Muay Thai Classes Sign up for Muay Thai and have access to both Greensborough and Tullamarine Studios! Option to train 6 days a week! Our Muay Thai classes have been taught by Kru Mark at GMMA in Melbourne for over 20 years and offer: Modernized Muay Thai Full Thai Rules A structured curriculum Techniques and skills that are developed and practiced under close supervision Training that is constantly monitored and assessed Improved fitness, speed, reactions and confidence Contact us for further information or to organise your free trial class. Please refer to the timetable for classes available and scheduled times. Muay Thai General Information Muay Thai (Thai: มวยไทย, RTGS: Muai Thai, IPA: [muɛ̄j tʰɑ̄j]) is a hard martial art from Thailand. The art has a long history in Thailand and is the country's national sport. Muay Thai as it is practiced today varies significantly from its ancestor muay boran, such as in its use of gloves similar to those worn in Western boxing. The word muay derives from the Sanskrit mavya and Thai comes from the word Tai. Muay Thai is referred to as the "Art of Eight Limbs" because it makes use of punches, kicks, elbows and knee strikes, thus using eight "points of contact", as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (hands and feet) used in sport-oriented martial arts. A practitioner of Muay Thai is known as a nak muay. Western practitioners are sometimes called nak muay farang meaning foreign boxer. Like most competitive full contact fighting sports, Muay Thai has a heavy focus on body conditioning. Training regimens include many staples of combat sport conditioning such as running, shadowboxing, rope jumping, body weight resistance exercises, medicine ball exercises, abdominal exercises, and in some cases weight training. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_Thai For more information on Muay Thai see our Links page. Muay Thai - "Kickboxing" | 
