Muay Thai

Muay Thai originally comes from Thailand and it is Thailand's national sport. The Muay Thai practiced today is different from the ancient Muay Thai and uses kicks and punches in a ring with gloves which is similar to the western boxing.

 

Muay Thai is also know as "The art of the Eight Limbs" because the hands, shins, elbows and knees are all used extensively in this art. Muay Thai master is able to execute strikes using eight points of contact as opposed to the two points(fists) in western boxing or the four points(fists and feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts.

 

Muay Thai is very important to be mastered for it is the art where you use your knees and elbows. Of course you use your knees and elbows in kick boxing but here they are used more frequently and the Muay Thai fights consist of striking knees in the ribs of the opponent.

 

Muay Thai fighters train very hard to master this art because it requires durability and strong will to get your body in shape to take all the stress of the training.

 

Muay Thai fighters chop down banana trees with their feet to deathen nerves so they dont feel any pain when they strike an opponents bones. Because bone to bone hit always is very painful for both the striker and the taker of the hit.

Scientists that were interested in martial arts wanted to measure the power of a Muay Thai knee strike in the chest and see if it can result in 1 strike knock out. So using very sensitive technology and crash test dummy that is used for crashing cars into walls they were able to calculate how much power the Muay Thai can generate with 1 single knee kick.

 

The results... Amazing... Not only Muay Thai master can knock out the opponent with 1 knee strike, he can acctually even kill him.

 

So Muay Thai is deffinitely usable martial art to learn before you go into the ring with some of the top very expirienced MMA fighters. And combined with Kung Fu's speed it could be lethal for your opponent.     

 

Here is a video that might give you a good perspective of Muay-Thai kicking power, knee and elbow strikes.