ค่ายมวย: a camp is a family

Thai fighters often live at their camp: they train twice a day, eat together and sleep upstairs, and the camp is their family. The way in is small and steady. Learn the names of the trainers and the fighters, and use them. Ask กินข้าวยัง, have you eaten, the everyday hello. Go to eat at the stall next door after training and invite someone along. Ask a fighter ชกเมื่อไหร่, when is your fight, and then go and cheer. Bringing a bag of fruit or cold drinks for the trainers now and then is a warm gesture, and so is a tip for your pad holder at the end of a long stay. What earns real respect is ใจสู้, a fighting heart: finish the round, laugh at yourself, come back tomorrow.