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Originally posted by S.Anucha
dude, the advantages of Muay Thai are....
....the training is very good for cardio vascular fitness and strength in abdominal and leg muscles, you learn RESPECT!!! if not then your teacher is crap or taking you for a ride. Its soaked in traditions if you get past the professional competitive form, as one or two of us here have argued before. Training in Muay Thai will improve your confidence by instilling a sense of indestructablness, toughness (which in my opinion must be proven in the ring) because of the nature of the training, I dont mean that Thai sparring is done heavy as often times it is not, infact most of the time fighters prefer to spar lightly, 50% or so.
The fact that you are physically pushing and pulling, kneeing and kicking during a pad workout, always being physically pushed to your limit by the trainer and spending some time, 20 minutes or so, each day working on your clinch technique prepares you for the intensity of a real fight, Muay Thai sparring is done carefully to prevent injuries as injuries can occur easily if you get too excited, sparring is taking a technique you have learned during a pad session and then after refining that technique on a heavy leather bag you then go into the ring to spar with a partner in order to learn how to apply that technique, some camps like to see how the heart of a new student is by pairing him off with someone and letting them go full power but only with the hands...
....many people have this notion that Thai sparring is done full power, it is not and dont think that because you do go full power you will learn anything other than not to go full power. I can almost garuantee that if you do enter into the world of Muay Thai you will probably ask yourself why you never entered sooner rather than later! Be sure to get a good trainer, a credible trainer. Also I personally recommend to learn the traditional side of Muay Thai, the origins of the sport, where it came from and dont try to get the info from the internet cos as I found out most ofthe sites are very misinforming.
this one is very good http://www.muaythai.com
The disadvantages :
could be a developing of shin cancer but the chances of that are sorta like the chances of getting any other cancer I suppose. You can get a bad back, bone calis, split eyebrows, scars, broken toes, broken legs! Muay Thai is only usefull so long as you are physically strong as Muay Thai depends on strength as well as technique and of course there is the risk of death by internal bleeding and broken sternum, but if you dont compete that risk is considerably lower....
so there ya go, all I can say is go join a Muay Thai gym.
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"I dont mean that Thai sparring is done heavy as often times it is not, infact most of the time fighters prefer to spar lightly, 50% or so."
B.S. It is the opposite fighters in Muay Thai always like to go in fast and HARD.
I don't know one Muay Thai fighter that likes to spar lightly including myself.
"some camps like to see how the heart of a new student is by pairing him off with someone and letting them go full power but only with the hands... "
First of all depending on how new the student is if a student has only been there a few days or weeks he cannot compete but will continue to learn like everyone else but at a slower speed.
Second those who do compete don't go full power with only the hands.Fighters always go hard with all strikes whether shin kicks,knees or punches and in countries where the elbow is allowed it is done full contact too just as done in Thailand.These are the reasons why very few Thai fighters make it past their 30's for competeing and many get hurt.
"...many people have this notion that Thai sparring is done full power, it is not "
Do me a favour and please know what the hell you are talking about before describing Muay Thai to others.
"What makes you think Muay Thai sparring is not done full contact? I got news for you bud you are wrong.Muay Thai is known to use full power for a reason."
In Muay Thai we do go full power and go right through with our punches.Unlike most arts we don't pull back or snap our kicks and punches we go right through with our techniques.
The goal of a Muay Thai fighter is to end a fight as fast as possible with powerfull strikes and often to go for knockout.
Muay Thai fighters like to destroy an opponent they find hard to beat by causing pain to their opponents thighs,shins and knees in order to take person off balance and to put an end to their opponent fighting back for this reason we win 9 out of 10 fights.
"Muay Thai is only usefull so long as you are physically strong as Muay Thai depends on strength as well as technique"
This simply is not so.
It is true that Muay Thai depends on technique however strength has little to do with it although it does help.One cannot help to notice that compared to many other martial arts Muay Thai fighters often appear to be very thin or skinny so obviously rely on power.
We rely alot on speed and power. Like other arts we believe with speed comes power .
Muay Thai is all about technique,speed, and hitting hard but with full power not strength. No doubt does strength help of course.
I agree with every thing else you say about Muay Thai though.