If you're visiting Chiang Mai, you should definitely try a Muay Thai class! It's an incredibly novel and exhilarating experience! I booked a group class on Klook a day in advance, thinking that having more people would make it less awkward, but I still ended up making a fool of myself. The class started at 9 AM and finished at 10:30 AM, lasting a total of an hour and a half. For the first ten minutes or so, the head coach, Mark, led us through stretching, warm-ups, and jogging around the ring. The Thai coach spoke English, and everyone understood him, because I was the only Chinese person there, so my reactions were always a beat slower than everyone else's. But despite a few stumbles, I managed to get through the class smoothly. After the warm-up, the head coach started wrapping our hands with cloth strips. After he wrapped one hand, he asked me how it felt. I said it was too tight, so he loosened it for me. When he wrapped the other hand, I still felt it was too tight. He smiled helplessly and had to loosen that one too. I thought maybe these cloth strips, wrapped before Muay Thai, needed to be tight to protect the hands! But after the class, my hands were covered in marks, haha. It was a blessing that I didn't get injured. After wrapping, the head coach had us put on boxing gloves and started teaching us basic moves. After teaching each move, he would have us practice in pairs, repeatedly, until we mastered the basics. My training partner was the assistant coach, "Ice." I often made mistakes because I was too nervous, forgetting to guard with my right hand when punching with my left. At these times, he would tell me that if I didn't guard, someone would "bang" and hit me with a punch. Although the assistant coach also told me not to be nervous and just enjoy it, I always had that "good student" mindset, wanting to do my best, and then I'd get flustered again. In the end, I made the assistant coach laugh. He even started guarding when he should have been punching, and punching when he should have been guarding. Seeing how nervous I was, he even scared me by saying he was going to hit hard. I quickly waved my hands: "Nonono! You will hurt me! No!" Then he saw me frowning in fear, and he also burst out laughing. We couldn't continue training, both bent over laughing. This must be my ultimate combat move! To make my opponent laugh until they're exhausted, and then I win without fighting. After a 90-minute experience class, I was truly exhausted. My hands ached from being squeezed, and my feet hurt from kicking. Even though I was constantly hitting people, punching sandbags, and kicking tires, I was as sore as if I had been beaten. But it was so much fun and exhilarating! Life experience +1.