arrogant muay thai practitioners

[aznkarateboi]

not to flame the art of muay thai or the practitioners, its just something i've noticed. there is always an overly arrogant muay thai practitioner on every board. an example on this board is the membr "Muay Thai Fighter", as you probably all know. i think that many muay thai practitioners are too confident in their art because it's to the point and direct. they accuse all other arts(besides bjj and mma) of being useless. they seem to htink they can kick any other arts ass. what do u think?

[martialartist1]

muay thai practitioners think they are so confident in their art simply because muay thai is greatest combat striking martial art in the world! thats also the reason why they accuse all other martial arts, because when their training in muay thai, they think their indistructable and the best, only because of the martial art they train in.

[karate_woman]

I think you're too sensitive; you've written several posts trying to rally support from other karateka on this point. I think you or maybe someone else with the same issue even challenged other people Look, some karate schools don't even teach self defense aspects. Mine happens to, but not all do. If yours does too, great; don't feel you need to defend all the McDojo schools out there that don't, however.

[aznkarateboi]

wait your confusing me, i've written other posts trying to rally support from other people? can you tell me what posts? i honestly dont remember making a post like this

[karate_woman]

Didn't you write one yesterday directing people to another post and saying that others were saying that karate was useless for self defense? The thread was closed and deleted shortly after whoever wrote it so I'm not sure. Perhaps it was not you, but I've seen this common theme a few times in the past few days.

[aznkarateboi]

actually i think you are writing about someone else... i honestly don't remember writing such a post

[GreenDragon]

Having practiced a little karate and a little Muay Thai, I feel I can give an objective opinion. Karate ramps up slowly, several years down the road a dedicated karate practitioner may even be better than a Muay Thai fighter who has been at it for a few years. On the other hand Muay Thai ramps up very quickly. I feel that a Muay Thai fighter after one year would be far more prepared for a real life fight than a karate practitioner after only one year. Obviously this is debatable based on the schools and the individuals, but all those things being equal, I believe my assessment is fair.

 

One of the main differences between my Muay Thai training and my Karate training was the physical conditioning part. And I don't just mean the workout, because as an example my Tang Soo Do class gave a much better workout that the karate class and this level of exercise will vary from school to school. I mean the method of conditioning that is standard at every Muay Thai school. Not only is the workout intense, and many other arts will have intense workouts as well, but I mean the training method of holding thai pads while someone else kicks them. It is this feeding your partner and watching him try to hit/kick/elbow and knee you as hard as he can with only some pads offering a bit of protection that gets you used to taking a hit. Sure some other arts spar, and some even spar hard, but every night in Muay Thai class you take somewhat of a beating. In other arts if you've gotten hit hard, it is a result of sparring and a mistake you made, (or maybe you are Uke and your teacher is hard on you ) in Muay Thai getting hit hard is just part of the training and you are there to take every hit your partner dishes out and encourage him to hit you harder. I imagine some people who are very dedicated to Muay Thai feel that if they are going to be beaten and hurting after every class, they must justify their participation in what seems at first like insanity by putting other arts down. Seriously, I had no idea how difficult Muay Thai training is until I tried it and many times have thought about quitting.

 

Oh, and other than people being jerks about it due to them justifying their participation in something so hurtful, there is also the spiritual aspect. In Karate class and even more so the Tang Soo Do class, respect was taught as part of class. I don't know how to say this, but imagine a boxing gym, those guys are there just to learn to fight, nothing else. Muay Thai gyms are like that too (I imagine to varying degrees) whereas practitioners of most other arts have been taught some very subtle things that develop respect for others (like bowing before stepping on to the mat, calling your teacher sensei, my Tang Soo Do instructor would even get on us about using first names with other students unless they were kids, I had to call other students Mr. This or Miss That). I'll probably get flamed by some Muay Thai folks now, but I have to somewhat agree that some Muay Thai practitioners are a little arrogant sometimes. I may even sound arrogant in saying that they do have a bit of an excuse because of the difficulty of the conditioning they go through. But they also could be a little more humble and show some respect for other arts. Everyone here is doing some kind of fighting art and that makes them far more prepared than the average Joe on the street, regardless of the specific art we are learning.

 

GreenDragon

[SaiFightsMS]

There crops up practitioners of all arts who from time to time feel a need to express the superiority of their art above all others by "bashing" the other arts and styles. But please do not personally attack another forum member.

 

We try to catch bashing type posts and remove them and let the poster know that it is not an appropriate type of posting to be making here. Same thing goes for those who personally attack other forum members.

[Kensai]

Get in the ring with them and prove them wrong.

 

If not, start posting something more creative rather than basically flaming them even though you denie that.

 

*shocked that I stuck up for MTists*

 

[aznkarateboi]

kensai how can i prove that they are arrogant by getting in the ring? also im not flaming them, and if i am i dont remember u accusing them for flaming other martial arts, hm?