ADVANCED MAMMAL: August 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

SCORING A MUAY THAI FIGHT

Muay Thai is not scored in the same way as boxing, K-1 or MMA so trying to apply the same criteria to a Muay Thai fight that you would any another combat sport is a waste of time.

The first two rounds of a Muay Thai fight are always scored a draw, unless one fighter absolutely dominates or visibly hurts his opponent. The opening rounds are only intended to be used as a feeling out process and good fighters will almost always treat them as such. Rounds one and two are an opportunity to size up your opponents and to begin to demonstrate your superiority to the judges BUT will generally have no effect on the scoring of the fight.

Rounds three, four and five are the decisive rounds and the result of them will settle the outcome of the fight unless there is a stoppage. Muay Thai rounds are not scored in isolation though so, for instance, if one fighter looked stronger in rounds one and two but round three is even the judges will often give round three to the fighter who looked stronger in the opening rounds.

A fighter who is already ahead normally seems to get the benefit of the doubt in a close round which means that once a fighter has taken a lead on the scorecards he only needs to be as good as his opponent to win the fight, whereas the opponent needs to clearly demonstrate that he is better. This may seem like merely a semantic difference but it is never the less an important one.

Another way that Muay Thai differs dramatically from other combat sports is in the way that different techniques are scored. Any strike which lands cleanly scores points but straight knees and kicks to the mid section seem to score more points than any other techniques.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

CERTIFIED CHICKEN HAWK

STEP 1: catch one

STEP 2: light it on fire

STEP 3: eat it

all the thai homies playing the hardest sport known to man and making it look easy. called THAGAWL. being a muay thai master makes it a pretty easy sport. ive never seen anything as muay thai as thagawl. leaping theeps, spinnin' b-boyish spikes, head shots, knees. can use everything but yur hands to play foot volleyball with a small plastic woven ball. they gave me a thagawl ball to take home with me and practice for next time.

at the spot. going up north i learn alot about open air gyms and the traditional muay thai gyms. come anytime you want and its free, but when yu fight i get 50%. and thats the way its been forever. i guess me n my crew always going to these farong gyms ive really havent known how it is everywhere else to train. but as old as 6 years old you go to school then go straight to the muay thai gym in yur neighborhood and train for a couple hours everyday and fight about 2 fights a month to make money for yur mom and dad. that is muay thai. i love it. dirt floor, couple bags, 2 trainers, maybe cement floor, maybe a roof, grown up as a farmer yur whole life, thai farm boy strength. that is why thai people will always be better than the farongs that start fighting at the age of 20 or so. these thai kids retire from muaythai around age 23 and have 100-200 fights. respect.