Aphyu Yaung Thway Thit Boxing Club, Yangon

 

The daily training routine in one of Myanmar‘s champion-forging Lethwei street gyms

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Daily training routine at the 
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Aphyu Yaung Thway Thit Gym is a traditional Myanmar boxing club that can be found on a narrow, unmarked street in North Okkalapa Township in Yangon. Boxers train there not in an inside a gym, but on the street in the open air. The image series and video were captured by AndréRené of www.SouthEastAsianBoxing.com / www. Action-Foto.de during his one-week stay in Yangon in March 2011. For more information about the Gym, please follow the link to the newspaper article of the Myanmar Times online edition.

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 Daily training routine at the
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Newspaper Article by Aung Si Hein about Aphyu Yaung Thway Thit Gym
Myanmar Times, 19th Nov. 2012 (extern link)http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/sports/3161-myanmar-boxers-fight-for-every-kyat.html