An unparalleled innovative Martial Arts Academy is part of the revolutionary Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club (PIASLC) is poised to become Asia’s unsurpassed competition, training and event complex when it opens this November. Combining a superb location with unsurpassed facilities, it is already attracting interest from leading international sporting institutions and international corporations.
The complex is sited on 54 acres of land in the northern section of Phuket, Thailand. It possesses an extensive assortment of high-class sports facilities including an International Rugby Board-standard rugby pitch, FIFA-approved football field, competitive fifty-meter eight lane outdoor swimming pool (suitable for water polo and competitive swimming), a fully shaded 25 metre, eight lane swimming pool, toddler’s and children’s pools and play area, a six court tennis academy, a 500 metre athletics running track and a fitness enthusiast gymnasium, as well as a performing arts centre and a Thai Herbal Garden Spa. Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club Sports, Leisure and Events Centre.
There are also two comfortable hotels, providing 115 very nice rooms and suites for visitors, athletes, teams and corporate groups. The club has quickly gained recognition through high-profile association with global sporting organizations such as Brazilian Soccer Schools (BSS), NZRugbyResources (NZRR), and IronKids Triathlon. Announcement of tennis and swimming affiliations are expected soon.
The PIASLC is being positioned as the leading sports and corporate event center in Asia. Not only delivering Asia’s pre-eminent facilities for sports but also very nice facilities and accommodations for conferences, incentives, retreats and teambuilding.
PIASLC announced “As a fully-integrated complex, we are also going to be the perfect location for companies looking to build something active, creative or wellness inspired into their event programmes.”
NZRugbyResources Director, David Adamson, said the PIASLC facilities were “second to none” and perfect for conducting elite and amateur training camps and competitions.
The top-rated youth soccer training programme is also based at the finest sports and recreation PIASLC complex. World-renowned BSS uses Futebol de Salao (FDS). The training and game is characterized as a 5-a-side version of football with origins in Brazil. Futebol de Salao is played with a smaller (size 2), and slightly heavier (465gm) ball that has very little bounce to it.
The PIASLC has also announced an partnership with the US-based IronKids programme. This relationship will support four junior Triathlon events per year as well as training camps for children aged between 6 and 15.
There is no question that to become a first-class sports destination requires world-class facilities and attractive location. But it needs great personnel too. The Phuket International Academy Sports and Leisure Club (PIASLC) is establishing it has all these elements as it strives to be established as a contender as the world’s top international sports facility.
The PIASLC will be hosting a variety of world-class sports, arts, wellness and recreational facilities and programmes for the enjoyment of visitors, the school’s pupils, their families, the local Phuket community and for visiting professional and amateur individual athletes and teams from around the globe. PIASLC will set the standard as a regional destination for sports, arts and wellness in Thailand and Asia, and quite possibly the world. PIA is an integrated facility hosting Phuket’s newest International School, a versatile Sports and Leisure Club for elite athletes, amateur enthusiasts, artists and wellness seekers – all within the Mind Centre sanctuary that provides training in the cultivation of mental and emotional equilibrium. hosts two 38-room boutique hotels and a broad range of facilities that are perfect for corporate retreats, seminars, and teambuilding programmes and events.
As part of a uniquely integrated complex, the Sports and Leisure Club works in synergy with both the PIADS and Phuket International Academy Mind Centre . The Phuket International Academy Day School is working to achieve a three programme International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. As a pioneering international school in Phuket, it will integrate distinctive Asian culture and the best from Western educational methods, to cultivate inquiring, informed, and compassionate young people who know how to live with honor, cultivate genuine happiness, and who work toward a more peaceful and sustainable world. Click this link for additional information on the Phuket International Academy Day School International School Thailand.
As part of a total commitment to sports excellence the PIAMC has started to provide training in the cultivation of cognitive and emotional balance. The PIAMC will offer a blend of modern psychology and neuroscience in association with traditional Asian contemplative practices. Featuring accessibility, the PIAMC conducts retreats and seminars. It teaches the practice of “mindfulness of breathing”, which is helpful technique for soothing the body and calming the mind. A second method taught is both a shamatha practice and vipashyana, “insight meditation” called “settling the mind in its natural state”. Phuket International Academy Mind Centre Meditation, Mind Studies, and Retreats.
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