Taught properly, in order.
Stance before strikes. Strikes before combinations. Combinations before the clinch. Muay Thai has a syllabus, and skipping it is how people get hurt and plateau. We don't skip it.
About Weapon · Castle Hill
A small gym, built around the person in front of the coach.
Weapon Muay Thai x Boxing is a small-group Muay Thai and boxing gym in Castle Hill, inside Shirudo Gym on Hoyle Avenue. One head coach, a handful of people per class, and a standard brought back from Thailand.
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Liam James
Head Coach & Founder
Head coach
Liam James
Lived and trained in Thailand. Coaching Muay Thai and boxing for over ten years — from first-timers and C-suite executives to fighters.
Liam has trained and coached for more than a decade, including time living and training in Thailand, where Muay Thai is a way of life rather than a workout. He brought that standard home: technique taught properly, in order, with respect for the art and for the person learning it.
He has coached fighters preparing for the ring and executives who needed an hour a week where nobody could reach them. Most of the people he coaches are neither — they're adults with jobs and families who want to get fit, learn a real skill and be looked after while they do it.
Weapon is the gym he wanted to train at: small, closely coached and free of ego, in Castle Hill where he coaches every class himself.
- →10+ years training and coaching
- →Lived and trained in Thailand
- →Coached fighters for the ring
- →Coached C-suite executives 1:1
- →Coaches every class himself
- →Castle Hill, Hills District
How we coach
Four things we won't compromise on.
Small, so you're coached.
Every class is booked and kept small enough for the coach to watch every round. You'll be corrected more in a month here than in a year at a big-box class.
Respect for the art, and for you.
Muay Thai carries a culture — the wai, the ritual, the respect between training partners. We keep it. It's part of why the room feels different, and why people stay.
No ego, no sparring in classes.
You will learn real striking and real defence. You will not be hit in a group class. Fitness and skill are the goal; nobody here needs to prove anything.
The room
Who trains here
Working adults, mostly. People in their thirties, forties and fifties who want to get fit, learn a real skill and be looked after while they do it. Complete beginners next to people who've trained with Liam for years. About half the room is women. Nobody is here to fight — though if that's where you want to go one day, you'll be in good hands.
We train out of Shirudo Gym at Unit 1 / 7 Hoyle Avenue, Castle Hill NSW 2154, a few minutes from Castle Hill Metro and Castle Towers, with parking nearby. Muay Thai Monday and Wednesday at 7:00pm, boxing Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30pm, and a mixed class Saturday at 8:00am.
$10. 7 days. Every class.
Then you decide.
Small groups, closely coached. No lock-in — book in, train, and see how you feel on day seven. Cancel before then and you owe nothing more.