ABOUT US

Coach Aileen

was once a neurodivergent Queer woman with ten chips on her shoulder. Prone to depression, erratic decisions, and bursts of violence, she could be found drunkenly running from police down Hollywood Blvd. After a particularly brutal breakup, Coach Aileen chose to pursue Muay Thai because Google said it was the most brutal martial art and that there was a gym 5m away from her. She did not realize it would completely change her life and become her passion and career. Coach Aileen is still neurodivergent and Queer, but rage, depression, and commitment to self-sabotage are now things of the past. And the only things on her shoulders now are muscles.

Coach Aileen Muay Thai Bio

Coach Aileen began her Muay Thai training at Muay Thai Academy of America (MTA) in North Hollywood, the first Muay Thai gym in the United States. She trained under Kru Puk (the "Godfather of Muay Thai") and Troy Fisher, beginning her fight career under MTA. After leaving California, Aileen trained at AMC under Matt "The Wizard" Hume before moving to Hawai'i where she trained, fought, and spent three years mentored by Haru Shimanishi.
Coach Aileen has been teaching for a decade, fought in both Muay Thai and MMA, held the title of Hawaii State Muay Thai Champion, and coached/cornered both amateur and professional fighters.
Discovering she felt a thousand times more passionate about empowering women with skills than knocking them out in rings, Coach Aileen hung up her competition gloves and birthed LKE Dojo. She is now stoked to offer Women+ her super unconventional, holistic approach to Muay Thai, teaching high-level skills while helping students set themselves free.

Coach Angela

was once an overwhelmed, codependent, people-pleasing, anxiety-ridden mother who bought a membership at a combat gym purely because they declared they would watch her three young children for 4 hours straight. After spending months in the gym reading books, wandering aimlessly, and occasionally doing Zumba, Coach Angela began lurking around the Muay Thai area trying to figure out if she could survive a class at the age of 35 with zero martial arts background. She lurked for two months before biting the bullet and purchasing ALL the gear before attending her first class. Where she met Coach Aileen, but that is another story. Was it easy? Hells no.  It was so hard. And also so freeing. After decades of increasingly self-destructive behavior, Coach Angela was able to leave behind a lifetime of conservative brainwashing, walk away from toxicity, embrace her demons, heal, and eventually become the truest version of herself. Which happens to include being a kickass warrior.

Coach Angela Muay Thai Bio

Coach Angela began training under Coach Aileen in 2017 and found herself thrown into fight camps with amateur and professional fighters after only a few months. Coach Angela used to be prone to injury, and would repeatedly stop training for several months (sometimes a whole year) at a time . However, she got her act together, removed some mental blocks, learned the art of prehab and rehab, and we suspect she has now trained for a cumulative 4 or 5 years. It is hard to know exactly because she lives with her coach. Coach Angela has not fought in a ring, but she did do a 6-week mock fight camp that ended with her being lightly, but endlessly, pummeled by a professional MMA fighter going at, like, 30%. While she did spend some years running away from Muay Thai, Coach Angela is now ALL IN with LKE Dojo and is obsessed with helping students progress.

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Why Women's+?

Because Women+ have been persecuted, shushed, hidden, punished, abused, violated, and gaslit for far too long.

Because Women+ deserve to train in a place where there is NO HARASSMENT or caveman comments like “You’re too pretty to do Muay Thai” or “Mm, look at that ass.”

Because Women+ are not only deserving, but also MORE THAN CAPABLE of being skilled, high-level martial artists and warriors.

Because when Women+ ( ALL women, AFAB Queers, and Queer Femmes regardless of pronoun) come together we remember the fire in our veins, we remember ancient wisdom, and we remember we are fierce and unstoppable.

Goodbye to thousands of years of Patriarchy. Goodbye to limited Women’s+ access to combat arts that is healthy (not abusive or demeaning) . Goodbye to “the way things have been done.”

Hello to FREEDOM.

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Our Mission: To Liberate Women+

A liberated Woman+ no longer sacrifices themselves to please their family, their boss, their church, or society.

A liberated Woman+ says no to feeling shame about their body, no to being subservient, no to constantly apologizing for taking up time and space, no to every patriarchy-based rule meant to keep them small, fragile, quiet, and even nonexistent.

A liberated Woman+ possesses such pronounced self-love, trust, and safety they are able to experience all of the emotions of life while also being freaking untouchable.

No matter the specific roles they play, teacher, activist, mother, engineer, wife, lawyer, entrepreneur, architect, barista, a liberated Woman+ has full access to their ability to ask for what they deserve, stand up for their values, call for justice, and change the world.

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Dare to cultivate

SELF-LOVE

Love yourself so deeply no person on this Earth can make you feel unworthy or like you are not enough. Love yourself so wholly that external validation no longer matters. Love every past iteration of you, knowing that all of your mistakes, failures, actions, and choices have made you into the brilliant survivor and baddie that you are.

Dare to cultivate

SELF-TRUST

Trust yourself so implicitly you know you will be okay no matter what happens. Trust your intuition and inner voice so acutely no one can manipulate, delude, or deceive you. Trust that you are able to learn, grow, evolve, adapt, rise up, and do what it takes to thrive. Trust you can make the impossible possible step by step.

Dare to cultivate

SELF-SAFETY

Be so safe within yourself your internal okay-ness does not depend on outside forces like your job, your parents, your partner, or your government. Be so safe inside that you can choose loving actions instead of reacting to fear. Be so safe you know you will always, forever, have your own back. You got you when no one else does.

"Feel the fear and do it anyway"

- Susan Jeffers

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