by Chike Lindsay | Dec 7, 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! To answer this we have to get a good understanding of what Krav Maga is. I mentioned this before in another video, but I’ll quickly go over it again. Krav Maga is an Isreali hand to hand combat system. The American equivalent is Combatives and the Russian equivalent is Systema. These kinds of systems are completely different from other Martial Arts and combat sports because of their purpose. Military martial arts like Krav Maga are designed to get you to a base level of proficiency as quickly as possible. For this reason many Muay Thai striking techniques exist in almost all military hand to hand combat systems, but the moves are modified to make them easier to understand so that soldiers with limited time to get combat ready can get to a level where they can perform them instinctually much faster. For this reason it is actually counterproductive to learn both Muay Thai and Krav Maga simultaneously since the Krav Maga movements borrowed from Muay Thai will be less correct. Krav Maga does however have other elements such as disarming attackers and arresting locks so if that is of interest then learning it after getting a base level of proficiency in true Muay Thai is certainly a good...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 7, 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! This is actually much easier than most people think. Thailand is a very popular destination for globe trekkers because the cost of living there is quite inexpensive. Extended stays of a few months are actually very reasonable to finance through simply saving. Good food is extremely cheap and youth hostels and lodging at Muay Thai gyms can be extremely cheap also as long as you’re willing to forgo comforts like air conditioning and large beds with fancy mattresses. In addition to living off of savings, Thailand is a very popular place for foreigners to come through teaching abroad programs. These programs often don’t require you to be able to speak Thai before starting and give you a network of fellow expatriates and Thais that can help you learn the language and get acclimated to the area and...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 7, 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! Trying to mentally or physically prepare for Muay Thai is not at all necessary. You just need to get into the deep end and to it. In fact if you were fit before you started Muay Thai you’d quickly learn that you’re not as fit as you thought you were. Physical conditioning is extremely sport specific. Furthermore conditioning for Muay Thai is one of the key pillars of success within the art. Regardless of whether or not you’re in shape before you start, you will get into “Muay Thai shape” as a result of...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 7, 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 actually go over this in a huge amount of detail on askchike.com in addition to tons of other techniques, setups, and strategies. There’s a lot of detail involved in the kick so without demonstrating it and really breaking it down there’s only so much I can convey, but I will go over a few key details. The two biggest things people do wrong with switch kicks is (1) thinking about switching the whole fighting stance and turning their entire body 180 degrees before kicking and (2) switching the legs back only and keeping the entire rest of the body facing the same direction as before. The biggest thing to remember is that all kicks have the bulk of their power generated with the hips. For this reason when you switch what needs to be focused on is switching the hips back. The upper body stays essentially where it was as the legs and hips switch sides. There should be a bit of tensions felt in the waist in the moments before the kick and after the switch. It’s the release of this tension (like releasing the string on a bow and arrow) that will whip your hips around and through the target for devastating power. For a full video instructional on the switch kick and more check out...
by Chike Lindsay | Dec 7, 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 are more variables involved than simply how many days you’re training and how long you plan to do it. How many hours of training you’re doing a day, what exactly you’re doing during your sessions, what you’re starting bodyfat percentage is, and how hard you’re pushing yourself are all variables on the exercise side that play a huge part. One of the biggest variables though is what are you changing on the diet side? Whether you get bigger, smaller or stay the same is really just a matter of calories in vs calories out. If you’re operating at a calorie deficit (i.e., you’re consistently burning more calories than you’re consuming) then you’ll lose weight. If you’re doing this and the calories that you are consuming are derived from good sources (and a sufficient amount of protein) then you’ll be losing mostly fat. Again you have to look at all these variables when constructing a plan that can maximize results and framing your expectations, but just to give you some kind of idea I did several 30 day body transformation challenges with my students and several of them lost anywhere from 10-15 lbs. Full disclosure: the ones that lost the most weight were not always the ones that won the body transformation challenge since this kind of training actually helped many of my students gain muscle at the same time that they lost fat. For this reason I tracked progress with body measurements using...