u/PownedbyCole123

On a temporary muay thai break and curious if my BJJ will help at all

People in this subreddit are often pretty deterministic about the effective level of different belts but of course it varies so much with age. People also talk about injuries but obviously the likelihood is very dependent on your age.

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Titles says it all

In muay Thai your coach does all the organizing and you fight at a specific weight. In BJJ do you just show up?

Obviously it is not super smart in terms of visibility but I mean in terms of wild animals like bears or even crazy people

Is the mixing still awful? Tenet in particular was impossible for me to understand. Debating pulling out the live caption machine lmao. Even Oppenheimer was not particularly easy to understand the dialogue. He's always pulling some annoying stuff like the aspect ratio of the movie, just be normal bro pleeeaaasseee. Memento was actually followable. I'm sure I would like his movies otherwise

Pretty much everything requires a specific program and the few things that didn't filled up right away. I genuinely hate this university.

I'm curious as I see there were submission wrestling tournaments for a while, but obviously the Gracies seeking to test BJJ did a lot for it

I want to dial in my grappling as I've done a lot of muay Thai and not so much grappling but I'm curious how much you find is necessary to maintain

Lighter Thai style or hard like boxing?

I've been doing MMA like 5x a week for two years. I enjoy striking more and just had my first muay Thai smoker but I worry about the long term effects of sparring even though I try to keep it light. BJJ feels way harder on the body and people who do both tell me muay Thai is better for longevity but it's hard to quantify the muay Thai brain risk since the damage often comes later in life. I love martial arts so much but a big part of my interest came from getting active, and I don't want to end up more unhealthy than I started.

Seriously he should be blacklisted for this. This feels like a legal loophole

For me I would say it is 50 percent cardio, 30 percent skill, and 20 percent confidence.

Of course I get sick right before

I have been doing muay thai seriously for 2 years. I am really good at countering and landing occasional shots while on the back foot in sparring. I think this is kind of the style i developed from training mma at the same time and also having watched mma fights before I started.

Whenever I try to be the aggressor I just can't land anything. I don't understand how to throw shots when their guard isn't open from throwing and I can counter. I try to throw combos and then I just can't land them and I get countered.

When I watch high level muay thai fights I see that the pace is actually pretty slow and they really pick their shots but it isn't like this at the amateur level and I can't figure it out.

I am trying to walk people down while countering and throwing out a bit of offense (like sean strickland style sort of) which is going better but if they are really spazzy i get lost.

Does anyone have any tips or videos they recommend?

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