TOMOI: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

I sold my soul...

It a long story...but I never regret it..sorry if my alter ego hurt any of you.
Happy TwentyTen to all my friends and readers. It will be a great year for all of us.
Thank you for your support.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Boxxtomoi Magazine Phuket Promotion

A fortnight ago , my associate Alvin, make a courtesy visit to several gyms in Phuket promoting our magazine there. The highlight was being with the greatest Muay Thai fighter, currently consider as one of the best pound for pound nak muay Mr. Saenchai Sor Kingstar.

Saenchai Sor Kingstar-

Achievements
Lumpini Stadium Champion (115 lbs / 52 kg)
Lumpini Stadium Champion (118 lbs / 53 kg)
Lumpini Stadium Champion (130 lbs / 59 kg)
Voted 1999 Fighter of the Year
Voted 2008 Fighter of the Year

Saenchai Sor Kingstar with BoxxTomoi's Marketing associate Alvin. He told me with pride "I trained with Saenchai !"

Another Muay Thai great- Jaroenthong Kiatbanchong.

With Gym operator Mr. Bazz at Phuket Muay Thai Gym. The first Muay Thai Gym at Phuket.

New gym- Lion Muay Thai Gym. With Gym owner Mr. Saab.

With Phromthep Muay Thai Camp owner Mr. Danny Avison

With Petch at Tiger Muay Thai Gym . Observed the Boxx Warriors Gym Malaysia pendant at the background.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

January 2010

Boxx Warriors Malaysia will have it own site .

BoxxTomoi Shoppe will be the official online distributor for Boxx Equipmet

January 2010.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Boys Are Back in Town

Wondering who the hottest and most eligible bachelor at Boxx Warriors?
Vote the bachelor boys!
Telephone calls to the Boxx Most Eligible Bachelor (BMEB)voting lines are toll-free. If you use a wireless phone to call the BMEB voting lines, airtime and applicable roaming and long distance charges will apply.

Your vote counts towards keeping a contestant in the competition so make it count.

To vote for Wes Jaya ... haha..I was only kidding.. picture of Wes, Amin, Alif and Ediey after their fotoshot for teenages magazine MANGGA.

Pictures and exclusive interview will be out in February issue (on sales mid January 2010).

Out Soon

place your order now..limited edition only!

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Wes Jaya @ Lumpinee

Wes Jaya vs Dmitry Ushkanov. (August 2009)
This was the rematch between both fighters. Dmitry won the first fight in Kulim's Kedah Royal Cup by points.( May 2009).
Enjoy the fight!

Thursday, December 17, 2009

New Release DVD

B oxxTomoi shoppe will released 6 new DVD 4-local event and 2 internationals.Details will be announced soon.
One of the match in the international event disc. Enjoy!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

الفاتحة Al-Fatihah

Tuan Haji Fazil of Pendang (Jelutong) pass away today(15 December 2009) at 7pm. Our condolence to his family.
Tuan Haji Fazil have contributed most of time in developing Muay Thai in Kedah. We are honoured to work with him in last 2-3 yrs.

Bagi pihak Team Boxx Event, Boxx Warriors, BoxxTomoi dan ahli2 KawanBoxx kami mengucap takziah pada keluarga Tuan Haji Fazil yang pulang meninggalkan kita semua pada pukul 7 petang tadi.

Semoga rohnya ditempat bersama-sama orang yang beriman.

Al-Fatihah.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

TEAM KLFC

The following will represents KL Fight Club for the Kedah meets- (29 & 30 January2010).
1-Zukhairi Ahmad (pic)
2-Elbert Wong
3-Hafiz
4-Mohd Azmir bin Azhar
5-Jordan Phang

There are 2 more slots to fill. I have 4 names but waiting for a few more.
Train hard guys ..the Kedahan are waiting!!

Thursday, December 10, 2009

KEDAH MUAY THAI

Poster of the just concluded Kedah Open series held in Guar Chempedak,Kedah

Championship belt , note the kawanboxx logo bottom right.
Below Mr.Steven Hiew of Langkasuka / Persatuan Tomoi Daerah Kuala Muda , the organizer of the event.

In the preliminary on 6-8 November and final 4&5 December, they were about 40 fights, 20 clubs, 4 states (Kedah,Penang,Perak & Perlis) and boxers from Thailand and Iraq.
Most of the boxers are newcomers. Getting exposure to fight are hard to get by in Malaysia, and event like this gave opportunity to the inspiring nak muay.

Persatuan Tomoi Negeri Kedah have drawn up their 2010 calender.

The opening event will be on 29 & 30th January in Sungai Petani Kedah. The event: KL vs Kedah Selection : the Charity Cup.7 bout and with 6-7 superfights.The venue is much bigger than the Kedah Open
Part of the ticket sales will be donated to a selected charity organization. Full Muay Thai rules, but we have accepted a request for amateur fight for kid.

KL Fight Club will represent KL. If you are interested, just e-mail your profile (musadixxx@yahoo.com). Your profile will be forwarded to the organizer so they have ample time to find suitable challengers.
Open to all nationalities , new or season boxers.

Kedah Muay Thai is kicking, gym are getting more students, students are getting opportunity to fight and hopefully one day a real champion will shine.

Kudos to Persatuan Tomoi Negeri Kedah.

Ps:
2 more event in Feb.2010
Kedah vs Malaysia Selection
Pendang vs Kedah Selection

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Invitation

KLFC will represent KL in the coming MT Charity Cup - KL vs Kedah Selection.

Open to all first timer or season fighters.
Open to all nationalities.
Full Muay Thai rules.
Sanction by Kedah MT Association (PTNK)
29-30th January 2010 - Sg.Petani, Kedah.
Closing date 25th December 2009.

e-mail your profile to musadixxx@yahoo.com

Monday, December 7, 2009

KawanBoxx's Muay Boran

Jemain (pic-left) ; student , taking his master degree doing research on plant extract. Anuar KawanBoxx (formerly known as Anuar Singa Malaya) is a non-teaching staff at a primary school in Subang.

Both have not have teacher to teach technique in Muay Boran. Most of their moves and choreography they pick up from You Tube or self improvised.

The day ( 6 hours) before they performed at the Kedah Open, they did a demo at Boxx Warriors Gym Kulim. Coach Pak De Wanchinchai, was at the corner to give comments... 10 minute later the coach change to his "work uniform", and was at thick of the action with the boys.

For the first time the boys have a real teacher!

Vids of their performance .. video by Mr.Pendant. Enjoy!

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Korban demi Tomoi

Saturday, December 5, 2009

@ boxx Kulim

Mr.BoxxTomoi, Zahari & Sanusi plan for 2010.
January, Charity Cup 1- KL Fight Club (KLFC) vs Kedah Selection.
Will be recruiting boxer for KLFC this monday.
Interested? Charity event,first of it kind.

Anuar & Jemain from Team KawanBoxx Muay Boran get some pointers from Boxx Warriors coach Pak De Wanchinchai, both of them will performed at Kedah Open tonight.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Kedah Open

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Unwell !

Ladies... whatever you do, don't look this 2 gentlemen in the eye! You have been warned!

Anna celebrate her birthday on 13th ..mine 19th .. scorpion rules!

All day starin' at the ceilin' makin' friends with shadows on my wall
All night hearing voices tellin' me that I should get some sleep
Because tomorrow might be good for somethin'
Hold on, feelin' like I'm headed for a breakdown
And I don't know why

But I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell
I know, right now you can't tell
But stay a while and maybe then you'll see
A different side of me

-matchboxx20

sorry guys I'm a little unwell .Sick!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Sohanne Bengana vs Dettrita Z1 World Muay Thai Series

Pic by Shun KawanBoxx
Vid by Valdet (I think)

Sengkeng Dettrita was a former Lumpinee Champion, took a year break and this was his first competitive fight and he's wearing Boxx, KawanBoxx and BoxxTomoi logo on his short.

3rd round KO win for Thailand's Sengkeng Dettrita

MUAY THAI DILEMMA IN MALAYSIA

People in Malaysia think Muay Thai is violent and create violent society. People in Malaysia think Muay Thai should not be practiced in Malaysia because they come from Thailand (I wonder where does golf come from but it is played here). Sponsors think Muay Thai fans have no buying power because this sport is only watched by the villagers. Sponsors think Muay Thai fans only available in Thailand. Sponsors think Muay Thai only attract “low class” people … but one thing for sure, whoever thinks that way, obviously they have never been to a Muay Thai tournament, they judge Muay Thai only from one angle and that is from NEGATIVE angle point of view.This year, I had the opportunity to go to three events. The first one was a national level martial art competition held in Kulim. They rented a BIG hall as the venue. And guess what, the number of spectators were around 200 people….and one thing I must tell you, the entrance is free (obviously because the participants are amature, so the organizer don’t have to pay any cash prize money and also…THEY HAVE BIG SPONSORSHIP).The second one was another finale of another martial competition, despite big budget allocated and presence of the minister … the number of contestant outnumbered the audience.The third one was only last weekend. It was a promotion held in Kulim by a GIANT telco company. When I arrived at the venue, they had about 5 small canopies and 1 BIG canopy with a estimated number of 50 staffs. The best thing was, only four people or I would rather say four potential customers at the venue and one of them was me.I asked one of the staffs, “How much do u spend for this promotion event?” and he replied around 5 – 6 thousand Malaysia Ringgit. And I said to him that I can guarantee a minimum number of 1,000 people will come and visit their promotion with that amount of budget. He smiled and asked me how am I going to do that. Well, I said to him its simple….”I just bring in my boxing ring and provide local pro Muay Thai fighters to fight at your promotion venue and its free for public to watch, I can guarantee you, you will need the traffic police to control the traffic flows”. To my surprised, he commented that they might not get the right crowd for their products and services. I asked him again, have u ever watched a Muay Thai fight in Malaysia? He just kept quiet….and again I felt a bit disappointed with the way people judge Muay Thai in Malaysia. Majority don’t realize that Muay Thai fights in Malaysia attract all level of people…just name the kind of people and they are there. School childrens, university students, teachers, engineers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, expatriates, c.e.o.s….just name it. But of course, in order for you to have this large number of crowd, proper marketing and promoting plan must be implemented. And why do Muay Thai fights attract people? Simple because they are real and the fight is full of spectacular action.Daniel Mashamaite, a boxer from South Africa fought four times in Malaysia. During his last fight in Malaysia he said I surely have big sponsorship in my pocket because I organize a lot of tournaments in a year and there are always big crowd watching. He was surprised when I said that for Kedah International Muay Thai Championship the sponsorship amount that I managed to get after begging was not more than 30,000 Malaysia Ringgit when I have more than 4,000 paid crowd and 1,000 free passes (the audience paid 13 ringgit ticket…you don’t have to calculate how much we made, because how much do u think is the cost to organize an international event? ). Just imagine how many people can I attract if the entrance is FREE…but if I were to do that, who is going to pay for the cost of organizing?Sponsors will surely get maximum mileage if they sponsor Muay Thai event, that I can guarantee. Sponsor will not only get return in terms of branding mileage, they can even generate cash sales in return by sponsoring Muay Thai event, that I can also guarantee 100 % (but sorry guys, cant tell you the method…well, I can tell you how but I am afraid I have to kill you after that ) . The problem is, most of the decision maker, turn down our proposal just because he or she doesn’t like Muay Thai (or maybe our proposal is not convincing….hmmm…I will improve on that).A conversation I had with an officer of a State Government owned company….she said they are unable to sponsor Muay Thai event because Muay Thai is not related to their company but she also said “but we can sponsor GOLF” … huh ??? is golf related to a state government company when the company’s activity circling around the development of the state? Well, I guess they sponsor golf because their bosses play golf .. poor you Muay Thai.BOXX is going to operate a Muay Thai centre soon. We are targeting school children to participate and we plan to charge them between 2 – 5 malaysia ringgit a month (in order to cover the operational cost … don’t laugh, ok). I am expecting the majority of the school children who turn up will be the kind of “aggressive children”. The non aggressive might choose piano class instead (maybe these aggressive boys” will go to piano class too…will they?). When these aggressive children turn up for training at .. let say 5 pm .. they will not straight away start punching and kicking. We are gong to organize a 15 minutes informal classes on anti smoking, anti drug, anti crime and all those positive classes. The speakers will come from various related government agencies ( I hope they support this effort). The speakers will sit among these boys and tell them stories about the bad thing about smoking, drug etc… (they will run away if we conduct the class in a formal way, that’s for sure because I would run away too). We might even get an ex drug addict to relate his experience to there boys. These classes will be conducted from time to time. My prediction is, after few years, these boys will still be “aggressive boys” because the aggressiveness is already in them but they will be equipped with knowledge. We hope to instill positive values in these boys through Muay Thai training and all those classes.What I am trying to say is…. YOU CAN USE MUAY THAI AS A TOOL TO CREATE A GOOD CITIZEN…GOOD PEOPLE. Only if you are not negative towards it (because I don’t think the boys will attend just an anti smoking or anti drug classes).No matter what, no matter how big the obstacle is, we … at BOXX EVENT will never surrender. We, with the support from all of you with continue with our struggle to position Muay Thai to where it should be …Last but not least, I would like to thank everybody who has been supporting Muay Thai activities in Malaysia and please continue visiting this blog because it is also a prove that Muay Thai has big fans all around the world.

Regards,

ZAHARI AHMAD RAZALI

MUAY THAI 101

Muay Thai optimizes the use of the eight limbs and is often referred to as the "Science of 8 Limbs". These eight limbs are the two Fists, two Elbows, two Knees and the two Feet(Shins), which are all used to devastating effect in battle.
Muay Thai also incorporates the use of the Clinch, which is stand up grappling. From this position Knees, Elbows and Throws are often executed to disable the opponent.
Muay Thai is fought in a square ring using the rounds system, which separates the bout. These rounds are usually 5 rounds at 3 minutes each, with a 2 minute break in-between.

MAIL BOXX

Congras mate, good to see the spirit of muay thai is alive and well in kedah.keep up the good work!
- KEYONKAN (45) AUSTRALIA.

I truly admire your dedication and your passion in Muay Thai.We need alot of people like you for muay thai to succeed.Don't give up bro!Insyaalah your dreams will come true with your sheer determination.
-Muay Thai Enthusiast (Singapore)

Nice blog my friend , salam from all member muay thai from indonesia. hope muay thai will be always great full for kids at the next year
- www.mt-tc.com