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[Peaceful]

Greetings to all

I have not trained in martial-arts for a while now. But after not training for several months, the desire of getting stronger & retraining has grown in me. I'm looking for a martial-art style that can help me grow stronger, and a style that can be of good use in a real-life conflict; like a street situation, etc. I'm really considering doing muay-thai, since it seems to fill these needs, & since its a very interesting sport. Another style comes into mind when thinking of these concepts, and that style is shotokan karate; since its a "hard" martial art & a very straight-forward style. I want to hear your ideas and suggestions; is muay-thai the best choice? or are their other styles that are more usefull in getting stronger and better as a fighter and being able to actually fight in a street situation? What styles do you recommend? and why?

& thanks for your time

[Hardball]

Lyoto Machida is doing very well in the Octagon (UFC) with Shotokan karate. Shotokan karate is a decent style and you can find plenty of threads on it by doing a search in the Japanese forum. Same goes for Muay Thai. MT is awesome, just ask anybody in the Thai Boxing/Muay Thai forum.

Welcome to the boards and best of luck with your decision.

[Tant01]

Keep reading...Keep on training

Greetings to all

I have not trained in martial-arts for a while now. But after not training for several months, the desire of getting stronger & retraining has grown in me. I'm looking for a martial-art style that can help me grow stronger, and a style that can be of good use in a real-life conflict; ... What styles do you recommend? and why?

& thanks for your time

The forum is FULL of many similar questions and you may do well to click through a few of the threads that interest you.

I like Judo because GRAVITY is constant and people are top heavy when standing.

[Peaceful]

Thanks for your advice guys

[Scott Bolinger]

it all depends on what your looking for, I'm a black belt in Shoto kan, but I broke away from that teachines about 10 years ago and I teach my style of kick boxing, as well as authored a book on my style and working on a second book.

Muay Thai may have a more rounded art with both strength training, training for power as well as expanded combinations.

In my style, they have to lear the katas, the specific combinations, training routines, endurance traning, strenght training using weights as well as medicine balls, mitt work routines and both offense and block and counter routiens.


I guess my theory of training is, not to just teach people how to fight, but to also teach them how to become a professional athlete and that is what makes them stand out compaired to a standard karate guy.

[Peaceful]

training a person how to become a fighter is one thing, and training him how to become an athelete is another, combine the two and you'd have one heck of a competitor; i can imagine your ways of training your students, and i praise you for training them that way

muay-thai seems to fill all the needs, specially with strength and power training exercises. to me, i see that styles that are more "sporty" -like boxing, kickboxing, muay-thai, etc- can be learned and used in a street situation much quicker and more effective than other "arts", if you know what i mean. a hard style with katas and endurance exercises can take a long time for your body to actually process it in a real fight.