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If Muay Chaiya was well known, striking in MMA would look totally different
If Muay Chaiya were well known, striking for MMA would look totally different
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The weaknesses of traditional MT, such as the stance leaving you open for takedowns, dropping the arm while kicking limiting you to kicking out of punching range, the reduced effectiveness of static blocking when not using gloves, and the reduced emphasis of punching because of the lesser effect of a gloved hand, and zero ground-game renders MT pretty much inefficient against a powerful wrestler who'd g and p to victory.
However, Muay Chaiya has a much lower and wider stance to prevent takedowns, kicks in a totally different way, without dropping the arms and lowering the body to the level of the kick to avoid punches, more comprehensive defensive techniques (incl crazy monkey, bob and weaving, parrying, and slipping), many more types of punches (incl vertical fists to punch inbetween gaurd, fake punch to whipping fist if the fighter is out of range and so on), along with a ground game incorporating sprawls, underhooks, standing joint locks, throws, submissions such as armbars, and also has a much bigger arsenal of elbows, which are under-utilised in MMA. I aim to take advantage of this and use Muay Chaiya as my primary striking style for MMA. That being said, it is a much more regimented, progressive, and not taking the physical conditioning into account, technically harder than Muay Thai. Whereas you could go train at a camp for 10 months and be ring-ready, it used to be 3 years spent only on footwork for Muay Chaiya. Its not as bad now, but I guess with only 1 proper teacher in Bangkok, its a little hard to come by.
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