You know you are a thai boxer when...

[terry]

If...After settling a discussion about whether a low kick is a "bad kick" you've ever walked smirkingly away from someone on the ground, holding their leg and screaming.

[terry]

When...you know the Thai words for 'hands up', 'kick', 'knee', 'punch', 'elbow', etc. but cannot introduce yourself or ask directions to the bathroom in Thai.

[fighting_angel]

You got a warning at work for kicking the touch buttons that unlock the doors when you want to open them...and all you could say was "it's not like I kicked them THAT hard..."

[twillbanks]

When you get kicked out of restaurants for practicing round kicks on the rail in the wait line due to impatience...

[retired]

when...your mother actually says your gone to THAI BOXING & not gone to KARATE like she usually says!!!!

[JP Prideaux]

... you're the only idiot at a boxing tournament screaming "GRAB FOR THE KNEE". Or you found yourself instinctively shouting that at least once during Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson.

... you scoff at the name "Benny the Jet" and start ranting how he was actually beaten by the Thais.

... you refuse to watch Jean-Claude van Dammes 'Kickboxer' (and the sequels) on a matter of principle. And if you do ever watch it you will go into hyper-critical detail and explain everything to anyone unfortunate to watch it with you.

... you are convinced that a few of the waiters in the local Thai resturant were once Lumpini champions.

... the other students in your karate class poke fun at the fact you wear hand-wraps and call you "Tong Po".

[twillbanks]

What? You mean that "Kickboxer" wasn't real? You mean that I don't need to do four-corner palm strikes underwater, or try to beat the Mongolian Stomper at the end with that double fisty-thing? You mean that's not real Muay Thai?

Oh, how I agree with you so very much on this note. That movie is abhorrent to any serious Muay Thai person. LOL

[kh_s]

I seen that movie Kickboxer, I always wondered why Van Damme was doing different kicks that I expected them to be. I liked the part around the beginning, Tong Po wacking his shins against some squared pole or w/e it is called. :P hehehe

[terry]

There were lots of things not to like in the movie "Kickboxer", but what really got under my skin is that they portrayed the Thai people as being mean & cruel. That's not true at all.

[twillbanks]

I agree. They totally made the Thais the "bad guys." They're people like anybody else, w/feelings and all. Oh well, that's why it's the movies. If there's any one thing I appreciate from all my training, it's the disillusionment of Hollywood.

Though if I did like any one part of Kickboxer, it was when van Damme was kicking the crap out of the palm tree. We all know that without liniment, that HURTS!

[JP Prideaux]

I loved it when the end credits came up.

Then i knew it was finally over.

[Roland]

Originally posted by JP Prideaux
I loved it when the end credits came up.

Then i knew it was finally over.

Then you woke up and realized you still had half the film left to watch...

[Paul Wilson]

You know

You know when you are a thai boxer when:

You have a movie named after you.

[JP Prideaux]

Originally posted by Roland


Then you woke up and realized you still had half the film left to watch...

More like... then THE SEQUEL CAME ON (the late night Kickboxer series marathon)



Seriously, Kickboxer II was hideous. Guys in spandex pants , foot pads... ugh.

And it was choreographed by BENNY THE JET

[kh_s]

Can I just ask something, what do you mean a Thai Boxer ? Someone who actually has ring experience or what ?