Icetuete Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 a wet towel?? dont think so... but who am i to judge...
TJS Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 it's an analogy...a TKD kick is for speed and snap. A MT kick is designed for power..it just so happens it feel like getting hit with a bat at 60mph
Icetuete Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 the speed makes the TKD kicks powerful, doesnt it?
Thuggish Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 yea kidna- the idea behind a tkd of kung fu snap kick is to connect for as little time as possible, same principal behind a wet towel snapping actually, and cause a lot of damage that way. thing is, its either one of those, or a thai boxer with huge muscular legs who is also incredibly fast whos kick is designed to hit as hard as possible. and other than hard kicks, whoever asked, all of muay thai is based upon maximum damage. the knees, the elbows, all that isnt for points- its for destroying your opponent's body before he destroys yours. i read somewhere, and wouldnt be surprised, that the average career of a muay thai fighter (the hard core guys in thai land) is five years because after that your body is finished. a broken arm throws no punches
Icetuete Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 ...that the average career of a muay thai fighter (the hard core guys in thai land) is five years because after that your body is finished. i'd rather train a life long in TKD, Kung Fu, shotokan, whatever instead of THIS... this is really hard.
StoneSkin Posted June 30, 2003 Posted June 30, 2003 A person im sure could practice Muay thai all there life they might not be able to kick as hard as they used to but they could deffinately still practice. Your body would get pretty damaged if you were a Hard core fighter in Thailand but most of us dont have fight after fight after fight for 5 years. And even if you did you could still teach Muay Thai. Many believe that teaching is the first step to a deeper learning.
Thuggish Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 i meant professional fighting career, as in, kicking the shit out of each other in the ring. personally id rather study muay thai than TKD, i just plan on avoiding kicking the shit out of someone while they do the same; i.e. no full contact/no gear/professional fighting for me. i like my body in working order a broken arm throws no punches
TJS Posted July 1, 2003 Posted July 1, 2003 If you fight full contact fights 5 times a week then your body wont last long...end of story...the whole "old age" excuse about MT gets way overused. anyone who fights that much is going to have problems.A person im sure could practice Muay thai all there life they might not be able to kick as hard as they used to but they could deffinately still practice the same would be true to any stlye if it's true to MT.
Ninja Kl0wn Posted July 6, 2003 Posted July 6, 2003 so whats making MT so effecitve is the brutalness? many other arts invole real hard kicks. savate for instance came up in the streets of paris. they kicked each other with shoes and in the streets there certainly are no ruls. savate is a combination out of the french kicktechniques and british boxing and so can be regarded as both effective and brutal. so why is MT considered so effective while savate is hardly known on this forum? Because savate has alot of unnecessary prepatory movements that muay Thai does not. Also, savate is entirely devoid of clinch-work, has no knees, and no elbows. I won't comment on the kicking effectiveness, as both styles kick differently in order to cause different kinds of damage. Overall, muay Thai is a more 'complete' striking style. Until a style comes up and actually challenges muay Thai's spot on the striking throne, it will continue to be seen as the most effective striking art, whether it deserves it or not.
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