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- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!bobsarv
- From: bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver)
- Subject: Re: Thai kickboxing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.024754.25064@microsoft.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:47:54 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1992Dec29.194931.3472@reed.edu> <1992Dec27.035210.23364@microsoft.com>
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- /(todd)
- /Muay Thai is a very worthwhile art to study. The physical conditioning you get
- /is second to none and equalled by few. There are not many techniques, but they
- /are very street effective, fast, powerful, and simple.
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- This is what I was driving at when I said "why would anyone study anything
- else"? I would want something that was clean, simple, and street-effective.
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- Much of what I found out about taekwondo was that it was impractical in
- street defense, because so much of it depended on flamboyant kicking.
- Imagine doing that on a gravel surface with three beers under your belt
- (the most common situation where you might have to defend yourself to
- begin with).
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- /Muay Thai also has a
- /steep learning curve; you can pick up the fundamentals quickly and get some
- /self-defense skills in a relatively short time
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-
- Again, good news.
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- (todd)
- /Muay Thai training methods develop several important attributes effectively.
- /Much of the training centers around the Thai pads, heavy bags/pads strapped
- /onto the forearms of your training partner. You punch, kick, knee, and elbow
- /the pads in response to and while defending yourself from your partner. I have
- /found that the training keeps me on my toes, develops stamina and the ability
- /to hit hard in a dynamic fashion, more like a fight than other training
- /methods I have encountered.
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- Why is this better / more dynamic than other kinds of sparring? Are the
- motions simpler / more instinctive than other MA? If so, does that let you
- concentrate less on artistic perfection of form, and more on "getting the
- job done"?
-
- That would appear to be what you're saying, but I don't want to put words
- in your mouth.
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- (todd)
- /I have also found that the things I hit with
- /(knees, elbows, shins, hands) have gotten good conditioning without being
- /damaged like they were by the makiwara, and my ability to fight aggressively
- /has improved markedly.
-
- So the padding doesn't interfere with the toughening of the shins, elbows,
- etc? Does the padding create any bad side effects (due to the fact that
- in the ring or on the street you won't be wearing padding)?
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- Also: makiwara?
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- (todd)
- /I have gone on for some time about the virtues of Muay Thai _training_ and
- /have said very little about the _sparring_. That is because there is very
- /little (or no) sparring unless you actually get into the ring.
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- No open sparring, without pads?
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