TakeItEasy

There's a lot of talk about what works in a real fight, so let's take a look at one of the MOST common scenarios where a regular person will get in a fight. Person A) picks a fight with person B) for dancing with "his" girl. Now, the way it generally goes is both fighters are untrained (let's assume you are trained) and scared of getting hit, so they are at a distance from each other. They will kind of box each other. This is where standup is handy to put the guy down immediately before he realizes he is outmatched if you are capable. If you get one or two hits on your opponent he is already pissed off and is not going to want to get hit again, so his response is to charge you. I have seen this a million times and it is what all untrained fighters do, if the initial couple of hits don't go their way they immediately sense their disadvantage and charge you. This is where standup becomes quite useless unless you get lucky and catch the guy before he gets to you. Now you need a ground game. The guy will tackle you and it becomes a wrestling match, generally with the guy who tackled you wildly grabbing and punching at random, but rarely with any clear purpose or devastating effect because they are fighting with rage and not with their heads. At this point anyone can either try overpowering the guy or if they have ground training can use that knowledge to quickly get the guy in a hold, knock him out, or if you're particularly cruel break something. Please feel free to critique this or add to the list of most common scenarios and how to prepare for them.

Just wondering what the injury risks were of regular muay thai training, sparring, etc. (not tournament fighting).

In an email I sent about a few things he said: "Official" belt testing is done in houston by Eric Williams. He's a listed black belt at http://www.bjj.org/a/people/williams-eric.html. I am going to ask more specifically about castillo's rank/lineage. Apparently his class has a lot of cops and revolves heavily around effective street fighting, I get the feeling there's a few elements from other martial arts thrown in there. In january he is going to LA to get certified as an instructor in the "Israeli Kapap/Lotar system," which he will incorporate into his classes. In the summer months they revolve around training with no gi, and in winter they revolve around training with a gi. Cost is around $50 a month, 3 classes a week.

Wouldn't happen to know where would you? I would be shocked if they aren't in kansas city, which is 4 hours away (there seem to be qualified instructors for everything from krav maga to muay thai in kc but nowhere else in the state).

I have, but found none. I thought there might be someone on the board in my area that knows of one that is perhaps obscure or teaches other arts in addition.

Anyone know of a good muay thai school in southern kansas?

Yep it is unprofessional, but it is the only listing I've found of local schools, and the instructor merely listed his school it is not his own site. For some reason he and a lot of other schools seem to not be listed in the yellow pages. Edit: here's an editorial he wrote, interesting http://www.stompingass.com/aboutus.html

http://www.stompingass.com/brazilianjiujitsu.html I am in the wichita area looking for a decent school teaching either muay thai or bjj, and I found this website. I sent the guy an email asking for specifics about price, belt testing, class demographic, contact sparring, etc. and I will most likely request to sit in on a class if I like what I hear. I thought I might as well ask people on the board what they think at a glance though, thanks.