Muay Thai Stuff’s Blog

Part 1

This is a very interesting fight, Mike and Andy have equal skills and ability. I love K-1 and any other Muay Thai tournament overseas because fighters will use most of his techniques to overcome. The unique characteristic of Mike is the speed, which makes some troubles to Any to approach and attack. The first two round is obviously not seen no one in advantage until the last two round. When I could see the different between both fighter, Mike seems to have more power than Andy, even though I could not see “unique” skill of Muay Thai attacks from both of them. Their fighting style is very much like boxing with a little of beautiful Muay Thai weapons EXCEPT the excellent of high head kick from Andy!!
Part 2

I would really recommend this video if you have a chance to buy this collection or look from other source. Regardless to where they are being offered. What I like to most is the, clear and accurate explanation as well as demonstration Muay Thai practice, which will be really useful for beginners who just want to get familiar with theory of Muay Thai first before start practicing. Unfortunately that I could not find the complete set in Youtube but if start to look for from eBay, there may be the series being sold somewhere.

I don’t know Anthony before, I actually don’t even ever heard about him. But after I watch his video review, I thought that how can I missed such a great fighter. The name “The Assassin” is deserved to him. I think that he is very skillful in both Muay Thai and MMA. What I can see about his capability is full of power and speed. Muay Thai training kicks and powerful punches are the most unique characteristics of Anthony. I also see that when he use Muay Thai skills to overcome his opponents in MMA, this demonstrate very good implementation of Muay Thai arts to other kind of martial arts.

This is very short video but really interesting. 50 kicks in 30 seconds may not really surprise me because this can be found in general and even more fighter can do more than that. But what we learn form this video is that this kind of practice is not a real indicator of he will does good on the ring. This because there is absolution no chance to take such as massive kicks and also it’s just a waste of power. But double kicks can be seen from all of the fights which I think there is no further benefit to take many kicks in the real fight. But this is a kind of training strategy to enhance fighter’s speed and accuracy of the kicks.

Now let’s change to review the KO shorts from K-1, which I think I never pick up something like this before. Even though these KOs looks ordinary which we can see from other boxing, and they are not strictly for Muay Thai, but I still love to see all of the 10 shorts. In fact, there are two KOs by round house kicks (high head kick) which is the art of Muay Thai and they both was done very perfectly. What interesting is about the KO 5th, which the fighter took his opponent down by round house kick and he was taken down by the same technique in KO 6th !!

There is nothing much to talk about this video. I have never seen any video that is about Muay That hand wrapping on Youtube, so this one may be the only one. However, I personally have no experience about doing Muay thai hand wrapping, apart from reading in a book, so it is really hard to make suggestions on this video, but I think it looks good and worth a try. In fact, what happened here in Thailand for a professional fighter, pattern of hand wrapping is not restrict to only one or two variations but really depends on requirement of each fighter who prefer method and style of hand wrap to make him most comfortable and safe.

This video may not look so exciting like other ones that I used to pick up, and even though it’s look simple training approach but I think this is the one that many of you, as a learner should follow. Sometimes training and sparing don’t have to be intensive. There is also possible to get a relaxing lesion just to practice the approach without using massive power. I like this video because the padwork was so relax and they both seem very enjoy the training.

Picture of Master K

Story told by Kru Brooks Miller

What brought this to mind is from my longtime Muay Thai coach, Por.Kru Kumron Vaitayanon (a.k.a. “Master K”) teamed up with Kaensak Sor.Pleonchit for a day-long seminar in Sewell, NJ. Kaensak Sor.Pleonchit was one of Thailand’s best. He fought at a time where the MuayThai in Thailand was unsurpassed, where the fighters were unquestionably the best. The 1990’s will likely be remembered as one of Thailand’s “Golden Era’s” of Sport MuayThai, and Kaensak was on top! Amongst his many titles, honors, and accolades, Kaensak was a 2 time Lumpinee Stadium Champion, and was named “Fighter of the Year” in Thailand for 2 years in a row!

Kaensak was born in 1971, about a year and a half after myself. He is in AMAZING shape! You would never know that he is almost 40 years old. His movement is still fast and fluid.

Then there is Master K. Master K will be turning 70 years old later this year. Master K is a living testament to the benefits of Muay Thai training! We often hear of the dangers of Muay Thai, of the adverse effects on ones health. MuayThai is a very difficult sport, yet here is Master K running literal circles around fighters and students who aren’t even half his age! Master K even got in the ring and mixed it up a bit with Kaensak. It was amazing to see a 70 year old man mix it up with a fighter who is half his age and hold his own.

Master K retired from the MuayThai ring before Kaensak was even born, but commented how at 70 years old, he was learning new things from Kaensak. You could also see how much respect Kaensak had for Master K. Both men are prime examples of how dedicating oneself to training and learning helps maintain your quality of life.

I don’t really have no idea what is Sanda, may be it’s a Chinese martial art. So I choose this video because I really want to know what it is and how it works when fight against Muay Thai. I also don’t know who is the fighter for Muay Thai and also the language of the video is Chinese. However, what surprise me the most is that Sanda looks very much similar to Muay Thai and very effective in front kick and throw. I could not see Muay Thai fighter gain any advantage meanwhile the Sanda fighter’s incredible speed make Thai fighter become losing control. The front kicks and throws did work very well and the Sanda fighter deserve the win if this fight.

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I am not really sure whether I used to see this match, because these two Muay Thai geniuses was shining when I was really young, maybe before I was seriously interested in Muay Thai. So when I see this video on Youtube, I am not reluctant to pick them and share with you. There is nothing much to talk about what they have done during the match, because you can see for yourself and you have to agree with me that they both were very excellent. However, I would like to say that you may not see some kind of attacks that we often see at present time. Yes, I am talking about clinching. If you look carefully, you will notice that they both do clinching not often, which means in the past, excellent fighters usually fight but not try to use more power than intelligence, and that’s why we call them Muay Thai legend.