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All right -- knees can only be grabbed if it's not a full force knee (or they're weak to begin with). Also, you can knee people in the groin and thighs too, at a much lower risk. As for "dirty" boxing -- that isn't really a style. It's merely street fighting, which just about everybnody on the planet does. Muay Thai has turned knees, headbutts and elbows in an art and a science. As for more effective weapons: Muay Thai has pretty much all the punches boxing has, all effective moves. Then they have elbows and heabutts, as well as low kicks, knees, and clinching, which is very important, because you can't punch as effectively, there.
As for Sherwinc, I don't know what else to say: I've already explained to you that parrying, pivoting and all around evasion is utilized in Muay Thai on a regular basis. If it's not used, it's because the fighters are equally matched and have a hard time predicting each others' movements in order to use the better defenses.
As for trading blows: most TM have this problem, actually, not boxing. Before I took Muay Thai, I always faced the delema of trying to punch someone who was equal speed. Then I learned about covering myself with my shoulder and keeping my other hand up. Suddenly, trading blows wasn't as much of a problem because my punch was in front of everything I didn't want hit as well as my shoulder and other hand. And if I did get hit, it was ususally in the forehead.
Er... forearm mechanics?
I don't know how to make it any clearer, Sherwinc.
Later...
All right -- knees can only be grabbed if it's not a full force knee (or they're weak to begin with). Also, you can knee people in the groin and thighs too, at a much lower risk. As for "dirty" boxing -- that isn't really a style. It's merely street fighting, which just about everybnody on the planet does. Muay Thai has turned knees, headbutts and elbows in an art and a science. As for more effective weapons: Muay Thai has pretty much all the punches boxing has, all effective moves. Then they have elbows and heabutts, as well as low kicks, knees, and clinching, which is very important, because you can't punch as effectively, there.
As for Sherwinc, I don't know what else to say: I've already explained to you that parrying, pivoting and all around evasion is utilized in Muay Thai on a regular basis. If it's not used, it's because the fighters are equally matched and have a hard time predicting each others' movements in order to use the better defenses.
As for trading blows: most TM have this problem, actually, not boxing. Before I took Muay Thai, I always faced the delema of trying to punch someone who was equal speed. Then I learned about covering myself with my shoulder and keeping my other hand up. Suddenly, trading blows wasn't as much of a problem because my punch was in front of everything I didn't want hit as well as my shoulder and other hand. And if I did get hit, it was ususally in the forehead.
Er... forearm mechanics?
I don't know how to make it any clearer, Sherwinc.
Later...
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