Coach Aileen & Coach Angela

ABOUT LKE DOJO

Our Muay Thai Story & Journey

Muay Thai transformed both of our lives in amazing ways, and now we love offering this life-changing art to Women and Queers in our Oahu community and beyond.

Coach Aileen, after a particularly brutal breakup, 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 mentored under Haru Shimanishi. 

 

Coach Aileen has taught over 1500 classes, fought in both Muay Thai and MMA, held a championship title, and coached/cornered both amateur and professional fighters. Having discovered a greater love for teaching than fighting, Coach Aileen is passionate about offering Women & Queers a holistic approach to high-level Muay Thai, and demonstrating how Muay Thai is more than a sport or an art, it is a way of life. 

Coach Angela came to Muay Thai at the age of 35 as a mother of three with zero martial arts background, and is a living example that one can be called to Muay Thai at any time. She believes in being a nurturing mother AND a warrior, feminine AND brutal, open-hearted AND capable of violence. Coach Angela is passionate about helping Women & Queers discover the confidence, self-love, discipline, strength, and freedom Muay Thai gave to her. 

Why Women's+?

We wish to ignite a revolution in combat sports by creating equality for Women & Queers, and demonstrating an alternative, affirming model that offers not only high-level skills, but a high-level life.

Combat Arts has a long history steeped in patriarchy, misogyny, and homophobia, with healthy access still very limited for Women, and almost nonexistent for Transgender Queers. Women+ (Those who identify as Women, ALL AFAB Queers, and ALL Queer Femmes ) deserve a safe, inclusive, Queer-female-led space in which to come together, train, and experience the transformational power of Muay Thai.

Our Core Values

As a Queer-Women-led combat arts business serving Women & Queers, we seek to disrupt convention in this male-dominated sector and pave new roads uplifting those who have been historically marginalized and underserved. We believe in a holistic approach to combat arts that truly brings together mind, body, and spirit to inspire metamorphosis and perpetual growth.

Our Mission

To transform Women & Queers through the Art of Muay Thai using a holistic approach that cultivates strength, discipline, confidence, self-love, self-sovereignty, and freedom.

Our Vision

To be social innovators revolutionizing the combat arts sector by creating environments where Women & Queers may learn, evolve, thrive, and lead.

Our Values

At LKE Dojo we uphold the 5 Cs: Commitment, courage, compassion, curiosity, and community. We strive to exemplify these while asking our students to do the same.

"Feel the fear and do it anyway"

- Susan Jeffers

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Women's+ Muay Thai Classes

Weekly classes where students experience the holistic LKE Dojo approach to Muay Thai that encompasses the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Learn high-level Muay Thai while also becoming a higher level human being in every way!

$20 drop-in (Plus $3 if borrowing gear), discounted packages available!