The art of eight limbs, with Dutch kickboxing combinations mixed straight in. Traditional Thai striking, clinch work and fight-ready conditioning, coached by a three-time NSW K1 kickboxing champion who's actually competed at the top level.
Classes cover punches, kicks, knees, elbows and clinch work, finishing with real conditioning. Joel builds Dutch kickboxing drills and combinations into most sessions — tight boxing chained into low kicks, worked on the pads at volume until it's automatic. Complete beginners join the normal class and get split onto basics — you're training from day one, not just watching.
Start Your Free TrialA genuine fight-record résumé across four disciplines: 3x NSW K1 Champion, National Golden Gloves Champion, National Junior Boxing Champion, and UFN Pro MMA Welterweight Champion. Joel heads the Muay Thai program personally — the clinch work, kicks and conditioning of a fighter who's actually competed at the top level, not just taught it.
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Muay Thai is often called Thai kickboxing, and the overlap is genuine — same stance, same hands, same kicks, same pad and bag work, same conditioning. What Muay Thai adds on top is elbows, knees and the clinch. If you've trained kickboxing somewhere else, you'll recognise most of a session here inside the first round.
Joel's own competition background is kickboxing: three-time NSW champion under K1 rules, the format most kickboxing gyms compete under. He mixes Dutch kickboxing drills and combinations straight into the Muay Thai class — tight boxing chained into low kicks, drilled at volume on the pads until the hands and legs stop being separate things.
What we don't run is a separate cardio-kickboxing class. It's one striking program, taught properly. Plenty of members train it purely for fitness and never spar a round. Others take it all the way to competition. Same class, same coaching, different goals.
Everything a kickboxing class covers is in here. The extras are what make it Muay Thai.
Muay Thai developed in Thailand as both a battlefield skill and a national sport, evolving over centuries into the striking art known today for its use of fists, elbows, knees and shins — earning it the nickname "the art of eight limbs." Its clinch game, in particular, sets it apart from most other striking sports and is a big part of why it translates so directly into MMA.
Friday's session is full-contact open sparring — a step up once you've got some clinch and striking basics down.
View Full ScheduleBased in Liverpool NSW, with students regularly travelling in from Casula, Moorebank, Chipping Norton, Prestons, Warwick Farm, Cabramatta, Fairfield, Hoxton Park, Edmondson Park and as far as Mount Druitt.
Yes. Our striking program runs as Muay Thai, which covers everything a kickboxing class does — boxing combinations, low, body and head kicks, pad and bag work and conditioning — plus knees, elbows and clinch. Head coach Joel Kendrick is a three-time NSW K1 kickboxing champion and mixes Dutch kickboxing drills and combinations into the class. Sessions run Monday and Wednesday, 7:00–8:00pm.
Muay Thai is often called Thai kickboxing. Both use the same stance, the same punches and the same kicks. Muay Thai adds knees, elbows and the clinch, which is where the nickname 'the art of eight limbs' comes from. If you've trained kickboxing before, you'll recognise most of a Muay Thai session straight away.
No. Complete beginners join the normal class and get split onto basics, so you're training from your first session rather than watching from the side. Sparring is never compulsory — plenty of members train purely for fitness and never spar a round.
Shorts or training gear and a water bottle. Gloves and pads are provided for your trial, so there's nothing you need to buy before your first class.
Great alongside Boxing for a rounded striking base, and it's one of the three pillars behind our MMA program.
Come try Muay Thai with the team — gloves and pads provided.
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