Q&A on Thailand

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This has turned out to be quite a thread. I see a big bucks book deal in the works. You can call it:

Payak's Ultimate Guide to Thailand: With special sections including everything from the best Muaythai training camps in Thailand, to the glittering neon lights of Bangkok's best AGOGO's. This book has it all!

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why don't you add a chapter.
 
Payak said:
why don't you add a chapter.
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Sounds good. Since I will be spending a week or so of my upcoming trip in Pattaya, just put me down for a chapter on Pattaya. Maybe I can call it:

Pattaya: A farang's guide to fun and frolicking in paradise on the Gulf of Thailand. :icon_lol:

I wonder if I can extend my stay and write it off my taxes, as a work expense. :icon_lol:

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pattaya haha,you will think your on another planet once you get there.
a dream you wont want to wake up from.
 
Pattaya is good in short stints. I spent a month there in 1995 and again in 1996 when I was in the Navy. It was crazy. I went back there in 2007 and only could stand it for 4 days. I had training on my mind and it was just too much. I liked Fairtex, but the sight of 60+ year old German men with 18 year old (I hope) isaan girls really bothers me after a while. Don't get me wrong, my best friends in Thailand are bargirls from isaan, but
something creeps me out about those old German men.

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I'm going to give it another shot next summer.
 
Ryukyu Damashi said:
Pattaya is good in short stints. I spent a month there in 1995 and again in 1996 when I was in the Navy. It was crazy. I went back there in 2007 and only could stand it for 4 days. I had training on my mind and it was just too much. I liked Fairtex, but the sight of 60+ year old German men with 18 year old (I hope) isaan girls really bothers me after a while. Don't get me wrong, my best friends in Thailand are bargirls from isaan, but
something creeps me out about those old German men.

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I'm going to give it another shot next summer.
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What was your rate in the NAVY and what ship were you on shipmate?
 
I was a Mineman Second Class. Wasn't on a ship. I was station at MOMAG Unit Ten in Okinawa from 1994-1998.

How aboout you?
 
I trained in Pattaya for a month before coming here at Keatkamthorn in Bangkok, and what a world of difference. Training is much more serious here, none of that tourist crap, plenty of thai fighters to train with. No distractions whatsoever... Pattaya is a goddamn nice city if you don't take the training too seriously though. Damn I want to go back now haha :icon_twis
 
Ryukyu Damashi said:
Pattaya is good in short stints, but the sight of 60+ year old German men with 18 year old (I hope) isaan girls really bothers me after a while.

something creeps me out about those old German men.
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I agree, it's kind of depressing or something.
 
Ok guys i know this is probably the wrong thread to ask in but im hoping one of you guys would know. Is it impossible to get to somewhere where i can learn Burmese boxing or Lethwei? Thanks and sorry for asking in the wrong section i just didn't want to start a whole thread on it.
 
Payak, how about another chapter.

What is the honour code to start fighting? Like in some places, it is if someone takes the first shot, a fight will start. Or at other places, as long as you are reasoning with others, no fight will begin. However, at other places, might rules and reason counts for nothing and it can begin whenevr and whereever.
 
don't think about it,very unlikely to fight in thailand if your a non aggressive placid guy without a big mouth.
show respect and use common sense.
thais are the friendliest people you will meet.
like anywhere if a fight is gonna start you will know,most thai will try and smile to cool the situation,most are scared to fight farang because you guys are big and they think you are all crazy,movies make them think that.
should you fight it will most likely be due to an inability to walk away.
should you get into a fight,be prepared as absolutely anything is fair game from a kick in the nuts to a bullet.
they win they win,does not matter how they do it its all fair.
in thailand everything is about winning and losing,marry a thai girl and you learn real fast you never win.
when shes right she's right,when your right in her mind she is still right.
 
phillys-finest said:
Ok guys i know this is probably the wrong thread to ask in but im hoping one of you guys would know. Is it impossible to get to somewhere where i can learn Burmese boxing or Lethwei? Thanks and sorry for asking in the wrong section i just didn't want to start a whole thread on it.
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would not advise going to burma right now,but if you do just head off and ask the locals.
 
a good eg of how thai's can get overly fired in a fight.
my wifes friend's husband recently got into a fight with 2 friends.
they both kicked his ass,but a he managed to get away and went home to get a machette.
comeing back he ran into them but they had machettes to now.
that guy is dead now.
never been a mention of it being dirty fight.
i hate fighting with a passion,if your unliucky enough to have one and you win,never hang around after,get in a taxi and leave asap,he will return with a weopon or a small army of friends.
when all his friends kick your ass,thats fair.
 
Sadly, I am a scrawny Asian(Though not short)

But lets take the former incident which I have related previously. A guy calls me a Stingy begger miser, but if I make him lose face by reminding I had generously treated him drinks before, is he still gonna think he was right?

Payak said:
don't .
like anywhere if a fight is gonna start you will know,most thai will try and smile to cool the situation,most are scared to fight farang because you guys are big and they think you are all crazy,movies make them think that.
should you fight it will most likely be due to an inability to walk away.
should you get into a fight,be her mind she is still right.
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depends on the individual.
thailands has 60000000 individuals who each have a personality all there own.
 
Nice answers Payak, we have learned a fuc**** shi*load of things. From whom to learn about Thailand than a street experienced Thai.
 
any one ever head to southern thailand and practice silat.
i was blown away by a seminar down there.
very practical and deadly effective art.
good ground work to.
the old guy hurt me in so many different ways.
i felt like a helpless child.
 
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