I need tips on improving my muay thai skills.?

Question

Yeah, so i take muay thai and i love it. so far i learned basic punches, bsc elbows, roundhouse kicks and lead, teep kicks, clinch, and basic knees. Any advice from those who take it to give tips and perhaps your favorite combos. Thanks.

Answer 1

Pulls up is your best friend. If you think some guys in your gym are strong, they're NOTHING! Those who live in Muay Thai gym in Thailand do 50 or more pulls up everyday. This help them with their clinch game.

Watch other fighters fight. Watch how they move, how they evade, how they counter, learn their technique, etc...

Good website to start with would be www.youtube.com
Good names to look up would be: Masato, buakaw, Kraus Albert, Sakmongkol, Ramon Dekker, Samart, Peter Aerts, and Ernest Hoost.

Also check out www.k-1fans.com/forum people there are very helpful and friendly.

Answer 2

If you feel like you've advanced far enough doing basic combos, you may want to start working your angles. Since many beginners and even experienced Muay Thai fighters typically use a linear approach to fighting (basically attacking and defending along a line), you may want to start mixing things up by throwing combinations with angles incorporated into them.

Aside from asking your instructor for examples, one simple combination I like is a right cross, left hook, right roundhouse (if you're a orthodox stance fighter). The cross and hook are more "set up" punches than "knockout" punches and the hook is thrown as you step to the left of your opponent with your left foot. Not only does this keep you out of harms way from any counter attacks, but it sets up a right roundhouse kick to your opponent's stomach (the shin should connect parallel to your opponent's stomach when the kick is thrown).

Most Muay Thai fighters (and pretty much every martial artist that uses punches and kicks) expect roundhouse kicks to land on the side of their body or head, but this combination tends to surprise them since the roundhouse kick comes directly at them. Even if you're opponent manages to block the kick with both hands he/she will get pushed back because the kick lands on the front of his/her body instead of the side. You can also throw the kick to your opponent's thighs as an option.

Another technique I would start working on is "teeping off the ropes." This technique requires you to have your back to the ropes and to simply bounce off the ropes and use the rebound to throw a teep. It's a great counter technique to stop someone who's driving you into the ropes. Remember that you should throw the technique only when your opponent is charging and at the moment you feel your back leg touch the bottom rope.

Don't know if you've covered these techniques, but I hope that they give you some ideas...

Answer 3

aside from the obvious 'train with a friend outside of the gym hours', & 'buy focus mits for home use'. I would recommend you try HILL SPRINTS.

these will boost your stamina and recovery time, plus give you explosive attacking ability.

find a steep hill.
run 30mtrs up, then back (rest for the time it took you to run it)
run 60mtrs up, then back (rest for the time it took you to run it)
run 30mtrs up, then back (rest for the time it took you to run it)
repeat.

as you get better you can vary the distance, and do push ups instead of coughing your lungs up. lol. it is really good with a partner, because you rest and they run, and vice versa.

in 3 months of this twice a week, we were able to run 100mtrs uphill, then down, 30 pushups, top of the hill again, then down, 30 more pushups. all this with no rest. it was a nasty hill! for anyone in Auckland NZ, behind Real Groovy Records is Liverpool St. top to bottom! many a spew conquering that hill.

what I found it did for my Muay Thai was that between rounds, or after bag/focus work/sparring, my recovery was awesome. after slugging your guts out against an increase in gravity, flat ground activity is easy.

believe me. but try to get a partner to give it a go too, or it is very easy to through it in as it is really horrible to do it. the good thing though is that your run is finished in under 10 minutes.

Answer 4

the best tip i can give you is cross train in freestyle karate.besides the fact it will make you a better all round martial artist it will also teach you things that you can use in your mt sparring and fights that will take ppl by surprise and they wont have any defence for it.unless there smart enough to do what i just told you?and it's still legal in the ring.
or you could train with me but i doubt you could take the punishment.

Answer 5

Legs. A good way to break down bigger guys that can punch is weakening their support. Leg kicks can make em wobbly, slower, & weaker. Also body kicks. The core is what gives boxers the strength mostly. If you think about it a punch starts at the feet, moves up the legs, the core powers it up, & the arms execute.