Training. What Should I do ?

[kh_s]

I need advice. Should I continue training Thai boxing mixed with other arts (thats how they do it at my gym), or wait till I`m older (18 or 19) and find a Thai gym place myself? I`m only 14 years old. Only if I had an older friend or bro, or cousin livin` close to me, and would be also interested to do MT and give me a drive to a gym then maybe. But my damn parents wont drive me to any other places 20 mins longer drive!! What do you think, I want MUAY THAI. I don`t want any freakin` Kickboxing or Karate, or Aikdo, no OTHER arts combined with it (Brazilian Jiu Jistsu is reasonable, so is cross training for other needs if wanted ) ! That just degrades the training down (IMHO). Anyways I should be feeling a lot of cardio pain during a MT class, even a beginner class right? Which I`m not.

So the thing is, should I be wasting my parent`s cash on this and wait ? Or just stay in there for a bit stay in shape. I`m not exactly what to do. But I heard you can pick up bad habits from studying other arts. Such as, snapping, sry but thats the only thing I know from what I heard on the other forums, and it is from TaekWondo, and probably keeping the hands down?

Arghhh, Its going to be hard as you get older! (unless you have a nice job) You gonna have to pay for gas, insurance, maybe rent if you livin` by yourself !!!! And who knows, I don`t even know much about later on on life, why don`t you guys finish off the list in the hard things to do.

One more question, what is the best age to start Muay Thai or does it not matter ? Did any of you older guys went through kinda the same thing? You wanted to train but you didn`t had access to anything.

[Kingston]

hmm, well.....if you want to learn mauy tai, and the place you go to doesn't teach mauy tai (or its "low quality") i dont think you should spend money on something that your not intrested in just because its the only place in town.

perhaps your parents money would be better spent on a gym membership...you could "prepare" for future mauy tai training that way, plus its good to get alot of exercise at your age...

if your happy with the place then stay....but if you realy feel disatisfide with your instruction you shouldn't continue paying for it....

its always better to start young.....but i guess your young enough to wait a few years.....

its really up to you.....ask your teacher about his mauy tai credentials.....maybe he'll start a "just mauy tai" class if there are enough people intrested in it....im just thinking off the top of my hed there.....who knows there mite be something else closer to you....

good luck.

[jonbid]

im in the same position as you, I am 15 and cant travel to manchester to train. I do kickboxing which keeps me in shape i suppose thats better than nothing.