daywealldie

i was also lucky that i have a muay thai gym run and owned by a thai native who decided to fight for a living at the age of 9 in my city. old school champ in thailand and america he tought me the same thing he learned in thailand and the same way as well. before i decided to take a break from MT i went through a year and a half of a completely different lifestyle. being slapped in the calves with long sticks, hitting my shins daily to harden them, running 7 miles for warm ups, cutting weight for fights. it was just some hardcore training. everyday i would dread going to the gym but it was such a forfilling feeling after experiencing everything. besides the intense training i had met people who bled and sweat at my side, met famous fighters, tried new foods.. the pros of MT just go on and on for me. and for anyone who is considering taking classes or signing up to actually compete i recomend it. like was said before real muay thai is so culturally based, it really gives you a whole new out look and feeling in life its an amazing feeling to have when you train your hardest and win. nothing can ever beat that

Aussie_Power

G'day Diggs, been offline for a couple of days but, yes i agree, its the same here in Australia. I was lucky enough to be trained by a Cambodian trainer Master Suran Chea, as a young man 10 years ago i didn't know any better and we hammered our shins on rock hard bags, kicked tractor tyres and bashed hell out of each other in hard spars every friday night! Followed by soaking our legs in ice buckets. But our style was traditional and thoroughly taught, no easy way, no cheating, just live the cultural aspect of Thai boxing if you wanted to fight for Master Sarun. I happen to train students/clients Muay Thai and BJJ now here in Australia and pride myself on being a western trainer who trains grass roots, hardcore style mma, but you are dead right, western trainers with old school values and full arsenals of techniques are very hard to find. Peace bro.

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Silat101

Muay Thai is kickboxing. I'm really sick of people thinking kickboxing and muay thai as different systems. Kickboxing refers to the combat sports of stand up fighting. Kickboxing includes muay thai, savate, sanda, shootbox, yaw yan. Its all explaind here Kickboxing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

DNGRTOMISLF

Almost but not quite. Kickboxing can be used as the name for both a martial art style or a catagory of martial arts. For example the art I practice is kickboxing. It is not however Muay Thai. In Muay Thai for example they will teach you how to throw leaping elbow strikes to they top of the head. They do not teach this move at my school.

MuayThai4Life

I am lucky enough to train Muay Thai at Master Toddy's Muay Thai institute in Las Vegas and among the people that train Muay Thai we feel there is a big difference between kickboxing and Muay Thai. Muay Thai is the origional form we feel of kick boxing. But in todays kickboxing world there are a LOT of forms of kickboxing. Muay Thai differs mostly in knees to the head and elbows of any kind. In standard kickboxing rules followed by K-1 and many others no elbows of any kind are allowed to be thrown or knees to the head. So it's a nancy verzion of Muay Thai =)

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