Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
Added this to my routine, shyt got me 
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Martial arts training thread (boxing, karate, whatever)?
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Iv'e been waning to take up a martial arts. But I don't know which one. I asked Mowgli about Brazilian Ji-Jitsu on the other site. But are there other ones that I should consider that may be easier. I just need to know how to defend my self really. 
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
Iv'e been waning to take up a martial arts. But I don't know which one. I asked Mowgli about Brazilian Ji-Jitsu on the other site. But are there other ones that I should consider that may be easier. I just need to know how to defend my self really.
I thought about doing a writeup for this maybe with mowgli's help. What are your physical strengths? What are your weaknesses? Have you been in fights before? What do you WANT to fight like?
And are you trying to defend yourself or just wanna know how to beat ass?
Doing those 100 burpees had my swag on trillion yesterday. Oh my gawwww. Lifting heavy weights and martial arts make you slower. You have to add some plyometric excercises to keep your speed and reflexes. 100 burpees, again, oh my gawwwwdd. Walked in there with a migraine and was still rolling cats up, strangling the ISH out of people, quickly and efficiently. The few scrambles i had when my guard almost got past, i was back on my feet like PEWWWWWWwwww. Get up your plyometrics yall.
100 burpees.
100 burpees.
Yea also. What kind of people do you want to defend yourself against. Thugs, street fighters, elite fighters, grapplers, boxers, bouncers. Everyone has a nightmare scenario of an individual they do not want to cross paths withs? Who do you want to be prepared for?
When i do them they are because the time between me landing on the ground and going into a sprawl, down to the ground and springing back into the air, is minimal. I take that back. By burpee number 60 im definately not exploding like that. So i guess its as ploymetric as you can handle.
You also have to work with body type. If you're huge, stocky or stout, focusing on something like Muay Thai is inefficient and stupid.
Ideally, you want to be as multi disciplined as possible with a master base in something. That said, you are wrong. Mark hunt is 5'10 264 pounds and has world class kickboxing. The body is powerful and with training can do pretty much whatever you want it to do within the limits of your personal genetics. Muay Thai kicks for the most part do not go above the ribs and for most part a big man only needs solid knees and a good clinch which are 2 techniques that would prove invaluable in close quarters combat for a man that of size.
Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
I think it depends on the weight. I think you can retain and build a lot of explosiveness with lifts like the power clean and squat. I've been trying to keep my summer training very traditional though and i've been doing a lot of exercises like this:
Lots of jumping and stability exercises. I wanna be able to move quickly with ease and generate lots of power, although the end training of this skill Qingshen/qing gong ends up looking a lot like parkour. Some wall scalin shyt that i cant even
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Julius Skrrvin
I be winkin' through the scope
I agree that shorter dudes can be good at Muay Thai. They just have to focus on the infighting aspect of the martial art, which there is a shytload of. Elbows, knees, uppercuts, and the clinch are major parts of MT even as a sport, and that sure as hell ain't distance fighting.
Mark Hunt doesn't do traditional Muay Thai. The filtered elements of Muay Thai used by most MMA fighters (all that Tiger gym stuff, etc.) should be distinguished from traditional Muay Thai, which was designed almost exclusively for leaner, longer-limbed, hell, even smaller people. Go to Thailand and look at the people idolized as perfect fighters in their world. Many of the trainers out there will tell you that some of the best fighting out there is happening at the teenage level, between flexible kids with relatively little muscle mass.
The last two sentences of your post are accurate, and I agree, but that doesn't contradict what I'm saying, since you don't need to devote yourself to Muay Thai to learn those specific things. I'm also not knocking the MMA version of Muay Thai.
Are you that flabby n sick google scholar from sohh ? Thereal32?
Are you a 33 year old man who posts dozens of posts a day from 3 different screen names?
You've done more jiujitsu than me, but I've done more Muay Thai than you, and in traditional Thai gyms, too, but you shouldn't take my word for it. Ask anyone who has trained in actual Muay Thai.