THE CAMP MAX SPORT GYM
THE CAMP MAX SPORT GYM
Special report by Serge TREFEU (2012)
This camp exists since 15 years in Lad Prao’s district in Bangkok. Before he was called the Sor Suwanphakdee Gym and was created by Mr Suwanphakdee who is always the owner of walls. This camp produced several champions who gained about ten belts of big stadium of Bangkok.
The champions who made the beautiful days of the Sor Suwanphakdee Gym is Phet Ek who was Champion of Thailand and Phet Alun who gained two belts, the belt of Lumpinee and the belt of Radja. Then there was Aphisit who took world champion WPMF’s belt and his brother Aphisak who is classified well in Radja in 140 lbs, these two champions are still today in the camp…
In 2011, Adam Ausa associated with Mr Tawat Chai, do up the camp Sor Suwanphakdee Gym. They make big works to modify the infrastructures of the former camp and build a new camp which henceforth it names the “Max Sport Gym”. “Max Sport” wants to say the “Sporting maximum” and the sponsor of the camp is K.T. The sporting maximum because the camp wants multidisciplinary, have little there of course the Thai Boxing but also the Boxing, the Free Fight and exceptional thing on Bangkok, teach it techniques of stunts. Indeed, in the camp a team of about ten professional stuntmen train every after noon. They come to prepare scenes of stunts often for Thai action movies…
The lessons of Thai Boxing are given by Adam Ausa, French was installed in Thailand for 20 years. Adam had his gym in France and formed many champions before coming to live definitively in Thailand. Adam Ausa is very well implanted in the world of Muay Thai in Bangkok, it is among others the personal friend of the owner of the famous stadium Radjadamoen. He also connections with the biggest promoters of Bangkok and he can do fight the foreigners who whish.
Adam is assisted for the lessons by four trainers whose main trainer is Harnsuk Prasarthinpanomluk. Harnsuk was before in the camp of the star Namkabuan, he was Lumpinee Champion and made more than 200 fights. This former champion beat great champions as Chalunlap and Wangchainoi!
Today, there are approximately 18 boxers permanently in the camp. Both pearls of the camp are the twin brothers Aphisit (Current N°1 TV7) and Aphisak (N°8 in Radja) who also have with them their small brother Apirak, an excellent fighter. Other Champion of the camp is Ponmongkon K.T. Gym (100 fights) which has just competed for champion’s belt of Thailand in 115 lbs in front of titleholder Choknumchai Sitjakong, Ponmongkon lose to points. Ponmongkon is a very strong fighter who beat at him, in Japan, the champion of Japan Arachii. The small brother of Ponmongkon, Payasua K.T. Gym is also a future champion who is only 16 years old has already made more than 100 fights!
Everything months a team of six girls, fighters of Korat come to train for the Max Sport Gym. The foreign fighters women are thus welcome in this camp, the camp has shower separated for the women and for the men.
So, regularly great champions of the camp Windy Sport come to get ready in the Max Sport Gym such as Saiyok Pumpanmuang (Lumpinee Champion, Radja Champion, Thailand Champion, World Champion WMC) and Armin Mad Lee (World Champion WPMF)!
The surface of the camp is very big, there is a nice garden, a room for the cooking, the rooms for the boxers (18 rooms) and the main building for the trainings. The room of training which is built as a gymnasium is immense, she contains two boxing rings, ten punch bags and four models of striking fixed to walls.
The training begins at 6 am in the morning, the boxers make a 10 km jogging then they are going to train till 9:30 am. The morning training is more based on the physical appearance than on the technique. The boxers linked physical exercises which change the ordinary training. Of the style, the running with a partner on the back or the relay with acceleration, exercises great for the cardio.
The atmosphere is joyful and these atypical exercises it make in the cheerfulness. But attention the chief trainer, the baguette in the hand, to watche that no pupil loses heart, him not laughs…
Then nakmuays passes in paos, then make some series of knees for bags and they end with muscular stretchings. The training of after noon which begins at 3:30 pm is more hard. After a 8 km jogging, the boxers are going to train during 3 hours. In period of preparation of fight the training is very hard, they make seven rounds of paos of five minutes, five rounds of bags and one hour of clinch. Furthermore, three times a week there is a special session for sparrings in Boxing.
To the Max Sport Gym the trainers know how to adapt themselves at every level boxers, they can train with no problem at all as well the beginners as the professional fighters. In this camp the techniques of pokes, knocks of knees, the projections and the clinch are worked a lot. It is the camp which we could classified as a camp “Fimeuu” (Technician)…
Since are opening of numerous foreign champions came to train in this camp, especially French champions, such as Charles François (World Champion WPMF, Europe Champion WPMF), Mickael Lallemand (Europe Champion WAKO), Emmanuel Payet (World Champion WPMF), Brice Guidon (World Champion WPMF, Europe Champion WPMF), Remy Pariot (France Champion), Amine Zitouni (France Champion), Gaylord Montier (Europe Champion WAKO). The former two stars of the French boxing rings are also past to the Max Sport Gym, Jean-Charles Skarbowsky and Dida Diafat!
Several fighters of the Reunion Island also stayed during a month in the camp and all returned into their gym with enormous technical experiences…
The Max Sport Gym is a camp opened to all, for the beginners passionate with Muay Thai or the hardened professional fighters, all are welcome…
MAX SPORT GYM
SOI KERD PHUM
WANGHIN 71
LADPRAO
BANGKOK 10230
Price :
Trainings :
1 training : 300 baht
2 trainings : 500 baht
Two trainings, accommodation, meal:
1000 baht a day
The price is decreasing if the boxers stay for a long time in the camp, price weekly or in the month.
For the persons who wish to sleep outside of the camp, there are several hotels in five minutes of the camp with correct rooms in 500 bahts.
Email : maxsportsgym@gmail.com
Tel : +66(0)800479901 Mr ADAM (Speaks French and English)
Facebook : Max Sport Mad Muay