A taekwondo and Muay Thai mix is the best imo.
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A taekwondo and Muay Thai mix is the best imo.
No love for Kyokushin? :(
I'm not Eddie, but it's good advice. You get a huge variety of kicks out of TKD that you can use to surprise people, although you have to contend with the kata (they call them poomsae, I think) and (relatively) light contact. Muai Thai is going to give you the adjustments you need to be a good full contact striker.
Before someone from TKD jumps in and goes "no, the poomsae are super important" let me say beforehand that I sortof agree - they help you develop good balance, body control, and proprioception, but the actual positions you get into and their memorization don't help much in a match.
Takeda , Kozo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ43fahw93c
He did ONLY right straight/ left hook , left hook/ right straight & low kicks.
The best to ever do it although there where others Zak I think from the first contender Asia.
From Scotland i think he was.
In my opinion start out with Taekwondo so you get used to the fluidity of the weird movements (mainly unorthodox kicks), as well as the speed of Taekwondo; not the somewhat grounded stance of Muay Thai; then add Muay Thai to it so you can work knees low kicks and full on power.
https://instagram.com/p/kwzLzUGBjP/
Here’s my first amateur MMA fight; i was a Taekwondo black belt by then.
Hahahaha! They hardly ever see it coming at that level. Great advice by the way!
I would say, if you're already a full blown adult with no taekwondo background, you might as well just do surface taekwondo because there's almost no way you'll ever become very good and proficient at it. It requires such suppleness and nimbleness that you possess as a kid and carry all the way. Here's my first ever cross training with kickboxers as a blue belt. The first guy was the boxing coach. He used to be a kickboxer. The second guy was the full contact muay thai/kickboxer coach This was after a 3hr class, I was exhausted. And found it hard to control the kicks. I've also never trained intense class for that long before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS8pgyk4MAs