by Chike Lindsay | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Our course on winning any street fight is out! Learn how to win street fights using one Muay Thai technique! Check it out here! I was never able to find somewhere online that shows true Muay Thai so I created a site myself for exactly that. I created Ask Chike as a way for me to not just show Muay Thai techniques, but show the details on timing, setups, and situations I either force my opponent into or look for that I use to make them work. I’m actually letting everyone try it for just $1 right now so that you can see for yourself if you like it. Just click here to give it a...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Our course on winning any street fight is out! Learn how to win street fights using one Muay Thai technique! Check it out here! I can’t speak for all pro fighters, but I think I speak for most high level professionals when I say that the only thing I think of in a fight is the fight itself. As an amateur fighter a lot of times emotion plays a big part. (Fear, excitement, anger, etc.) As a professional there’s a lot more that goes into the preparation for a specific opponent. Pros have an established style and have tendencies, meaning studying tape is infinitely more important to recognize attack patterns, strengths, and weaknesses so that a game plan can be developed taking these into account. Once in the ring the mind is focused on these things while taking into account that he’s got a plan for you as well, so he will move slightly differently than he has in the past while he attempts to implement his game plan. This is why the first moments of a fight are so different between professionals and amateurs. Amateurs typically start fast; showing their hand (and often blowing their gas tanks) very early. Professionals on the other hand typically spend the first round throwing basic techniques at half speed and half power to check the opponent’s response and make sure it falls in line with everything they’ve studied. Differences give you insight into their game plan for you and similarities confirm subconscious reactions that they cannot change within the span of this fight. The end goal is to push him into...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Our course on winning any street fight is out! Learn how to win street fights using one Muay Thai technique! Check it out here! There is actually not a very cut and dry answer to this question and to make matters worse, it’s very difficult for any successful martial artist to give you an unbiased answer. (I myself have devoted most of my time as a martial artist perfecting my craft as a Muay Thai fighter, so it would be very hard for me to not automatically blurt out “Muay Thai” as the answer to this question if I hadn’t also studied several other martial arts as hobbies over the years.) The truth is that before this question can be asked, first you have to ask “What do I want to achieve by learning martial arts?”, “What’s my short term goal, what’s my long term goal, and what’s the ultimate reason behind me wanting to learn?” Example: you took a job as a bouncer, they want you to start in 3 weeks and you realize that you don’t actually know how to fight. Military martial arts like Krav Maga are designed to get you to a base level of proficiency as quickly as possible. The downside is that the same level of intricacy and mental chess doesn’t exist as in arts like Muay Thai or Brazilian Jiu Jitsu because that’s not what it was designed for. That kind of thing isn’t necessary in the rare event that a hand to hand combat situation arises in the middle of a war zone. If you need to be able to...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Our course on winning any street fight is out! Learn how to win street fights using one Muay Thai technique! Check it out here! The short answer is elbows. Elbows completely change the dynamic of boxing and the kind of guard that’s necessary. It’s the reason that Muay Thai fighters reach their hands to control the distance once they start to get close rather than keeping a tight guard like boxers and K-1 or Glory rules kickboxers do. When one fighter throws an elbow and the other throws a punch, the fighter throwing the elbow will always get there first. In fact the elbow will get there so much faster that often times the opponent won’t even see it before they get hit and we all know that it’s the strikes that aren’t seen that produce knockouts. Furthermore elbows like the left upward elbow double as a block and a strike so even if the elbow doesn’t land, the fighter throwing it is still safe from punches. There are several ways to beat punches with kicks and knees as well and good Muay Thai fighters use all of these strategies to outgun one dimensional fighters who can only rely on good punches, but the elbow is often the easiest way to exploit this kind of flaw in a...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Our course on winning any street fight is out! Learn how to win street fights using one Muay Thai technique! Check it out here! True shin conditioning is done by kicking a heavy bag. You need to beat your shins across something softer than bone otherwise you run the risk of creating tiny stress fractures along your shin. If you hit objects that are too hard you can deaden the nerves in your shins easily to reduce pain sensitivity and the bone will feel tough and hardened so it will be easy to assume you’ve made your shins harder, but the stress fractures will make it much more likely that you’ll suffer a catastrophic shin break (think Anderson Silva leg break). Now kicking a bag may not seem like very intense conditioning, but if you’re kicking properly then I assure you it is. The purpose of Muay Thai kicks is power. Every single kick needs to be 100% power driven through the bag and you should be throwing hundreds of kicks a day. You should be kicking hard enough to break the skin on your shin from time to time and if you do and your shin starts bleeding you should keep kicking through the pain and through the blood. When you devote that kind of commitment to perfecting your kick, your shins will get conditioned at the same time. For this reason the real answer is that by the time your kicks are strong enough to be up to par, your shins will also be conditioned. The exact amount of time varies from person to person based...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Our course on winning any street fight is out! Learn how to win street fights using one Muay Thai technique! Check it out here! The word “Muay” translates to “boxing” so the term Muay Thai is translated as Thai Boxing. The term “Boran” translates to “ancient” and so Muay Boran is just used as an umbrella term to describe all the different variations of Thailand’s unarmed fighting before the transition to Muay Thai and the introduction of modified rules loosely based on the Marquess of Queensberry ruleset. In Muay Boran (in lieu of gloves) hemp rope is worn on the fists and matches were fought on areas of packed dirt instead of rings. The most noticeable difference though is the style of movement and stance. The techniques in Muay Boran that look the most different from what we see today in Muay Thai are Mae Mai and Look Mai (also called “Master Tricks” and “Minor Tricks” respectively). One thing to note is almost all of these techniques are still legal today, so the transition to what we’ve seen today is not a matter of an ancient style being “watered down”, but of it being simplified to techniques and strategies that work at the highest percentage. Fighters like Saenchai and Somluck still use these older tricks like the cartwheel kick and the “crocodile kick” so elements can still be found in Modern Muay Thai. Moreover bigger promotions like “Thai Fight” have started promoting Kard Chuek fights (fights using hemp rope instead of gloves) to preserve elements of Muay Boran. (Kard Chuek fights always existed though and have always been...
