Muay Thai Stuff’s Blog

by Kru Brooks Miller

More and more, striking martial arts styles are merely becoming a series of supplementary techniques to complement a submission grappling game. In the world of MMA, having a good ground game is critical to one’s success. It is very rare that a fighter is able to dominate as a striker, because in most cases, a determined grappler will eventually get hold of a striker and get them to the ground.

There are some notable exceptions, however. In the world of the UFC, Anderson Silva, who does happen to hold a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, is also a former Muay Thai champion, and has dominated many fights with his striking skills alone.

On the local scene, I’ve begun to see a few strikers dominate their opponents using pure Muay Thai skills. Case in point was an MMA event I was officiating on March 15th. Two fights stood out on this card, where Muay Thai was the name of the game….

In the first match, a tall, lanky Muay Thai stylist used his reach and footwork to “peck” at his opponent, keeping him off balance and unable to close the gap. While he was a tentative fighter, he still was able to keep his opponent at bay with quick jabs, push kicks, and round kicks. When the fight finally went to the ground, his opponent was so out of his original game plan that he found himself submitted with an armbar by a Muay Thai fighter.

The beauty of MMA is that it is constantly evolving. Currently, the name of the game is to have a good ground game while learning a few striking techniques to round things out. But as more and more fighters with solid Muay Thai backgrounds enter the MMA ring, the shift will continue towards more of a balance between grappling and striking.

We got this vid from his promoter. This kid has a very good talent and should be well known in the future.

This Vid Is From June,2007 Alec Was Getting Ready For A U.S. National Tournament And I Took Him To Spar At A Korean Tkd Fight Camp And The Vid Is What Happened(Sparing Was Under Tkd Rules,So Very Limited As To Mt Fighter,No Knees,Elbows Or Clinch Fighting,Lol)

I have go a lot of Muay Thai fight reviews but never have fight review for Kids Muay Thai. It is actually not what we call the fight but rather training or sparring. But I am still more exciting to see how great Alec was performing Muay Thai skills. I will not focus too much on good or bad the skills they have but rather I would encourage other children or you kids to watch this video and see how the fighters in this video were very concentrated and willing to learn and develop skills of martial arts sport. I believe that Alec and Grzzly can do much better and grow up and become professional fighter easily (if they want to) because they already have very good fundamental skills. But so far as long as they practice Muay Thai and TKD for martial art sports, I would say that they did more than better for sports martial arts.