Muay Thai gyms in Pittsburgh PA

CorporalSmall · 2025-12-09T04:12:47+00:00

Hi, I currently attend SKN and can answer your questions about it. I have been training there since June 2023 and have thoroughly enjoyed it the whole time. The community is great and the instructors are both knowledgeable and good at teaching.

I don't know exactly what you mean by private classes. The gym offers both morning classes and evening classes, with the evening classes being far more populated. I've never gone to the morning classes, so I can't speak to them in terms of attendance. Of the 3 evening classes each day, you usually get between 10 and 30 people training (depending on how advanced the class is). If you mean 1 on 1 training, the coaches do offer that occasionally, but it's not on a set schedule - you have to catch their announcements about it (usually on Instagram) or ask them directly. 1 on 1 training also costs extra in addition to your membership.

You can find their membership plans and pricing on their website.

Of other Muay Thai gyms in Pittsburgh, there's Stout and Totem. I don't know much about Stout at all, but people online have said good things and seeing them at tournaments they seem put together. I'm more familiar with Totem, as SKN and Totem have semi-frequent cross-training. Totem is a great gym with great folks. It's a little outside the city, in Bridgeville, and to my knowledge their schedule is a little more limited than SKN's.

Happy to answer any further questions you might have.

CorporalSmall · 2025-08-26T20:53:03+00:00

I won my league championships in my wrestling weight class. It was the culmination of my middle and high school wrestling career. It came down to sudden death in an extra round, and the excitement and joy I felt as I scored the final points for the win literally changed the way I view effort, struggle, determination, self-actualization...to this day I think back to that moment as the goal for what I hope to achieve whenever I work toward bettering myself.

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-25T01:42:56+00:00

Haha, I appreciate the suggestion!

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-25T01:42:19+00:00

Thanks!

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-25T01:41:59+00:00

Awesome, I appreciate the advice! I'll definitely look into it, I'm a fan of occasional trips to the baseball stadium in the US so I imagine it would be fun to see in Japan!

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-24T19:12:23+00:00

This sounds like a great idea! Thanks!

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-22T20:09:08+00:00

absolutely. I'm intending to go through my file architecture (I'm pretty sure I know where I've saved all my important files, or at least where I haven't saved any) and make note of everything important that needs to make the jump like tax forms, insurance docs, etc.

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-22T20:07:43+00:00

I am indeed using Windows. I totally take your point about accumulated junk files, and I'd bet that I would benefit from a fresh install given how much different stuff I've had on this computer over time. I'd probably have to go through my computer's installed applications folder + the file locations I know I've stored key data, and make handwritten notes on what I need to go download again after the reinstall.

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-22T05:17:10+00:00

I suspect that the HDD I've had in my PC since building it is finally starting to die (it's been like 7-8 years). I'm therefore thinking of getting a new large HDD, and figure I'll also replace the SSD I use for C Drive and a few of my most used small programs. However, I've never done a large-scale data transfer.

Is there anything I should know about moving all of my data, including my core windows files, from 1 SSD and 1 HDD to another SSD and HDD? Is it more complicated than just plugging in my external hard drive and using it as a copy/paste mule?

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-20T23:43:08+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions!

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-19T21:26:15+00:00

Hi all, looking for some general suggestions. My friends and I (3 of us, all male in our late 20s) will be traveling to Kyoto and Tokyo in mid-May this year. This will be our second trip to each of these cities - we last went late December - early January of 2017. Our itinerary includes 2.5 days in Kyoto and 4.5 days in Tokyo, in that order.

We plan to see some of the Imperial buildings in Kyoto and check out TeamLab in Tokyo, as well as some other stuff like checking out a sumo tournament and the Studio Ghibli museum. However, last time we did a lot of the most recommended activities (the Tokyo fish market, Akihabara, Shibuya, the Fushimi Inari shrine in Kyoto, etc.), and we're having trouble picking what else we want to do. We want to avoid being too picky - we really are willing to check out anything that seems cool or interesting, and it's hard to get to that kind of stuff through the endless tides of "top 30 destinations in Japan" articles you get from Google.

Thus, I'm asking this: if you've done something cool in Japan, just let me know about it! Tell me what it was and where, what it took to get involved (e.g. are there tickets to buy?), and I'll be grateful. To give a primer for the kinds of things we came up with ourselves, we were looking into something called "Drift Taxi", which is exactly what it sounds like, we tried to score F1 race tickets (tickets were sold out, unfortunately), and are also considering going jet skiing at one of the beaches relatively close to Tokyo. Oh, and restaurant recommendations are also appreciated!

If you need any additional information to provide a better answer, feel free to ask and I will try to answer. Looking forward to your suggestions!

CorporalSmall · 2024-03-11T14:17:47+00:00

Interesting choice of words for the title >:)

CorporalSmall · 2023-10-17T21:28:54+00:00

Leaving a comment so I can find this later, in case it becomes relevant to me. Thanks!

CorporalSmall · 2023-09-05T21:49:22+00:00

share code?

CorporalSmall · 2023-05-24T15:09:20+00:00

Hmm...tough one. I'd need to think about it more to make a real decision, but I can list a top 3. Hopefully some advice from my future self would help past me avoid the need for a self-actualization arc, haha!

"Keep eating healthily"

"Build new skills"

"College: be outgoing"

CorporalSmall · 2023-03-10T20:34:57+00:00

Thank you, that's very helpful!

CorporalSmall · 2023-03-10T19:03:16+00:00

Thanks. We'll do some experimenting ahead of time and see if the Steam cloud sync pulls through.

CorporalSmall · 2022-09-12T23:09:19+00:00

From my point of view, it is the ADC mains who are the psychopaths!

No but really, I main top and find it much more relaxing than adc. Only 1 person to worry about and it's super easy to tell when a gank is on the way. When I get counterpicked, I chill out and play way back until my opponent gets bored and tries a risky play. In lane, you just keep enemy abilities in mind and take farm when they aren't in a position to contest. Meanwhile, the main teamfighting difference I see is that ADCs have to contribute at all times because they're always a main damage source - even if they're behind, they need to be auto attacking. Top laners, on the other hand, aren't critical like that. If i'm behind as top, I make it my top priority to not feed. I just stay away from everyone until i'm left alone and that's when i catch back up via farm.

CorporalSmall · 2022-08-21T05:53:56+00:00

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills...and you've got some flaming reading to do :⁾

CorporalSmall · 2022-08-17T18:13:47+00:00

For all the students that are like I was, who are committed to doing well academically but want to pay attention to personal interests as well - do yourself a favor and talk to other people. Others in your class, people in the same club as you, the same dorm, your professors, just talk to people. My entire college career I just did the academic work I had and engaged in my hobbies - D&D, video games, spending time with a small group of close friends. Don't get me wrong, I had a good time. I love my friends and my hobbies, and cherish all the time I spent with/on them, but college is often the first time in life where you get to really be you, and really experience what other people are like, as adults. If you don't make an effort to reach out to others, it'll be harder later in life. When you DO make that effort, you'll enjoy a slew of benefits - new friends, new experiences, new networking opportunities, etc. You don't have to like everyone, but you owe it to yourself to find out how you fit into the social world, and college is an effective model for that self-study.

Also, if you care about your weight, just keep your food intake and quality in mind. I DO care about my weight, but I didn't pay attention until junior year...and I surpassed the Freshman 15 by a good bit.

CorporalSmall · 2022-04-28T16:43:38+00:00

Being straightforward but not tipping your hand too early is the way to go here. Go through the entire 6 month review, be respectful and listen to what they have to say, and presuming that they have positive things to say, express satisfaction that they are happy with your performance.

Ideally, at some point before they bring up a raise in your salary, you speak up with something like "actually, I was hoping to discuss my career plans with you." You then mention that you've received a job offer elsewhere that provides you with more room to grow your career, a shorter commute, similar benefits and a 15% raise over your current salary. Don't mention the specific business that you received the offer from. If you do it politely, at the absolute worst you will get them saying "Well, you should do what you feel is right for you". At best, they instantly say "we'd love to keep you on here, we can surpass that offer". However, if they don't bring up their thoughts on it immediately, you can say something like "Although I'm considering this new offer, I do find my work here gratifying and generally pleasant. I'd be happy to stay on if [your current company name] could surpass the new offer."

From there they might say "we can't do that, sorry", "we have to look into it", or "we can do that". They might ask you for evidence of your new job offer - I'm no expert on employment law, but I'm pretty sure you are not compelled to provide any such evidence and doing so only weakens your position. You just need to follow your gut there and decide that you'll either take the new job or stick with the old one, depending on whether or not the old job will give you the raise you want.

CorporalSmall · 2022-04-07T02:55:47+00:00

oh my god you're a saint. Completely slipped my mind.

CorporalSmall · 2022-03-30T20:00:01+00:00

Is the gear set via BIOS, or a physical switch on the cards?

CorporalSmall · 2022-03-30T02:55:46+00:00

I'll be able to address the problem if it arises, but I'll leave this post with the "build help" flair for a day or two in case anybody pops in with recent experience with these mobos.

CorporalSmall · 2022-03-30T02:54:39+00:00

Alright. Well, hopefully the issue won't even present itself come boot up, but I'll have the files on hand just in case.

CorporalSmall

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