Jump to content

Hello - What's this Forum? An Introduction


Recommended Posts

Hello to All and welcome to Muay Thai Roundtable! This forum is intended to be a place for people of all levels and interest in Muay Thai to come and connect, discuss, and ask questions or offer tips from our various experiences.  The Roundtable is a little bit different in that aside from posting general topics which are specifically encouraged, you can also address questions specifically to me or Emma - the idea of this forum grew out of the questions we both have received in private communications - and of course everyone is invited to respond as well. It's a community resource, and hopefully a knowledge store. We've set up some thread categories to help organize and facilitate exchanges, hopefully there will be more as we go and gather more steam. There is a general board, as well as a "women only" board, which is a place for women to discuss issues or experiences which may be too uncomfortable to voice otherwise, but also a place to help foster female Muay Thai dialogue between women.

In all boards, please be respectful and considerate of each other. Some guidelines are that inflammatory comments or language intended only to incite is not permitted; respectful disagreement, requests for clarification and difference of opinion and experience are all welcome. This Roundtable is a space for us, so please make yourself at home and be polite both as a host and as a guest.

Some online forums are a "Free for All" in terms of moderation and this is not one of them. This Roundtable is a heavily modified space - as such, please do not be offended if a moderator steps in, but also please do not hesitate to ask for a moderator if you feel uncomfortable, disrespected, or attacked.  Speak openly, be nice.

If you are new to forums be sure to read our Forum Features and How to Use Them post, as it will help make everything more interesting.

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

hello I am Rosy ... I wrote a bit just now but found a glitch perhaps  :ohmy: I clicked on my media and a blank window came up and I couldn't get rid of it .... had to close the page losing a lot of witty comments I can tell you .....  :teehee:

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

still playing with the tool bar .... la la la lala la la l a

 

in muay thai news- just been gathering a load of results back to 1977 ... that early they are kickboxing... first international muay thai fight is from 1981 in holland. If anyone has early early results I have a home for them.

 

My intention is to collate the results in a way that should help chart the progression of female Muaythai (and related disciplines that afford common opponents) as it establishes globally and grows in participant numbers - don't hold your breath but it should get done this year . Should make for a nice archive and hopefully attract more info on the early days.  May form the basis of a written piece on the history of women in the sport.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi everyone! I'm Tyler and currently training at Master Toddy's in Bangkok. I had never trained prior to coming here, but have been going at it for almost seven months now. It's too much fun! I'm excited to meet more of you and expand my Muay Thai social circle!

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi, I'm Darina. I started training seriously about a year ago while living in Japan, and I'm currently at the end of my six week stay in Thailand before heading back home to Germany. I intend to keep training and fighting back home. Muay Thai has changed my life.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...

Hi, everybody my name is Nick from Antwerp Belgium
So happy I found this site ;-) 
If you have time please check my page on www.facebook.com/muaythai4orphans
and stay up to date on my efforts to support the orphanage Baan Gerda in Lop Buri
that takes care of children infected with HIV or AIDS.
Thankssss Nick

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi, everybody my name is Nick from Antwerp Belgium

So happy I found this site ;-) 

If you have time please check my page on www.facebook.com/muaythai4orphans

and stay up to date on my efforts to support the orphanage Baan Gerda in Lop Buri

that takes care of children infected with HIV or AIDS.

Thankssss Nick

Thanks for joining up, Nick. I hope we can help to spread the word about your efforts and get as much help as possible for the kids at your orphanage. The lack of education around HIV and AIDS in all parts of the world make it very difficult for those affected and really anything we can do to make it easier is hugely meaningful.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 5 months later...
  • 3 weeks later...

Sylvie, why are/were you asking females to train with you? Please elaborate.

Is this offer still open?

Hi Priscilla,

I've invited women to come and train with me because I feel we all benefit from meeting with and supporting each other. I also have no other women at my gym, so it's a real treat for me when I have women to train with :)

Yes, the offer is still open. I'm almost always at the gym, so if you find yourself in Pattaya shoot me a line!

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Hi,

My Name is Terry.My daughter Emily and I joined a Cardio Kickboxing/Muay thai gym here in Winnipeg,Canada in November of last year and both of us have fallen in love with the lifestyle that comes with The training of both.Emily has lost 24 pounds  and I 27 pounds since November.Hope to keep coming here to post and possibly review some of our new equipment (THAISMAI  Thai Pads,TWINS SPECIAL Focus Pads, and FAIRTEX  6' Bag)We discovered Sylvie last year on youtube and watch her vids all the time.Thank you Sylvie for inspiring us to train hard and to keep at this beautiful sport its damn hard,but has been really rewarding.

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 3 months later...

Hello - I am from Canada, been practicing muay thai on and off for about 4 years. I am currently looking for a new club back home, but I think I found my spot :) 

Trying to put together some good drills I can practice on my own. 

Looking forward to talking to you all! 

Mike

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Hello all,

I've been following Sylvie and Emma for a while now. I am from Boston, MA, USA and planning a trip to go to Thailand to train with my GM in Boran and do some sight seeing a other tourist stuff. Looking forward to this MT community and share our knowledge and experience.

AL

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 months later...

Hi guys, new member here and glad to be a member.  I've been following Sylvie for the past year and have been studying Muay Thai for the past 3 years, off and on.  I plan on visiting Thailand for the first time to train next week! I'm so excited.

 

-Jason

Welcome to the forum! So exciting that you're visiting Thailand so soon!! Where are you training/staying?! :) 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yeap! I'm so excited as well I've just been counting down the days!  I decided to go to Sitjoapho in Hua Hin after reading so many good reviews about them and especially after seeing Phet-Eak's beautiful work on the pads. Youtube link here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5s89dZhnA8.

Lovely! Keep us posted on how it goes, I'm sure it'll be a great experience! I was just Thailand back in August for 2 weeks and trained in Bangkok (Khongsittha Muay Thai) and I had a blast....and I'm also excited to say that I'll be heading back in March/April for 1 month and will be at Koh Phangan haha... it gets addicting :P 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now

  • Most Recent Topics

  • Latest Comments

    • What people don't really appreciate is that Nabil says he trained 13 months for this fight...and Superlek probably trained for two weeks. Good on Nabil, but the fight (and the promotion) just doesn't "mean" the same thing to each fighter, as much as there is enormous social media hype around these kinds of matchups. It's "entertainment" Muay Thai. In many ways it just isn't "real" for Thais (it lacks the social risks that gambled stadium fighting has). Fighting the stadium when Superlek was 18...that was REAL, because the social conditions of shame and pride and the cultural network of status struggle was infinitely at risk. One can't force it to be real.  
    • I've been exploring ultrawides for a while, though basically drawn to them since I started shooting Muay Thai though I didn't know how to use them. There was always the sense that I wanted to weave together very different focal lengths. Since shooting with the Contax which I really love, on a bigger sensor format I've been drawn further in. So here is an experiment, using keyframes, big contrast video and telephoto images, to capture the mood and energy of a training session with Chatchai. This is was just a sketch from a single very quick shoot (I think 3 very short videos, maybe 100 still frames shot), maybe 5 minutes of photography altogether. I wanted it to be very bare bones to see if I could whip up an energy and feeling that I could maybe use on a larger project. The short is much aided by the music by Anand who I'm working with on a big, experimental writing project. wh
    • Exactness and review are two essential measurements utilized in assessing the execution of machine learning models, especially in classification errands. Both are vital in understanding how well a demonstrate performs in recognizing between pertinent and unimportant comes about, but they center on diverse viewpoints of accuracy. Data Science Course in Pune Precision measures the precision of positive forecasts made by a show. It is calculated as the number of genuine positive comes about partitioned by the add up to number of positive forecasts (genuine positives furthermore wrong positives). In other words, exactness answers the address: "Out of all the occurrences the demonstrate labeled as positive, how numerous were really redress?" A tall accuracy score demonstrates that when the show predicts a positive result, it is ordinarily redress. This metric is especially imperative in scenarios where wrong positives carry critical results, such as in spam location. If an mail channel marks a authentic e-mail as spam, it may result in critical messages being missed. On the other hand, review, too known as affectability, centers on the model’s capacity to distinguish all pertinent occurrences. It is calculated as the number of genuine positives separated by the whole of genuine positives and untrue negatives. This implies review answers the address: "Out of all genuine positive cases, how numerous did the demonstrate accurately recognize?" A tall review score recommends that the show does not miss numerous important occurrences, which is especially valuable in restorative analyze. For illustration, in cancer discovery, a tall review guarantees that about all cancerous cases are distinguished, indeed if it implies a few untrue positives are included. The trade-off between exactness and review is a common challenge in machine learning. A show can be balanced to favor one over the other depending on the application. Expanding accuracy regularly comes at the fetched of review, as the show gets to be more preservationist in making positive forecasts. Then again, expanding review might lower accuracy, as the demonstrate gets to be more indulgent in labeling occasions as positive. The adjust between the two is regularly spoken to utilizing the F1-score, which is the consonant cruel of exactness and recall.  In down to earth applications, the choice between prioritizing accuracy or review depends on the particular needs of the assignment. In extortion discovery, for occurrence, tall exactness is vital to maintain a strategic distance from dishonestly denouncing authentic exchanges. In differentiate, tall review is basic in look motors to guarantee all pertinent comes about are recovered. Understanding the contrast between these two measurements makes a difference information researchers fine-tune models for ideal execution based on their targets.
  • The Latest From Open Topics Forum

    • The first fight between Poot Lorlek and Posai Sittiboonlert was recently uploaded to youtube. Posai is one of the earliest great Muay Khao fighters and influential to Dieselnoi, but there's very little footage of him. Poot is one of the GOATs and one of Posai's best wins, it's really cool to see how Posai's style looked against another elite fighter.
    • Yeah, this is certainly possible. Thanks! I just like the idea of a training camp pre-fight because of focus and getting more "locked in".. Do you know of any high level gyms in europe you would recommend? 
    • You could just pick a high-level gym in a European city, just live and train there for however long you want (a month?). Lots of gyms have morning and evening classes.
    • Hi, i have a general question concerning Muay-Thai training camps, are there any serious ones in Europe at all? I know there are some for kickboxing in the Netherlands, but that's not interesting to me or what i aim for. I have found some regarding Muay-Thai in google searches, but what iv'e found seem to be only "retreats" with Muay-Thai on a level compareable to fitness-boxing, yoga or mindfullness.. So what i look for, but can't seem to find anywhere, are camps similar to those in Thailand. Grueling, high-intensity workouts with trainers who have actually fought and don't just do this as a hobby/fitness regime. A place where you can actually grow, improve technique and build strength and gas-tank with high intensity, not a vacation... No hate whatsoever to those who do fitness-boxing and attend retreats like these, i just find it VERY ODD that there ain't any training camps like those in Thailand out there, or perhaps i haven't looked good enough?..  Appericiate all responses, thank you! 
    • In my experience, 1 pair of gloves is fine (14oz in my case, so I can spar safely), just air them out between training (bag gloves definitely not necessary). Shinguards are a good idea, though gyms will always have them and lend them out- just more hygienic to have your own.  2 pairs of wraps, 2 shorts (I like the lightweight Raja ones for the heat), 1 pair of good road running trainers. Good gumshield and groin-protector, naturally. Every time I finish training, I bring everything into the shower (not gloves or shinnies, obviously) with me to clean off the (bucketsfull in my case) of sweat, but things dry off quickly here outside of the monsoon season.  One thing I have found I like is smallish, cotton briefs for training (less cloth, therefore sweaty wetness than boxers, etc.- bring underwear from home- decent, cotton stuff is strangely expensive here). Don't weigh yourself down too much. You might want to buy shorts or vests from the gym(s) as (useful) souvenirs. I recommend Action Zone and Keelapan, next door, in Bangkok (good selection and prices):  https://www.google.com/maps/place/Action+Zone/@13.7474264,100.5206774,17z/data=!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x30e29931ee397e41:0x4c8f06926c37408b!2sAction+Zone!8m2!3d13.7474212!4d100.5232523!16s%2Fg%2F1hm3_f5d2!3m5!1s0x30e29931ee397e41:0x4c8f06926c37408b!8m2!3d13.7474212!4d100.5232523!16s%2Fg%2F1hm3_f5d2?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
  • Forum Statistics

    • Total Topics
      1.4k
    • Total Posts
      11.3k
×
×
  • Create New...