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Originally Posted by chiuchimu
I believe thai boxing with enough BJJ to defend against grappling is the Ideal fighting method.
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Just knee the shooters in the head and throw the spastic Judo wrestlers. Muay Thai is enough.
I opened up my gym recently in rural Thailand:
Although it's not finished, and I need to further develop the facilities, I've started taking some kids to build up long term. I only accept full time and long term students below the age of 10, and they have to be willing to commit to Boxing professionally in the future (more so, their parents have to commit, and understand sending them off to uni in a distant city when they reach 18 is going to be a waste of a dozen years of me training them - they'll leave just when they hit their professional prime and I stand no gain given I train them for free and my income is based on taking a 50% cut from the purse of fighters).
The gym is centered around Muay Thai and Western Boxing, and that's what I mostly teach. I'm also going to teach my own version of Ninjutsu to some of my students (namely, my own children and adopted children).
I started martial arts when I was 14, joined the Infantry when I was 18 but got the boot because I was in trouble with the police after completeing 9 months of full time Infantry training. So I went to Thailand to learn Muay Thai when I was nearly 20, been here since. I'm 24 next month. Married a Thai and knocked her up and made a daughter. Been training and fighting, now I've got the skills to start teaching kids myself.
Muay Thai is great, I really like it. Great conditioning for the body and excellent lifestyle. Have become a powerful fighter now, a long way since when I was a kid doing Wing Chun and Ninjutsu.