San Diego's Muay Thai Gym

Welcome to our San Diego Muay Thai gym. We offer both traditional Muay Thai boxing classes, as well as top-tier competitive Muay Thai training for those who want to learn to fight or compete on a high level.

Muay Thai is an extremely effective and powerful Martial Art. Utilizing hands, elbows, knees and feet, it is respectively known as “The Art of 8 Limbs”. The practice of Muay Thai is equally applicable for fitness, fighting, and self-defense.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our Muay Thai classes, offering the best instruction available for Beginers through Professionals. 

We start off new students with solid fundamentals, including correct stance and footwork, so they can quickly learn how to properly punch, elbow, kick and knee. From there, we teach appropriate defensive skills before moving on to intermediate and advanced training.

Once students have mastered the fundamentals, we continue to our intermediate and advanced Muay Thai training at our San Diego gym. Students go on to learn clinch work, advanced striking combinations, additional defensive skills including counter attacks and even takedowns and throws.

We also provide frequent sparring for those who wish to further accelerate their training. We make these sparring sessions open to Muay Thai fighters, as well kickboxers and MMA fighters working on their striking game. This allows our San Diego Muay Thai students to receive increased exposure to different fighters and systems.

Our Head Muay Thai Coach is James Ewton. James joined the Marine Corps in 2003 and served in the infantry, where he deployed to Iraq. After leaving the Corps in 2010, he joined The Arena and fell in love with Muay Thai. Training day and night, he worked his way up the Muay Thai and Kickboxing ladder, ultimately becoming the IFS Middleweight Champion. 

Along the way, he has trained with many other high level strikers and competitors from promotions such as the UFC and Glory. James is now well known as one of the top Muay Thai Coaches in San Diego. 

Looking for the best private Muay Thai training in San Diego? We have you covered. Once you become a member of our gym, you pay our trainers directly and we stay out of the transaction. We get your membership dues, the trainers keep what they earn, and you get huge savings. It’s a win-win-win for everyone. So if you want San Diego’s best private Muay Thai lessons at the best prices, we’re your gym.

If you’re looking for Muay Thai gyms and training “near me”, you found us. Members come from all over San Diego to train at The Arena. Our Muay Thai gym is easily accessible in Point Loma off the 8 freeway on Sports Arena Blvd. Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, Bay Park, Downtown San Diego, Golden Hill, Bankers Hill, Hillcrest, North Park, South Park, La Mesa, El Cajon, Clairemont, College Area, Miramar, Kearny Mesa, Clairemont Mesa, City Heights, La Jolla, Del Mar, Carmel Valley, Coronado, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach are all within easy driving distance.