Our only goal is to help you reach yours. The highly-qualified Lamai Muay Thai team is ready to help you along every step of your fitness & Muay Thai training journey.
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
View – Aged 27
Fighter Name – Tiger Palunchai
Fights – 200+
Belts/Championships – Muay Thai Southern Region Belt 57kg
Home Town – Surat Thani
Thai Specialty – Tett (Kick)
Bin – Aged 25
Fighter Name – Bin Parunchai
Fights – 66
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Thai Specialty – Elbow & Clinching
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! 👉 Pi Nong, also known during his fighting days as the “𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙞 𝙃𝙪𝙡𝙠” (swipe right to see a photo!), has been at Lamai Muay Thai since it’s inception 20 years ago! 😱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 Jędrzejczyk @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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🥘 His favorite food is rice and spicy curry!
Ton – Aged 29
Fighter Name – Lairm Kom
Fights – 150+
Belts/Championships – Amateur Muay Thai 65kg 2018
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat
Thai Specialty – Muay Kao (Knee)
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!
Jen – Aged 30
Fighter Name – Jane Suek
Fights – 300+
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat Muay
Thai Specialty – Kicks
Get to know your coaches! Have you ever trained with Lamai Muay Thai Coach Jane @jane_jirapong? Here is a little bit of information about Coach Jane’s Muay Thai background…
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Jane first started training Muay Thai when he was 6 years old. He started fighting when he was 7 years old. Currently he has over 300+ Muay Thai fights. His fighting style is “Muay Femur,” technical and evasive. You can see some of his fights on Youtube!
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He stopped fighting when he was around 23 years old. It was during this time that he moved to Lamai Muay Thai to be a coach! Jane has currently been teaching Muay Thai out of Lamai Muay Thai for the past 3 years!
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He favorite food is spicy southern food with curry!
Beer – Aged 34
Fighter Name – Kao Nar
Fights – 400+
Belts/Championships – Champ Lumpini, 108 lbs – Channel 3, 126 lbs – Phoenix World, 130 lbs
Home Town – Nakhon Si Thammarat Muay
Thai Specialty – Femur (technician)
Jap – Aged 24
Fighter Name – Pohn Parunchai
Fights – 75
Lumpinee Champion & The National Wai Kru competition winner 2020, 2021 & 2023
Hometown – Krabi Province
Muay Thai Specialty – Femur (Technical)
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