Impact Martial Arts Academy

Amarillo

Impact806 isn't a franchise that bolted a kickboxing class onto a gym. It's competitors, hobbyists, parents, and kids sharing the same mats, the same coaches, and the same corner at fight night. When one of ours steps into a cage or a ring, this whole room shows up behind them.

If you're comparing gyms in Amarillo, ask which one actually has a fight team standing behind it. Tag someone who needs a home team.

Muay Thai has eight weapons. Most "Muay Thai" classes in strip malls use two.

Fists and shins get you a cardio class with Thai shorts. The other six, elbows, knees, clinch entries and control, are where the actual art lives, and where it takes years to get dangerous.

At Impact806, clinch is not a five minute add-on at the end of class. It is drilled, corrected, and tested, the same standard visiting world champions hold their own students to at seminars here.

If your last gym never made you clinch, you were not training Muay Thai, you were training a costume of it. Save this if you are shopping for a real gym.

Muay Thai is called the art of eight limbs for a reason. If your gym only uses four of them, you are not training Muay Thai. You are doing kickboxing cardio with a Thai flag on the wall.

Fists, elbows, knees, shins. Clinch entries, off-balancing, the teep that stops an opponent before they start. That is the full art, and that is what gets drilled here, round after round, correction after correction.

Trained somewhere else and felt like something was missing? That was probably it. Come find out what the other four limbs feel like.