Field note, day 1
Por Kobkua Gym: a visit
Por Kobkua Gym, training in the open under an unfinished elevated structure on the eastern side of Bangkok.
Ollie was there. Posted 2026-09-23.
What the visit showed
The gym trains outdoors under an unfinished concrete structure, beside a derelict block with its window openings still empty. There are no walls and no door. The matting starts where the ground does.
One ring on interlocking mats and a short row of hanging bags is all the equipment that appears on camera. No weights room, no reception and no shop is filmed.
Two fighters train through the clip, which cuts to broadcast footage from an RWS card. The cut does not establish that the fighter on the broadcast is either of the two in the gym.
The reel closes on a satellite view with a pin dropped at 13.8189271, 100.7294380, beside an elevated road on the eastern edge of the city.
The visit
Every claim, graded
Seen
The gym trains outdoors under an unfinished concrete structure, beside a derelict block with its window openings still empty. There are no walls and no door. The matting starts where the ground does.
Seen
One ring on interlocking mats and a short row of hanging bags is all the equipment that appears on camera. No weights room, no reception and no shop is filmed.
Seen
Two fighters train through the clip, which cuts to broadcast footage from an RWS card. The cut does not establish that the fighter on the broadcast is either of the two in the gym.
Seen
The reel closes on a satellite view with a pin dropped at 13.8189271, 100.7294380, beside an elevated road on the eastern edge of the city.
Said by the gym
The gym's account, as the reel relays it, is that it opened in 2013 so local children would have somewhere to train and has run on the same ground since.
Not settled
What the visit did not answer
- What a session costs and what the schedule is. No figure is quoted in the reel and the gym has no page here we can read.
- Whether either fighter filmed competes on RWS, which the reel asserts and the footage does not settle.
- Whether the gym takes visitors at all, or trains its own fighters only.
Source
Day 1, as posted
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Filming a numbered series: finding the best Muay Thai gym in Thailand.
Ollie posts a numbered series on Instagram under a single title, finding the best Muay Thai gym in Thailand. One gym per entry: turn up, train the session, put up what it was like. The account bio reads "muay thai enthusiast", not fighter, and that is the accurate description of nearly everyone who flies here to train. It is also the reason the series is worth reading rather than only watching.
We publish these visits as field notes because the rest of this site is a desk. Every rate here was read off a gym's own website on a dated day, which is a real thing to know and not the same thing as standing in the place at six in the morning. The gap between those two is most of what somebody booking a month actually wants.
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Know this gym?
One visit is one visit. If something here is wrong, or the open questions above have answers, tell us and the record gets updated with the date it was checked.