Muay Thai continues to grow and expand its reach to an international market with the opening of gyms and schools across the globe.
One country with long-standing ties to Muay Thai is Russia, with many of the country’s elite and aspiring Muay Thai athletes making a yearly visit to Thailand to train in the homeland of the sport where they learn the intricacies of the art of eight limbs and then take their knowledge back to Russia where there are hundreds of Muay Thai gyms across the nation.
Earlier this month, a team from the World Boxing Council Muay Thai headquarters in Bangkok hosted a virtual gathering with their counterparts in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, near Moscow.
The meeting, under the banner of the WBC Muay Thai Youth Cares programme, was billed as a workshop to promote youth empowerment by being active in both body and mind, encouraging self…
