Meet the team of Lamai Muay Thai.
The Coaches have decades of experience and fought in stadiums like Lumpini and Rajadammern. Our Goal is to reach yours – pick your favourite trainer and get the chance to have a pivate training with them.
Meet The Team
Ralph Beale from the UK one of the founders has now made Koh Samui his home, after years of work and development in Muay Thai in the UK and Europe, from training his students and Fighters at his UK based gym, to growing the national federation with the joint visions of the WMC and IFMA to Now call Muay Thai an Olympic recognised sport.
The true benefit is seeing people new to the sport grow the passion that helps shape and change direction in their life, starting a journey to a healthy mind and body that Muay Thai offers.
Joe – Aged 37
Fighter Name – Chalermchai
Fights – 300+
Belts/Championships – Muay Thai High School Champion
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Thai Specialty – Muay Femur
Seven – Aged 29
Fighter Name – Warrune Taranon
Fights – 250+
Belts/Championships – Southern Region Champ 112 lbs, 118 lbs & 122 lbs
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Thai Specialty – Kick & Elbow
Pi Nong – Aged 59
Fighter Name – Hamharong
Fights – 80
Belts/Championships – Surat Thani Champ at 145lbs
Home Town – Koh Samui
Thai Specialty – Femur
Get to know your coaches! đ Pi Nong, also known during his fighting days as the âđđđđ đđȘđĄđ â (swipe right to see a photo!), has been at Lamai Muay Thai since itâs inception 20 years ago! đ±Anyone who has ever come to Lamai Muay Thai will most likely know him!
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Pi Nong first started training Muay Thai when he was 12 years old, and 3 months later had his first fight. He current has over 80+ fights. His style of fighting is forward fighting, favoring long distance strikes such as kicks. He has fought in many countries such as Australia, France, South Africa, Malaysia and Singapore and has fought Muay Thai legends such as @johnwayneparr.
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Graduating from university with a physical education major, Pi Nong first went to the navy, then afterwards started touring around the world teaching Muay Thai seminars with WMC founder Stephen Fox. Representing the WMC, he has taught seminars in countries such as Iran, Phillipines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Germany, England, and South Africa! He has over 30 years of experience teaching Muay Thai.
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Pi Nong has also helped prep professional fighters such as Valentina Shevchenko @bulletvalentina , Joanna JeÌšdrzejczyk @joannajedrzejczyk, Tum Mardsua @tummardsua & Dzhabar Askerov @dzhabar_askerov while they were training out of Lamai Muay Thai.
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His favorite food is Massaman Curry!
Vorn – Aged 58
Fighter Name – “back then we didn’t have fighters names”
Fights – 77
Regional Champ; South of Thailand Boxing at 58kg
Hometown – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Muay Thai Specialty – Muay Tet (Kick)
Get to know your coaches! Meet Lamai Muay Thai Coach Vorn! Coach Vorn first started training and fighting at 10 years old.
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He has over 70 fights and over 15 years of experience teaching Muay Thai. His fighting style favors kicks.
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Hailing originally from Nakhon Si Tammarat in South Thailand, Coach Vorn has been teaching at Lamai Muay Thai for the past 5 years.
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đ„ His favorite food is rice and spicy curry!
Jack – Aged 35
Fighter Name – Charlernsuk Sukdechar (Char-lern-suk_Suk-de-char)
Fights – 350
Belts/Championships – Amateur Boxing – Silver medalist 2006-7
3 x IBF Muay Thai Champ
Rajadamnern Champion 147lbs
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Muay Thai Specialty – Femur (technician)
Notable Achievements – *teaching/coaching abroad in over 10 different countries – *Coached Jonathan Haggerty for One Championship
Have you trained with Coach Jack @jackwmcsamui? Jack is known at Lamai Muay Thai for his fearsome training style and is a favorite trainer amongst active fighters.
A little bit about Jack’s fighting background…Jack first started training Muay Thai at around 6 years old and had his first fight at 7 years old.
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Currently, he has over 300 Muay Thai fights, 20 years of experience training in Muay Thai, and has fought in prestigious stadiums just as Lumpini stadium, Rajadamnern Stadium, Channel 7 and Channel 14, as well as in foreign countries such as Australia, Germany, and New Zealand.
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He describes his fighting style as preferring clinching and elbows. Jack first started teaching others Muay Thai at around 23 years old, when he first arrived at Lamai Muay Thai. He has since been teaching at Lamai Muay Thai for over 9 years!
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He has taught Muay Thai seminars in many foreign countries, including Switzerland, Poland, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand. His favorite type of food is spicy, southern Thai food!
Bin – Aged 25
Fighter Name – Bin Parunchai
Fights – 66
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Thai Specialty – Elbow & Clinching
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