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Thanks for the advice. I'll try it next time

Thanks. I think you're right. I'm trying this out on my training bag right now and my balance is a lot better. I just have one question. When you say thrust your hips do you mean you should turn your hips or just thrust you entire lower body forward?

I dont think my class needs more repetition because I think we have just the right balance of new skills learned and old techniques repeated.

geeze. then I guess BJJ wouldn't help me a lot with wrestling thanks for posting

My Muay-Thai school had a school "tournament" where we had to wear shin guards and bag gloves and chest protectors and we weren't allowed to punch to the head, only the heavily padded chest. And I don't think you could kick too hard either. So basicly, nobody felt the least bit of pain. At the end of a three minute round, the judges decided the winner by how many strikes he landed, his form, etc. I want to know if there are any actual tournaments that are like this or are they all just like %100 all out?

I fall backwards.

I wear black gi pants and a white gi

I am bad at foot jabbing. How can you footjab so that you don't lose your balance and still push your opponent away a lot?

MT! I havn't done boxing, but I think it is a lot more fun sparring when you know you can kick and you know you opponent could kick you any second. I like to watch boxing on TV and I think there are more techniques in MT and it involves the whole body, so it is more fun. I am trying to imagine what sparring would be like using only punches and punch defenses and my lower body is like tingling with boredom...hah stupid, yet amusing

What are some moves in BJJ that are illegal in highschool wrestling?

Wear a shin guard and you won't have to worry about any if this...

1. The classes are monday, tuesday, thursday, friday, and saturday, but I wont be able to attend monday or friday because of karate. Do you thing 3 lessons a week, 2 hours a lesson is enough? It depends on what your instructor says. At our school, you can go to up to three classes a week, but you have to go atleast twice a week. 2. There is people of all ages. There is only 1 muay thai class in the whole gym with people of all ages, do you think ill be too intimidated to spar against bigger, more experienced people, or maybe the class will go too fast for the younger students? Im 14 What exactly do you mean by people of all ages? Are there 6 year olds there? Anyways, I don't think your instructor would make you spar someone not roughly your same size. You'll probably be training with people your age, more or less. 3. Do you think training 6 days a week is too much? I would be doing karate mon wed and fri, and muay thai tues, thurs and saturday, also i get free boxing when i sign up for muay thai. Not at all, unless you start socially withdrawing from all other aspects of your life and then youre obsessed... 4. Do you think i can handle it? So far in my training, i have been slowly building up my physique, as you can see in other posts, to fit them to karate, but i hear muay thai is much much tougher! I did karate a long time ago, so I would say MT is tougher, but a good instructor will realize he's pushed you too far when you start to hurl after class... if it really is tough, don't eat before class, the nasuea sucks. Anyways, don't worry that theres big people in your class---you're probably a lot more fit than most adults out there. 5. Am i too young to start muay thai? I know kids in thailand start whne they are 8 or whatever, but do you think being 14 years old will be too young in a class of a bunch of adults? Not at all! Seriously! At my school, we have classes for little 4 and five year olds, and then we have classes for 6-13 year old people (but a lot of the students stay in that class until they're 18 because it fits their schedules better than the adult classes), and we also have adult classes. Muay Thai can be tough, but a good curriculum will not overwhelm you. Oh, and I agree with Vito. I'm thinking of adding BJJ to my training.

Seven Star, geeze, that is a really great value. I have to pay $110 a month for just MT. and its like 45 dollars extra (they have a special low price right now) for BJJ

There was this one episode of "Real Life" on MTV and they documented two Thai boxers from the US. They went to Thailand and both won in a bare-nuckles tournament. I don't remember their names... Ben and Ryan or something. I don't have a favorite, but they were cool.

if you kick their calf muscle (you have to kinda reach behind them) or if you can kick anywhere on the inside of their leg (this opportunity usually comes when they are kicking), sometimes you can make them fall and not be able to stand again for like minutes

Sometimes, our belts come untied and fall off when we're moving alot, but nobody at my school ever notices it until someone else tells them because of the strings that keep your gi tied - they still keep your gi relatively tight even without the belt. Tying your belt... our instructors taught us a way and the knot looks like a fortune cookie...

Loose gi's...they look cool. Kinda like baggy clothes.... anyways... you shouldn't worry about you gi being too loose as long as you're wearing a shirt under it.

My friend who takes Jiu-Jitsu tried-out for wrestling but he didn't make it even though he looked really good on the mat because the coaches were all going, "Hey you can't do that...hey you can't..." I wish highschools would allow Jiu-Jitsu moves. Then maybe a lot more kids would do Jiu-Jitsu as a supplement to their school sport, you know...

Sorry, I don't live in NY, but maybe you could try the yellow pages, or an online directory of martial arts schools... or call your former instructor and ask him.

Hi, I do Muay Thai, but I really like Jiu-Jitsu from the bit that I've done in class and from what I've seen of my classmates who do Jiu-Jitsu. I'm thinking about starting Jiu-Jitsu (it's at the same school where I take Muay Thai), and I would like some info on what to expect when I start Jiu-Jitsu. Also, at our school, we have done "fights" between a grappler and a striker to see their strengths and weaknesses, etc. and it's been really fun (but the strikers arn't allowed to actually punch their opponent hard...). Maybe all you Jiu-Jitsu people could give a "striker" like me some advice on how to beat you (no, seriously). I just want to know some effective things to do when a striker is pitted against a grappler. By the way, the grappler I was fighting was always sort of like bear hugging me and trying to take me to the ground. What do I do?

Oh yeah, and also locate your school in a shopping center close to a residential area where there's lot's of pretty wealthy families with children. The shopping center usually gives your school a lot of visibility, and locating near a residential area will make sure people don't have to drive far to get to class... essential for lot's of busy families out there. But what do I know...

Give out free trial programs. That's what the school I go to has been doing, and it really increased the enrollment rate.

Get a buisiness to sponser you. This can be a local restaraunt or shop, as others have said, or it can be a martial arts equipment retailer. My friend has just started a paintball team, and a large online paintball retailer is providing him with discounted equipment in exchange for the team wearing shirts with the retailer's logo on them during tournaments.

Thats awesome! What was the tournament like? I don't know anything about Go-kan-Ryu but I love sparring tournaments, so I'm just wondering.

Shoot I meant to post this as a reply to something else. Whatever