Muay Thai

[StevoSmith 147]

Any of you guys gals do Muay Thai?........I started in 1993 whilst i was living in manchester....went to the Martial Arts Centre in stockport for about 9 months then moved on to K1 for 2 more years before taking up MT again here in wales.....i did ok in my grading ending with RedBlue band through GrandMaster Sken grading System...then joined Army and never went back.....would love to start up again but at 37 i feel im to old lol........If any of you guys/gals do it what grades have you acchived?

[Chid 6,584]

Friend used to do it , he was ranked 7th in the world at one point (which I'm told is good for an English fighter) and ranked 1st in Britain . He retired due to lack of fighter willing to fight him and having time off work to recover . He would of been fighting when you first started ... And he attended the Thai festival thing they had in Manchester in around 2001/2002

[StevoSmith 147]

Muay Thai and Kickboxing Festival?........what was his name mate?

[Chid 6,584]

Muay Thai and Kickboxing Festival?........what was his name mate?

Don't know if it was a muay Thai and kickboxing festival just thought it was an all things Thai festival . He fought a Spanish fella and won in the second round (bit of a story to the fight) his name is Louis norton

Edited May 8, 2012 by chid21

[billy whizz 141]

i did it for a year lost too much weight lol like me size,never bothered with gradings think its just a con by the trainers but did enjoy it was due to fight but set up my own business ad lost the time to do it with work ect.

 

started boxing and much better suited to that i am the wrong shape and size for thai boxing.

 

dont like fighting in bare feet either im no fan of feet lol

[tilimangro 1,013]

trained for a good few years

gradings were a con we didnt do them

personally i feel at a similar age to you it pointless trying to compete with the young guys just train for your own r easons

also you dont heal from the knocks like you used to

i remember limping for two weeks from a hard sparring session

my mate used to train with skenny he said you had to kick apples off of swords and shit like that during some gradings

sken was originally a tae kwon do guy

Edited May 8, 2012 by tilimangro

[StevoSmith 147]

I remember Louis.......i remember hin fighting Bourachid Morad of france

[StevoSmith 147]

trained for a good few years

gradings were a con we didnt do them

personally i feel at a similar age to you it pointless trying to compete with the young guys just train for your own r easons

also you dont heal from the knocks like you used to

i remember limping for two weeks from a hard sparring session

my mate used to train with skenny he said you had to kick apples off of swords and shit like that during some gradings

sken was originally a tae kwon do guy

 

 

 

Used to love the sparring sessions.....what got me was the heavy bag work outs......conditioning the shins was a killer

[billy whizz 141]

some good fighters from my end in leeds liam harrison and and co at bad company,hard little fcukers lol,i dont thin i could do with getting a knee in the legs anymore ha nothing worse pure dead leg keep getting tapped on it.

[StevoSmith 147]

Only think about Muay Thai is the Ram Muay....carnt dance at the best of times let alone at start of a fight...but most MT fights require you to do it as part of the ritual

[Chid 6,584]

I remember Louis.......i remember hin fighting Bourachid Morad of france

I think I've got my wires crossed and I think it might of been the fighter above he fought at the festival thing

[Chid 6,584]

Was also told by another good friend was if you let Louis get in range for a kick you was fecked if you couldnt get out the way Lol

[StevoSmith 147]

From what i remember he was a beast with the kicks......would drop most men where they stood

[moonlighter 1,164]

I used to do it in the 90's. I used to train with malc scarboro and his wife, Lesley (who was British and eu champ). When the gym closed down I was heart broken at the time. There was only a couple of gyms in lincs at the time, the other been Lincoln (still natural born warriors). Had a few fights though and loved it.

[Chid 6,584]

From what i remember he was a beast with the kicks......would drop most men where they stood

Well that's the story of the festival fight ref and organisers asked him and the other fighter to take it easy and put a show on both agreed but only Louis was takin it easy lasted a round before he got to pissed off , came out for the 2nd and just hit the other fighter with a kick before he'd even threw a punch and ko'd him ...