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silapathai · 05-11-2004, 04:59 PM

You should ask your Kru for the Muay Thai class you're in what Camp he's under. He might have broke off and started his own camp/gym which is most likely. I remember about 6 years ago I was the Assistant Trainer at the gym I was at and literally had no challenging sparring partners AT THE TIME and was getting bored by the ones I had been sparring for years so I looked in my phone book and called up an Instructor that shall remain nameless and asked what camp he was from. To make a long story short he took my question as an Insult and asked what camp I was from and who my instructor was, etc. etc. I told him everything calmly and he proceeded to call me a liar saying my instructor wasn't even in the U.S.A. anymore even though I just saw my instructor earlier in the day since I taught the morning classes for him at the time. Suffice to say this Instructor is a knowledgeable instructor of Arnis and JKD but not really for Muay Thai. He's an instructor that did some sort of MT certification course under Chai Sirisute but really didn't even seem to know what I meant by asking what camp he was from. Suffice to say I never went to this school to train because the Instructor called me a liar and didn't seem to understand my question about what camp he was from.
To get back to your orginal question a camp basically is something like Fairtex, Jockygym, even Chakuriki and Vos(Holland) that specialize in something like tiip, dtae, sawk, kao and/or ...for every step backwards, two steps forward... etc. etc. Last but not least the ram muay which is a preritual dance that represents your camp, trainers, and fighters from that camp in the past, animalism, sometimes religion. You wear the Mongkon, flowers, and prajiat while doing this and only wear the prajiat(s) while fighting not the mongkon(usually) and flowers. Usually only a traditional Thai style Muay Thai camp does the ram muay and/or wai kru. I have seen some European gyms that do modified wai kru which really seems to only involve sealing off the ring and bowing. I myself do the wai kru and ram muay out of tradition and respect to my instructors that taught me.

05-11-2004, 04:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
silapathai Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Seattle area Posts: 59	muay thai camp/class... You should ask your Kru for the Muay Thai class you're in what Camp he's under. He might have broke off and started his own camp/gym which is most likely. I remember about 6 years ago I was the Assistant Trainer at the gym I was at and literally had no challenging sparring partners AT THE TIME and was getting bored by the ones I had been sparring for years so I looked in my phone book and called up an Instructor that shall remain nameless and asked what camp he was from. To make a long story short he took my question as an Insult and asked what camp I was from and who my instructor was, etc. etc. I told him everything calmly and he proceeded to call me a liar saying my instructor wasn't even in the U.S.A. anymore even though I just saw my instructor earlier in the day since I taught the morning classes for him at the time. Suffice to say this Instructor is a knowledgeable instructor of Arnis and JKD but not really for Muay Thai. He's an instructor that did some sort of MT certification course under Chai Sirisute but really didn't even seem to know what I meant by asking what camp he was from. Suffice to say I never went to this school to train because the Instructor called me a liar and didn't seem to understand my question about what camp he was from. To get back to your orginal question a camp basically is something like Fairtex, Jockygym, even Chakuriki and Vos(Holland) that specialize in something like tiip, dtae, sawk, kao and/or ...for every step backwards, two steps forward... etc. etc. Last but not least the ram muay which is a preritual dance that represents your camp, trainers, and fighters from that camp in the past, animalism, sometimes religion. You wear the Mongkon, flowers, and prajiat while doing this and only wear the prajiat(s) while fighting not the mongkon(usually) and flowers. Usually only a traditional Thai style Muay Thai camp does the ram muay and/or wai kru. I have seen some European gyms that do modified wai kru which really seems to only involve sealing off the ring and bowing. I myself do the wai kru and ram muay out of tradition and respect to my instructors that taught me.