Muay Thai Vlog E8 | Switch Knee Drill, BJJ Belt Ceremony and Class Highlights.

In this episode I demonstrate an alternating switch knee drill that'll improve your footwork, my friends receiving their BJJ black belts plus highlights from coaching classes.

Increase Power of Your Punches with This Drill

You've heard the saying, "sit down on your punches" but having a hard time understanding what that means? Add this drill to your training so that you can get a feel for "sitting down on your punches". 

Muay Thai Boxing "Wack-A-Mole" Drill

Ripping combos on pads or the heavy bag shouldn't be the only tactic in your training arsenal. Improve your speed and reaction time with this drill...

Punch Defense for Muay Thai vs Boxing.

Your punch defense for Muay Thai has to be more rigid compared to sport boxing's punch defense. Here's why...

Power Up Your Kicks With 1 Simple Adjustment.

The heavy bag is just another tool to your overall training. Here's a way to work timing and add extra resistance to your kicks.

Boxing Defense in Muay Thai (Kevin Ross vs Michael Thompson)

Breakdown of Kevin "The Soul Assassin" Ross vs Michael "Tomahawk" Thompson. Highlighting their western boxing attacks, footwork, angles, pivots and ducking for Muay Thai.

Boxing Defense in Muay Thai (Preview) and Fight Life Update

Good Footwork doesn't mean flamboyancy 

Read on to find out how Muay Thai fighters utilize boxing footwork and defense, my fight update and an upcoming project.

Boxing Hooks to Head Kick. Part 1 (The Check Hook)

Original photo by Steve Bauzen (1)

The Check Hook to Head Kick. In this series, Boxing Hooks to Head Kicks, I will list commonly used boxing hooks that lead to head kicks in Muay Thai or Kickboxing fights.

Part 1
We analyze how Andy Souwer was able to score a knockdown against Ristie by using the check hook to set up the head kick.

Muay Thai Doesn't Have Good Hands?

Go ahead and use my gloves.

Some fight fans are comparing boxing's punching methods and standard tactics against Muay Thai. Making the sweeping assumption that Muay Thai fighters don't have good hands (punching techniques).
One can generalize that some of boxing's technical cues e.g., torque from the legs and hips, can transfer well to all striking combat sports. Unfortunately not all of boxing's basics should be adopted for Muay Thai.

Being a punch only sport, The sweet science does have a lot to offer if one wants to optimize their punching mechanics. Unfortunately, some of those mechanical principals can get you in trouble. For example, western boxing's basic stance (1). I'm not saying it's impossible to fight Muay Thai in a boxing stances but your chances of getting leg kicked or swept will dramatically increase.

Deloading for Fight Training

Green means GO, GO, GO!

I'm schedule to fight at Lumphini July 13th at 74 kg. I'm currently weighing a chubby 80.6 kg, which I'm planning to lose at a steady rate so as to not suffer with a sauna suit. As of now I'm using this week up until June 24th for maintenance training or commonly known to weight lifters as deload week (1).