Muay Thai + Wing Chun?

[MizuRyu]

Do you see this as being a good combination? I figured that Wing Chun could easily open the way for the knees and elbows of Muay Thai, and fill in the footwork limitations of WC.

[powerof0ne]

Yes these styles can both compliment eachother but keep in mind that they both have traights that go against eachother too(i.e. not kicking much above the ribs in wing chun/ving tsun and many others).

I read a few years ago about a noted wing chun instructor that also has a background in Muay Thai and trained/fought in Thailand if memory serves me right.

Not only would wing chun help out your Muay Thai but your wing chun would help out your Muay Thai. I am a firm advocate of Muay Thai but am well aware of possible "weaknesses" in the art. I myself am mostly a karate and Muay Thai practitioner. I would suggest getting a firm foundation in one art before continuing on and doing another simultaneously.

I had a shodan/1st dan in Karate before I started Muay Thai and I think this helped me out a lot more then others that I have seen that have only a month or two of a striking art and try to do another striking art at the same time..they get too confused and start to get bad habbits/form in both arts.

If you want to do a primarily grappling art such as bjj and muay thai at the same time before spending years in another this shouldn't be a hindrance to you because they're night and day. This is just my two cents worth but also things I have noticed in my experience.