What We Teach
The Zen MMA kickboxing program is based on the discipline of authentic Muay Thai as taught and practiced in Thailand. Muay Thai is one of the oldest and most effective forms of kickboxing and is unique in allowing punches, kicks, knees, elbows, clinch fighting, throws, and takedowns. While many forms of modern kickboxing are limited to punches and kicks such as K-1.
Meet Our Head Muay Thai Instructor
Kru Phon Narupai
With over 200 professional fights in Thailand and more than 30 years of training great Thai fighters you won't want to miss training with Kru Phon. Kru Phon teaches all our Muay Thai classes between February and August. Check out our Blog if you would like to learn more about Kru Phon.
What You Can Expect
From your first Muay Thai class, you’ll understand why everyone raves about our kickboxing classes in Ottawa. Our members love the experience they get and the results they see from taking our kickboxing classes. Classes are fun, the facility is super clean, and our instructors genuinely care about the success you experience in our Muay Thai program. Walk into our Ottawa gym any day and you will find the training environment bright, clean, and inviting.
Each Muay Thai class offers a total body workout; incorporating sculpting exercises and conditioning methods designed to transform your body, and give you the best calorie burning workout for your time. Unlike Cardio Kickboxing, this is the real deal for burning calories. All Zen Muay Thai Classes in Ottawa are taught by professional Muay Thai instructors, teaching real Muay Thai techniques for REAL fitness and self defense results!
How We Do It
Our members are regular folks like yourself who love a good workout. The classes expose students to a progression of techniques and training tools such as punching bags, focus mitts, Muay Thai pads, slappers, partner training and other fitness tools such as medicine balls, dumbbells, skipping ropes, strengthening straps, and more.
Muay Thai classes at Zen allow our students to learn the techniques in a progressive and logical way. Our Ottawa kickboxing classes are divided into two levels. Level I kickboxing classes for beginners has an emphasis on stances, movement, boxing in addition to punching combinations, kicks and basic knees and elbow techniques. Our level II advanced kickboxing class adds more complicated punching and kicking combinations, in depth knees, elbows, and clinch techniques and more difficult kicks.
Muay Thai For Beginners
Everyone is welcome in our classes. We were all once beginners. We have new students joining our classes every week, so you'll never be the newest person for very long. If you've been thinking about doing it for a while, there's no time like the present. Come in and try a free class with no obligation and see if it's the right martial art for you. You'll never know if you don't try!