Help Martial Arts choice

[blitz]

Hello, I'm new to these forums, anyway I have been wanting to take a type of martial arts for a long time, I took Kali/Escrima for some time but stickfighting just didn't satisfy me. I want to know what the best kind of martial arts is using your armys/legs. I have been thinking about taking Muay thai but i keep getting confused if its better than boxing. I know boxing involves no kicking but I want to know if its actually better concercning your punching/dodging. I want to learn something that involves different aspects of martial arts. I wanted to learn Jeet kune do but i don't know if there are trainers in here so .. Please suggestions anything helpful. Thank you in advance.
PS: Please tell me why to take anything u suggest.

[SamuraiGuy]

Muay Thai and Boxing.... neither is better they are just different.

Boxing will give you better hands than Muay Thai will, but Muay Thai will give you hands elbows, knees, shins......

its a question of excellent hands, or good everything else.

[Oreomeister365]

to make it simple, if theres an art the soley trains the hands, it will always have better hand training than an art that focuses on legs as well. Its completely the nature of the beast.

Unless of course, you spend as much time of the handwork in your muay thai class as you do in the boxing classes, in which case you'd be taking even more time to do the leg work after that.

But if you are training the same amout with both arts it is physically impossible to get as much handwork with muay thai...unless you don't kick...in which case you probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place..

[blitz]

Well right now i have another question. I'm thinking about taking muay thai but i don't know how to know if my trainer is good. Since thai isn't really widely spread here i don't know who to ask so any tips i should know?

[Shard]

I'm no expert but it seems that in boxing size plays a role. The last time i watched feather weight boxing during the olympics was the LAST time i watched feather weight boxing.i can't remeber the countries but The 2 idiots were cat fighting. They were more like madly tapping each other's bodies, hugging, being broken up by the ref. At least watching middle-weights fight has a kick to it, when they fight you can see when someone really starts getting it handed to him. The Feather weight seemed like he gave up because he got too tired to wildly tap his opponent on the body. He wasn't injured or smacked around by his opponent, he was just exhausted. Trust me, when they punched each other's heads, neither got a hit that swung their heads or anything.

Dunno about MT but even a feather weight could knock someone out with an elbow, reducing the importance of size? Don't get me wrong it still plays a part.

I guess the surest way to find out if your instructor is any good to you is to join tournaments. Decide from there.It could be that either your teacher isn't good or MT Just isn't your thing. Or you might find MT is exactly what you want to do for the next 45 years.

[blitz]

Yeah problem is there are no tournaments here for muay thai cus its too aggressive they say.. And about my size im pretty big .. I'm about 6'0 (not sure i havent seen how tall i am in a year) and I way 75 Kgs which is about.. 160 lbs or so. The only tournaments we have are tae kwon do/boxing/karate/judo/jiu jitsu, not sure if we do more but the ones that are widely known are those.