shinbushi

to answer your question, yes I've seen these events and my younger brother's first fight was against Anthony Hamlett who went against Royler Gracie in it one year, and yes, my brother won.

GZK, what girl from your school competed in it? I know Cindy Hales, who competed in it and was kind of a favorite but did it soon after a ovarian cyst surgery, if memory serves me right...kind sux, but she didn't make any excuses. Here, https://www.cindyhales.com I think is her site with some footage.

As a Muay Thai person you should know that in Thailand they'll say a lot of the punches in English. Thai language doesn't have a good word for uppercut and hook. "Madd"(punch in Thai)can only be used so much. In Japan I've heard English and Nihongo be used for punches but I don't like mawashi tsuki being used for hook, it just seems weird when I think of it translated. I can't really say for other countries since I've only trained in Thailand and Japan, and by no means do I speak much more than just the terminology for Muay Thai and Karate in terms of speaking Japanese and Thai.

Yeah, it's based on his savate, muay thai, combat judo, and his own principles but he never called it "kickboxing"...I've read every black belt article he's done, especially since they've reprinted the one he did in '73 or whenever it was. Thank god I have a photographic memory, anyhoo, he never called it kickboxing. Muay Thai is not kickboxing, neither. I've never heard a savateur call what they do kickboxing, too.

I know what bobbing and weaving does, I've trained in boxing, too. I know what it's supposed to do, I also know what a 360 spinning airial kick is supposed to do but you won't see hardly anybody in Muay Thai do a "butterfly kick" or whatever you want to call it(even though my first coach and I have). The thing is, it's risky, it's boxing and meant for boxing. Show me examples of someone using bobbing and weaving in high level muay thai, please. "Westernized" Muay Thai? do you mean more like Eurasian style kickboxing? Any Muay Thai modified in the USA isn't really known to be good, the USA is the worst country for Muay Thai fighters, no joke. "Dutch Style", "eurasian" seen a lot in France..However, the USA does have world level MMA fighters. For Muay Thai, we have Duane Ludwig...and? yeah, a few guys that might make it to the k-1 grand prix. We don't send fighters to Lumpinee, Rajadamner, m-150, kratingdeng, toyota marathon, etc. Perhaps I'm wrong and you're right, we should send someone that bobs and weaves to duke it out in Thailand! BTW, I don't count the ISKA as a high level of muay thai nor kickboxing, even though they televise the fights. I'm talking more around the level of the WMC and a few others including K-1(even though it's mod).

that is exactly what it is. And if your footwork is good, it will work. if it didn't, it wouldn't still be taught and used. the thread isn't geared at any specific technique against a southpaw, so what I mentioned is v alid. It's only taught against a puncher, and it's very basic, it's taught to beginners, it's not taught to use against anybody that works combinations well. I wouldn't have taught it to any of my fighters, but I had my fighters fight in Muay Thai fights, go figure. Once again, it's a boxing tactic, remember that.

It's his style of pankration that he founded in 1968 and mu tau is a Greek acronym meaning martial truth. It is not a style of kickboxing but Arvantis has trained in Savate and Muay Thai. I don't know how you came to the conclusion that it was a style of kickboxing when Arvantis is known as "the father of Pankration". Is it because it's spealled mu tau vs. muay thai? they're not pronounced the same, oh well.

It doesn't sound like any full contact I've ever done, neither. I trained briefly in a Korean style that was close to where I lived a decade ago that did train full contact. They even wore the chest protectors you tkd'ers wear but no shin pads and had leg kicks, neck kicks, head kicks, knees, throws, take downs. It's too bad they weren't that good at it but the effort was nice.

Pankration being the first mma can be argued but what I would say is that I don't think any school teaches true Pankration. Arvantis did his best to reconstruct it and other schools teach more of a homiglation of catch as can catch wrestling, submission wrestling, bjj, "muay thai", kickboxing, boxing, wrestling all in the mix. In truth, Karl Gotch(rip) had a lot to do with Japanese pancrase's roots.

Yes, please practice bobbing and weaving and try them on someone that's good at muay thai, you will eat knees and kicks that were meant for the body right to the chin. One of my old training partners that was defending his north american muay thai title for the 4th time, tried to bob and weave, ate a body kick right to the chin and got ko'd. He's not the first I've seen this happen to, neither. I have seen it happen, that's why you don't see many good pro thaiboxers and fighters that fight thaiboxers try to bob and weave. It's great for boxing, though! For anything that involves combinations with kicks and knees, slipping works much better then bobbing and weaving. Bobbing and weaving really is meant when you're fighting someone that's primarily a puncher. I'm glad I realized this at an early stage or I would have gotten KO'd when I used to compete in muay thai.

He was also in "The last dragon" and I'm not sure which ISKA fight you saw of his because I saw him fight years ago on an ISKA promotion and the fight looked worked, bad...real bad. I forgot the name of the TV series he was on as a kid, too.

This is very basic and won't work on an advanced opponent that offers more than just boxing as a weapon. This is boxing 101, keeping your lead on the outside. You have to watch out for the plok/push and the tok/moving, the dtae/roundhouse, kao/knee, etc. Along with the strategies that put it all together. If all you wory about is circling around and keeping your lead foot on the outside you will get pegged by someone that works combinations in Muay Thai. It really comes down to what kind of oppnent you are facing. Are you facing a kicker, clincher, puncher, someone that works all 8 limbs of muay thai?

I dunno, I always use mcdojo for a school that hands out black belts to people that are nowhere near a real black belt level. I don't attach age as the requirement of a good teacher; a 25 y/o can be a good instructor. Unfortunately, a lot of schools that teach high volumes of kids gravitate being a mcdojo in order to cater to the kid's and there parents so they can pay the bills of the school. Now, before someone misunderstands what I just said, I'm not saying every school with kids is a mcdojo, just that A LOT unfortunately end up being one because of the $. It doesn't even have to be a lot of $, but I come from a different background then a lot of martial artists in the USA so my opinion is just my opinion...and you know what they say about opinions

My job pays for my lessons now but 10 years ago or so when I was paying, it was $65 for 3-4 hours 5 days a week and I had a key to the gym to train on my own on the weekends, this was in Muay Thai.

There are some systems that I would allready call "MMA": Pancrase/Pankration(some schools do teach it), gaido jutsu, Chute Boxe, Kakutogi schools, Chokushinkai, Daido Juku/Kudo, and others.