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I don't recall seeing a whole lot of elbows. Granted, this was in 1989, I was all of 19 years old. This was also my first exposure to MT and I don't know if the fighters were even considered good, or if it was a "smoker" type event or not. I was impressed by it. If I had known then what I know now, I definitely would have gotten alot more out of it.
Full circle, did you find that the fighte were different than say a normal kickboxing match.
I find that there are condiderable differences,
from the classical to the full contact.
absolutely! That was the part of it that amazed me. I was into kickboxing at the time, I don't know if you remember the 80's and PKA, (don't know how old you are) but you didn't see knees and elbows, I don't even think there were sweeps in PKA. The overall brutality of the fighting shocked me at the time also. I was a lowly TDK blackbelt who was used to point sparring and the limited kickboxing I had started studying at the time, MT shocked the hell out of me.
Yeah we all think we can block roundhouses with our shuns,
but doing it against a classical thai boxer is another story.
The first time I did it i heard a terrible cracking sound,
that sounded like it came from behind my knee.
Everybody heard it, thank god no permanent damage !
They kick like a wild mule with bionic legs !
No shit. I sparred a MT guy last weekend, I'm still counting the bruises (and limping slightly). He put quite a few people out that day. It started with about 12 of us, by the end he had about 5 of them hanging up the pads and hobbling out of the dojo. Luckily I have tree trunks for legs.
This guy is too! The most "spidery" guy I think I've ever sparred in my life. Very impressive, it was a blast, learned a lot and ate some humble pie to boot! Dude could take it to the mat too. I found out afterward while talking to him that he is a professional fighter, and that's how he pays the bills! (info I could have used BEFORE sparring . I look forward to getting my revenge this weekend, or getting pounded. Good times either way!!!
That's true. You wouldn't expect it from the nice guys. Funny how one awesome pro fighter can fight 5 or 6 of us, get nailed as hard as he nails us and still stand at the nights end. There are some amazing fighters out there and ironically they are level headed.
Yves Edwards (from UFC) trains here in Houston, but his gym is a 30 min + drive from downtown so its a time consuming trip. But worth it.
Mike Altman (Pro-San Shou) has a gym here as well. I've sparred with one of his fighters and survived the stand up game..lol, until I got slammed in the mat 3x.
You get used to boxing or muay thai and then have to re adjust for takedowns.
There's a school here in Denver that, from what I've been told, alot of UFC and NHB guys train at. It's called Grappler's Edge. Ever heard of it? I also found a MT/BJJ school here that I'm going to go check out. I found a Sambo school that seems intriguing, don't much about Sambo tho.
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