Kickboxing Should Be Called Kicking

[envirocopy512]

Huge Petrosyan fan here. His style is beautiful. He absolutely smoked Kraus in their fight.

[Righthandbanger]

LOL @ acting like its this simple. Thai fighters are fantastic clinchers. something as simple as going for underhooks isn't going to make you competitive in the clinch. It takes years of practice, like anything else.

I have been doing muay thai for a long time. A good clincher will beat you at thai pummelling and the plum clinch but a bodylock absolutely stops you getting kneed.

..and of course it takes practice idiot, it just takes wrestling practice instead of thai clinch practice

[envirocopy512]

I have been doing muay thai for a long time. A good clincher will beat you at thai pummelling and the plum clinch but a bodylock absolutely stops you getting kneed.

..and of course it takes practice idiot, it just takes wrestling practice instead of thai clinch practice

I thought your other post was silly. Guys that train in Europe spend little to no time on the clinch. Thais spend an hour a day just clinching since they're little kids. My stance remains that there is no easy way to deal with this glaring difference in experience like your post suggested. That's why K-1 banned the clinch altogether.

No need to start calling people names either, fella.

[Righthandbanger]

I thought your other post was silly. Guys that train in Europe spend little to no time on the clinch. Thais spend an hour a day just clinching since they're little kids. My stance remains that there is no easy way to deal with this glaring difference in experience like your post suggested. That's why K-1 banned the clinch altogether.

No need to start calling people names either, fella.

The fact is Thais DO get beaten.. In fact the Lumpinee rules were actually changed to disallow the bodylock because it was an efficient stall/throw tactic.

[Hi-Dro]

maybe it was just your experience

kickboxing still involves punching and boxing