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So today I felt really bad. I've been training Muay Thai at home since the pandemic. I've been training at gym for a month and apparently it looked like I've been trying for years I guess but one thing always was missing was a partner, it gave me a solid base though. This would be my second time holding pads for drills ever. At one point the coach comes over and gives me and the guy I'm partnered with critique on a certain strike during a combo. I prepare for that one strike that we worked through a literal couple times but what I didn't expect was for him to complete the combo the third and catch my elbow. So the coach made the call to just take him out of training because his foot was beginning to swell. I felt instant regret. He said no worries it part of the sport. Even though I know this, I still felt/feel terrible. The last thing I want is to labeled unsafe to work with (I see it in pro wrestling and mma training all the time). Has anyone else felt this way? I could almost feel the others I was partnered with hesitation to train with me.
Tl;DR I made a mistake during training now I'm discouraged from holding pads.
Hi all,
I am new to muay thai I have started 2 months ago and I would say i’m in a pretty good spot. I am planning on having my first fight in roughly April time. Currently I am training 4x a week with 3 of them being sparring and 1 being drills. I also swim 5km once a week.
I was wondering to prepare for my fight in April what should i be doing on top of the training I am already doing?
Any further recommendations?
All help is appreciated!
I was reading some background details on fighters and it interested me how there are so many organizations and belts flying around. I know boxing is bad with the "alphabet belts" but Thai and K1 also have a couple dodgy ones.
Iny my opinion, the ISKA and WBC Thai belts are a step below the major promotion belts, like Glory, ONE and RWS. I'm in the UK and a lot of guys have WRSA World Titles or ICO Championship belts and I've never even heard of those
Just feels like there are so many European and World Champions over here. WKA, WKO, WKU, ICO, WRSA, TMA, WAKO and more I could easily list off. Everyone is a world champ these days. Not to mention these world champs have maybe 3 or 4 international opponents and don't really fight outside the UK yet they are a WORLD CHAMPION...
Do other countries also do this?
32 years old been training on and off for past four years never did any point competitions or smokers I just jumped right in and did my first sanctioned match. I’m not looking for any sympathy I’m proud of everything I did. I’m just kind of letting steam off, but I have 8 stitches in my shin 3 days prior to the match from a foolish skirmish I tried to walk away from. I work overseas so I pretty much did my own training camp alone I work on ships so I only got 6 days of sparring in prior to the event. I trained for 75 days straight one rest day a week 3x a day along with working 12-14hr days. I caught a clean kick to the head which was a nice ending to his combo 2nd round got back up and finished the third with my guns blazing I just couldn’t go out like a punk. Thanks for reading all of my bs story I’m not stopping I’m going back in strong and more motivated. Now I know and understand the difference between people who train and people who fight. Shouts out to all the Dawgs out there putting in the work and stepping in that ring win lose or draw.
I have small hands, can I use 16oz gloves?
Hey y’all. So here’s a question that might seem a bit odd but it’s something I’m struggling with. When front kicking my toes aren’t super flexible and don’t really stretch back much so I don’t end up landing cleanly with the ball of my foot and more often than not it’s my toes connecting(it’s a super tricky technique especially when trying to sneak my foot in while roundhouse kicking to the body). Now obviously that’s super painful and even caused me to miss some sessions at some point cause of lingering pain. Does anyone have any tips for A) More flexible toes B) More durable toes so that it doesn’t hurt as much.
Any tips/workouts that could help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
How much will it cost also. (Im a beginner so I don’t need a dentist fitted one for 800$🤣 or nth)
Just started attending a class last week and would like to keep my gear clean and and smelling good. Whats everyone doing for wipes/spray down routine? Heard of glove deodorizers but are they really worth it for my cheap $30 starter gloves? Bonus points if anyone has suggestions for cheap gym bags
What brand/model gloves are the smallest in size that also come in laced? Dont say TKB…
What has sodium in it that you should cut out? Obviously things like table salt and electrolytes, but what else has sodium in it that you might not really know? Like does diet soda have it, any foods?
There’s a certain couple people at my gym, whenever we’re doing light technical sparring they catch every single one of my kicks and sweep me, they even try and catch my leg kicks? And that I’m throwing the kicks with 40-50% power clearly their going to find it easy to catch the kicks. I have nothing against the odd sweep here and there, but after every single kick I think is absolutely ridiculous. Opinions on this below would be much appreciated.
Someone wanna develop this app? You put your height, weight, and experience in then you go beat each other up
Need to cut 2kg for this Friday. My plan is to just keep eating as normal, water load this week and just salt bath to sweat the water weight out. It’s only 2kg so should be really quick and easy. To be honest, if I barely drink water on Thursday, and don’t eat very much, it’ll be less than 2kg I need to cut, making it easier.
So all of that considered, do I need to lower carbs a lot if I’m doing this? I’m gonna lower them a little bit but do I need to lower them a lot?
Looking at https://www.topkingboxing.com wondering if it’s legit? I’ve tried to use the search function and can’t find any recent thread, yet old threads claim some TK sites a scam.
When somebody walks forward while swinging the hands I just back off and my coaches have said to not step back always rather counter back, slip, defend etc. And secondly, when somebody lands a combo, I can't immediately counter back. My mind focuses first on where I'm hurt for a split second, and then I have to think how should I counter? A kick, punch, combo, low kick? I'm also a bit scared to trade punches, usually if I get hit in the face during a boxing combo in sparring, my hands naturally come back to my face to block and defend instead of attacking. Any drills please what I can do to improve?
One last question, what's the thing to do when you expect somebody to have a predicated reaction but they do something else? For e.g I push kicked twice, got it caught and swept, but next time I fake the push kick but my opponent's hands doesn't even come down. Do I just change my combination at that split moment, perhaps land the (fake) push kick?
Thank you
I also have second part of the fight, but i cant dowload it and its less spectacular too.
Hi all,
I did my very first smoker yesterday and it was a great experience. My coach is satisfied with me and said I did well for a first timer, he said I was dominating most of the fight.
It was 2x2min rounds and holy hell I think I've never gassed out so quickly in my life. I consider that I have a pretty decent gas tank I have no struggle doing 3x3min pad rounds or multiple rounds of hard sparring. Besides training I run 10k in about 45min and do 2 6-7km chill runs.
What is the secret to this ? I feel like I was under the water just after 1 minute and only applied like 1% of what I learned so far. It was like I couldn't get myself to breathe properly, my coach was screaming at me to throw more combos but I couldn't. I was definitely nervous and I feel like it completely impaired my ability to perform.
Should I be hard on myself and focus more on training or does it get better the more fights you do ?
I’m in blue corner (blue gloves) lost unanimous decision did everything my coach asked in the first round but then in the second and third he wanted me to feint more to set up my punches and kicks.. feel like I’ve let him down but it’s in the past now.. loved the experience
I'm considering ending my gym membership to join Muay Thai classes. However I like to do weight training in the gym to build quads and glutes and was wondering if doing Muay Thai and keep/grow my muscles.
Edit: Tysm for all the tips!
I started doing muay thai 1 year ago and i recently started sparring and my problem is this.
When i start the spar with someone like when we start, my partners never do anything like just waiting there with there guards on, i usually try to start with some jabs but that never does anything because of their guards and they still dont do anything , at that point i dont wanna just throw hands randomly and start only moving with like my partners and till the round ends nearly NOTHING happens. Please give me some advices because im doing this sport for 1 year and still suck so bad it makes me sad (also pad work and bag rounds are so fine only my sparring is so bad)
What supplements should I take to help recovery and performance? Being released from jail soon. Vitamins etc thank you much appreciated
So I'm 39 so overtraining is a thing, and why I am preparing for a fight now so late in life it's because, among other things, I've had some injuries (mostly unrelated with MT) that had taken me out of the gym for months or even a full year.
For that reason I'm trying to reach a balance between MT and lifting weights. I'm doing a full body routine that theoretically should be x3 days per week. Then, MT lessons are 5 times per week, but I'm reducing it to 4 so my week schedule, if I wanna hit all the training sessions, looks like this:
Monday: MT
Tuesday: Weights
Wednesday: MT
Thursday: Weights
Friday: MT
Saturday: MT (Sparring)
Sunday: Weights
Issue here is I have zero rest days. I understand I should have at least one day off from weight lifting in order to grow muscle (or keeping it as I'm mostly doing body recomp), but I'm not sure if my logic of "A day off from weights is a day on of MT and vice versa" is right or wrong, as of course in MT there is a lot of muscle stress.
Should I take Sundays off or just keep going as long as I can manage? I used to do MT + Weights on Tuesday, but even my coach told me I should keep it easy to avoid overtraining... for now I just try to go with the flow, sometimes skipping the Sundays training or, don't judge me, skipping legs if I feel extremely tired...
I admittedly don't know a ton about Muay Thai as I'm just starting. But I have noticed that most Muay Thai gyms in videos I watch don't use head gear, and I hear a lot of people talking about headgear being detrimental (more likely to take hits, gets you more reckless with protecting your head, impaired vision, etc.). So is my local gym forcing everybody to wear it in sparring a red flag?
I see guys posting about training twice a day as Pros and that’s normal. I’m wondering about the guys who work full time during the day. Whats your training schedule like ? Are you waking up before work to run / train then go work and train after ?
Myself I never did that, my job is pretty tough on the body working construction 8-10 hours a day. Then home rest quick then hit the gym. So my training has always been at night for multiple sessions / classes.
I just wanted to see what everyone else is up to 🙏🏼
Hey, I am looking to see if there are any protective contact lenses that can help protect the eye during sparring. I have been training for around 4 years and have a recurrent eye issue from about 3 years ago during sparring. My left eye has a scar on it from the seam of a glove that opens up every once and a while if I take a clear shot to the eye. When it opens up again, which happens at least once monthly or every two months (sometimes sooner than that, but the usual rate is every one to two months), it basically leads me to being partially blind and in extreme (and I mean extreme, I would not wish this on my worst enemy lol) pain for the day after it happens.
There are a lot of preventative measures I take as prescribed by my eye doctor, eye drops and ointments every day and night to keep the eye lubricated, but I am wondering if there are any other forms of eye protection that I could use to further prevent it from opening up or flaring up after a sparring session where I take a shot to the eye.
People have recommended goggles, which I refuse to use out of principle and also for safety (imagine rocking up to hard sparring day with plastic goggles... if I get hit hard enough, I imagine the goggles impacting my face will do more damage than the eye problem itself). I own face saver boxing headgear (one of the double bar headgears) but the problems I face with that are:
I am very specifically looking in seeing if there are any non-prescription contacts that can sufficiently cover the eye so that even if I do take a shot to the eye, the actual corneal tissue is protected from the shot.
TL;DR - My left eye is fucked. Is there such thing as contact lenses which are non-prescription which might help protect the eye from direct shots?