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Hit him, if it hurts them too much stop for a second to let him breath and get himself back. Then starting hiting him again. To hit someone and then stop is insane... no one who really fights you will do that.

you didn't find your art to serve you well, you served your art well.

To a grappler, kicking is a no-no... Why would any body want to hit someone while balancing on one leg? IMO its just an invitation to get taken down. Clinch knee is superior though!

The concept of martial arts is the art of discovering the most efficent way to kill someone... and in this case by unarmed combat Period.

wait a second April 28? modified Muay Thai rules? 18, 5' 8", 132lbs? I'm 17, 5'7, and 135lbs ( although I fought once just this SAT (3/25) ) I hope your not fighting at Fairtex because I'm probably going to be your opponent. My first fight I had major problems with commiting to my attacks. I was not even hurt or tired toward the end of the match, and I should have knocked out my opponent, but I was not fighting the same way as I normally spar. I became too passive, managing to tire out my opponent I did nothing about. ( his nose ended up bleeding at the end though) One thing is for sure, out of all the first fights people go through they always regret something. I find it as a way to learn and others as a way to be depressed. Confidence is something comes with training and experience. Just relax and don't burn out in the first few rounds.

i dont really know how to "box" properly but if we had to fight I can promise you I will defend myself well, even if u are a great boxer, no offense. my training in martial arts(even though my school doesnt really go to tournaments) prepares me for real fights, be it our same way fo fighting or something we havent seen before, we adapt quickly. so, my conclusion from your post is you had a bad martial arts instructor and decided that martial arts were innefective. hopefully, one day you can experience something genuine and see what you have been missing. "we adapt quickly" The point is in boxing or kick boxing adapting is the ONLY thing that we do...your adaptation is a first experience. Theres no secret to martial arts, the art is in yourself, not what some moves your master tells you to do for every single situation. It is what makes martial arts, an art, it is a expression of oneself and not anothers.

I can tell you are not a traditional japanese stylist. My comments are not meant that application doesn't need to be practiced because it does and alot to become very good. Application requires your reaction to be second nature. I think your application makes your reaction second nature. The more you train realisticly the better you are at handling in a realistic situation. Unless you don't know how to do the moves your doing. "how do Round kick?" You should pratice more untill you have better technique and then apply them. 4 years of improving technique ( 4 years of kata) with very little application is not right. One can spar better from only sparing, than a martial artist that does only kata (if you can even CONSIDER them a martial artist.)

MMA!!!!!!!!!! you only use 4 oz gloves enough to cover your fist

Why not just shadow box with techniques you'll actually use?

it is not a stupid question. Get plastic or rubber, don't try and get fancy ones with weights on the ends, but ones with ball bearings are nice. Cheaps ones will do fine, for rope size you want both ends of the handles to reach up to your armpit when you step on the middle of the ropes. Hope this helps, if not theres always google.

When you guys are talking about kicking the knee you do mean a sidekick or front kick right? Because I can't imagine doing a round kick to the knee, it only spikes your shin back

I hate you south paw people... its like a never ending race to circle left.

I dont think that is true because im not getting any sparring tips with Krav Maga, we just spar and thats it! Sometimes i do get some tips from my oppenents telling me to keep my hands up etc... While on kick box or mua thai they do learn to spar step by step i understand so i am thinking that i can become a better at sparring if i join those MA. Can a person who doesnt know how to swim learn it by just jumping in it? Maybe yes but it takes a lot longer time then taking class. We do some sparring drills at my muay thai place, inside thiegh left kick, block kick back, one two punch kick/block. However when we really spar... they do put us in the ring and the teacher just yells out advice

If your talking about the Low Muay Thai roundhouse kick, THATS MY FAVORITE KICK!!! It is used in UFC, Pride, K-1 very often and for good reasons. Theres this concept known as hit high hit low. The low kick can be used both ofensively and defensivly. If you opponent chrages at you ( move forward to you ) to jab and cross, parry the jab and when he throws the right punch, slip your head to the left side at the same time steping with your left leg to the side to gain power and release that low kick with your right leg and POW! This works wonders Offensivly do a jab, a couple if needed (you can never get enough jabs) and fake the right cross, instead of actully snaping the right cross back to your chin or head you let that fist hang there in his face for less than half a second then pull it across as you release your round kick and POW! These work for me, you should try and see if it works for you.

Why train yourself to punch and kick? Your only forceing yourself to not devlop your own personal style of fighting. You should kick whever YOU feel you need to kick, and you should punch whenever YOU feel you need to punch. Take a look at Pramuk in K-1, an almost pure kicker plus clich he does what needs to be done. But that does not keep him from getting owned by Andy Souwer a almost pure puncher. Go by that rule and you be able to fight with reason.

Are there any good excersizes for strengthing your knees for knee strike? I have heard about doing situps to work your hip flexors, but then again it also hurts your lower back... What excersises are there? Do I just raise my knees up really high when jump roping or hit the bags?

Do whatever it is that would seem to work for the situation, (although I don't see how naturaly a person can headbutt someone you must have thought about doing that before the fight even started ) Sense you were 5''7' (like me) up againts a taller person I assume you did a straight forward headbutt while grabbing him and because he was taller you hit him maybe in the nose? When the fight starts it will be whateevr techniques you trained with! For you, its a grab and a headbutt but for me its a left hand grab and a right elbow strike to the chin...and then move on to the Muay Thai Clinch and destory him with a flurry of knees

uhh.... thai boxers become pro when they are like 13 so I'd say you in more than enough good shape, i'm 17 btw and have been taking Muay thai for half a year

I guess it doesn't sound so fun to him anymore

Just wondering about the jaw line, I understand that when doing boxing you start off with you fist protecting the chin ( obviously because of the rules) But in Muay Thai your guard is much higher looking though your guard (eyebrow level) now when a thai boxer use the jab, some lower thier guard down to chin level and some perfer to leave it up high in the eybrows as it was before ( most likly to protect elbows and kicks ) What is your opinion on this?

It looked very similar to a Thai boxing match, like the ones from thailand (except less brutal less clitching and no elbows) By that I mean that most Thai boxers use thier punches to set up for thier kicks, and to get into the clitch and most of the time not used for thier KO power. ( although sometimes they do commit to them)

maybe your not crazy and you just enjoy rolling around with guys more then spending time with pretty girls. Nice ... Hahahahahaha MTBoxer .. That was completly weird if you want my opinion ... depends... maybe he is the only man in his BJJ class

helllllloooo...... What better way to fight with striking in the clich then with the MUAY THAI CLINCH USING ELBOWS and KNEES!!

the boxing hands would be similar to the kicking boxing one in terms of uses. Although they are not comepltly the same.

What ways are there to use the clinch as a offensive tool and deploy knees and possibly elbows (although I don't spar with them) against a fast/heavy puncher. I although there are many ways to parry and move in to clinch I have been told to never force your way in. I find clinching to be difficult to do when the person fighting snaps his fist back to his side so quickly (even though that’s how everyone punches, the person I was sparing was exceptionally fast) Does the Muay thai clinch just happen when you get close from punching? Or is it at times a planned manuever to attack with knees and defend againts erratic uncorrdinated punches?