A technique often overlooked by Muay Thai stylists

[Pagan]

Rapid fire rounhouses

Muay thai focuses on the "1 hit kill" philosophy when it comes to roundhouses. I'm not saying muay thai has stagnated on creating new innovations, but they are not actively deveoping new strategies.

These Korean art stylists use the momentum of their roundhosue bouncing off the target to generate power for another roundhouse coming in the opposite direction. The opponent may block the first, even the 2cd, but the attacks come so fast they will begin to land hard.

Taekwondo is actively evolving. It is an art in motion and we may see a slow but radical shift in the outcome of TKD vs. Muay thai matches.

[oldman_withers]

Provide video of this working or even pictures (though those won't show as much) and maybe someone will care.

[Torakaka]

you should actually like, know something about what you're criticising before making a stupid statement about how "muay thai stylists don't do this". You're full of shit. Please stop plugging your shitty martial arts.

[Pagan]

Provide video of this working or even pictures (though those won't show as much) and maybe someone will care.

Video

[bad credit]

Damn, they almost fall down doing that. Imagine if you just legswept them. Both feet are flying off the ground, how do they stay up? If they got hit back they wouldn't, that's how.

[Cullion]

mm.. that isn't video of it working. that's video of some kids at summer camp being made to goose-step towards a guy holding a pad.

[CMack11]

These Korean art stylists use the momentum of their roundhosue bouncing off the target to generate power for another roundhouse coming in the opposite direction.

So why don't we see them generating more power with each kick? By that final kick they should really be knocking the guy holding the pads on his ass with all that power generation going on.

[CanucKyokushin]

Damn, they almost fall down doing that. Imagine if you just legswept them. Both feet are flying off the ground, how do they stay up? If they got hit back they wouldn't, that's how.

I once had a guy doing that move to me one day.He was all smiling and shit.All I had to do was front-kick him into his stomach each time he tried that shit!He never pulled that move on me from then on.

[Kristofer2]

the pure speed of a technique such as this makes it impossible for a slow stylist of muay thai to defend against it, it confuses people of mma and due to their low iq they are unable to defend against it and panic.

[The Limey]

I once had a guy doing that move to me one day.He was all smiling and shit.All I had to do was front-kick him into his stomach each time he tried that shit!He never pulled that move on me from then on.

So much wasted energy with that front kick. The correct counter is to stand there and take those little love taps. As you can see from the video your enemy will move forward relentlessly. Wait until he is inches from your face and take him out with a head butt. :P

I'm hoping the OP was trying to be humourus with that post. Although kicking like that will help with balance, speed, endurance etc it would be very hard to get any power from such kicks. It might be good for point fighting but I sure hope no one tries that in a real fight.

If I ever find a guy that can do that well and with power I will bow down and say"teach me sensei" Until that guy surfaces I'll stick to trying to develop power in my kicks the old fashioned way.

[feedback]

That kick is always countered by a punch to the face or a front kick. It couldn't possibly be effective, it's hardly even effective in WTF sparring.

[Fat Bastard]

[QUOTE=Pagan]Rapid fire rounhouses

The link leads to some utterly flaccid kicks. The reason this technique is overlooked is because it is entirely ineffective.

Muay thai focuses on the "1 hit kill" philosophy when it comes to roundhouses. I'm not saying muay thai has stagnated on creating new innovations, but they are not actively deveoping new strategies.

No, Karate focuses on 1hit kill. Muay Thai focuses on kicking really hard. If you knew anything about Muay Thai you would know this, and know "strategies" vary with each fight.

These Korean art stylists use the momentum of their roundhosue bouncing off the target to generate power for another roundhouse coming in the opposite direction. The opponent may block the first, even the 2cd, but the attacks come so fast they will begin to land hard.

This isn't complete bullshit. A Thai boxer will use your body to change the direction of the momentum of his leg, if the kick doesn't push you away. But are you telling me the Thais haven't yet discovered the left-right-left kick combination? I know this to be false because I myself have kicked people with such a combination as early as 1992. I realize this may be a bit slow in comparison to the ancient and venerable history of TKD, but it did seem familiar to my instructor too. A thai fighter would simply not notice being kicked like the video people do it, except as an opportunity to drop them with a right cross.

Taekwondo is actively evolving. It is an art in motion and we may see a slow but radical shift in the outcome of TKD vs. Muay thai matches.

Perhaps the thais continue to do what they do because it already works real well?
Maybe they don't film their failed experiments and post them on the web?
We will continue to see Thaiboxers harm TKD "stylists" and if your video fighters are the future, it will only get easier.

[The Limey]

the pure speed of a technique such as this makes it impossible for a slow stylist of muay thai to defend against it, it confuses people of mma and due to their low iq they are unable to defend against it and panic.

Yet despite that low IQ they are smart enough to realise that they need striking and grappling skills.....unlike many TKD stylists. :bduh:


I think you'll find that against anyone with any skill or experience instead of being confused will just punch you in the face while you practice that tip-tap-shit.

Even my old TKD teacher knew that the tip-tap stuff was for conditioning, balance, endurance etc.....he made sure we not to try that crap in a real fight.

Show me a video of someone doing that with enough power to hurt a skilled fighter badly enough that he'll go on the defensive.

[Kayne]

the pure speed of a technique such as this makes it impossible for a slow stylist of muay thai to defend against it, it confuses people of mma and due to their low iq they are unable to defend against it and panic.

I'd rate this guy a 2/10 for his trolling.

[The Limey]

[QUOTE[=Fat Bastard] A thai fighter would simply not notice being kicked like the video people do it, except as an opportunity to drop them with a right cross. [/QUOTE]

Hey man, some of us throw left crosses.....will that still work?
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