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Hey James! What do you train? Muay Thai or something else? I hope you enjoy it! And yes, the outcome can really be surprising! I started it for the sport and it ended up being my full time job, allowed me to travel the world and to meet great people!

@@coach_marek yep i startes as a boxer 3 and a half years ago and i started muay thai at the beginning of this year its really fun and i want to see where the journey takes me.

Nice! I remember we used to call Kyokushin - "Muay Thai without punches to the face". The hardest and most effective Karate style in my opinion!

Hi and thanks for your comment! I suggest you pay close attention to details. When I was starting martial arts I was watching lots of videos on slow motion hundreds of times and then I was applying the techniques in training, sparring and fighting. Videos can be an amazing tool! All the best! 👊

Derrick it is never too late to go back to it! I had to pause for a while as well but I never really stopped! Take care!

The prajeed is used in Muay Boran and the colors correspond to your Khan level. This is the only real "grading" system used in many gyms. We did that too but using Karate belts or different colors of t-shirts or shorts is specific to a gym and has absolutely no meaning on an international level. Go to Thailand and tell them you are a Muay Thai orange belt, t-shirt or short and wait for the reaction...

he’s not saying they aren’t skilled, he’s just saying a muay thai black belt isn’t a real thing, there are extremely talented strikers in muay thai that isn’t his point

@koen4261 you didn't get my point. Saying you're a Muay Thai black belt doesn't mean you are not skilled in Muay Thai but it means that you are not educated and informed about it. And actually in my opinion belts do not show your exact skills. They only mean you've trained long enough (and paid enough money) to get the next color. Have you never seen a white belt crush a purple belt in BJJ for example? I did, many times. Cheers!

ye theres no belts in muay thai. so what? @@coach_marek

Just like me when I heard that from UFC commentators 🙄🤡

@@coach_marek yeah 😂 since when lol

It's pure nonsense. They explained it once saying that "some countries" use the belt system in Muay Thai (Brazil for example). Well ok, let's do elbows in Boxing or BJJ then in some countries. Ridiculous.

I am a ginger and proud of it :D

Na your black belt at bald and only orange belt at being ginger m8

🤣@@1ChxnceLxnce

And I am a 5th degree red belt in swimming and ping-pong

@@coach_marek😂😂😂

@@coach_marek I’m working on my teal belt in ping pong 🏓

Hi, at this time I run no academy. I moved from Canada to Corsica.

u tried?

I drink it every morning 😉

@@coach_marek You could just be saying that but we want to see you do it

@@RookieA5 I could also fake it and drink something else. A video is not a proof of me drinking it. By the way, why would I want you to drink it if I didn't try it myself? I have 0 interest in this. Give it a try or don't. You can find a lot of info online about the benefits of drinking lemon water and honey. Cheers!

The Muay Thai stance is square 😉

I'm glad! Thanks for your comment!

Of course not! If it was that simple you'd need only 1 perfect technique to win every time. Fighting is like a chess game 😉

Thanks!

Thanks! The channel was inactive because I had lots of personnal things going on like moving from Canada to Corsica. I will make more videos now :)

More videos will come! I am in a big moving process from Canada to Europe!

Você tem que ficar em uma postura firme para impedir de ele baixar sua cabeça , e se você colocar os cotovelos para defender as joelhadas seu rosto fica desprotegido de levar cotoveladas na cara.

Thanks man it's an honor to be compared to Ramon! I was actually lucky enough to have the opportunity to train with and learn from him several times. But as you probably know he died in 2013.

@@coach_marek Traditional thay don't have as much hands and I love to trow bombs 💥

I will be more than happy to come back my friend!

You're welcome!

I wanna learn both Judo and Muay Thai, but I just cannot fit the time in... For standing grappling, do you think Muay Thai techniques are roughly enough without having to learn Judo? Of course, for ground techniques, I will have to learn Judo

@@user-gt7gd9jl8z hey man! I mean, if you are asking for self defense purposes muay thai sweeps are good enough as "grappling", and you will learn good balance and weight distribution and so on. However, it is not really grappling, sweeps (ashi waza, meaning foot techniques) are very narrow part of judo and overall aim and feel is very different. Besides, I must admit, in Judo its generally 80/20 standing/ground so for ground don't rely on your judo sensei only, watch youtube and try on your partners in judo classes :)

@@ModernTruthRevelation Thank you so much! Yes, I am just trying to learn for self-defense rather than going to cage. I quit BJJ and am now focusing on Muay Thai, and it was because I felt that BJJ has too many techniques that you will hardly use in a real fight situation. Besides, whenever I see BJJ vs Judo sparring, I do not see Judo techniques being any inferior to BJJ on the ground. Just my opinion. Thanks for the advice.

@@user-gt7gd9jl8z I would stick to Judo. More control, less problems. No ones nose gets broken, no police involved :) no problem my friend

@@ModernTruthRevelation you right, judo ground game is basic compared to bjj and judokas spend much less time training newaza, most browns belts in judo i know can beat bjj blue belts or be competitive.