It wasn't enough to convince him to move to Thailand right off the bat, though. But a couple months after his father first proposed the move, Sota saw something on TV that changed his mind. It had nothing to do with Muay Thai. He watched a Japanese man speak English and Japanese fluently on TV, and decided he too wanted to learn English. His father told him he should go to Thailand, train Muay Thai, and enroll in an international school where he could also study English.