Is there a fighter who was a aggressive fighter but also wasn’t just taking shots they were quite smart defensively at blocking and countering ?

I fractured my wrist in a fall, and my doctor could tell that I boxed based on my wrist and hand X-ray. What would he have seen?

And by smaller fighter I mean 5'-6" against someone 6'-3".

I never really clinched against someone that big, probably like 5'11" at most. Even in the few fights I've had, 2/3 were smokers, there was just nobody that much bigger than me so I wouldn't know. I dont even spar much with guys that big very often.

Last night I did some clinchwork with a guy who was 6'3" and honestly, that was awkward AF. I dont even think i was able to do much technical work. In an actual fight I'd have gotten ragdolled and there wasn't a whole lot i could do. No wonder Dieselnoi was so dominant in the clinch. Aside from being a genius, he was a long guy.

In sparring, I usually check and fire back with the same side kick and it lands most of the time until my partner expects it after. I also double arm block and then fire back with a same side hook, cross and a rear kick. I’m wondering what are other things I can do with after a check to counter back?

I organise these kind of things for my gym, and was looking to get Reddit's thoughts.

Our gym is just slightly too little to do both at the same time, so when we have a gym event it has to be one or the other.

On one hand, I'd prefer to do an inter. Getting in a ring with a weight matched opponent is a great way to prep fighters, and allows weekenders to test themselves under a bit of pressure.

On the other hand, my coach rightly points out that in a sparathon, you get more rounds, more different looks, and folks are a lit less likely to get a bit rowdy.

We only usually have one or these things a year, and both me and my coach are quite happy either way, but keen to know what other Thaiboxing peeps on here would rather go to.

Cheers!

I’m planning on purchasing a few muay thai items as a gift for my boyfriend.

However, I heard that Yokkao has some pretty awful problems with their delivery.

Is anyone having these issues or any positive ones?

For reference, I’m based in Australia

Thanks! :)

I’ve been looking to add a sauna suit to my workout routine and want to get the best recommendations from those who’ve tried them. My goal is to maximize sweat and help with weight loss while boosting the intensity of my workouts. There are so many options out there, and I’m curious to know what’s worked for others. Do you have any favorite brands or styles that you’ve had success with? I’d love to hear about your experiences—what makes a sauna suit effective, and are there any key features I should be looking for?

This is not the entire answer...but its a dimension of it:

We are talking about centers of the Self, which may not be Buddhistic in concept (ie, you would not teach "this is where the Self is"). I am describing where people in a culture locate the sense of Self, and this is reflected in the way a combat sport is scored, I argue. When you slap someone in the face, you are in a way "striking their Self". The face represents the Self in many symbolic ways, varying between cultures. A slap in the face with feel like it is insulting or injuring the Self differently in Japan than it will in Saudi Arabia than in California (I suspect), also depending on who is watching. And in the 18th century, perhaps much more so. It's not wrong to say that the Self is in some regards located in or on the Face. It's where we get phrases like "losing face" or "gaining face". There are other locations of the Self. The Heart for instance is widely regarded as a Self center point. Punches to the heart don't really seem to mean that much, but spikes driving through the heart, for vampires for instance, are seen as penetrating the core "Self" of the monster or person. And of course pangs in the heart, "heartaches" are some of the firmest centers of Self we talk about. I assume that this also varies between cultures. We have other centers of Self like the brain, or the head. Cutting off someone's head is in a way severing their Self from the rest (the face is up there too). But all this is to say is that in the arrays of Self centers, it strikes me that the Thais retain a more traditional location of Self in the gut. In English we have things like "gut feeling" and "you've got a lot of guts!", but traditionally this center of the Self in the gut, the spleen, was much stronger. In Ancient Greece this was a very strong location of Self (not the only one, but a core are vital one). My arguments about Thai Muay Thai scoring are that knees and kicks to the torso score higher because they culturally are read as hitting the Self, and injuring or weakening it. And that this is a traditional way of looking at the body. And that Thai audiences literally, affectively, experience such hits much more powerfully. They can "feel" the blows there in a way probably westerners don't. In the West it seems that these senses of Selves have migrated higher. We've lost the gut center more or less (a good gut punch and double over will still mean something severe, but on a daily basis we don't deposit our Self there much), and experience our Selves much higher. In the heart sometimes, but almost always in the head. We in the west lead with our head. And, it corresponds, it's why blows to the head and face (hey, we have a whole app that rules the world called Facebook), are scored so highly. We empathetically connect to fighters, and as audience experience blows or even touches to the head with more impact. I think we've lost some of the body mapping that allows Thais to experience lower torso strikes as much more substantive. 

This doesn't explain why body shots with gloves do not score especially high, some of this may very well be an evolution of how gloved shots are read (defaultedly, not high, perhaps because a padded weapon), or the cultural attunement to knees and kicks within the sport, but it does invite us to examine our own cultural biases where we think the most "damage" or impact is.

context, more on this.

I was watching fairtex vs musaev and they were getting into some beautiful clinch exchanges only for the ref to break it up. You could hear the energy in the crowd when they clinch up and start exchanging knees and start working their way to a more dominant clinch position only for the red to break it up. The clinch is my favorite aspect of the sport, is there a reason behind why they break the clinch up so much?

Fighters in any combat sport always say that, but what do they mean? What do you guys do to control and use your fear/nerves as a force?

Looking to check out some nice and unique Muay Thai styles for inspiration. Who are your favs to watch?

Lately, I've been training 2 times a, day, 5-6 days outta 7 since september, improving a lot, and I started feeling not only more and more tired every day (and this alone is a sign I needed a break, but is pretty normal usually) but also, and more important, like I started doing my form dirty, wrong, no focus in workouts and sparring, drills, like I got worse and worse every damn day

Sort of a stupid question but... For the more expert of you, aside from the obvious physical recovery, has some rest days / a whole rest week of sort, resetted your focus and form? Like you had better technique, focus after a deload or rest

I know, might be a really stupid question but I felt like my nervous system stopped loading infos and I stopped improving under the technical aspect, and instead started going backward, as absurd as it sounds

Just got my first fight booked and was hella anxious and nervous most of the day but it’s the day after and it’s a little better but still there.

Do the nerves and anxiety calm down during camp or is it basically 8 weeks of anxiety lol

I understand it’s normal so I’m learning to just accept them and try and not care even if I do feel anxiois