Whenever I went to Thailand to train, I was not that impressed, but then I never spent a great deal of time there. Then people started coming to me from other gyms and I realised something. Before you can show them anything new, you have to get them doing the old things how you want them to. As we all know, it is far easier to teach someone from new than to stop somebodt from doing something one way when they have allready been doing it another way for some time. Classic example if the way people stand, 90% of Thai Boxiers in this country do not even stand in the right place! This point was reinforced to me by Pete Crooke who only recently went to Thailand and spent a week learning how to stand, despite having a "world title".

So Thailand or anywhere, has to learn what you can do and get the basics right before they can even start to teach you anything else!!

What happened to your girl, has happened to loads of people, not just Thai Boxers going to Thialand. Classic example is Naz. I am not a big fan of Brenden Ingle, but when he tried different trainers, they couldn't stop him from doing certain things, Anthony Farnell another example. And so on and so on.

Plus I think Full rules is a different sport to no elbows and knees to the head. And how serious did they take your girl? Not much loved in Muay thai circles in Thailand still