M.A.C. is short for Martial Art Camp.
By a martial art student, for a martial art student.
- We put the ART back in your martial art camp.
- Martial ART Camp. Not Martial ARTS Camp. The art comes first.
- For the student who came for the art, not only the workout.
- Find your art, then find your camp.
- White belt or black belt, the questions are the same: can I come, do I have to spar, where do I sleep?
- Martial art students have always traveled to train. This is the map we wanted.
MartialArtCamp.com first went up in 2016 as a directory of 21 camps, most of them in Thailand. This is the new version, rebuilt as a free guide to real martial art training camps and programs, almost anywhere in the world.
It is run by Rick Tew Co., Ltd., the company of Rick Tew: more than 25 years of ninja martial arts, taught around the world, and still a student.
Why the ART
This guide leads with real martial art: kung fu, karate, aikido, judo, ninjutsu, jiu-jitsu, kali, silat, krabi krabong, Muay Boran, MMA and the rest, at camps and schools that take visiting students.
Muay Thai and kickboxing camps are here too, one click away. We count them as kickboxing camps, so they are not what the guide leads with. A Muay Thai camp that also teaches a martial art shows with the others.
How a camp gets listed
We read the camp's own site. Each Traveler Fact is set only when a sentence there says it, and that sentence is kept as proof, with the month it was read. A camp must show it is open this year to be listed.
- Yes: the camp's own site says so.
- No: the camp's own site says not.
- Not checked yet: we did not find it, so we do not guess.
Camps change. Ask the camp before you book, especially about anything that decides your trip.
What this guide never does
- Sell a camp's packages or take a cut of a booking.
- Charge a camp to be listed or to be higher up. Camps are listed by name.
- Send you to a middleman. Every button goes to the camp's own site.
- Show prices. They change too often to be right here; the camp's own site has them.
The one camp that is ours
The people behind this guide run HI Ninja, a relaxed two-week introduction to ninja martial arts on Koh Samui. It is listed once, with the same Traveler Facts as every other camp, and marked as ours. See HI Ninja's listing
martialartcamp.com. We put the ART back in your martial art camp.