Thursday, July 12, 2012

Pacific Northwest Muay Thai Camp

Two weeks ago GR's Mauy Thai instructor, Kru Aaron Veverka (aka Juice), and George Comer traveled to the woods outside Portland, OR for a five day Mauy Thai training camp.  By invitation only, the The Pacific Northwest Muay Thai camp provides an immersion training  experience unlike any other in Martial Arts.  Five days of nothing but intense training in  conditioning and technique.  No phones, no TV, no Internet, just Mauy Thai.

At the end of the camp Kru Aaron was awarded Associate Rank in the Thai Boxing Association of America.  The very interesting video of his Associate test is below.  Congratulate Juice when you see him at the Academy on his achievement.

Kru Aaron and George wrote about their experience:

Kru Aaron Veverka: The Pacific Northwest Muay Thai camp was an invigorating yet tiring event. It happens over a 5 day period. Four days of intensive training followed by a day to get everything together and wish everyone well.

You start with a 1 to 3 mile run in the morning followed by stance drills, then an hour for breakfast. Then it is time for extreme drills and/or station training, then an hour for lunch. We received boxing training that took up between 1 to 2 hours a day immediately followed by station training. Stations are as follows: Heavy bags, Shadow Boxing, Thai Pads, Timing sparring and Plum (clinching). Often some of the stations were doubled or tripled.  Thai Pads were at least doubled daily, other times tripled. Every station was a minimum of four rounds at 3 minutes a piece. Other days it was 8 rounds per station. You can see where this gets a bit tiring after a while. After that we often did 3 on 1 drills followed by 8 count body builders. We did 140 8 count body builders alone at the end of the day after our workouts.

Classes were all taught by the highest professionals, including but not limited to : Grandmaster Surachai Sirisute(Founder), Ajarn Bryan Dobler, Ajarn Bryan Popejoy, Ajarn Rex, Ajarn Kim, Ajarn Greg Nelson, Khun Khru Scott Elliott, Khun Khru Sam Adams, Khun Khru Natalie Roy Brown, Khun Khru Scott Anderson


George Comer: The Thai practices were long and grueling with minimum break in between.  The coaches broker all movements down so you can lean from the bottom up. Favorite parts was kick-boxing in the pouring rain and doing knees up the hill and 140 straight 8 count body builders.  The camp included 6 am mountain runs and 7-9 hours of practivce and starting with fundamental and working to more advanced techniques and combos.

The camp is held annually; Juice has been invited for the past 7 years, he's allowed to bring 'guests', which is how George came to go.  Next year the event will be in Portland again, anyone thinking about upping their game in Mauy Thai should think hard about attending. 



Written by Bob Donaghy


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