Brazil Muay Thai

[george stando]

I havent been to brazil yet. But I went through some clips of muay thai training there. Obviously they are tough. But the training is strange. I dont remember any thai or thai trainers opening academies or teaching there, so I guess it was a natural progression from the other standup methods. Anybody train muay thai in Brazil? Any observations or thoughts on it? I am interested. But here are some clips. I dont know if these clips represent the better schools or not as well.

YouTube - Muay THai - Thai Center

YouTube - academia muay thai brasil

YouTube - Treino básico de Muay Thai...

YouTube - Treino de Muay Thai

YouTube - Training of Muay Thai in Brazil

[Tee Sok]

Yes the training does look different in Brazil. I have the impression that even that training is vale tudo oriented. Brazilians have proved to the world to be really tough but I don't think they would last long in a Thai ring with that training. Just from the look of it on the videos.
So far I think Chute Boxe are the ones who used muay thai most effectively, I mean Wanderlei Silva had good knees and so do Anderson Silva and Shogun, but again it is vale tudo and mma oriented. As everyone knows vale tudo in Brazil is like muay thai in Thailand even if it's not that big.

[the tick]

I don't get it. What is so strange about that training? It looks like hundreds of other training vids on youtube.

[Tee Sok]

I think the only video that looks like what I have seen is the sparring one (video 3 on George's list) which has the intensity of the Thai ones.
The chute boxe sparring one (video 2) is definitely boxing.
The one where the whole class learns moves (the last one) is odd for me, it reminds me of my muay boran classes as I was mainly taught like that.

[george stando]

tick: i was just trying to seperate out and check out the actual thai boxing training for when i go over and getting some opinions how it was run? Was it close to thailand type training? Was it a subset of the intense vale tudo that a competitor can split off into doing mma, then maybe doing some muay thai or boxing or just no gi grappling? I also know there must be a strong kyokushin presence there because of the several heavyweight contenders who fought K1 in recent years.

[kyuss]

I was in brazil training. I didnt run across any specific thai boxing schools while there though i wasnt specifically looking. its such a major part of mma training there i guess its just taken for granted.