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About Chris
Authentic Muay Thai boxing instruction directly from the source. (Adults, 18+ only).
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Private Muay Thai training sessions provide numerous physical and mental benefits including:
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Coach Chris began his professional career in 1988 with the New York State Guard, as an Infantryman with the 10th Mountain Division and then, in 1990 with the U.S. Army as a Paratrooper, with the 82nd Airborne Division, participating in ground combat operations during the Persian Gulf War. After being honorably discharged, Chris transitioned to law enforcement as a Correctional Officer at New York’s infamous Sing-Sing State Prison in 1994. There, he began developing his interest and experience in real world self-defense concepts. Chris moved on to law enforcement assignments as a Police Officer with the U.S. Treasury Department at the West Point Military Academy and then the Federal Protective Service in Los Angeles California, specializing in inner city police operations and criminal street-gang interdiction.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Coach Chris joined the Federal Air Marshal Service with OCONUS operational assignments in Southeast Asia, which sparked his unyielding interest in Muay Thai and Southeast Asian martial arts. Chris continued in federal law enforcement with the U.S. Forest Service in counter drug cartel operations and finally as a counter terrorism team operator with the Amtrak O.S.S.S.O. Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations, in Los Angeles California. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from Mountain State University.
Chris retired from federal law enforcement in 2010 and began training boxers and working in the private security contracting sector full-time. Chris was a Corporate Director/Senior- firearms and combatives instructor with CQB Group International Inc., a corporate security, executive protection and training services firm based in Bangkok, Thailand and Melbourne, Australia from 2010 to 2015.
Coach (Kru) Chris began his Muay Thai training in Thailand in 2002, at numerous boxing camps around Bangkok, from the urban hustle of Klong Toey to the rural jungle of the Issan countryside. He has spent over thirteen years training exclusively in Southeast Asia and given the questionably affectionate boxer name – ปีศาจสีขาว “White Demon” by villagers. Chris has extensively studied the Thai, Cambodian, Laotian and Burmese boxing systems in an ongoing search for authentic techniques and training methods, especially the closely held training secrets not normally shared with foreigners. Chris approached his Muay Thai training differently from the very beginning, with the focus being to become a teacher, to improve the antiquated law enforcement/military self-defense training and ultimately to preserve authentic Muay Thai for civilians in the United States. Chris remains steadfast in his commitment to maintain and protect authentic Muay Thai culture, traditions and fundamental training standards without compromise.
Chris has spent over 25 years working in the field with elite U.S. military units and law enforcement special operations teams, before retiring from government service in 2010. Chris’s depth of experience living, training, studying and competing in Southeast Asia, has given him unique local contacts, broad perspective and a comprehensive understanding of the culture, language, politics and history of Thailand’s national sport, Muay Thai – Southeast Asian boxing.
Coach Chris is one of the very few foreigners holding a class “A” ring official certification in Thailand, and has been allowed to referee and judge professional Muay Thai matches in Thailand. He is the founder and Head Instructor of Channarong Muay Thai Camp, the S.E.A. Combatives Group and the Muay Tahnoon self-defense system.
Seeing genuine confidence and technical ability develop as I'm working with my students.
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Tips for Selecting a Muay Thai training teacher AKA – gym/school
#1 Ensure that the all the instructors actually teach Muay Thai – Thai Boxing. This may sound ridiculous, but there are numerous “Mc Muay Thai” schools and teachers appearing all over the U.S. and Europe that are really teaching kick boxing or greatly watered down Muay Thai. Thanks to YouTube, anyone can watch a few videos and put together something that looks like Muay Thai to an uneducated eye. Many of these buffet style schools have just added Muay Thai as a flavor of the month, simply to generate more income and try to remain relevant. Here are some tough questions to ask…. (be prepared for some ducking and weaving here).
Was the Instructor/Kru teaching a different “martial” art or aerobic fitness boxing recently?
Does the instructor have a multitude of black belts in a bunch of unrelated “martial” arts acquired in record breaking time?
Has the instructor actually been to Thailand? (Not one bar-hopping 30 day vacation in Phuket).
Did the instructor buy a teacher “Kru” certification from one of the many salesmen? (Some are even selling Kru certificates via DVD training courses online and yes, some are Thai).
Do they advertise with terms like “Kick-Boxing”? Any genuine Muay Thai teacher will have a strong aversion to the term “kick-boxing” being used in relation to Muay Thai in any way. Kick-Boxing is a much watered down, poor copy of Muay Thai from Japan.
Ask them if they clinch and then ask them to demonstrate it. Very few instructors outside of Thailand can properly teach clinching and elbow techniques. Do they teach proper traps, locks, chokes, throws and sweeps? Clinching is an entire art in itself. If you step into the ring with someone that has been trained properly and you have not, you will regret it….
*Now here is a huge red-flag. Do the instructors actually do Thai pad work one-on-one with you, or do they just give pads to another untrained student to hold? This is very important, Thai pad holding is an entire specialized skill set that takes years to learn. If you don’t have proper pad training the pad holder or student can easily be injured. If a trainer doesn’t do pad work with you one-on-one…then it’s not the real deal. You will never see students holding pads in a camp in Thailand.
Do the instructors insist on doing Thai conditioning drills? This is also very, very important part of Muay Thai. Tire training, rope work, road work, knee drills, heavy sand bag conditioning to strengthen bones. If they don’t do it keep looking.
Is the school quiet during training? Real Muay Thai camps are very, very noisy and I’m not talking about music.
Are they conducting training in an air conditioned, strip mall box?
Do they teach correct defense skills or do they just try to wear you out with the fun stuff hitting bags or pads?
Do they require you to learn and perform the Ram Muay-Wai Kru? If they say “what’s that” or “that’s some stuff only Thais do” Keep looking. By Thailand law, you must perform the ritual before a professional fight.
Do they have a made-up rank system or charge rank test fees? (Belts are a Western marketing ploy that first infected Karate after WWII and then Tae Kwon Do after the Korean war and Kung Fu after Bruce Lee made it big in U.S. movies). If your would-be teacher says they have a black belt in Muay Thai, walk away.
Do they teach ring strategy and full Thai rules regulations? Does the school actually have a full rules fight team with professionally trained seconds, cut-men and corner-men?
Have all the instructors actually extensively trained and/or fought in Thailand? Zero trips? Once? Keep looking, there simply is no short cut around this. Hint – (Passport stamps).
Note, just because someone was a great fighter doesn’t necessarily mean they can confer that knowledge on to you. Lots of professional fights, especially outside Thailand, does not guarantee you a good instructor either. In fact, Muay Thai fights in the U.S. mean little to nothing in Thailand.
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His training method is unique. I didn't realize how much I had learned and how far I had progressed until I interacted with other schools. It was wild. Definitely recommend him.
Kru Chris is excellent. Having someone with his personal experience makes all the difference. If you're going to put in the time to work at this, you should want to work with someone with his experience and insistence on doing things the right way. I highly recommend him.
An Awesome Teacher aka Knowledge Box!
Crazy depth of knowledge. Look Kru Chris knows his Sh*t
If you want to more about the art of Muay Thai...the cultural of Muay Thai and spiritual side of Muay Thai...he is your guy
Its rare that a falong (foreigner) has this amount of knowledge about most aspects of the art. He has been living there back and forth for eons...and it shows
When he gets back from his adventures in Thailand and SEA...I always give him a call to get the latest intel on whats going on.
Pick his brain and get ready for a HUGE knowledge dump :)
Excellent breakdown of technique and uses. 5 Stars.
It's hard to find a legit Muay Thai teacher in the states. Kru Chris brings the old-school experience if you're up to the challenge!
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