mai tai

the hard part about it is to throw a side kick you kinda have to go to a more side stance this leaves your leg open for roundhouses. thats why tai fighters dont throw to many. there stance is rather square to protect their leg. also if you just snap it out it does not cause to much damage. however if you thrust your hip you leave yourself open for many counter atacks. so if you throw it you must hit. that being said i throw about 2 or 3 side kicks in my fights ( three rounds). its not a bad kick just dont make a living off of it. if the rules dont permit leg kicks side kick away.

triangle choke in the street.....dont forget that you can punch him while he is in that choke. at my gym we do much nhb. it is a bad position to be in as they can punch your face as you try to keep your head up. and tighten the choke when you try to cover with your arm

a kick to the head is a high risk high gain manuver. i ussally dont throw it unless the othe guy begs for it

as wrestling is a great side art. it can grealy improve your formability. but you neead another to go with it. me. muay tai strikes. bbj for ground. wrestling to make it my choice if i want to be on the ground or standing up

im gonna go with gumbi on this. however while wrestlers have the best take downs when a wrestler throws you it hurts. when a judo guy throws you it hurts so much your balls rattle

i am going to step on toes now. the ufc has proven that ther are only a few proven ma. mauy tai wrestling bjj judo kickboxing. i think boxing could be one but the ufc has never seen a quallity boxer due to the financial gain of boxers in boxing. others i think could work. tkd with boxing( tkd feet, boxing hands) karate (i knew quite a few good karate fighters however they all spared like kick boxers, held ther hand like kickboxers and had stancesd like kickboxers) my background is karate, tkd, and wrestling. now i take 1hour mauy tai and 1hour bjj a day.everyday. on the weekends its takedowns and takedown defence.on sat and on sunday i try to have a fun day sparring freiends who take different arts. if i was you. you must have a striking art and a ground art. start with the striking art it is generally harder to learn IMO. if you are still in high school join the wrestling team in the summer. wrestling gives a good base but it must be accompanyed by other training.

i was an army ranger. when i was in they taught a watered down hand to hand. but most of are training was with weapons. on a modern battlefeild your the low on the totem pole if you have a rifle. hand to hand...it just isnt that important. now they train a watered down bjj. but not while i was in. ther were some good fighters in the rangers SF and dreaded D when i worked with them. but it was cause they were hobbyist in various MAs

in no particluar order 1.maturity 2.have a good mouth piece(talk your way out) 3.avoid the wrong places 4.come home at a reasonnable hour 5. avoid substance abuse 6. get and train yourself with a gun. 7. dont lose temper 8. run i worked in a trama bay for a while. most of the people. not all but most were looking for trouble when they got hurt. ie he cut me off in the road so i folloed him and cut him off. followed me home and hit me with a tire iron

why does fighting to the death make you a better fighter. example. frank shamrock lost to jon lober. but he got better ended up winning 8 straight after that to include utterly spanking lober. who he got better than. same could be said for benard hopkin who lost early in his career. fighting to the death only means you wont have much fight experence. now enter the real world. i have been to combat twice. during the first gulf war i came around a bunker and came face to face with the enimey. he hesitated, i didnt. im here, he is gone. why because i was "killed" about fifty times in training the year before.

wrestling is a great base for just about all sports. as far as combat sports the most valuaable part is the takedown defences and the takedowns. it will also help you control people on the ground better. byw it is takes alot of courage to swollow your pride and start something your not good at. if you feel like a dork when you start, join the club, everybody does at first. one last thing pushup and sit ups after a wrestling practice. are you nuts. ya got more heart than me. after a wrestling practice i ussally cant see strait

i am going to be different from everyone else. i think boxing would be great. i know a guy who ding boxing for hands, tkd for feet. very good striker and could hold his own with us mauy tai guys. thats good for up fighting. you must know some ground fighting.

fun or productive. i do mauy tai now but i have blackbelt in tkd and purple in karate. i love to spar different style.ussually i go by there rules (i learn more that way) plus i spar muay tai and bjj 5 times a week so its nice to have the break. most productive for real fighting and nhb is muay tai, boxing some good karate (kickboxers) guys and its good to see the crazy high kicks in tkd. (most of the time in the ring you dont see them. they are very effective if you havent seen them before. the more you see them the less effective they are) for example every now and then i see a spinning kick in the ring , if it hits it ussualy hurts. and the croud oos and ahhs. in my head im thinking please throw it again.(easy to counter) for fun i love point fighting. all speed and grace. little pain. just a slightly violent game of tag. now for the bad part. i never saw a soft stylist who could really fight.

i learned how to do one ate the age of 30. i started out in a pit filled with thess little foamy things

what military are you talking about? i was in the army 1990 to 1995 and a 19 yearold male hade to do 52 to pass and 82 to max. as you got older the standard dropped. are you a chick, i think they might have been that weak.

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fighting is not the same. it has evoveled. if you are studying an art that is 100 years old and has not changed once than you are stupid. the gun was developed centuries ago. we are still using guns just not in the same form.

size matters. there are 3 guys at my gym who i grapple with that are much larger. i am 180 and have above aveage strength. (315 bench 500squat). these guys are all steroid freaks 240 and above. 1 guy i beat all the time, the other guy i beat 70 % of the time and the other guy i beat 10% of the time. win lose or draw im always sore, or beat up. i try to go with them only about 1 or 2 a week.

beginners...you can even see pros drop there guard hand..not as often but when the excitement of an impending knockout comes that hand drops and punchs come from the third row. carl williams got knocked out by tyson when he dropped his guard hand. my sparing advive. spar as many people as possible. when with a weak opponent dont mash him ...work on the stuff your not good at.

i agree. most people can stand and slug it out few can operate well in a tai clinch. are we taking about people being jerks in the ring (them going 100% when you guys agreed on % or are we takling about flury opon flury of blows. if so when someone is raining shots on you and you cover you must break up their combo. i ussually turn slightly to the right with my left in the cover and throw a straight right or an uppercut. if ther are going nuts on you you ussally have a shot sraigt down broadway. before the get to you say out of ther range for a while. if you stay back most over agressive guys really want to hit you so they will over extend, now attack. also practice pivoting out of danger and moving laterally. i know thats easy to say and hard to do. all of us take a step back every now and then its the natural reaction to a charging oppnent (silva vs belfort)

some times i get fights where you must wear head gear, some times you dont. that being said. you cant toughen up your head. so the more dammage you take in training the less you can take later in life. however the disadvantage to training in head gear is that somes times you stop protecting your head like you should. the headgear can also reduce your periferal vision so you must get used to that. that being said were it for hard sparring. ditch it for light work. were it alll the time if your fight comming up requires it.

sasxom gym is there in dallas. i know i spelled the name wrong. but its a great gym. he has trained many great fighters. (maurice, bas, pete sprate) i am jellous that i dont live in dallas