All I can do is give you my opinion. If you want to fight, learn to fight and fight. Muay Thai is tremendous in that respect. I liked some of the muay chaiya self defense and stuff like that. There are teachers who are good at fighitng within muay chaiya but not the commercial ones ranting and raving like on these forums. Even in the major bare knuckle competitions like for the april holiday, they send muay thai guys to fight. The muay chaiya dudes and all the others should be trying their hand at that against the burmese. I would say muay thai is great then you get the subtles of lerd rit or krabi krabong or muay chaiya because you already tempered by the tough and direct muay thai training since they are all inter related its good. Thats what I want to do in the future. I will always continue with muay thai and fight but i will learn the others too. I enjoy them even though I rant on here like a lunatic, I just dont like the politics it ruins the very fun of learning and training because the thai people are alot of fun to be with and train hard with.
MMA is just the best, one of the most beautiful sports to me in the world. If you want to do MMA, then you can stay right where you are and do it or go to brazil. I love MMA.
Hopefully sportmuaythai will give you his insights but those are my own honest ones.
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