The exact date muay Thai kick boxing was started is hard to narrow down, but it does date back all the way to medieval times. King Nareasen made it famous in 1560 AD when he was given a chance to fight for his freedom. King Nareasan was victorious, freed, and returned home where he declared the fighting style (then called Siamese style boxing) a national sport.

The art of muay thai kick boxing is known as both a hard martial art and as “the deadly art.” Muay thai kick boxing is a self defence art developed in Thailand and it enjoys immense popularity in many south-Asian countries as well. There is a wide variety of forms and styles, just like other styles of martial arts.

Muay thai kick boxing is the national sport of only Thailand, though it has become popular in many other countries. The main point that separates muay thai kick boxing from western developed boxing is the fact you are allowed to use shins, knees, elbows and fists. The fighter is able to use 8 parts of his body to strike his opponent.

About 50 years ago, boxing gloves where introduced – before this it was more common to bond smashed shards of glass to a rope binding around the hands. This practice was ended when international muay thai kick boxing tournaments began. This ultimate full-contact martial art, builds stamina and mental toughness. In Thailand, every boy is mandated to learn muay thai and most girls will learn at least some basic moves.

Muay thai kick boxing is designed to be performed unarmed, as every move can be done with combinations of eight body parts. Unlike other forms of martial arts where grappling is done on the floor, the grappling done in muay thai kick boxing is done while standing. The most common techniques used while grappling are attempts to hit the opponent’s stomach or head with the knees. Muay thai kick boxing appears as an extremely violent form of martial arts. Contrary to how it appears, it actually provides you with anger control and a constant strive for peace and unity.

I’m going back four and a half years now, when the bubble that had burst a while back from then was having hugely negative effects on the web design industry as a whole. Eventually, and in hindsight naturally, the web design agency I was working for collapsed under the weight of insufficient revenues, high staff costs and, worst of all, nearly a million dollars in unpaid debt from the telco part of the business.

Taken unawares, I suppose, but as a result extraordinary revenues had to be generated each month to pay the huge salary bills and rent in an office in the centre of London. They weren’t being met.

To break even, we needed consistent revenues of £60,000 a month. To give you some idea of the scale of this, our company in Bangkok would, including salaries, rent, taxes, etc. but excluding developers costs, survive with that one monthly income for over forty months.

At my previous company our marketing strategy was high-end and search engine marketing was not something that was taken too seriously. In the event, we could never have survived as a company with false expectations in a market gone sour, especially with the cutbacks in the corporate sector on web-related projects. After four years of working on some exceptional sites, we were broke.

All of us had worked for six months for free, running up all sorts of debts, on the promise that we would be paid in full when the telco deal came through. It didn’t.

Coincidentally, I received an unexpected email from a friend and, to cut a long story short, he got me out here to start up my own web company. I work in an office in the centre of Bangkok that costs us nothing, as the real estate company we’re associated with, Soho Properties Co., Ltd., owns the lease and the two companies share the same owner.

Our staff costs are very reasonably priced in comparison to the UK. I have looked for quality, reliable professionals, specifically from Pakistan and India, to build the business. We’re in contact with our Pakistani developers every day, where we plan, manage and develop ongoing projects. We are also associated with a company in India, who have far greater staff levels and can therefore take on much larger and complex sites.

Our Pakistani developers have helped raise the profile of our portfolio to a level that much larger companies are looking to employ our services. Most of our enquiries do not come from within Thailand itself; in fact, we have a very limited number of Thai clients. Our clients are based in the UK, America, Germany, France, Austria, Monte Carlo, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Brunei.

A few months ago, when I was visiting my father in the UK, I met up with my old boss. He told me he was charging £2,000 for a static 5-page website. Since then, I have set out to are compete in the UK market for business as well as Bangkok as I figure that you don’t have to be glued to any specific location if you can communicate online.

This site has been named and optimised for the express purpose of placement on the search engines, where we hope to generate interest in our services and demonstrate, with our portfolio, what we have been able to build up in the past three years.