Liale has practiced Muay Thai for over 10 years. During this time he has trained at the top Muay Thai gyms in Johannesburg.

In 2018 he was a accredited by the South African Muaythai Federation, the local commission linked to International Federation of Muaythai Associations, as a Muay Thai coach.

He coached Muay Thai at PRIMAL Gym Rosebank, developing novices into martial artists, fostering an amazing Muay Thai community at the gym and even coaching athletes to compete in the SA Muay Thai nationals and into national team
selection.

After many years of collaboration with PRIMAL Gym, Liale has started his own training school imbued with his coaching values- Summit Muay Thai, Johannesburg.

Nantz started his martial arts journey with Liale in their 20’s by joining a prominent local MMA Gym. During this time, he was exposed to Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and decided to focus his training on this martial art.

He continued this path to blue belt level before injury threatened to end his martial arts journey. Through
extensive and focused rehabilitation process, he built his way back to training, where he picked up Muay Thai with Liale.

In a relentless process, he quickly went from learning the martial art to becoming Liale’s dedicated training and sparring partner.

He is now Assistant Coach at Summit Muay Thai, bringing his wonderful pad-work skills, relentless physicality, experience and good energy to the training sessions.