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The Hunslet Club is expanding its sporting offer with weekly Muay Thai sessions every Friday, following a successful taster event that saw plenty of enthusiasm and girls getting involved. The taster sessions gave participants the chance to try something new, learn the basics of Muay Thai and discover a different
It’s been requested for a while, and now it’s finally happening – Muay Thai is coming to The Hunslet Club. The Club is excited to welcome Declan Shipley, an experienced coach who competes in Muay Thai boxing himself. With a real passion for the sport, Declan can’t wait to get
A Middleton schoolboy is one of three local Thai boxers who’ve returned as medal winners from an international Muay Thai championship in Bangkok. Fabian Monit, 16, and veteran fighter Pyotr Janusz, 47, won gold in their respective categories with Kamil Fornalski, 25, taking silver. All three train at Beeston’s Master
Hunslet’s Peyton Silverblade is delighted to have won both his debut Thai boxing fight on the Leeds ‘Hitman’ show last November at eight years of age and now aged nine his second contest on Hitman’s recent Manchester show themed as ‘Legends’. According to parents James Silverblade and Helen Duckworth, “Peyton
Fighters from the MSA gym in Beeston showed their skills at the two-day Magic of Thailand Festival in Manchester. The event was one of a number held in various locations this summer promoting the culture, food and sport in the south-east Asian nation of over seventy million people. “We put
Belle Isle’s Matty Sylvester did a little Thai boxing or Muay Thai early in 2023 and then flew out to Thailand that summer. He’s now built an impressive record of fight wins culminating in a silver medal at 81kg in the WMF World Championship tournament in Bangkok. “I’d always admired