"AMAZING THAILAND" your Exp: / Pics!

How many of you have Visited Thailand ?
and Please post a few ( Sensible Lines About your Experiences )
Obviously it will Be the Muay-Thai and please, yes any Great and Amazing Things you saw? etc:
Its a Amazing Country with an Amazing Sport, Culture and People !
( oh And Food )

My First Visit to Thailand I will Take to My Grave ! It was so much ! and I will never forget it ! "Fantastic"
One part I remember:-
I had the Priveledge to actually Share the same Ring and Light spar in the Sityodtong Pataya Camp, with the Legendary Samarts Brother Chart / Kongthoranee Payakarhun ! ( Samart was in the Same Ring Kicking Thai Pads ! Awesome ! ) Met Master Senan Yodthong too ! Top Trainer / Master / Arjarn.
And I Believe My Pics: still up in the Camp, on the Wall from about 18 Years Ago, My First Visit ! "Amazing Thailand"

At first the place blew my mind- everything seemed great(except the food). After a while certain mists began to clear and I began to see negative stuff too. After a year and a half I felt very sickly bitter with so many aspects of the country, culture, and society and left at this point (although I was lapping up a greater range of food by now).

I do believe that the coolest people I met were involved in Muay Thai though and I have a lot of fantastic memories of Thailand but many horrible ones too.

i had a cool experience in my wifes village bout a month ago its the rainy season there and all the men of the village go out fishing with spears and flash lights on their heads at 4 in the morning anyways 1 night i went with them they got loads of fish but they also caught a snake bout 5 foot scary looking thing anyways they got back 2 the village and tied it 2 tree and left it hanging there all day so the blood would go 2 its tail then the next night all the men got whiskey and they cut the tail off the snake and the blood poured in2 the half empty whiskey bottle so anyways they drank the snakes blood mixed with whiskey they made mr try it they kept saying ham kang lang anyways so i tried it and i can say it was amzing forget viagra never seen that before anywhere else just thought id share it

Haha! Nice one.. What kind of snake was it? (the one that was caught, not yours).

i havent a clue they said python but i dont really know

read it in ironlife magazine's issue 2 and 10 ;)

www.ironlife.com

Wow Celt! Amazing, That will stick with you a long Time too ! Did you originally go for the Thai-Boxing?
How did it start?
And Satankid ?
What bad Memories?
Or can you not Discuss here?

Any AXers Got any Amazing Pics: from Thailand?
Scenic ? Unusual? and / or From Training camps? / Fights etc: ?
Please Share ! Cheers ( and keep em Clean thanks )

Btw, If It wasnt For Thai-Boxing i wouldnt have Met
Jackie Chan, Lee Evans, Julian Sands,Samo Hung,
On on the Filmset of Highbinders / The Medallion !
Which was part Filmed in Thailand ! Great Memories from last year :-))))

ya sandy went for the boxing originally met my wife as i was flying 2 samui a few years ago she worked for bangkok airways but shes from up north where the snake thing happened different world up there as u know im sure

Cheers Celt, And One Place ive Not seen and want to Go see The North !


some Pics from Bangers !

And From Rachjadamnern Stadium This Year!
i took from Ringside ! This is Ronnie Thompson My Friend who came with me, Hes Hust Got Married last Month ! to a Thai lady ( My Fault too lol )

And From Rachjadamnern Stadium This Year!
i took from Ringside !

And From Rachjadamnern Stadium This Year!
i took from Ringside !

those are at Lumpini mate!

i fly out in two weeks training at jittis gym in bangkok cant wait. any other axers goona be over there shortly

Ive been to Thailand four times now and i have to say the ten days that jesse zebedee saunders spent out there in jan were the most eventful ive ever seen....MDK......

im there every 2 months or so back next month how long u staying liam

The temple where the mummified monk is on Koh Samui.

Sorry bout size of pic ......oops

yo Fatboy
that Temple and place is "Wow" and the Mumified Monk is a great Story too ! Did you get up close?
And Rob Sorry Your Right ( i think ) it was Lumpinee, do you Know the Thais Names etc: ?

Disco, we have a solid pact never to speak of the dispicable antics that we bestowed upon the great country of Siam!!!

:)

Im gonna MDK your arse!!

we had a Saying
"What Goes on Tour-Stayes on Tour"

but now the Gossip is Out
and---
Im gonna MDK your arse!!

??? MMMM Would you Like to Share? Zebs?

or Shall the Axers guess?


M-my
B-bums
K-killing?????

`D` = Derrier = Bum

Unfortunately I don't get to go to Thailand until October :(
It can't come quick enough. Only going for 3 weeks, would be better if it was 3 months!!

FatBoy. Where about in KS is that temple with the mummified monk?
Also any other places you think are worth a visit in KS? Keep it clean!!...lol

Any AXers going to be in BKK, Phuket & KS over the month of October?

I will be! ;)

ILL BE THERE KEEPING IT COOL

Muaythai King,

From recollection the Mummified monk is south of the island. I remember hiring a moped and travelling past Lamai, Koh Samui is not a big Island at all, you can get round it easily in a day with sightseeing.

Also check out the waterfall. If you get an Island guide it will all be on there.

Defo check out the 'Green Mango' bar on Chaweng Beach, great night spot. Also another bar called the 'Islander', great bunch of guys and girls that run it. I watched most of the last world cup in there.

Cheers,

FB'Slim

Go on a couple of the Trips ( organised, cheap as Chips, Good Guides, usually Funny as `50` and Called Something like BOB ? or Fread Lol When ya ask them their Real name ? they say
" Oh you wont understand it" our guide said this ! So i asked him in Thai
Khun Chur arai ?
( what is your Name ? )
he Laughed and said Something like this:-

Jearanthong Kiatsurinsapasarong peechanyai

i said...............



OK Bob ! lol
Seriously Though As Fatboy ses ! Get Touring !

"Amazing Thailand"
May 2000. It was my first time overseas and I went to Phuket with a couple of the boys from my Muay Thai Gym. Found a really old style thai gym on a roof top of some shady apartments in the heart of Patong Beach (Singh Patong). There was only 2 Thai boys training there and one of the boys was training hard for a fight at Lumpinee.
We were only there for 10 days which was not a long time. The trainer at the gym (Marnit) said if we wanted to go on a road trip from phuket to bangkok to see Soup fight.
I was like Kap kap kap kap yes way! It took about 10 hours with stops to get to Bangkok it was me and my 2 mates and like 4 Thai dudes and only Marnit spoke english. Ended up at the weigh in on the Saturday morning of the fight and ended up being aloud to work the corner for the thai fighter Soup during the breaks in between rounds. It was such an awesome experiance that I was itching to fight when I got back to Perth and had a good win against Jake the Muss!
Been there 7 times now and love talking to people about the place, had a hot thai GF for a while and met the like of the Crazy Ian Stewardson along the way.

Fantastic CycloSam

loopy lou in ubon

Rob.

Where's the exact location of your camp? It is in Bangkok, isn't it?
I will only be in BKK for a week, and I have alot of personal stuff to get out of the way firstly, but I would like to get some training done, whilst in BKK!

Could you have picked a worse foto Nisbit???:)
I got the shorts of one of the fighters in Lumpini the night I was there and fotos with him...Thanx to Rob! ;)

yes mate we are on the outskirts of Bangkok about 20 mins away from Ratchadamneon

Loupy whats Wrong with em ? and Piccy ?
its ok !
All i could say is had they been "SandeE" Shorts then ! Itwould have been Fantastic :-p

Heard the Gym what Robs @is de Dogs B*ll*cks !
Good Fighters Coming out of it !

Rob.

Thanks mate, I will email you nearer the time for the camp's address etc - cheers. Or if you have time the now, email me the details, prices, address, times etc to the above email address!

Cheers

This was Me Avin it lol in Thailand
@ Sityodthong V "Jim" the Trainer former Fighter / champ
Great Guy, couldnt Speak English, and Whos name We Couldnt Understand, so Jim Was Great
And Look whom i had as my / our Trainer ??
Look behind us

Ok This is My Pride Pic:
And Me in a Rare Sight ( ask those who know me ? ) As i Dont Sweat normally and Only a Little if i do ? Its a "Ginger Thang" LoL
Anyway Heres a few Famous Thai Fighters from the Famous SitYodThong Camp Thailand ! Straight after A Hot Afternoons Training Session !

Spot? Name? / see anyone ?

MTK - when is your last day in Samui? We should be reaching there by about 7th/8th Nov.

wow MIniluv !!! your here?
Where ya Been Gal?
hope your Well, You Still Training etc: ?

these are the shorts that rob got for lou,

and its Mr Nisbet young lady



stevie

photo of me and dave the piper with thai schoolkids after the opening ceremony of world champs 01

all the reps

scotland team entrance

reps (again)

made it onto front page of thai magazine

Excellent !

im there for about 3 weeks with a short trip to tokyo in between

Hey MiniLuv,

Unfortunately I/We wont be there at that time, we arrive back on either the 30th or 31st October - not sure but I definately know I am not there in November as I am back at work straight away :-(

Liam
Japan too ?( Jammy Git :-p )
Hol: or Fighting?

Hey hey isnt thailand great!!! Oh has any body mentioned the gyms homosexuality and first hand witnessing of peodophillia,oh those thais mai pen rae my arse stop sugar coating it,go on call me a liar i dare you!!!

???
Sorry Me `Kung-Fused`

i have a woody for woody u cunt liar liar youre cocks on fire

denial he he

yeh woody, fair comment thailand does have its bad side to it, i found living in bkk for a couple of weeks stifling i think bkk is a contradiction with the poor and the rich so intertwined, i found the poverty hard to stomach at times,

as a post script though , last yr i did a child protection course and the woman taking it told me that thiers is more child poverty in BRITAIN than thailand, when i scoffed and told her "trust me ive been to bkk" she explained that in britain we hide the poverty much better.

wasnt talking about poverty was talking abuse,if i told you it was happening in a boarding school or in a church choir or in a gymnastics club you would all believe me no problem,oh no but not in the land of smiles

Stevie- the trouble with that is it's all relative and UK sets the bar at a high level on a world scale. 'Poverty' in UK is not the same as poverty in Thailand.
In US when they talk about poverty they mean people whose car is more than a year old and those who do not have a butler.

On what did the woman base her facts?

Nice one cyclonesam,do you remember that legendary night out in phuket town with you two buddys that was a classic!

was Zebs with a Ladyboy?
:-p

Lumpinee

On the Chao-Phraya River, Longest / Biggest River in South East Asia