radja and the champion of Thailand!
Two other trainers are Pongthep Saisap and Soutpha Ataratklang who in 53 years is the most experimented…
THAILAND PINSINCHAI
The fighters fight for two bigger promoters of the Lumpinee, Chun Kietpetch and Virat Vichirarattanawong (Petchyindee Promotion).
The training at the beginning very early in the FA GROUP GYM, at 3 pm the boxers begin their second jogging of the day, they run 10 km mainly in the big park Chatuchak which is not far from the camp. Then they attack with the sessions of paos. Generally, in period of preparation of fight, the fighters make each five rounds of five minutes in paos.
The session of clinch last 45 minutes the morning and can go one hour for the training of after noon. The boxers follow, twice a week, a lesson in Boxing, just to be very complete as well in clinch as in fists.
The fighters train everyday except Sunday. On Sundays it is the favorite outing of the boxers because they are going all to see the fights which take place in the stadium TV7, in five minutes in feet of the camp…
Many foreigners trained in this small nice camp, English, Spanish, Japanese already have to walk on the ground of the boxing ring of the FA GROUP GYM. He will cost you 300 bahts the training to be lucky make of the sparring with the immense champion Petboonchu!
