MuayThai Fighter Posted March 8, 2003 Author Posted March 8, 2003 All martial arts styles kick with top part of the foot except for the muay thai fighters and those who have incorporated the kicks into their style.The muay thai practictioner applies round house kicks using shins.Our roundhouses use the ball of the foot usually. We also use the shins for broad general targets, but when focusing on pressure points or vulnerable areas it's just too big a weapon sometimes. Back in Hapkido we would actually spar using the top of the foot instead in order to lessen the chances of us severely hurting each other. Ya so you guys use muay thai round house kicks as well as traditional martial arts round house kicks,because as I stated before the use of the shins as weapons came from MuayThai and Hapkido uses the top of foot. In muay thai we never use top of foot only the shins for our round house kicks. We also use our knees which other styles don't use unless they've also incorporated those kicks. We do use ball of foot like all styles do when applying a lead leg front or straight rear kick or when doing a side kick. Our most effective kicks are however the shin and knee kicks.
AndrewGreen Posted March 8, 2003 Posted March 8, 2003 Ya so you guys use muay thai round house kicks as well as traditional martial arts round house kicks,because as I stated before the use of the shins as weapons came from MuayThai and Hapkido uses the top of foot. The shin kick may be most associated with muay thai, but it is not unique to them, and never was.In muay thai we never use top of foot only the shins for our round house kicks. So? Kicking with the instep is done for safety, it hurts less. In point sparring that is what is used as well. You don't have to be a genious to figure out kickink with the shin hurts more.We also use our knees which other styles don't use unless they've also incorporated those kicks. Elbows and knees have always been a part of other arts, this can be seen in documents dating back further then Muay Thai, did Muay Thai steal knees from the Okinawans? or was it the Chinese... Japanese... Indonesians? Greeks? Europeans? We do use ball of foot like all styles do when applying a lead leg front or straight rear kick or when doing a side kick. Does that mean you took them from another art? or just that that is a good way to kick and will turn up when you study kicking to any level?Our most effective kicks are however the shin and knee kicks. And Muay Thai has developed those to a high level and brought them into the spotlight, but they are not unique to Muay Thai, never where. Andrew Greenhttp://innovativema.ca - All the top martial arts news!
MuayThai Fighter Posted March 8, 2003 Author Posted March 8, 2003 Ya so you guys use muay thai round house kicks as well as traditional martial arts round house kicks,because as I stated before the use of the shins as weapons came from MuayThai and Hapkido uses the top of foot. The shin kick may be most associated with muay thai, but it is not unique to them, and never was.In muay thai we never use top of foot only the shins for our round house kicks. So? Kicking with the instep is done for safety, it hurts less. In point sparring that is what is used as well. You don't have to be a genious to figure out kickink with the shin hurts more.We also use our knees which other styles don't use unless they've also incorporated those kicks. Elbows and knees have always been a part of other arts, this can be seen in documents dating back further then Muay Thai, did Muay Thai steal knees from the Okinawans? or was it the Chinese... Japanese... Indonesians? Greeks? Europeans? We do use ball of foot like all styles do when applying a lead leg front or straight rear kick or when doing a side kick. Does that mean you took them from another art? or just that that is a good way to kick and will turn up when you study kicking to any level?Our most effective kicks are however the shin and knee kicks. And Muay Thai has developed those to a high level and brought them into the spotlight, but they are not unique to Muay Thai, never where. You can say whatever you want,but Muay Thai Fighters are the ones that originally invented the knee and shin kicks and came up with the idea of elbow strikes in martial arts.This is why MuayThai is unique.You're wrong it was unique to us and always will be. Traditional artists like yourself,don't like to admit it,and claim it not to be kicks and elbow strikes of Muay Thai. Read the article I pasted earlier and see for yourself. The article tells you that other styles like karate and tae kwon do started to use the unique shin kicks of MuayThai because many martial artists started to notice its effectiveness. Also check out this Muay Thai website if interested: http://members.aol.com/Thaiboxing2000/
Mayur Posted March 8, 2003 Posted March 8, 2003 MTfighter, before debating with you, I'd like to ask you the reason for which you created this thread, what do you see in preaching to everyone, if you tell me why then I might want to debate this with you BTW, I can make my own web page on members.aol.com and say that muay this is crap, does that mean it is? |Mayur|
ZeRo Posted March 8, 2003 Posted March 8, 2003 i agree that mauy thai fighters do have amazingly powerful kicks but thats got nothin to do with where they kick with. at TKD we kick with the ball of our foot and sometimes with the instep but this doesnt mean our kicks dont do any damage. ive seen someone break 4 boards with the ball of there foot. lets not make this thread into anymore of an arguement.
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