What is muay tai?

Question

I want to learn that, or a little jui jitsu so I can do alittle MMA in college. What is it exactly?

Answer 1

Muay Thai is the nationalized, traditional martial artform trained for Thai kickboxing matches in Thailand and other countries. It is a collective of the last four styles of Muay Boran, or "Ancient Boxing Styles": Muay Korat, Muay Lopburi, Muay Chaiya, and Muay Ling Lom. Only Muay Chaiya is still practiced in Thailand as an artform, mostly for self-defense as the art itself is very brutal. A Muay Boran that is also still practiced, though in limited numbers, is Muay Tha Sao, which is taught only to Thai natives.

Muay Thai is called the "Art of 8 Limbs", an apt description as it trains a fighter to use the feet/shins, hands, elbows/forearms and knees to attack a target. Traditional Muay Thai fighters fight with a specific ring style, generally using the first round to "feel out" the distance and opponent. They will use mostly low leg kicks in this round, as well as a few rib or head kicks. The second round, as the traditional music gets faster, they will begin to work for elbows and knees, as well as raising their pace on low leg and high kicks. By the third round, they begin to clinch heavily, using all of their techniques. The one thing almost all native Thai fighters have in common is the mentality decribed by many Thai-American trainers as "If you are within punching range, you are within clinching range." Traditional Thai fights see very few punches thrown, as they believe the elbows and knees from the clinch are far superior to the more inaccurate punches.

Contrary to popular belief, there are many gyms and schools for Muay Thai in America, Denmark, and other countries. Some of the top K-1 fighters are Dutch Muay Thai fighters. Many Vale Tudo fighters of South America have trained extensively in Muay Thai, believing it to be the most efficient, heaviest hitting striking artform. Also, many Americans train with Thai nationals and Thai-American trainers who hold to a very traditional training regimen, if not the traditional methods of training.

Answer 2

muay thai is a type of boxing from thailand it is currently studied as a sport but it was also a part of a total martial art that the thai (not sure what they where called back then) military used sport muay thai is very popular and easy to learn kind of like boxing but very very hard to master sport muay thai has no weapons or grappling old military muay thai used weapons and ground work some still teach the old more complete versions of muay thai in thailand but its mostly known for the sport aspect

sport muay thai or thai boxing uses boxing like punches with some kicks the most notable is the shin kick using the shin :) in thai boxing you are trained to use the fists elbows shins knees bottom of the foot heel of the foot as weapons to hit your opponent i prolly missed some stuff thre but im sure other people will fill in the blanks

Answer 3

in truth. remember maximum MMA warring parties additionally take boxing to complement it because of the fact Muay Thai isn't good with their arms. So maximum warring parties have a Boxing coach seperate from a kickboxing coach (who could prepare Muay Thai, or straight away up kickboxing with Muay Thai) yet you are able to in truth call the get up ingredient extra often than not Muay Thai (because it has all the strikes that are criminal in MMA). wish that facilitates,

Answer 4

muay thai is thai kick boxing, also known as "the art of 8 limbs". Most Thai fighters are trained since they were little. You should see true life-"I'm a muay thai fighter"

Answer 5

Thai boxing. Many thais see it as a way to fill their rice bowl. Try watching "Beautiful Boxer" to get a little more info.

Answer 6

It's Thai kickboxing, which is extremely popular in Thailand.

This site is a really nice resource, but it's a bit slow to load, and the layout is a bit strange.
http://www.muaythai.com/

Here's another, from the USA.
http://www.thaiboxing.com/

Answer 7

Thai Kickboxing. It integrates knee and elbow strikes along with punches and kicks.

Answer 8

hardly any americans do muay tai becuz it is supposed to be really brutal fights. so basically martial arts but a lil rougher.

Answer 9

basically thai kick boxing