My background: Ive been training for 6-7 years now at various intensity, mostly abroad with camps in Thailand every year, had a couple of fights at home and in Thailand.
I poured enough in my training that it imprinted on my life like a second layer. I take muay thai into other sports, what I learn in the ring sip into my daily life and the opposite is also true.
Yet for a long time I resisted the idea of putting too much brain and thinking into my training. ( no idea why, it just wasn’t the right time).
I was researching and reading and watching videos but they mainly addressed the how and rarely the why.
Bringing intentionality to my shadow work was limited to trying to visualize an opponent, remember to adjust speed and power - sometimes - and connecting dots between possible strikes depending on distance.
I think I was trying so hard to be present in sparring, that mental effort of creating systems, making sense of the why of each strike, looking at more subtle aspects of controlling the space, the distance was something I almost perceived as inhibiting the ability to flow.
The why is becoming important to me lately, being taught combo also doesn’t really resonate so I’ve started to do more research on it and was very surprised to find… little resources on it ?
Its kind of scattered around in online contents, fight analysis, and literature but I couldn’t find anything that put it all together in a comprehensive way.
Any recommendation you would be happy to share (aside from the Muay thai library which is awesome!)?
Thanks !
