Thirty is too old to start Muay Thai if you’re looking to become a professional fighter. Most pro fighters in Thailand start at 6-8 years old and by the time they enter adult tournaments, they have accumulated thousands of hours worth of fighting. Malcolm Gladwell came up with the rule that it takes 10,000 hours …
Muay Thai is a powerful martial art that utilises the knees, elbows, fists and shins as weapons; for this reason, it’s called the art of the eight limbs. It improves your reflexes, strengthens and conditions your body making you a much harder target. However, is Muay Thai good for beginners? Muay Thai provides a solid …
Very few styles are as effective and dangerous on the feet as Muay Thai. It’s not a coincidence that in the pursuit of real effectiveness in MMA, Muay Thai is the first choice of striking discipline to learn. Muay Thai is very dangerous because the goal of competition is to hurt the opponent to a …
Scheduling your Muay Thai training properly can make a world of difference in the speed with which you improve. But deciding exactly how much you should train each week can be a difficult task. It all depends on your current level. As a beginner, 2 times per week can be enough, then progress to 3 …
As innate and natural as fighting is to humans, actual mastery of combat is extremely hard to attain. People have systemized the knowledge and ability to do battle for thousands of years, and today we have many martial arts, each with its distinctive advantages and disadvantages. But if we have to point out which is …
Boxers get hit with a medicine ball to condition their bodies to receive punches. And the medicine ball offers an easy-to-execute but very effective method of doing that. If you watch just a few clips of pro boxers training, chances are you will see many of them get hit in the stomach with a medicine …
