Private Tuition is the best way to learn Thai Boxing and is an
excellent way of improving your skills at an accelerated rate.
Smaller groups mean the instructors will be able to concentrate
solely on your own particular strengths and weaknesses. Private
lessons can be taught during the working day, some evenings and
at weekends.
Costs Standard charge is £20 for one person,
£11 each for two or more people, and £7 each for three
or more.
Private lessons with chief instructor Darren
Phillips are charged at £25 for one person, £13
each for two or more people and £9 each for three or more.
Regular classes are held every
weekday at GFC Muay Thai, classes vary in size but there are usually
around 15 -20 people training at one time. Regular classes are
a great way to learn from people you wouldn't usually train with
having private tuition, everyone has their own "style"
and nothing can keep you on your toes more than training with
someone you've never trained with before.
Class
Timetable
Please
try to turn up at least 15 minutes before your class starts to
give you time to change and begin to warm up in your own time
when the mat is clear.
SUNDAY
2.00
pm to 3.00 pm Adult Beginners
MONDAY
5.45 pm to 6.30
pm Junior Beginners
6.30 pm to 7.30
pm Junior Advanced
7.45 pm to 8.45
pm Adult Intermediate
TUESDAY
5.30 pm to 6.20
pm Junior Sparring
6.30 pm to 7.30
pm Adult Seniors
7.45 pm to 8.45
pm Adult Beginner
WEDNESDAY
5.45 pm 6.30
pm Junior Beginners
6.30 pm to 7.30
pm Junior Advanced
7.45 pm to 8.45
pm Women's Only
THURSDAY
6.30 pm to 7.30
pm Adult Advanced
7.45 pm to 8.45
pm Adult Beginner
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Timetable
is correct as of 03rd May 2008
Adults £5.00 for non-members
and £4.00 for members.
Juniors £3.50 for non-members and £2.50 for members.
Membership (12 mths) £25.00 for adults, £20.00 for
juniors. --Instructors are available during
the day and at weekends for Private Lessons--
Junior
classes (advanced and beginners) are held several
times a week and are for children between the ages of 5 and 14.
We try to have as many assistants on the mat as possible to help
keep the kids attention. We have found that by splitting up the
juniors into groups of between 4 and 8, each with a different instructor
or assistant, the children will work better and gain more from their
time in the gym
Beginners classes
are for those people making their first step into Thai Boxing
and are taught at a slower pace to allow you learn the basics
correctly. These will still allow you to get a workout but make
sure that you don’t get into bad habits that you will struggle
to lose at a later date.
Intermediate classes are the
next steps up from the beginners and are necessary for those who
wish to compete and/or grade.
Advanced Classes are essential for
those wishing to pursue higher level gradings, sparring and fighting
Gradingsare an excellent way to test yourself and
your new abilities. The grading syllabus for each armband is set
to fully test your ability and knowledge of Thai Boxing, not just
your competitive skills. They are held every three months at the
gym. There are ten grades ranging from yellow to red armband. They
start easy and work the way upward to the red armband (which is
the equivalent of a black belt in karate of judo if you like).
Competition;There are various levels of competition within
Thai Boxing. The gym itself holds regular interclubs, these are
very light contact bouts of sparring where people can take their
first steps towards active competition, quite often with no result
so that there is less pressure. These prove to be very popular with
juniors especially, full padding is worn and it very difficult to
pick up any kind of an injury. In addition to holding interclubs
the gym travels around the Northwest to interclubs held at other
gyms.
For the seniors there are two further types of competition, amateur
and professional, although these reflect the rules used and not
actual payment of money. Amateur competitions are the initial steps
as again full padding is worn. Once you have tried amateur competitions
then, if you want, you can move on to professional, where only boxing
gloves are worn as protection.
