Muaythaiboxer

you are never to young to start! i have been doing some form of martial art or martial sport sence i could step on to a mat and i beat people who started when they where older. Why? because i have more training and more experence

why dont you tell him the art he is learning is useless for self defence?

try aiming for the side of the thigh if you hit hard you will make it so they cant walk plus you need to hit really hard to cause any major pain to the knee cap it's a pretty tough joint.

i feel very sorry for the people who dont keep there hands up in sparing, particularly the people who cant even punch to the head.

the four bouncers i know all train in the martial arts Two have a black belt in TKD and two have black belts in kempo.

LOL, the truth is your shins stop hurting after about 4-5 mounths but your calvs never stop (you just get tougher)

i would recomend boxing alot but you need to find a good gym and train every day, and then train some more if you want to be good.

has anyone ever tryed the side sprall? Exp- double leg shot, sprall but then shift weight to right or left and end up at there side. ( knees work real well from this position)

i trained knife for a bit but as the Anonymousone said i would rather work on empty hand.

i would have to say the heavy bag is the best way to get more power.

i would agree with that, but i still say walk away to just about any situation.

take the kickboxing place and still train with the people from the old dojo

Shaolin Gung-fu is very effective, twice Shaolin monks have won national San Shao compitioins in china and some have defeated Thaiboxers under thai rules. (although rarely) i believe that in order to master the martial arts you must master yourself and in my experience the best way to do this is threw Buddhism, although there are other ways in regaurds to your post that it is not practicle the forms are not how they fight in fact how thay fight resembles Muay Thai in many respects.

good post i would agree with that however if it is not and attentiaon and he just doent like you i would tell him nicely to back off if he can drive a car and has a job hes ahead of alot of people i know and should be treated just like anyone else. if someone ever makes a point of telling you they have a problem they ussualy want you to feel sorry for them.

in my experience the non athletic people never train as hard and dont do well in compitition, i believe that to be a good martial artist you have to push yourself and the non athletic types dont do that and usually quit early cause they cant handle the workouts.

lol train harder than you ever have and go the the testing over prepaired Best of luck AMITABHA

thx for corecting me, ive got a question why dont more thais come to the west to fight im pretty shure they would win in just about every weight division

the Khmers may have invented it but the Thais profected it so i would say Muay Thai is Thai but its origen is in cambodia. also Cambodia had a larg following of boxing monks untill the Khmer Roge took over and killed them all.

Ouch... i just saw the Yuki Kondo, Tito Ortiz fight and i was wondering about a flying knee? i have used it with some success in the ring and i think a guy flailing madly would be wide opean for it. not my first choice but would any one consider using this.

the grandmaster of my TKD style killed a man with the Kwan su (spear hand) in korea he hit him in the solar plexus and the guy droped.

i would say take up thai boxing over boxing as thaiboxing is a little more hard core in the fighting aspect, but i do love both of the styles and boxing will get you much better hands.

liked the post CQB and congrats on the kid i would have to say a number of clones train in every style and then enter a tournamet with no rulz who will come out on top? the answer is who trained harder?

yes if you cant sprawl you will most likely lose to a grapler.

i believe that no art is better for self defence but there are arts more suted for ring combat exp (muaythat,Bjj,boxing)

i have always had a healthy self esteem but martial arts have made me even more confedent as an athlete i have never had a bully problem but the thing martial arts really helped with is giveing me a goal in life! i now have something to shoot for!