ElbowTKO

BARE CHESTED! w/ muay thai shorts Shin pads, head gear, 16oz gloves

Elbows are normally not allowed in most matches so there is no use of elbow pads ( at least in my gym) Round house kicks to the gut? if you know wearing shin pads that can be a poor move for me because you don't want to kick near elbows with bare shins (it gets spiked and will hurt you more than it will hurt them) most of the time we hit upper ribs to their guard or forearms. But if one does not know this or is not trained to do this shin pads should be used. After all we all start off as a beginner. Bare knees? Well I'm still a beginner in sparing for Muay thai although I have been training for about 5 months when we practice clinching and knee sparing we use curve knees and we hit like 4 inches above the sharp part of the knee. Which is basically a soft part of your lower thighs.

A man should not be judged by the color of thier belt but by thier content of thier charcter it is not always a good idea for a new person to be againts a more skilled erson though, Ever got kneed in the balls using straight knees when your suppose to do curve ones to the ribs?

A full force uppercut to throat would have the chance of killing them, yes. If you excersie control, however, and strike with enough force simply to shock them, if you will, then, for the most part you need not worry about death. That is to say, if you can excersize proper control. If not, you are 100% correct. You think you will have the control when a fight is presented to you with full force? I can honestly say that almost everyone of us, no matter how many knees or muay thai round house kicks you practice. you'll have a high chance of doing a 1, 2 jab/cross a million times....

There is still value of a black belt, for.... BJJ

thats true but many of them are useless now because they were used in a different context than now

yeah, that should have been sarcastic it seems all TKD does is go back and fourth with kicks untill one is able to hit another, lol

http://www.boxingdepot.com/pr-gr-04.html Last night I got kneed in between the spheres, luckly it was only a light tap the guy I was fighting never learned to use curved knees and it was his first time sparing. I want something that offers me protection that can be concealed yet not a hassle to put on when I need to. Can anyone recommend equipment?

ROFL!! literlly rolling on the floor laughing... Looks like a Muay Thai vs BJJ to me... =)

I used to weigh about maybe 115, and now i'm at 133. One tip, get a pull up bar it can him you gain weight and work on your abs at the same time ( although working your abs with a stright leg can give you lower back problems doing them correctly with a bent leg can help) That was before I started doing Muay Thai, and I never lift weights either. I always fear it can stunt my growth. Theres plenty of cardio involved which causes people to lose alot of weight fast. But the whole routine makes you stronger regardless

then what causes Western Muay Thai boxers to not practice bowing as oppose to all the karate and aikido ones that do?

so what makes bowing in muay thai different than the bowing of other asian arts aren't most of them buddist? Isn't bowing in Muay Thai a sign of respect also?

when you say religon is one of the reasons as to why they don't bow they way they do or perform the wai khru what about the large karate/TKD/ and even aikido?

no belt, I hope to get a silver or bronze one soon and if i'm lucky and with hard work a gold one =)

isn't traditional Muay Thai trained just like boxing? If not it is now =)

I believe that those small things are very important to the foundation of Muay Thai. It may look cute yes, but it is true to the roots. Just as long as you don't go over board. Doing the the Wai Khru and bowing as a sign of respect are those little things that you miss due to western ways. It could be possible that the reason why much of the culture of in Muay Thai are lost because of the fact that people practice Muay Thai the same way as Western boxing. In the western rings, they touch gloves in others they bow.

LOL, I only do point sparing as a warm up for ring sparing

I'm not sure what I would do, I never had a girlfriend or even touched a girl before(other than my mom!) well maybe once when I bumped into them. If they harmed a friend I would step in, but probably not a kick to the face...(maybe a teep/push kick, but not something with power like a MT round house...) it is hard to control yourself, but one must look at your ownself and see the situation.

A good thing to look out for... if you visit the place, check how much sweat is on the floor, at my place there are plenty ( you would think it was raining in one place! There are like rings and rings of sweat surounding a heavy bag ) I don't believe Muay Thai performs any katas. Check how much pad work they do and how much they spar. Also check the quality of the bags at the place along with the Thai Pads. Otherwise ask them what they usualy do in each session.

why not just spar the other blackbelts you believe aren't as good as you are?

I'm 17 also, one thing that you have you have to consider when sparing againts adults is that they will go easy on you, perhaps too easy. Take advantage of that, and they will go hard on you. I guess I never had a problem sparing againts larger people in Muay Thai sparing class, I only have the opposite problem, if they go too hard on you... just tell them to go light.

Hi, I'm a dork I never been in a fight my entire life but I could have been in a hundred of them. But as a smart coward one can never get hurt.

My Muay Thai gym is like the many that have lost its way from the culture,respect, and traditions that come from Muay Thai. Most of the people just want to gain strength and defend themselves while practicing Muay Thai and are not really known to the customs of Muay Thai itself. My teacher on the other hand has trained in Thai land and has learned many of the traditions taught there. I am currently ring-ready, but still I have not challeged myself just YET. I asked my teacher to teach me the Wai-Khru, which I hope to keep to myself for a long time. Does your gym retain its traditions?

If MMA does have its sport side... If one person wants to truly defend themselves I belive you should either practice in a self defense class. If you don't want a self defense class then I'm sorry MMA is the next best thing. Do Traditional martial arts teach better than MMA? No way in hell thier training is no where near intense. Although it all comes down to the person. Just take a look at marine corp martial arts, they teach boxing punches, muay thai elbows, some karate front and round house, eye gouges, the muay thai clinch and knees, and defense from common chokes. Thats really about it. and you'll be surprised at how bulldozing someone and putting them to the ground w/ no rules can be very effective.

I wish I could spar with my master... but he is like 6'5'' and i'm 5'7'' also he is heavy weight and i'm lightweight.