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Dave, I sincerely hope you stay here on this forum, your posts are very insightful and enjoyable to read. Not to mention informative. Please post on the MMA and BJJ forum as well. We'd love to have you there!
My 2 cents on Holland and european M.T. practioners are that I've heard that many of the fights and bouts there are hesitant in putting elbows and as a result, many bouts do not allow elbows, resulting in a weaker elbow game for the europeans. I recall one fight Joao Vierra from holland quit in the middle of the bout because he was not used to being elbowed. But this information is secondhand because I read this off a website.
". He just waved his hands to quit after Burachai's elbow nearly missed his face. Vierra ended up on the canvas many times and Burachai clearly dominated the fight. Vierra was a good fighter, but his weaknesses in the clinches and the elbows were apparent. He had fought many Muay Thai matches in Europe, including one in which he beat Ramon Dekker. However, because many European matches still do not include elbows even though knees are allowed, Vierra was not yet prepared for Lumpinee Stadium. The Thai fighters are very dangerous at the elbow range."
I think the hollanders and europeans just modifed the techniques to suit the bigger people there. Because Thais are generally smaller in stature, the gap in the heawvy weight divisions are domminated by the Dutch. Or maybe this is too much of a generalization to be true?
My 2 cents on Holland and european M.T. practioners are that I've heard that many of the fights and bouts there are hesitant in putting elbows and as a result, many bouts do not allow elbows, resulting in a weaker elbow game for the europeans. I recall one fight Joao Vierra from holland quit in the middle of the bout because he was not used to being elbowed. But this information is secondhand because I read this off a website.
". He just waved his hands to quit after Burachai's elbow nearly missed his face. Vierra ended up on the canvas many times and Burachai clearly dominated the fight. Vierra was a good fighter, but his weaknesses in the clinches and the elbows were apparent. He had fought many Muay Thai matches in Europe, including one in which he beat Ramon Dekker. However, because many European matches still do not include elbows even though knees are allowed, Vierra was not yet prepared for Lumpinee Stadium. The Thai fighters are very dangerous at the elbow range."
I think the hollanders and europeans just modifed the techniques to suit the bigger people there. Because Thais are generally smaller in stature, the gap in the heawvy weight divisions are domminated by the Dutch. Or maybe this is too much of a generalization to be true?
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