Bad Experience in Muay thai.

[theswarm]

determination is good up until a point but blind loyalty is not far from idiocy

[kajukenbo dad]

The malls are fill with these places now a days....Good Luck

[Hannibal]

In my opinion you should always be able to watch a lesson before joining a school. Each school is different and when you change schools it is important that you feel like you fit in.

 

The way that I would judge a school is by looking at the students and fighters they produce (I am obviously focussed on fighting) are they humble? Are they good sports? Are they the type of people that you would want your kids (if you have any) to learn from?

 

Anyhow that is my rave, most MT schools are relaxed if this one is not then it may be time to change.

[Thuggish]

actually id say blind loyalty is stupidity. the only difference is sometimes the blind-loyal people are lucky enough to be on the right side. but, i digress....

[Fenris-wolf]

Don't give up on Muay Thai! Just move schools... This sounds pretty wacked. Sure, train hard on one thing, but straight jabs for nearly two hours?? That's just stupid.

[MuayThai Fighter]

First off when you train they lock the door. I dunno why i think its so no one can disturb class. Oh yeah they're are no places to sit. You can't walk-in and watch classes, you have to make an appointment..after you do that you can't watch the class, they only give youa basic run in of it.

 

All we did today was drill jabs. Now...this isn't my first muay thai session, I've been in it for a while.....anyway we did jabs for 1 hour and 45 mins pretty stupid. There's other techniques to drill with..and he only makes you train one side...this is dumb because instead of balancing out both sides, you only make one side stronger while the other side becomes weaker and weaker.

 

They have some champs and are a part of the IKF but still it just doesn't feel right.

 

Oh yeah this fool made me do 100 push-ups because I didn't wear his official "Cooper's Muay thai Gym" T-shirt that I paid for with my hard earned money! I mean damn it didn't say in the agreement it was required to wear the gym's official t-shirt. Only handwraps, mouthguard and a cup. As long as you wore loose and comfortable clothing you were set to go but noooooo. I wear a Nike T-shirt and its the biggest crime in the world. I can see if he gave me the shirt...but dude I'd PAID for the damn shirt...its a shirt not a gi.....its nothing to be doing a 100 push-ups after a very long hard boring training session......I over trained my left side today because of this.. and he knows I just recovered from a nerve injury so over training is very stupid, the body needs to rest and only gets stronger when it rest.

 

I could do 100 push-ups if I was fresh but............he made me do it when I was extremely tired and in pain because of my neck......I almost threw up...I'm thinking about leaving this gym and go take up some good reality fighting Gung fu or Japanese Ju-jitsu.

 

http://www.kickboxingsites.com/mi/index.cfm?page=19

 

That's the place I go to. The instructor is a little chubby though.-_^

 

No matter what martial arts school you go to you are expected to either wear their gi or t-shirt,as long as it is part of gym's uniform you must wear it so you can't complain about that.I don't feel sorry for you having to do push-ups.Would you wear a baseball cap while working in a restaurant? No,of course not,so how is it any different with martial arts school.Police officers have their own uniform too.

 

However from the rest of what you have mentioned it just sounds like you need to go to a different gym,it has nothing to do with the style.

 

MuayThai is the real deal for stand up,so it has to do with the school.

[btroadman]

That is how we weed out people who we do not want in there and aslo only the really die hards will continue.

 

You weed them out by their Nike T-shirts? Interesting concept.