how long before i get good at muay thai if im just going every saturday?

Answer 1

Depends what you mean by good - if you mean until you get fit? about 6 months - if you mean to compete a high standard? Ages

Answer 2

If you're only going on Saturdays and not practicing at home it will take you years to get good or better. In general, it is believed that to "master" any certain technique (like a punch, let's say) you have to perform it correctly 1,000 times. So let's cut that number in half and say it takes 500 correct performances of any particular move to become "good." In Muay Thai you have the knee-kick; if you do 20 knee-kicks per class every saturday at an average of 4 saturdays a month, that is 80 knee-kicks a month and 960 a year. This means you should be really good at knee-kicking in about a year, however, this number is not accurate. You only improve when you perform the move correctly, since you only practice these moves 4 times a month you will probably perform them with about a 50% accuracy for the first 3 months, subtracting a total of 120 kicks from the 960, making 840. For the next 4 months you'll probably hit with a 75% accuracy, subtracting 80 from your new number, making 760 (we'll pretend that after 6 months you do the kicks with 100% accuracy, even though you won't). Now, your instrcutor assumes you are practicing at home so he won't have you practice the same knee-kick each class, in fact, after your first 9 months he probably won't have you doing them at all, so let's just pretend for that last 3 months of your first year he has you practice them once a month, that's a 180 less from your number equalling 580. So a VERY generous estimation is that you will be good a knee-kicking after a year of practice, and this will go with every technique you learn. If you learn a new technique in your 6 month it will be a whole year from that day until you are "good" at that new technique. Since this was a generous estimate I would say that really it will take you at least a year and a half, per technique, to become "good." You have no idea how slow this is, you MUST practice at home. You don't need any equipment, you can just practice in the air, even chokes and holds can be practiced this way, ...seriously.

Answer 3

You'll never get good at it just by going, you have to train too.

There is no way of telling how good you can actually become if you do train hard, without some additional information.

Are you an athlete? Are you coordinated? What other sports have you competed in and how well did you do in them? What is the reason you are studying Muay Thai - What attracted you to it? Why do you only "go" once a week?

Answer 4

Working out once per week will not do very much for your but it is better than nothing. If you can't make it more often or the class is only being offered on Saturdays then work out during the week on your own. That way you will develop your skills much faster and better than only working out once per week. You do need to be careful not to develop "bad habits". Many people (especially beginners) really don't have the ability to learn and practice on their own and develop their skills to a high level although it can be done. Muay Tai like any other martial art requires more time, effort and energy than once per week to be good at. Good luck and hang in there.

Answer 5

Training at home is the best answer, If you can only attend the class once a week you must go over what you have learned. Try to put an hour aside evey day, start with streching and fininsh with yout techniques. Also with streching every day you will most certinaly benifit as this will increase your flexibility and allow more of a whiping action with higher kicks. Stand in your stances for periods of time to get good grounding aslso it may be wothwhile to get a punch bag to do techniques on., Also get 4 tyres and stack them up, kick them with no protection for a nice begginer conditionong!

Good luck

Answer 6

I have been doing it for a year, but only three hours a week.

I have got a lot fitter and a lot more confident in the ring and can perform all of the techniques and my kick height has increased by approx 1 foot.

So I have improved, but at a slow rate because I only do it for 3 hours a week.

Our gym instructor is like Hitler on drugs though so it is not exactly an easy three hours - last week I had people jumping up and down on my stomach and was in the ring with TWO people, but I was only allowed to defend. He has some original techniques!

Answer 7

if you aren't practicing outside of class, never. You better practice and go to more classes. Muay Thai takes along time to learn just going once a week.

Answer 8

well in order to remember how to do your techniques off by heart and be able to do them properly you have to do each 1 5000 times b4 it becomes natural to you to just be able to think which 1 your gonna do next and be able to do it without forgetting it, so at your rate if your only going every Saturday it will take you a LONG time, my advice to you is if your only gonna go on Saturday's to also practice at home not only will it help you to improve your techniques and stances but it is also good, because its sorta like a work out which a work out is always good no matter what day it is. So with that said i wish you luck and keep practicing!!!

Yours in Budo, David a fellow karateka

Answer 9

lol - about 10 years!

Muay is a full time thing not a 1 hour a weekend fitness thing.

Sorry - Keep it up though, it's better than nothing

Answer 10

Practice everything that you learn that week at least on mon, wed and fri 3 times a week. Do the streching they show you every day and put a punch bag up to improve your techniques. Get a mate to get mits and move around, strike him to improve your co-ordination.

Good luck Train hard