Chalong Chai Muay Thai and MMA news

The gym on Soi Tayeat is offically closed. Look for Tigerpitt U.S.A. in the near future. Tigerpitt Thailand is offering one on one training. Contact us for more details.

Sean and Aaron are in America. Sean is teaching in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area. He is teaching and training at Evolution Mixed Martial Arts Academy. Aaron is in New York City teaching at Camp Undefeated. If you are in either of those areas be sure to look them up.

The Tigerpitt international fight team is on the move. Sean Douglas and Aaron Fisher are heading off to compete in various fights around the world. Sean has left for America and is striking a deal with the WEC, a MMA organization that is run by the UFC. He will also be competing in muay Thai for several different organizations. Aaron is heading to Singapore on the 27th for a few weeks of training at FightWorks Asia and then will be going to the States to fight muay Thai and MMA. Look to see Sean and Aaron back Jan. 2009

On Thursday March 6th two of our students, Petter and Dave were scheduled to fight at Patong Boxing stadium. Petter won his fight easily in the first round. He knocked his opponent down 3 times and then the 4th time the ref stopped the fight. Dave, who was coming off of a 1st round win at Bangla Stadium lost a 5 round decision. He fought a seasoned fighter and had a war, trading kicks with his opponent. Kru DaySicDa wasn’t scheduled to fight that night, but another Thai boxer had pulled out and the promoter needed someone to fill the spot. DaySicDa stepped up and was to be that fighter. His opponent turned out to be someone from Tiger Muay Thai, a rival gym here in Phuket. When Will, the owner of Tiger Muay Thai, learned that his student was to fight a trainer from Chalong Chai he refused to let his student fight, giving no specific reasons for this.

The Tigerpitt is 4-0 in our last 4 fights with 4 KO’s. Kru Jon and student Petter both fought on Feb. 21st at Patong stadium. Petter fought first and Ko’ed his opponnet in the 2ed round with a left hook, while Kru Jon outclassed his opponnet forcing the ref to stop the fight in the 3ed round. On sunday the 24th Kru Noom and student Dave fought at Bangla Stadium. Kru Noom and his opponet batteled back and forth the first 3 rounds, then in the 4th his opponet came out with a series on elbows, when the two fighters broke Noom was cut and spewing blood. He came back and knocked his oppone out with a kick to the head. Dave made quick work of a local fighter from Rawai, kneeing him in the stomach and sweeping his leg in the first round sending the Thai to the mat and not getting up. Dave will have another fight on March 6th and Jon is fighting again on Feb. 25th

On tuesday the 5th Kru Jon and Kru Nigh drove 2 hours north of Phuket to Phung Na provinence to fight. Unfortunatly when they arrived, Kru Nigh was told that his fight was cancelled. Kru Jon won his fight with a big KO by spinning elbow in the second round. Kru Nigh is scheduled to fight again on the 15th in Bangla Stadium and Kru Jon will be fighting on the 21st along with Chalong Chai student Petter at Patong Boxing Stadium here in Phuket

Two of our trainer, Kru Jon and Kru Nigh will be fighting in Phung-Na provience this tuesday.  Look for the results and pics soon after.

Tigerpitt Muay Thai trainer Kru DaySicDa won a 5 round decision over  Jarouwan on Jan, 27th.  Both DaySicDa and his opponet are  veteran fighters with over 200 fights each and this fight was the main event of the evening. On friday Jan 25th Aaron Fisher  took on PetMongkon. Aaron stopped his oppenet in the 3ed rd when he caught his opponets kick and swept his standing leg, sending PetMongkon to the mat where he stayed.

It was good ideas, big dreams and a business trip that brought us to Bangkok. Unbeknownst to the both of us we would end up guided by a series of spontaneous taxi rides riddled with indications and the whereabouts of Wat ????????????? aka the Tiger temple.
The tradition of sak-yant tattooing dates in the region of 2500 years. For us tattooing was just something we enjoyed but add that to a mix of cultural tradition,blessings by monks and long stainless rods imprinting the sakyant and sanskrit permanently onto the skin of your soul and you start to believe in something that words often fail to clarify.
We hadn’t planned to get tattooed this day it was just something that we had talked about doing someday. The both of us had previously indulged on to our backs particular pieces of sakyant design although under modern machines.
This day Sean added another Tiger to his collection and I an ancient sanskrit prayer emanating good fortune, prosperity and good health. After the budddhist disciples had finished their work and chanted the assosciated prayer we descended the temple to engage the head monk. He imparted his bleesings upon all of our sakyant and we both entertaing the possiblity of the moment willingly took the next step of having our foreheads and tongues blessed and tattooed in an ancient oil that the bretheren of the Wat had made in the holiest of vows for the good of all.
Describing the memory of this special undertaking is somewhat difficult. To try and write about the melancholic feeling that this occasion emanted I am unsure of whether I can do. To re-tell the stories to our students and share these memories in the camraderie of the Chalong Chai dynamic is something we enjoy and proudly divulge. Go to www.tigerpitt.com and click on gallerys to see pics.