Teaching Career
While succeeding as a fighter, Phil also developed his teaching skills under the tutelage of Master Sken. Eventually he earned the title of Kru (which means ‘teacher" in Thai), and received Master Sken’s blessing to open his first gym called Bury Thai Boxing. Years later while holidaying in New York City, Phil sought a gym to train in. Since there were no Thai Boxing gyms in New York City, Phil made his way to Gleason’s Boxing Gym in Brooklyn. While training there curious people began asking him what martial art he was training in and where they could learn it. This set the ball in motion, and after returning to New York several more times (and with Master Sken’s blessing); he opened a gym in New York in 1995. It was called Lug Sit Narong or "Student of Sitnarong" Thai Boxing Gym. After experiencing exponential growth in New York. He realised that there was a huge demand for a larger space with premium services in a Thai setting. He then created the Wat (the Thai word for Temple) in China Town.
Nurse was the cutman invovled in the UFC 94 greasing controversy when he inadvertently applied vasoline to Georges St-Pierre.
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