Last night the crew from Thailand Gap Internships went out to Monsoon Gym for a fight night to support Abdi- one of our Muay Thai internship trainees. It was a great night and in his first pro fight (he was paid 1500 Thai baht- about 45USD!), he put on an awesome show in a full time judge’s decision victory! Despite the fact that he’d only been training on Koh Tao for 6 weeks and his opponent had about 20 fights under his belt, he showed a lot of heart in a hard won effort which made us all proud.
Pre-fight…
It’s on!
Declared the winner as Pi Toon, the co-owner of Monsoon Gym and Muay Thai Camp, looks on (in yellow…)
In other news the Master Scuba Diver Internship is now underway with the last group of new PADI Dive Instructors. We’ve completed Enriched Air Nitrox training along with Search and Recovery, Digital Underwater Photography, Deep Diver and Underwater Naturalist. As the weather is getting good now, we’ll plan a day on the boat soon to the Unicorn wreck so we can complete our Wreck Diver Specialty Instructor with our friends from the MV Trident.
Professional HD Underwater Video intern Rudey just began her course a few days ago and we look forward to Alvin and Simon joining on the 1st. If only we had a Theodore, we’d be starting all of The Chipmunks on the Pro video course!
The Freediving team is also back on the island and will be starting courses soon.
Koh Tao’s weather has been absolutley stunning for this time of the year with the shortest monsoon season that any of us can remember, so far. I’m sure it will turn again before it’s over, but we’re all enjoying it now!
Abdi and his mentor- a true Thai Champion…
