The story
Two kinds of photograph come out of this gym. One is a man throwing a head kick inside a cage at Lion Championship, which is where professional fighters in Vietnam actually compete. The other is about twenty five people sitting on the floor together after a session, half of them women, several of them foreign, most of them plainly not fighters.
That is the same gym, and it is the whole thing worth knowing about it. Most people assume a gym is one or the other, and walk into the softer one.
Five things are taught. Kickfit, which is the striking done as fitness and where most people start. Boxing. Kickboxing. Muay Thai. And MMA, which puts them together.
The coaches put their own records on their website. Quang Trần and Trần Tra are both national champions, Trần Tra with more than ten years competing. Kiên Phạm and Hoài Tiến take the rest. You are taught by people who have done it, not by somebody who did a weekend course.
The building is three floors. Red bags down one wall, a full ring at the back, a separate matted room for grappling.
On Nguyễn Hữu Thọ in Hòa Cường, on the city side of the river. Open from six in the morning, which is early enough to train before work.
What you train
Kickfit
Striking taught as fitness, and where nearly everybody starts. No sparring, no experience needed, and the reason the room is not only full of fighters.
Boxing And Kickboxing
Hands, then hands and feet. Pad work with a coach holding for you rather than a class you follow from the back.
Muay Thai And MMA
Elbows, knees and clinch, then the whole thing on the ground as well. This is the end of the road that leads to the cage.
Coached By Competitors
Four coaches, two of them national champions, one with over ten years competing. They publish their own records.
Open
6am to 8:30pm. Sunday 6am to noon
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