You know you are a thai boxer when...

[Tom Yum]

1. You accidentally bang your knee and shin on your friend's coffee table. You ask friend if coffee table is ok.

2. You ask girlfriend/wife to massage your shins and hamstrings.

3. You bump elbow on the door. Door is damaged.

4. When dancing at social event you subconsciously do Wai Kru.

5. Western boxers complain about your clinch.

6. You can jump rope faster than your kids.

7. While carrying grocieries in you hold the door open with push kick.

8. Latin boxing friends start calling you 'Muy Thai'

9. You start speaking Thai in Thai resturaunts.

10. You wear kickboxing shorts and no shirt when you go to the health club.

11. You wake up and your hands are in fight position.

[Khun Kao]

LOL!!!!!!

I can answer "yes" to every one of those!!!!

Khun Kao

[Tom Yum]

People just started pointing things out about me so I wrote them down one day. Can't get enough MT!

[chalambok]

When someone on the street in Bangkok feels your shinbone, then gives you a thumbs-up and says "Dee makh!"

[JP Prideaux]

True.. true...

Then there was the time I was at a Goju-ryu karate tournament fighting from a Thai stance... throwing low-kicks (illegal) , clinching (Illegal) , shouting "Hoooooey!" instead of "Kia!" when scoring... and hurting my opponents with my ultra-conditioned shin blocks.

that was three weeks ago

[Tom Yum]

JP that's not a bad idea. Thanks!

[retired]

When you smash your shin in half & ask for a phone to tell your misses your going to be late home, oh yes & you dont cry!!!! LOL

[terry]

You know you are a Thai boxer when...

- The hair has worn off the front of your shins
- You go for a slow jog at 8 minutes per mile
- The belts you wear have 6" diameter metal buckles
- A man wearing a karate uniform and a black belt shows up to your class and everybody, even the beginners, line up because they want the honor of being the first to knock him out.
- After doing 500+ pushups for being impolite you will wai a stop sign if your instructor is looking

[CHOPS]

You know you're a thai boxer when.....
everyone at work looks at you strange because you're kicking sign posts an trees.
When you start throwing knees at every stationary object you come up against.

[terry]

When...after your wife complains that your kicking the heavy bag is destroying things in the house you hire a structural engineer, and he tells you that the house wasn't designed to for that kind of stress.

[darrianation]

Originally posted by JP Prideaux
True.. true...

Then there was the time I was at a Goju-ryu karate tournament fighting from a Thai stance... throwing low-kicks (illegal) , clinching (Illegal) , shouting "Hoooooey!" instead of "Kia!" when scoring... and hurting my opponents with my ultra-conditioned shin blocks.

that was three weeks ago

I got disqualified for doings MT stuff in Karate tournaments.

My Karate instructor has to tell me all the time to stop doing MT when I spar. My Karate instructor loves MT and did MT for a couple of years and he and I spar each other using MT techniques all the time but he doesn’t like me hurting the other students with shin kicks or showing off with the clinches.

I just can’t empty my cup. I use MT in every thing I do. My boxing coach has to get on me to for standing up to straight and other stuff too.

My wife can’t figure out why I always elbow the door jams and kneeing stuff around the house. I don’t even think about it or even realize I am doing it. MT is in everything I do.

[Tom Yum]

You are not alone in your symptoms

[terry]

When...you think katas are fanciful dances that waste people's time...but you take with deadly seriousness your own pre-fight dance to honor your teacher.

[terry]

When...you view an hour of knee sparring every day as a good weight loss program.

[terry]

When...the karateka that wanted you to test out his new striking pads doesn't like you anymore.