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I love memes in general! i don’t make them though.

Don't know how to edit the pics to put the funny text underneath... this done on a phone app or from the computer? Well. Day 1 of your face when your trainer shows you how to clinch and you got no idea what you doing, and you're about to be rag-dolled again.

haha, love the last one! It's from Onyx MMA. those guys make quite a few memes and a lot of them are Muay Thai related. They have even more videos though which are at least as funny :)

So a friend who's the head coach at Level Up Boxing in Maryland was recently challenged about how muay Thai memes in general fall behind bjj memes in humor as well as amount. Theres a few of us who make them but the amount is definitely less than the bjj community. Call this a call to arms if you will. Lets show them we have a good sense of humor too. Heres a couple Ive done, with one being shared by multiple muay Thai fan accounts. Add your instagram handle and if it makes me or a bunch of others laugh, Ill gladly repost and tag you in it. Btw my ig is poidog1 and most of my memes have the @pdmt on them. VID_20270907_170458_835.mp4

As another option (surely this won't work EVERY time but its another thing to probably practice and add to the arsenal) I've seen my trainer advise to just take a step back on a low kick (bringing your left leg back if you're in orthodox stance) since they can't kick what isn't there anymore of course. Also a "counter-offensive" option like the lowkick destroyer seems to work well when you use the large bony part of your upper shin right below the knee. Gives you some more surface to work with.

Love em!

Update. Low kick destroyer was a complete fail for me. It was raining low kicks, but I didnt have enough time before the fight to practice to have the destroyer movement "in my body" enough to use it. I hate low-kicks. I think they such an ugly, low-class movement and during fight I wanted to tell opponent 'you never be a great fighter if low-kicks all you got'. And at that moment she hooked me badly all turned white for a second. Joke on me . So, me and my left multicolored thigh look forward to learn how to block these efficiently. But I find it so hard to find the right angle of the knee? Especially when opponent shorter?

Thanks for the comments, everyone. It seems like the gym is trying to find a new hire by the time the back to school season starts. They've been bringing in potential trainers to observe and assist with classes over the last week. It seems like progress, so I'm willing to be patient a little longer.

Hi! In next 2 weeks I'm going to Thailand to train muay thai, I have 2 months there. I'm thinking about Lanna Muay Thai, but I've read some negative opinions about this gym after the management changed. Has anyone of you visited it recently? Ot maybe you recommend another place in Chiang Mai, like HongThong Muay Thai? I'm amateur fighter, I've been training for couple of years and have had some amateur fights. P.S. Sorry for mistakes, I'm still learning english ;D

Hi everyone, So we usually know thai fighters by their nicknames, or fighters names, but I was wondering how they actually call each other when they meet, or train, and sometimes live together. The second part of my question is in regard to the teachers. I believe "Kru" means teacher in thai, and if I remember correctly "Pi" is a form of respect that one puts before the name of the person they are addressing. So how should one call his teacher in thailand, would it be "Kru X", or "Pi X". Also what if the teacher was a fighter. For example I've read online that Karuhat's real name was Suweet. If he was my teacher, should I call him "Kru Karuhat", "Pi Karuhat", "Kru Suweet" or "Pi Suweet"? Lastly just out of curiosity, I was wondering if "Kru Nu" was Sylvie's teacher name, his nickname?...Thanks a lot!!

I wouldnt be surprised. Gives them more time to make memes to I think lol.

Theres different apps that you can use to make memes with. I use one called meme generator.

Actually, come to think of it, anybody else notice how so many BJJ people have technical or computer day jobs? Bet that's why they have more memes. Plus there's more of them than ppl who go to Thai gyms. Dunno about America, but it feels like there are Gracie Bara gyms all over the place nowadays.

Yeah that is good advice, that movement comes a bit more natural for me anyways. Either way, back to learning lab...

Cross checking might be easier (this gives you much more surface area to work with instead of only the point of the knee), especially with a shorter opponent. Just make sure your guard is tight and you balance is good. I'm in the same boat as you, I get low kicked a lot

Cool, mate.

I watched Jaroentong's session a few months back, and completely forgot about it. After watching the session again last night, I am definitely going to go over some of his and Karuhat's switches in slow motion to see how they time their switches with the opponent's movement. As for the drills: I started thinking about drills for switching stance when watching some of the footage of general Tunwakom training Tim and Tyler. It seems like the very first thing he works on, is switching stance while keeping protected at all times: simply walking up and down, while staying guarded and balanced. I'm going to try the Tunwakom walk, as well as working on stepping back and countering on the heavy bag, like Xestaro suggests. These seem like some solid options to get started. As for Kevin's footwork suggestion, footwork is something I've probably been neglecting too much. At the moment my footwork is good enough that I don't fall over my own feet, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement. Yodkhunpon's footwork really is something special. In my mind, when working on footwork you should focus on being light on your feet, and never being unbalanced. However I'm not certain if there's better things to aim for. What do you think the focus should be when working on footwork?

I think it really matters if you are talking about taking a few private sessions, or you are just talking about training at a gym. The Thai way does not really involve constant and repeated corrections (that produces stress and lack of flow which is not conductive to fighting), but there are krus that can and will be corrective in a private, as that is what westerners want, and it happens to be how they in particular think. The Krus Sylvie lists are pretty precise. Of all of them I would think that Manop is the most precise. He has a lot of experience training westerners as the head trainer at Yokkao, and now with his own gym it seems that he brought a lot of that precision to his approach. In Sylvie's session with him we were shocked at some of the very tiny details he brought out (timing on when the heel came down for instance, after a kick, made a huge difference). You can watch the full 90 minute session as a patron here: #55 Manop Manop Gym - The Art of the Teep (90 min) watch it here You can see beautiful slow motion of his technically beautiful teep here: You can watch a segment of a session with Chatchai here: #64 Chatchai Sasakul - Elements of Boxing (72 min) watch it here Here is a segment with Burklerk, you can watch his session here: #17 Burklerk PInsinchai - Dynamic Symmetry (82 min) watch it here

Chatchai Sasakul in Bangkok. 100%: Chatchai is all about balance and weight transfer. Everything is the legs and feet, then not breaking the frame with your upper body. But man, the way he can generate power from such simple and minimal (economical) movement is just incredible. It doesn't require translation between the boxing movements and Muay Thai, and he was a very good Muay Thai fighter before he went into boxing, so he's able to bring it all together. Manop in Chiang Mai: this is again a big point about balance. Manop is kind of rangy, but he understands and can articulate small details about footwork and leg/stance for balance and power. His English is pretty good as far as I have seen, but I mostly speak Thai with him so I'm not totally sure how he explains things in English. But he is able to articulate the nuances into words, so I imagine he does so in English as well. Detail-oriented, for sure. Burklerk in Lampang: his technique is Old School, but it's absolutely useful to contemporary Muay Thai as well. He's really good at breaking down the minute differences between what you're doing and what he wants you to do, but it's not verbal. You have to watch and imitate. But he'll totally point out exactly where the difference is, so you don't have to play "guess what's wrong," you just have to pin-point the adjustment and he's very good at helping you see that. His balance is great, he's scary, and his distance is one that literally any sized fighter has an advantage fighting at.

It's hard to say whether it's "worth it" to train there or not, as giving generalized gym advice is hard because every person is different, has different needs and expectations. I haven't trained at the new Lanna Muay Thai, so I can't give first-hand experience, but I've heard from people who are training there recently that it's crowded and more "class" structured. How busy a gym is changes ALL THE TIME, so I can't say whether that's the case at this moment or not - it's low season in Thailand. Kru Daeng is still there and he's always worth training with. He's fight-oriented, experienced, knowledgeable and a great guy. But you could always take a private with him if the gym itself is not what you're looking for. Hongthong is another that I've never done regular training at. Both Gen and Joe are 100% worth taking private sessions with, but regular training is something that I can't comment on from experience. Both Lanna and Hongthong are gyms that can get you fights, if that's something you're interested in. Manop's gym looks good and Manop is a great trainer. Looks like they have a good group of people training most of the time, so you have clinching and sparring. It's a bit out of town, so you'd need to get a motorbike or be happy staying put most of the time. In general, I advise people to try more than one gym and make their longer-term plans based on their own experiences. None of these gyms are so far away from Chiang Mai that you can't take a few days to try each of them and make your decision from there. You'll know better than anyone what feels right to you, and there's no reason to commit before arrival. You might find this thread helpful:

lol, okay, that's interesting, thanks Tyler!

In my experience it mostly revolves around how well you know them on a personal level as well as personal preference for them. Usually if you have no relationship with them outside a gym setting Kru is what will be used, though they aren't all comfortable with this title. Pi is more personal. It is used for elders/siblings, and often involves a change in names (almost all Thai's have a "play" name or a short/nickname). For example, my old trainer would go by either Kru Korat or simply Korat with students. This was part of his fighting name. Because I lived with them though, for me it became Pi Sak. To make it even more confusing, his family and very old friends who had known him since childhood referred to him as Pi Joy and his wife uses all three depending what mood she is in lol. Long story short, either Kru or Pi are acceptable, though they may change names depending on which you are using. I'm guessing "Nu" is Kru Nu's play/nickname. His students probably refer to his as Kru Nu but everyone else calls him Pi Nu. I've never met him though, so I'm just making a guess

( new to Muay Thai) in practice we were doing various combinations where for example person A throws a cross then person B parried that cross and throws a cross in return. ( and back and forth with that sort of thing) In that example which person is the feeder? Since both people are throwing strikes I’m not sure. Thx

... Where does Trainer Dick step in to correct the two? I kid you not, I once wrote a physics test where the professor had put in a part about lightspeed and time dilation and he had ACTUALLY called the 3 persons in his question "Mick", "Nick" and "Dick"... It put a whole highway-system of knots in my brain even though I was able to figure it out. The most difficult part was keeping track of who was who the whole time...

Being in the middle of the ring in Thai scoring is not in and of itself an advantage in Thai scoring. Any time Dieselnoi has talked to me about strategy, he's focused on getting the opponent into the ropes before doing much of anything at all. Referees certainly shape fights in all kinds of ways; but being at the center of the ring is not what I'd call an advantage, certainly not so much as when and how the referee breaks the clinch being a much bigger deal in shaping the fight.

Let's make it easier and use names instead: So Nick throws a cross and Mick parries.....

I think you are both technically "the feeder" (it alternates). Person A "feeds" Person B the cross so that it can be parried, then Person B is counter-striking using their cross but also "feeding" Person A so that Person A can parry. Its just a term for drilling I believe. Another example would be Person A "feeding" a teep to Person B so that Person B can parry the teep and then throw a cross. Then you both reset and do this 10 times before switching. Hahaha I hope that's not too confusing... I think I confused myself a bit just writing it. So much Person A and Person B!

I would think the first person who thew it but I am not familiar with using the term feeder.

Just in today. A photo of Suk fighting my uncle.

Update. I was able to get in contact with relatives in Chon Buri. One of them has a box with the last remaining belongings of Sakchai and they are passing it on to me. For sure there is his fight robe in there. Not sure if his belt is in there, but if it is, I plan on framing it. I'm guessing it's the one in this photo. I wonder if there is any wording on the back. Sakchai on the far left. I really gotta get my butt over there!

These just came in fresh from the author I'v been communicating with. Last photo- Fight of the year 1952 uncle Sakchai vs Prayut Udomsak. I still need to get these translated.

found the posts - his father was also a stadium champ circa 1970s, so maybe his father knew of your uncle or has more info. hopefully you can connect!

My uncle fought some big names in his time. I'm really putting energry into the universe hoping there is some rare filming of my uncle. I just wanna see him in action or get a sense of his style. There has to be!

Hi! Depending on how it's translated, Nakpayak is either Phantom Tiger or Ghost Tiger. So maybe why the poster has a reaper riding a horse? The book that Sylvie has and now I, it says shadow of tiger. This is confusing. As I know it, he came in and pretty much cleaned out the competition during that time. He was also the very first middle weight champion at rajadamnern stadium. 154 pounds fighting the 160ers. Also has never been knocked out.

We do a lot of elbows on the pads at my gym, but depending on the clinching/sparring partners you can add them into those contexts in a very controlled manner. Again, it's about control - having someone who you can tell isn't in control of their limbs throwing elbows at you sucks. We basically feint the elbows and pull them so that they are either thrown fast and very real-time speed/power but not even close to landing (a good 6 inches or more away from target), or we pull them in speed and power; this one kid does a fantastic job of putting the elbow on the target and then pushing through instead of striking. Picture putting your fist on someone's chin and pushing to indicate the punch - like that but with elbows. With one of my partners, in clinch I'll put my glove or bare hand over his face (so my palm is flat on his cheek or forehead) and then land my opposite elbow on the back of my own hand/glove. I've never seen anyone else do that, but it works for us. He basically just throws the elbow at a far distance where it won't hit me, but it's close enough that I know that it would have hit me. And my trainer throws everything right into my guard, so they're pretty good speed and power but intended to create stress rather than land in an opening. So, that's a bunch of different ways to train them without pads and in the context of clinching and sparring. But I've heard that there are a few Thai gyms which don't allow westerners feinted elbows in sparring at all, due to lack of control. So, again, it's about whether or not you and your partners can have enough comfort and control to handle them in that kind of context.