Luckykboxer

hehe. definitely possible. but definitely depends on the skill level of those you are fighting. you could quite easily go to the ring and outmatch an opponent, but you can also go to the ring and have a bad match up and get hurt. If you are planning on fighting in the ring get a knowledgable trainer handler and make sure he is trustworthy. Alot of promoters and matchmakers will bring in MEAT to feed their project fighters, or house fighters so to speak. And all to often they are willing to pay a trainer/handler a few hundred bucks to deliver that MEAT

i dont think the XMA is a style as much as it is a contest. basically hollywood martial arts is the way i put it. they have an official website... https://www.xmarevolution.com

all of the above. you will find invite only torunaments for specific styles. you will also find open tournaments for all styles. Different open tournaments can have different rules as well. Kata and forms competitions have gone from just traditional or basic forms to a whole bunch of different types.. musical, creative, weapons, teams, syncronous, etc. the goal for all of them is to be the crispest, cleanest, most powerful, most technical, most impressive to win.'

how come i picture American Gothic wearing a black belt

he fought Holyfield after... way after holyfields peak.. Holyfield was lucky to get physical clearance for those fights he has so much brain trauma i would be surprised if he can feed himself now :/

ohhh I am very familiar with the Bay Area. Fairtex has some incredible schools there that specialize in Muay Thai Kickboxing. There is a school I believe called Golden State Tae Kwon Do that when i visited it was lead by a man named Eddie Kroft.. he is a professional boxer. I was very impressed with the skills of the students there. Golden State Tae Kwon Do was located on the peninsula... San Mateo maybe? I forget i have to look it up.

i hate to tell you but your skills didnt come from 9 hours of muay thai training. I think its obvious you have trained in other styles, and have just been imitating what you see in the muay thai gym. redirecting a low kick against a tae kwon do artist to the leg is a great move, but nothing you didnt already know how to do... just saw a different target to hit. I dont think your shins would be any different after 1 week and 9 hours then before... the conditioning of your shins will take months if not years. sounds like you are excited though, so enjoy and dont let this go to your head... there will be plenty of times you will get humbled in the muay thai classes.

ya i dont care much for Lennox either. He looked good his last fight and then he(at least it appeared so to me) took the easy way out and quit before he got some tough competition... Maybe hes a victim of no good competitors, but i personally think he was very overrated

/applause Nice post WW

ya i have to agree with the two posters above me. We have a few parents who seem to look at the time as their free time more then their children learning something and them taking a genuine interest in it. It would be nice if all parents took more interest in their children and the activities they participate in

well from one who trains in multiples... I started in kenpo karate. I was always interested in fighting even before karate though and a natural progression was full contact fighting. I did pit fighting for a while and was impressed with kickboxing and had the honor of training with a world champion. the muay thai style seemed to mesh very well with Kenpo, as the muay thai style was great offensively and kenpo great defensively. as i fought more i eventually took some boxing training, just kind of happened. I fought a few times and never really liked it. I always felt i had to hold back cause i wanted to use feet elbows and knees. but it did help alot with my footwork, and in seeing openings, didnt hurt my existing training at all. eventually as i fought more and turned back into MMA and no holds barred fighting i had to deal wiht the ground game and thus started Jiu Jitsu, which was the last range that i really needed work with. I have found that all muay thai, kenpo, and jiu jitsu meshed well together. boxing helped out with the other styles, but i wasnt happy with boxing as the other styles made me want to do more then was allowed in boxing. So i have since stopped training with boxing completely. basically i have all ranges covered. I have circular and linear movements. And all forms of kicking and striking. footwork of all kinds. I think that eventually after I advance farther in Jiu Jitsu I want to add Aikido to my repretoire.

i am not familiar with flat feet... i assume you mean you have no arch and possibly even balance issues. I would assume if you have to wear special inserts to deal with it and have seen a doctor for that then you also probably would have heard of exercises to help correct it if there were any. If i had to guess on some exercises i would have to say flexibility and lower leg/calf workouts.... but that is only a guess are you able to stand on the balls of your feet? if so then you can probably do alot of martial arts. If you cant then you can probably try martial arts and adjust your feet the best you can. regardless you will discover quickly whether you cant or not. Bes tof luck on that though, My advice would be to try it, and if it gets frustrating keep trying it until you get it right. I have seen some pretty amazing things from people with disabilities. I have seen a professional one armed kickboxer named baxter humby.... he fights well and has won belts. I have seen blind jiujitsu practitioners who move like they see it all I have seen people with missing arms and legs adjust and make martial arts work for them. I am a big believer in if there is a will there is a way.

welcome aboard

welcome to KF

why would Judo give bad habits on the ground? I dont know how they would combine.. i train in BJJ myself and i love it, from what i understand of Judo its based on sport and points, and like i said im not very knowledgable on it but isnt it not based on submissions?

I have met Gene actually when i was in the bay area. I know he is a legend, and i know he has alot of great information and knowledge but regardless i completely lose respect for people that take advantage of animals or helpless people.

let me make sure i understand completely before i answer. When you say teach, do you mean that you are going to be completely in charge of everything or do you mean that you will be in a class helping a black belt instructor? because then you will get two totally different answers

well Muay Thai training is going to get you exactly that... ready for muay thai. now I am a firm believer that any knowledge gained is useful and will help you. some of the basic footwork will be similar in boxing, but you will need to alter it specifically for boxing as alot of the distance in muay thai is a little outside the normal boxing range. as far as flexibilty goes, i think that you will see an increase in your range, but muay thai isnt exactly dependant on flexibility as say tae kwon do. Once again you will have plenty of time to work on your flexibility. That workout seems almost like a standard fighters workout. except that in the fighting regiment you would toss in some shadow boxing with the warm up, and would toss in some mileage dependant on how many rounds your are fighting. And would toss in a certain number of kicks on the heavy bag as " homework" hrmm i dont know about this place... those accomodations look fairly questionable.... in regards to they look alot more private and alot more luxurious then anything i have heard of for this type of training. the training facility looks pretty standard though.. and actually a little newer then most i have seen the instructors all seem fairly young, the head instructor seems a little inexperienced compared to many i have seen. 90 fights may seem like alot, but most of these guys fight weekly.... not monthly or longer.. so 90 fights is most likely 2-3 years tops. I think that as a beginner you would get some good training here... and if their facilities are newer as it look sit might be more comfortable. These guys trained at Lanna which is an older camp like what i am used too. I really dont know the prices for these camps so im just giving a guess atm, but regardless i am jealous of the opportunity to go over there... I know if i had the chance and was able to i would be over there in a minute

actually i was just reading an article in one of my magazines, but now i cant remember which it is. It was rating different drinks on a scale from 1-5 for how well the hydrate you. water being 4 and the gatorade line of drinks being a 5. the thing it said about the gatorade drinks was that they were best used before or during workouts and not after. It also said something about the prime range of carbs per ounces... ill see if i can find it. the one thing about red bull, or the other type of ephedrine/guarana/taurine/etc.. i cant remember all the types is that they elevate your heart rate and your blood pressure. One of the major reasons ephedrine was banned in the USA was because of how dangerous this was/is. I take them usually only when i want to stay up and not as an energy drink per say, as i tend to get kind of wired off of them

if someone were to hit me in the groin, they may as well make sure im dead because i would come back after them whether it took a day a week or a month and i would put them in the hospital. think about that when you make that decision. Obviously you will have to make a choice when it comes to that time, but maybe another option is to bring a backpack with a change of clothes and change at the studio. I know that at our studio we require that students do not wear their belts outside the studio.... now that doesnt include uniforms, but /shrug.. if your looking for a fight keep wearing it, from what you have said it seems like that will lead to one.. If you want to avoid a fight, and it may be too late to do that, but obviously the uniform is drawing reactions at this time..

anyone that is a coward enough to fight an animal i would love to have in front of me in the ring. Animals that they would fight are not wild animals in control of all their facilities in the wild, but rather tamed, old, sick, drugged animals, or animals that think they are playing rather then fighting. I think that there is a definite ability to fight animals like bears and win, but there is no reason to do so other then being cruel. Of course if you are in the wild and are attacked thats one thing, but i cant think of any valid reason to do this.

/sigh... if you kick the kneecap in many forms of sport fighting you are going to get in trouble. If you are looking for self defense then sure the kneecap is the weakest point and will give you the greatest opportunity for maximum damage if that is your intent But since this was posted in the kickboxing, boxing, and muay thai section I tend to think it relates directly to sport fighting. if you are talking about sport fighting then you want to aim for the meaty part of the leg above the knee either on the inside or outside. a punch combo i like to use with a low kick is an opposite side hook. for example... throw a right low leg kick followed by a left hook to the head. it works well for many reasons, one - the person distracted towards his legs and the side you kicked often times leaving an opening high and on the opposite side. two - the low leg kick can often unbalance your opponent and the left hook will put him down, or move him completely off balance and leave him open to other punches/kicks three - its a fairly natural punch as when you come through with a low leg kick on that side your body is wound up for the left hook already so it is a maximum force punch at that point.

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i know a fair amount Master Toddy is in Las Vegas. He has trained many champions in the sport of Muay Thai. Kit Cope has been fighting for a fair amount of time now, and has won several belts. I havent seen him on the level of say a K-1, but I think he could fight and hold his own in his weight category. From what i understand he is gearing up for MMA and ho holds barred fights. Ben Garcia has also been fighting for a while, and won several belts. He is currently not fighting and focusing on his DJ business, as from what i understand he is becoming very popular in Vegas. All three of these people are legitimate in the sport with each having many years of training and fighting and with master Toddy having many many years of the above plus promoting and fight matching I fought for Master Toddy in vegas for a Thailand Charity event a few years ago to raise money for victims of a major flood. Hes a great guy and very charismatic to meet

I constantly use my training. environmental awareness as taught to me in the school is an every day part of my routine. I am always paying attention to what is happening in my environment and paying attention to what to avoid. situational awareness is a part of my everyday routine. when i am in a position where possible problems may occur i run the scenarios through my head. positioning is something i practice everyday. I never put myself at a weak angle or an undefendable position to anybody. Now i dont go walking around in a fighting stance, but i have found myself over the years never allowing myself to be in a weak or non defensible position. Its just natural now. I have had times where I stood up for other people and had to use my skills to protect both them and myself. I have had times i have had to protect myself and stand up for my beliefs. I was a fighter long before i got into martial arts. If i wasnt involved in the martial arts i would probably still be a fighter. Now with martial arts I am able to have a healthy release for my passion. No trouble, no problems.