I'm trying to get !combat@lemmy.ml going for this reason.
Lobster
joined 2 months ago
If they compete in Thailand that's a really good sign.
Honestly you sound like you're doing everything right. If you have brown kyu grade in judo and can box and you join a good Muay Thai gym then you can handle yourself.
Hey, mod of !combat@lemmy.ml here.
Short answer: muay Thai is good.
Longer answer: when choosing a martial art, you're not choosing in an ideal world, you're choosing in your city. You need to find a place that has a good gym, with good sparring partners that works with your schedule. You'd be better off joining a good taekwondo gym than a bad Muay Thai gym.
So I'd say spend an hour searching what's available in your area, checking their timetable to make sure you can fit it in, and then get back to us. Then you need to go to the gym and make sure you like the vibes there.
There are some bad Muay Thai gyms in the world. It's easy to tell the difference: do the students compete? If they compete, then they're actually battle-tested, not doing something for fun/fitness. Competition is unforgiving.
To justify the short answer: if you're good at Muay Thai, you can deluver a lot of destructive force in short order, you can knock out boys. They do clinch-work so you get good on the inside. (I've heard some shitty gyms don't even do clinch-work, though I've never witnessed such.) Using the '8 limbs' is a great skill to have.
I like that Muay Thai guys train hardstyle; they're not there doing kata or going light all the time. They spend a lot of time sparring, which trains their reactions, their reads, and acclimatises you to getting hit. Civilians are afraid of getting in a fight because they'll get hit, but if you get hit all the time you stop being afraid.
You'll need some wrestling too because if all you know is striking, then what do you do the first time someone bear-hugs you? It's what happened in UFC1.
Did you get up to a good belt-level in judo?
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Can't RSS bots do this?
It's not about hiding secrets from everyone.
It's about not authorising the military-industrial complex to have that unjust power over us.
Thailand was never colonised.