mtmaniac

It depends on how much work you put in it. If you train two days/week and just do it for the excersise youre never gonna be good. You might aswell do aerobics but if put a serious effort it doesnt have to take that long time before youre good.

Actually, that isn't Pettas. The black guy is dutch kickboxer Lloyd Van Dams and the who broke his leg is also a dutch kickboxer but I can't remember his name. Anyway he did fight after this so I guess it healed properly. Pettas break was nowhere near as nasty as this one.

I was in Bangkok last tuesday and watched the fights at Lumpini stadium. Two fights was ended by high kick ko:s. The thais who fought hardly threw any lowkicks at all, only push kicks and roundhouses to the body.

"Once were warriors" had several realistic fighting scenes. None too pretty though, mostly dirty and brutal. Very good movie by the way.

Why do so many people consider Lee a great fighter? Wasn't he foremost an actor and a philosopher. What combat arts did he actually compete in?

I'm not from Canada but you should do a search on Mike Miles. I know he runs a couple of gyms over there but I'm not too sure about their wherabouts.

I believe that you get better training at a pure boxing gym and a bjj school. The instructors at a boxing gym are probably better at teaching boxing than say someone that teaches both bjj & boxing. Maybe there are instructors that teach both very good but in general I think it's better to learn from specialized instructors.

Thanx, I hope so.

I didnt mean to bash kyokushin. I guess different styles make for different skills. In Muay thai you foucus 100% on ringfighting which is a lot different from streetfighting. So even Muay Thai has it's drawbacks.

I realise that there are kyokushin fighters that train more streetoriented than others but generally speaking I think you get better preparation from arts like boxing and mt whom spar amd train full contact all the time.

I guess the muay thai fights won't be 10 rounds long,right?

I say punches are the most effective weapon in a streetfight. It's easier to maintain your balance, you can throw them faster than you can kick or knee, most people don't know how to defend them ( this may apply to all techniques though), If you know some combos you can easily overwhelm a untrained and inexperienced combatant.

I think styles that try to mix everything in them may look good on paper but really doesnt cut it when it comes to real fighting. I mean If you want to be an effective striker aswell as an slick grappler you should train at diffrent gyms instead of learning it all from one guy. Training at a real boxing gym for instance where you learn to throw punches properly, evade punches etc would give you some hardcore skills that translate very nice to streetfighting as in most fights starts with somebody throwing a punch. Also in striking arts like Muay thai, boxing and kickboxing you get lots of sparring experience which will help out in a real situation. Ive never trained kyokushinkai but Ive heard they don't allow punches to the head, if thats the case it's really not a style to train for selfdefence purposes. The head is the most important part to protect besides your genitals in a fight.

IMO boxing is one of the most effective arts for streetfighting. I havent been in that many streetfights but I train and spar very often in Muay thai. In boxing you learn to avoid and slip punches without blocking them, when in muay thai the boxing training mainly consists of basic stuff, blocking punches with your gloves etc. When I'm sparring I usually takes the punches on my gloves close the distance and start working the clinch. My point being that in a streetfight you don't have the gloves to use defensively and most attacks ( I beleive) in streetfights are punches. Muay thai got more weapons, some really nasty ones in the knees and elbows, but I feel most mt fighters lack in boxing defense. In ringfighting you can make up for this by blocking punches with your gloves,clinch, throw knees and kicks but in a streetfight it could be dangerous to go berzerk with the kicks as there is no referee to break it up when one fighter loses balance or falls to the ground. Just my thoughts, I have very little real life experience so this is all in theory ( of course).

Well, although Chuck Liddell are one of the best nhb fighters he never was a pure striker. He was a succsessful wrestler in college and thats why he's got so good takedown defense. All the Chute Boxe guys trains in wrestling regularly to improve their sprawls. The best example of a succsessfull, close to pure striker, would be croatian K-1 fighter Mirco Filipovic. Even Filipovic trains a lot of wrestling and bjj before his nhb fights.