Muay Thai Class Schedule
Sunday
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Open Mat
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Monday
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Muay Thai and BJJ Morning Training
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Muay Thai Kickboxing
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Tuesday
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Muay Thai and BJJ Morning Training
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Muay Thai Kickboxing
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Wednesday
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Muay Thai and BJJ Morning Training
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Thursday
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Muay Thai and BJJ Morning Training
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Muay Thai Kickboxing
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Friday
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Open Mat
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Muay Thai Fundamentals
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Saturday
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Open Mat
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Why Train Muay Thai?
Fitness
Gyms are great, but why not become stronger, faster and more coordinated while making new friends and learning new, practical skills?
Confidence-Boosting
It’s hard not to become more confident as you feel yourself become stronger, develop better cardio health and improve your coordination.
Self-Defense
Learn how to defend yourself! If the need ever arises, you’ll have the confidence to think more clearly in the situation.
Community
Remember how much fun after-school activities like band or football were? It’s the same here. Join a community of friends and teammates who train together, encourage one another and grow as a group.
Muay Thai Competition
We make sure athletes have consistent, ongoing opportunities to compete.
Competition Approach:
Prioritizing Safety and Preparation
Safety
Each of our Muay Thai competitors has gone through and trained to understand the Muay Thai and defense fundamentals. We don’t throw people in the ring to compete who aren’t prepared — that would be dangerous and irresponsible. We’re proud that we’ve never had a serious injury stemming from Muay Thai competition.
6-Week Fight Camp
We have students go through a comprehensive six weeks of preparation for competition.
Each competitor works with both Muay Thai and boxing coaches on their competition game plan, strategy and mindset. We scout our competition and create a strategy from distance, hand range and clinch, as well as pacing and ring management. Our preparation has been instrumental in our history of competition success.
Boxing Classes Coached by Roy Starin
Roy has trained both Muay Thai and Dutch-style kickboxing for over 12 years. This has helped him develop a unique style of Muay Thai that borrows from both disciplines, using a heavy forward pressure with strong boxing and hard low kicks.
For students, this provides a wide array of techniques that you can learn and use to develop your striking style.
Class Structure
We structure Muay Thai kickboxing classes to focus on a single topic each week.
Roy’s coaching philosophy is to find ways to reliably “add to the tool box,” giving you more options that you feel comfortable using in your striking game.
We do so by introducing a new concept at the beginning of the week, then developing it further at practice throughout that week. This gives you several days of learning and skill development for each new “tool” you learn.
Muay Thai Class Structure
- Start class with shadowboxing to warm up. We use this time to loosen up our bodies and to practice technique.
- Begin conditioning padwork rounds. We do two 3-minute rounds of combination work (specific striking combinations), followed by three 1-minute rounds of high-intensity work. We then switch with our training partner, and they do the same rounds.
- Move into the weekly lesson. Each week, we introduce a new concept on Monday and then build on it throughout the week. By the end of the week, we are practicing these new skills with our partners in drills that mimic sparring.
- Go into light 2-minute sparring rounds. This gives us live experience using what we’ve been practicing.
Shadowboxing
Conditioning Padwork
Weekly Lessons
Light Sparring
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FAQ
First, don’t worry in the slightest about being new to martial arts! Training people from zero is what we’re known for.
As with all things in life, the more you do, the better you get. All classes are beginner friendly. Fundamentals classes are also very helpful because they go over the art’s most essential movements. However, you should supplement them with standard classes as well.
We think about this question incessantly! It’s our goal as instructors to maximize your progress, given your time commitment.
The simple answer for you as a student is to come to class as often as you can! We design our class structure to make the most of your time investment with 90-minute to 2-hour classes. That’s also because we don’t need to short-change sparring or technique.
Our curriculum is similar to an academic curriculum. We teach in weekly blocks so that you aren’t learning techniques that don’t go together but rather learning in logical systems. Additionally, we add resistance to make the techniques sparring-ready and then spar five-plus rounds in every class.
In fact, we’ve been focused on maximizing student learning since we opened in 2011!
Easy answer — you should train both!
Boxing focuses on your hands, hand defense and footwork, while Muay Thai covers clinch, kicks, knees and elbows. They complement each other incredibly well, which is why we teach both.
To start, we have community gear that’ll get you through. Still, you’ll want your own gear for sanitary purposes. We recommend getting these items:
- Hand wraps
- 12, 14 or 16 oz. gloves
- Shin guards
- A mouth guard
- Groin protection
We can point you in the right direction so that you buy the best gear for you and your budget.
To compete, you need to show competence in each phase of a Muay Thai fight and a willingness to compete. We have each competitor work with the instructor on tournament mindset, strategy and game plan. Then, we put competitors through a camp leading up to the competition to ensure they’re ready to perform at their best.
We take competition and safety seriously and ensure each student is truly ready for competition. We have a long-standing tradition of competition and have sent students all around the globe to compete!
We believe “cardio kickboxing” is a misnomer that actually means “boxing without learning technique.”
You always get a great workout at Mat Chess while simultaneously learning superb, tried-and-true techniques taught in a way that maximizes your learning and progress. We’re a martial arts gym, and our classes are also a great way to work out!
Parking is easy! You have an abundance of free street parking surrounding our building.
All you need are clothes you feel comfortable working out in. If you’re trying out a class, we have community gear that’ll get you through the day.
Absolutely not! In fact, 95% of the people who come in have never trained before. We’re renowned for teaching you from zero.
Open mat is noninstructional time when people come in to drill, spar, roll and work on their own martial arts projects. It’s a great opportunity to push yourself while having a good time with the community.
Our kids’ class accommodates ages 5 to 15. We start integrating students into adult class around high school, and our oldest student is 71 years old!
Overwhelmingly, the answer is to come to class! We design our class structure to maximize your progress, so doing the things needed to free time to attend class is often the most important part of maximizing your learning.
Your coaches also work with you on your personal development. Each Mat Chess coach has excellent experience working with you on your unique goals.
The best time to start is now! Don’t worry in the slightest about not being in the shape that you want to be in.
And don’t waste time thinking you should work on your general fitness to start your martial arts journey. Martial arts will help with that!
