Camp matcher
Which camp actually suits you
44 camps is too many to read through, and the ones that market hardest are not the ones that will suit you.
6 questions, then a shortlist drawn from the 44 camps on this site, scored on the 8 kinds of trip each camp is listed as suiting and the region you named. What counts as cheap is the middle of the monthly rates the camps themselves publish, 10,000 THB today, so the line moves when they move their prices and no figure here pretends to know the market. Every match arrives with the reasons it was picked and with what we have not confirmed about that camp, because a shortlist that hides its gaps is a ranking, and we are not ranking these. No email, nothing sold at the end.
Question 1 of 6
How much Muay Thai have you actually done?
Be honest. Half the bad camp experiences we hear about are people booking a fighter camp on three months of classes.
What we are asking
- 01Experience
- 02Goal
- 03Budget
- 04Length of trip
- 05Region
- 06Women's programme
The method
What the answers are scored against
เกณฑ์- The region it trains inAdds 4 points if you named its region and takes 8 off if you named another.
- 44of 44, from the camp
- How big it isStands in for a rate where a camp publishes none, worth 2 points, which is why it counts for less than a figure does.
- 44of 44, from the camp
- Who we think it suitsAdds 3 points for every kind of trip it matches.
- 43of 44, our reading
- The monthly rate it publishesMoves a camp that already fits 3 points either way, read against the middle of the rates the camps publish.
- 26of 44, from the camp
- Who we think it does not suitTakes 6 points off for every kind it clashes with, which is usually enough on its own to drop it.
- 22of 44, our reading
- A women's programme in writingAdds no points either way. It names the programme where a camp states one and warns where it does not, and no camp states one, so today it only ever warns.
- 0of 44, from the camp
The gaps
What the shortlist cannot do yet
Asking for a women’s programme filters nothing. Not one of the 44 camps states in writing that it runs one, so answering yes does not remove a single camp from the list. What it does instead is add a line to every match telling you to ask the camp before you book, which is the honest version of an answer we cannot give.
Sparring intensity is not asked about, because no camp publishes it either. A question we could not score would be worse than no question: it would look like the shortlist knew something about how hard the rounds go, and it does not.
One camp on this site cannot be reached by the form unless you name the region. Sitjaroonsak Muaythai Gym has nothing recorded about who it suits, so four of the six questions score it at zero. That is a hole in our reading rather than anything against the gym.
- Sitjaroonsak Muaythai Gym
Bang Wa, Bangkok
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- Camps for people who have never trained26 of 44 listed
- Camps for women3 of 44 listed
- Camps for competitive fighters12 of 44 listed
- Camps for people on a tight budget10 of 44 listed
- Camps for people training to lose weight6 of 44 listed
- Camps for people staying for months17 of 44 listed
- Camps for people on a training holiday6 of 44 listed
- Camps for families5 of 44 listed