Nothing like walking home from a disko at 6am in thailand only to have a bunch of killers run past your drunk ass, it really makes you feel like an undisciplined pos
You can't tell a deer to eat what the lions eat. Each of us got different things going on. For example: what if that drunk dude was a teacher? Those kickboxers wouldn't know a single thing about managing a room with 50+ students let alone teach them about chemistry.
@@matthewomalley6732uhmm, wtf you just say? Sumo wrestling is the national sport of japan and is based in judo.. it's extremely effective ive seen dudes 140 take out dudes 340 in sumo. Judo is top 10 martial arts.
@zyourzgrandzmaz ...well, you apparently can't spell it either. Let's see if your comment becomes edited, because you literally spelled it "Maui Thai"
For those of you who feel inspired to train like this - ease into it. You only see those who can handle the training, but for every nak muay who lives and breathes this routine, there are 2 or 3 who have chronic tendon, tissue or bone damage from the 6+ hours of training every day. It's much like the army - yes soldiers who can carry 50+kg packs all day are very fit. Yes fighters who can run and train non stop are fit. But we break, often young. I did both and am living with the consequences. If you aren't fighting, focus on longevity.
@@TEMPLARKILLER2010nah parents usually send their kids to live at a gym when they're young so they live and eat there full time like a boarding school. this isn't your typical Thai kid though just a small percentage
This is the way most or all the gyms are in Thailand, from what I saw outside Bangkok even. We actually had to run 2x though 5 or 6am to begin 6k and again at the end of the day. But lots of cardio throughout as well it’s just full days of full days of training & sleep. Me and my bro stayed at a couple for a few weeks. Think 3 but doesn’t matter what actually matter is I will say the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen the world over were there, everywhere. Just simple receptionists at these muay thai outfits. Absolutely 10,000% insanity, rendered speechless at all of them let alone the prettiest girl I ever did see there. No words. Of course one must stay away from pattaya or however you spell it. Just the sexual junkyard of the world. It’s mostly she-boys and 45yo white bald sex predator looking freaks. Also another thing I remember that was different was at the airport everyone just leaves their car in neutral and people just roll cars here & there to make room to come or go. Thats my $0.02.
I am from Sweden, I lived in Thailand for years. A colleague from Sweden wanted to fight in the main arena in Bangkok. Opponent broke his arm with kicks...
💯 I have a similar story. I’m from Toronto Canada right before I start to train, a coworker told me about his childhood friend that got into a fight at school. He had just started training. Both parties squared off, coworker childhood friend kicked the bully once and broke his arm! A while later, he told my coworker he wants to become a fighter, move to Thailand and became a champion. Moved back to Canada to open up a gym. 🥊
This is what fighters endure. They take them out back and sew up their faces when they get cut. They suffer in pain for days/weeks after a hard fight. People don't see that side of it.
I let a Muay Thai fighter kick me in the leg once just to see how bad it was. And he was an older guy who didn't fight any more. He was a trainer at my son's boxing class. He kicked me so hard I lost the feeling in my lower leg for a week and couldn't walk right for a month. So avoid messing with those guys😂
I can attest to this, talked shit about my buddies leg kicks and copped a good one to the thigh. Couldn't walk properly for a week and I'm a roofer, climbing ladders was painful
Could u imagine being a thai fighter that has to eat thousands of those kicks and there shins are metal bats and when you leg kick there thighs it hurts u more than them
You gotta think tho that that wasnt in a fight. You were tense but relaxed. Imagine with full adrenaline flowing, it would still hurt but not quite as much
Agreed it literally saves there life from poverty crimes ect and the environment that they grow up in its there only out in most cases you'd be surprised how many world champions are stood on a street corner these days a sad reality but a reality at that.
They get up early because many of the young fighters in the gym have to attend school. So everyone’s training revolves around school hours. Train at 5am until 7am then 4pm to 7pm.
@@bongchong7748 Yeah. It becomes scorching hot as soon as the sun rises a bit. I was really surprised to see a park full of people of all ages exercising before dawn when I had nowhere to sleep and stayed in the park for a night.
This is legit, I visited multiple gyms in Thailand , Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Buri Ram, and did the 6am or 5am 5K run, but that was for "beginners" the pros did 7k and 10k ! Then got back to gym and did 1-2hours of Muay Thai, then more training at 4pm or 5pm depending on gym and about an 1hour of sparring! Typically did weight lifting for about 30 minutes after training as well, about 6 days a week. Between the training, the discipline, the heat and healthy food, I was in the best shape in my life, mentally and physically !! 😎❤️🥊🥊🇹🇭🇹🇭
@@lamaidalaakapinkcrocodile7527I see where you're going 😅 but really, here people don't say kilometres, kilo so his point would be perfectly valid, 5k is 5 kilo or kilo is 1000 or as you put it 5000, 5000 metres is still 5k in a joggers log, still a 555 moment tho
Them muay thai dudes are some of the scariest dudes out there, cause they are rarely big, so at first glance you wouldnt think anything of them, but they could in fact end your life real quick with a elbow to the dome or knee to the dome.
I just had a thought on what could be the ultimate: Muay Thai synergistically infused with nerve pressure point knowledge🤔💡 OR is this something they already use?
I trained at Tiger back in 2007. It's crazy how much has changed now. The street is full of tourists, crossfit gyms, sup stores and roid pharmacies. Back in 07 I had to walk with a flash light to my room down the rd while I waited for rooms to be built on site. They had 3 rings and a small MMA area. Probably about 50 students..... was awesome. Now its like hundreds of students and world class facilities.
@@michaelgresham1980 i think people go there now to hit roids and work out as well. Its full of keto, health food, vegan bs. Pretty much now just a fitness street. There are better places to go and less crowded. Depends on what ya want
Good memories, mate. I was there around the same time... kicking bags on a sweaty concrete floor, half of that road was still coconut/rubber tree plantations... Do you remember Em, little guy, Nasi, Robert, with the one messed up eye?... I never went on to be a fighter, was never my plan, just wanted to get in shape, learn the basics... but I had some of the best times in my life there for 3 months, met so many cool people, Thais and foreigners, changed my life 👍
@@gbonz80 the best fighters came from the US, Netherlands, and Japan. Difference is in lower divisions. Most westerners don't run to train fight sports. Hell, most don't run at all. In Thailand, Muay Thai is very popular. It's like soccer to Europeans.
@@mitchellw7118 that it is! Its the easiest way to put the shins under an impact load repeatedly without it being painful. Thats for the heavy bag and a few other things lol but yeah most of shin conditioning comes from running
Most people don't understand how deadly these guys are! My friend who trained in Muay Thai was 5 ft 6 about 137 lb I saw it get into an altercation with a 6'2 maybe about 220 over disrespecting his sister in a nightclub he ended the fight just with two leg kicks to his leg and the guy quit and walked away just with TWO KICKS
@salehalmarri8430 yeah I'm not trying to sound corny or cliche but it's completely different seeing fight in person compared to on television! Muay Thai kick is basically like someone swinging a baseball bat and he was smart by keeping his distance and kicking him because if the guy was able to get ahold of him or swing a wild punch and land he would have knocked my friend out easy they were literally close to 100 lb apart
I mean you can say that about any1 who trains to fight V some rando who thinks he can fight. But if the 220lb guy actually knew how to fight...It would be a different story.
@@asambi69 Not always that simple. He would have to be at the same or near the same level in ability. Demetrious Might Mouse Johnson just defeated some 6'3 Brazilian who probably had 100 pounds on DJ in a BJJ tournament. This Brazilian was like a brown belt in BJJ. Just goes to show there are levels to this regardless of size.
In 2006 I stayed in Lamai at WMC Muay Thai camp for 6 months in the gym. We ran 10 kms in a.m. then 2 hour morning session. I then had a 1 hour session with teacher to improve my technique. The afternoon session , we ran 10 kms again and 3 hour session. So 6 hours per day plus 20 kms running . It was the most humbling experience. 15 Thai fights in 6 months. Won 12. 3 losses , 11kos. I lost all 3 by unanimous. Weighed in at 102kgs, 6”1.
I remember my first week as a kid doing muay thai, runnings for an hour with the whole class in the country side shit was intense. My nostrils would legit seal shit when i inhaled 😂
I made that mistake once when I was training in Koh Samui in 2006. We started running and I wanted to show off so I finished first🏃♂️. But I forgot that we still had a full Muay Thai training🥊 ahead and as Dutchie I was not used to the Thai heat🥵
i went to thailand to train at a gym for 3 months, ive never felt so sick, had to not eat before training, other wise id puke. never seen so many grown adults cry because they couldn't take it. 8km run in the morning then 3 hours of training, mid day off then 4km run in the afternoon around 4 then 3 hours of training. 6 days a week, then sundays wed get thai massages as a group, elbows knees cracking bending. it was brutal but also amazing.
this was back in 2010 but, up at around 4:30 - 5 am, 8km run morning, then 3 hours of a mix of kickbag which would be round of hands and elbows, then a separate round of pull knees, kickpads, boxing, grappling, sparring, abdominal workout, flexibility training and weight training, wed be done by around 9-10am or so then wed get the mid day off, then wed do a 4km run around 4-5pm and the other round of the ring work, each round was i think around 3 mins. wed finish at 6-7pm and then break for dinner and id be out cold by 9-10 unless i went out drinking lol. i was on koh yao noi@@sacredneutral7304
youd be suprised what it actually takes to overtrain the body, the average smuck wouldnt be able to mentally handle it. most just get injuries from lifting or doing something incorrectly. not from actually having the body break down from excessive lactic and muscle strain@@jinfin221
this is what I mean when I say, the talent is there but it's not in the talent pool YET, wait until these demons start MAKING you see them. Break enough faces and people have to acknowledge.
@@user-od3zd2fu3j a demon though, I understand a good fighter but I wouldn’t call them demons. I don’t think they’re evil. They’re. Just good at fighting
I trained at Jitti Gym in Bangkok for around 10yrs. We did 3km to the park, 3x laps of the 3km park (sprint finish for every last 500m), then 3km run back to the gym. 10 rounds sparring +500 sit ups. It's only now, at 47yrs old and 10yrs coaching that I see there's not many who are willing to do the hard work.
@@MrCmon113 2x World titles (in a time when there were World titles excluding Thailand, mine were inclusive), 3x European champion, British and English champion for 8yrs, IFMA (Muay Thai Olympics) bronze medalist. I think I got enough juice from the squeeze. There weren't big-money opportunities when I was fighting. Add this to the benefit of education n hindsight, maybe you are right.....but I got to the top of the mountain anyways.
I believe that is Khalil Rountree, and after he came back and fought after his Muay Thai training in Thailand he seemed like a different fighter. Super fun to watch.
I refuse to believe you ran a 10k in 32 minutes. Everyone can BS over the internet. 10k in 32 is at elite runners level who do nothing except running for years. Even if you were a professional and elite muay thai fighter, which you're not, 32min would be stupidly fast
I started muay thai last week and gone to 2 classes so far. Love it. They start us all off with 5 minutes of straight skipping with a rope. It is wayyyyyy harder than you think when you're an adult and i'm already fit
This is 100% correct, I went over to Phuket for a 6month stint at a training camp when I was 17. 3rd day there I got my ass handed to me in a spar with a 12yo. Kid had lived muay Thai all his life and I had nothing on any of them. Great respect for them
I’ve always felt that as a fighter, unless you’re constantly trying to play the long game, should be doing nothing but sprints. Because realistically and in most cases outside of and even inside boxing sometimes, a fight is a sprint.
Journalist asks the President of Thailand, "How's your economy doing?" President replies, "I don't know. Everybody is in the gym." Edit: Thx for the info. I didn't know that Thailand was a constitutional monarchy.
@@funtv4920Americans are fat and are racist , British have have no culture have shit teeth, Canadians have no teeth bc of hockey, Koreans are alcoholic or athletic athletes, Jamaicans run or are prostitutes. Don’t pick and choose when it’s okay and not okay to stereotype??
People are in the comments acting like this is something special to the Thais. Literally every 3rd world country that practices combat sports does this shit, Phillipines does it with boxing, Cuba with all olympic sports, Mexico boxing as well, Brazil w/ MMA etc
If you were a samurai in feudal Japan and you couldn’t run, you died! If you are in the zombie apocalypse and you can’t run, you die! If it’s war and you can’t run…☠️
I trained in a gym in Chiang mai, every morning and afternoon before class a 8km run. Then on a Saturday morning before class it was a run up Doi Suthep mountain trail 😂 it was a killer 🥲
@@lunarwilt329 yeah😂 Did you train there? What an awesome gym with lovely people. That was just before Covid I need to get back over sometime next year for a few weeks.
@@ellietny3238 yeah no hassle at all. Lots of westerners there. I prefer it to the gyms in Phuket. It’s nice and quiet and You are far away from all the bars and temptations 😂
There is no need to run. Pretty much every drill and exercise in combat sports builds your cardio. And you're forgoing all of that in favour of sth that has nothing to do with fighting. In bjj it's even stupider bcs running is even less specific when you're on the ground a lot. At least for muay thai, you might become a little lighter on the feet.
If you actually ran 8 kilometers in damn flip flops, I’m wanting to know what brand they are! I blow a flip flop out, just getting my ass up, and going to my fridge for a beer.
Man and here I was thinking I was setting some kind of record when I'm late for work and I run 3km in flip flops. I'm definitely training harder now, aiming for that flip flop 10km race
You need to realise 1 thing. For us westerns Muay Thai is a sport. For the real Thai its like a religion. They grow up together, fight together, eat together. We will never understand that and get to that level of fighting. I live in Thailand for a long time and i see these guys train every day. Its insanity. They give up EVERYTHING to fight. Even their family. Which is very important to the Thai. Its unreal.
@@syys5640 keyboard warrior 😂 you wouldn't dare walk into a Muay Thai gym and say this lol let me educate you on something: there are very few financial opportunities in Thailand outside of Muay Thai soooooooo obviously most young men will do everything they can to turn pro
The thing is, running is the best way to develop strong legs in general. You can literally just do that and develop your entire lower body as much as I’d need to and if you want to go further just carry weights while doing it. Humans are built to run.
Absolutely not. Long distance runners all have small legs. You don't need very powerful legs to run endurance races. To the contrary, they're contraproductive. And no amount of running, unless it's at a very steep incline, will make your legs meaningfully strong.
Depends on where u at South American boxing and bjj, Eastern Europe wrestling, east Asia karate, judo, & taekwondo. south Asian Muay Thai. Pls don’t say this then live in like a big sport country because there’s your reason why 😅
I used to ride my bike in the early morning along Klong Saen Saeb and often encountered a bunch of fighters looking hungry, running. good times, oh how I miss Thailand.
@@no-one9484 I use to train with a 5x world champ here in Australia, I won’t mention his name, and would train 5 days a week which consisted of 1-2 hours running and an 1 hour of training a day. Was becoming a joke. Almost felt like doing karate again. As in it was more about the money then the training. I was 13-16 when I trained so maybe I was just too young for them to focus on but I was no beginner by any means, I had always trained boxing which I found far more exciting, the coaches took their time with you more and work on your flaws etc just the whole environment was different and more of a family as a pose to a general class. But I didn’t have to run more then I trained which was the main part. Felt like a scam if you get me. I went to a very well known gym aswell They obviously aren’t all like this But In boxing I would go there and train for 2 hours straight then run several times a week in my own time. I learnt far more in boxing then I ever did in Muay Thai. Hope that makes some kind of sense to you mate
If you can train 6 hours a day you don't train right This aint an anime Muscle and the body evolves as response to trauma But if you create too much trauma you will suffer life long damage have separate days for stuff Like a house Each step at a time
@@pocztmistrzztczewathey also start their careers at a very young age, making money for family or the cost of living, and then still train and teach everyday after retirement
@@narutokyuubi99 those who can endure that stress But if you don't train and rest your joints well....... Let's say you will know your doctor on a first name basis
Nothing like walking home from a disko at 6am in thailand only to have a bunch of killers run past your drunk ass, it really makes you feel like an undisciplined pos
😂😂😂❤ I love this comment
You can't tell a deer to eat what the lions eat. Each of us got different things going on. For example: what if that drunk dude was a teacher? Those kickboxers wouldn't know a single thing about managing a room with 50+ students let alone teach them about chemistry.
In Thailand, the fighters are also drinking and getting hungover
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OOOIIIIIYOIIIIIIIIIII
Thailand legit has men occupy both sides of the testosterone spectrum
Can you name a place that doesn't?
Atleast the ladyboys there don't try to compete vs real women in sports
That's actually a damn good point
I love Thai fighters and I LOVE Thai femboys, god i LOVE Thailand😊
@@brendanrodgers9753 I work with a ladyboy. Took me 4 years before realizing it.
They constantly evolve their martial artist way of life. I love how much respect Thailand has for mauythai and how they kept it alive.
It’s literally their sport? Am I missing something here…
@@forjordy9969Judo is a Japanese sport but they've eroded it's effectiveness. What's your point?
@@matthewomalley6732uhmm, wtf you just say? Sumo wrestling is the national sport of japan and is based in judo.. it's extremely effective ive seen dudes 140 take out dudes 340 in sumo. Judo is top 10 martial arts.
@@forjordy9969the fact OP is like 12 and doesn't understand life. He can't even spell Maui Thai
@zyourzgrandzmaz ...well, you apparently can't spell it either. Let's see if your comment becomes edited, because you literally spelled it "Maui Thai"
For those of you who feel inspired to train like this - ease into it. You only see those who can handle the training, but for every nak muay who lives and breathes this routine, there are 2 or 3 who have chronic tendon, tissue or bone damage from the 6+ hours of training every day.
It's much like the army - yes soldiers who can carry 50+kg packs all day are very fit. Yes fighters who can run and train non stop are fit. But we break, often young. I did both and am living with the consequences. If you aren't fighting, focus on longevity.
underrated.
Truer words have never been spoken
David Goggins say F that…. Stay hard
lol
This the reason I didn't further pursue boxing. I'm happy to grow old and be able to play with my grand kids. Thanks for sharing
Wisest comment here ❤
They dedicated their life to Mauy Thai
Have to when your family is expecting you to bring in the bread
@@TEMPLARKILLER2010nah parents usually send their kids to live at a gym when they're young so they live and eat there full time like a boarding school. this isn't your typical Thai kid though just a small percentage
There’s nothing else to dedicate your life too there
This is the way most or all the gyms are in Thailand, from what I saw outside Bangkok even. We actually had to run 2x though 5 or 6am to begin 6k and again at the end of the day. But lots of cardio throughout as well it’s just full days of full days of training & sleep. Me and my bro stayed at a couple for a few weeks. Think 3 but doesn’t matter what actually matter is I will say the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen the world over were there, everywhere. Just simple receptionists at these muay thai outfits. Absolutely 10,000% insanity, rendered speechless at all of them let alone the prettiest girl I ever did see there. No words. Of course one must stay away from pattaya or however you spell it. Just the sexual junkyard of the world. It’s mostly she-boys and 45yo white bald sex predator looking freaks. Also another thing I remember that was different was at the airport everyone just leaves their car in neutral and people just roll cars here & there to make room to come or go. Thats my $0.02.
They dedicated to it so much that they actually stole the art and tried to kill then people they stole it from off.
I am from Sweden, I lived in Thailand for years. A colleague from Sweden wanted to fight in the main arena in Bangkok. Opponent broke his arm with kicks...
Damn
💯 I have a similar story. I’m from Toronto Canada right before I start to train, a coworker told me about his childhood friend that got into a fight at school. He had just started training. Both parties squared off, coworker childhood friend kicked the bully once and broke his arm! A while later, he told my coworker he wants to become a fighter, move to Thailand and became a champion. Moved back to Canada to open up a gym. 🥊
@@mike_MT_jonezok, Hotshot whats his name?
This is what fighters endure. They take them out back and sew up their faces when they get cut. They suffer in pain for days/weeks after a hard fight. People don't see that side of it.
He probably tried to block a kick with his arm, bad move! (From another Swede, living in Thailand, trained Muay Thai when younger)
“Jamie, pull up an image of a polar Bear doing muay Thai boxing”
‘Jamie pull up the clip of that bear eating a flying knee from a Thai fighter like it was a tap’
Tired
@@bobbythomas6520 you should get some sleep. Come back when you are better rested and able to make better comments.
And you better believe Jamie gonna pull up that dam image before J.R even finishes that sentence
These regurgitated memes, especially this one, are so tired. It was only kinda funny in the first place. Now it's just annoying.
I let a Muay Thai fighter kick me in the leg once just to see how bad it was. And he was an older guy who didn't fight any more. He was a trainer at my son's boxing class. He kicked me so hard I lost the feeling in my lower leg for a week and couldn't walk right for a month. So avoid messing with those guys😂
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Cap u would of lost a leg😂
I can attest to this, talked shit about my buddies leg kicks and copped a good one to the thigh. Couldn't walk properly for a week and I'm a roofer, climbing ladders was painful
Could u imagine being a thai fighter that has to eat thousands of those kicks and there shins are metal bats and when you leg kick there thighs it hurts u more than them
You gotta think tho that that wasnt in a fight. You were tense but relaxed. Imagine with full adrenaline flowing, it would still hurt but not quite as much
In Thailand Muay Thai is what gets you out of the hood lol that’s why
same with boxing and MMA in the west.
@@garvwadhwaney7164more like basketball and football
Agreed it literally saves there life from poverty crimes ect and the environment that they grow up in its there only out in most cases you'd be surprised how many world champions are stood on a street corner these days a sad reality but a reality at that.
Rogan disgusted by the cardio
I can feel him right here. I hate running! lol
Me too
😂😂
I love running @@sassuki
@@andreimuresian7146 lucky you 😄
They get up early because many of the young fighters in the gym have to attend school. So everyone’s training revolves around school hours. Train at 5am until 7am then 4pm to 7pm.
I live in Thailand. It's actually because of the sun and heat why we run in the morning. Not school
The sun mate
@@bongchong7748 Yeah. It becomes scorching hot as soon as the sun rises a bit. I was really surprised to see a park full of people of all ages exercising before dawn when I had nowhere to sleep and stayed in the park for a night.
This is legit, I visited multiple gyms in Thailand , Chiang Mai, Bangkok and Buri Ram, and did the 6am or 5am 5K run, but that was for "beginners" the pros did 7k and 10k ! Then got back to gym and did 1-2hours of Muay Thai, then more training at 4pm or 5pm depending on gym and about an 1hour of sparring! Typically did weight lifting for about 30 minutes after training as well, about 6 days a week. Between the training, the discipline, the heat and healthy food, I was in the best shape in my life, mentally and physically !! 😎❤️🥊🥊🇹🇭🇹🇭
Love this. Experienced TMT training both Muay Thai and Jujitsu, one of the most incredible periods of my life. 🙏🏻❤️
5000 km every morning ???
Cant say id approve. Just waybtoo much cardio on top of weightlifting? Split it up. Wouldnt hurt to drop a run
@@lamaidalaakapinkcrocodile7527I see where you're going 😅 but really, here people don't say kilometres, kilo so his point would be perfectly valid, 5k is 5 kilo or kilo is 1000 or as you put it 5000, 5000 metres is still 5k in a joggers log, still a 555 moment tho
Have a friend paying for this kind of treatment for a month, then comes home and calls it a “vacation”.
Them muay thai dudes are some of the scariest dudes out there, cause they are rarely big, so at first glance you wouldnt think anything of them, but they could in fact end your life real quick with a elbow to the dome or knee to the dome.
I just had a thought on what could be the ultimate: Muay Thai synergistically infused with nerve pressure point knowledge🤔💡
OR is this something they already use?
I trained at Tiger back in 2007. It's crazy how much has changed now. The street is full of tourists, crossfit gyms, sup stores and roid pharmacies. Back in 07 I had to walk with a flash light to my room down the rd while I waited for rooms to be built on site.
They had 3 rings and a small MMA area. Probably about 50 students..... was awesome. Now its like hundreds of students and world class facilities.
……why CrossFit though?
@@michaelgresham1980for gay tourist
@@michaelgresham1980 i think people go there now to hit roids and work out as well. Its full of keto, health food, vegan bs. Pretty much now just a fitness street. There are better places to go and less crowded. Depends on what ya want
@@Anthony-yn9dgYour spot on about the roids, I know some fighters who’d go there and start a cycle to avoid testing In the US.
Good memories, mate. I was there around the same time... kicking bags on a sweaty concrete floor, half of that road was still coconut/rubber tree plantations...
Do you remember Em, little guy, Nasi, Robert, with the one messed up eye?...
I never went on to be a fighter, was never my plan, just wanted to get in shape, learn the basics... but I had some of the best times in my life there for 3 months, met so many cool people, Thais and foreigners, changed my life 👍
I’m not running no damn 5 miles in flip flops😂
"You don't need to go to Thailand to run" - Chael Sonnen
Who never was champ....
@@gbonz80 undefeated, undisputed. Plain and simple.
@@gbonz80 the best fighters came from the US, Netherlands, and Japan. Difference is in lower divisions. Most westerners don't run to train fight sports. Hell, most don't run at all. In Thailand, Muay Thai is very popular. It's like soccer to Europeans.
Chael is overrated
@edsonmasamba9631 no one cares about your opinion.
I trained like this in the 90s when no one new what Muay Thai was, good times, never leaves you
Same here, trained a bit at Lamai, Koh Samui but most my training was at SidYodthong, Pattaya. Good camp!
Everyone knows about everything now :/
Thats because 75% of our shin conditioning comes from running. Its important
For real? I never thought of that thats a brilliant point.
@@mitchellw7118 that it is! Its the easiest way to put the shins under an impact load repeatedly without it being painful. Thats for the heavy bag and a few other things lol but yeah most of shin conditioning comes from running
No it isn’t 😂
@@joekoris3397 i fought as an amateur for nearly 20 years and taught as a teacher. Yes it is.
@@joekoris3397why do you think when some people run when they aren’t used to it they get shin splints right away 😂
Most people don't understand how deadly these guys are! My friend who trained in Muay Thai was 5 ft 6 about 137 lb I saw it get into an altercation with a 6'2 maybe about 220 over disrespecting his sister in a nightclub he ended the fight just with two leg kicks to his leg and the guy quit and walked away just with TWO KICKS
WOW 😱🔫💪🏻🔫 that’s crazy
@salehalmarri8430 yeah I'm not trying to sound corny or cliche but it's completely different seeing fight in person compared to on television! Muay Thai kick is basically like someone swinging a baseball bat and he was smart by keeping his distance and kicking him because if the guy was able to get ahold of him or swing a wild punch and land he would have knocked my friend out easy they were literally close to 100 lb apart
I mean you can say that about any1 who trains to fight V some rando who thinks he can fight. But if the 220lb guy actually knew how to fight...It would be a different story.
@@asambi69 Not always that simple. He would have to be at the same or near the same level in ability. Demetrious Might Mouse Johnson just defeated some 6'3 Brazilian who probably had 100 pounds on DJ in a BJJ tournament. This Brazilian was like a brown belt in BJJ. Just goes to show there are levels to this regardless of size.
They’re basically legit gladiators
In 2006 I stayed in Lamai at WMC Muay Thai camp for 6 months in the gym. We ran 10 kms in a.m. then 2 hour morning session. I then had a 1 hour session with teacher to improve my technique. The afternoon session , we ran 10 kms again and 3 hour session. So 6 hours per day plus 20 kms running . It was the most humbling experience. 15 Thai fights in 6 months. Won 12. 3 losses , 11kos. I lost all 3 by unanimous. Weighed in at 102kgs, 6”1.
Sounds like you did a good job, all in all.
It’s also a well known fact that farangs rarely ever win decisions against Thais here.
I trained with a Thai coach before. The 5am thing is so on point 😂
Joe Rogan MMA Show episode 64
Name: Khalil Rountree Jr.
Thx dude
Thank you
Thanks
Thank you bro
No wonder there bones are so strong, dudes are 24/7 training
You can’t really learn Muay Thai until you have basked yourself in it completely
As a Muay Thai coach I would scout marathon runners and train them 😂 those dude shins are like steal
I remember my first week as a kid doing muay thai, runnings for an hour with the whole class in the country side shit was intense. My nostrils would legit seal shit when i inhaled 😂
That's dosen't sound good 😂😂😂😂
I made that mistake once when I was training in Koh Samui in 2006. We started running and I wanted to show off so I finished first🏃♂️. But I forgot that we still had a full Muay Thai training🥊 ahead and as Dutchie I was not used to the Thai heat🥵
i went to thailand to train at a gym for 3 months, ive never felt so sick, had to not eat before training, other wise id puke. never seen so many grown adults cry because they couldn't take it. 8km run in the morning then 3 hours of training, mid day off then 4km run in the afternoon around 4 then 3 hours of training. 6 days a week, then sundays wed get thai massages as a group, elbows knees cracking bending. it was brutal but also amazing.
What was the exact training routine you guys were doing?
this was back in 2010 but, up at around 4:30 - 5 am, 8km run morning, then 3 hours of a mix of kickbag which would be round of hands and elbows, then a separate round of pull knees, kickpads, boxing, grappling, sparring, abdominal workout, flexibility training and weight training, wed be done by around 9-10am or so then wed get the mid day off, then wed do a 4km run around 4-5pm and the other round of the ring work, each round was i think around 3 mins. wed finish at 6-7pm and then break for dinner and id be out cold by 9-10 unless i went out drinking lol. i was on koh yao noi@@sacredneutral7304
Yeah that's how you over train and get injuries. No thanks.
youd be suprised what it actually takes to overtrain the body, the average smuck wouldnt be able to mentally handle it. most just get injuries from lifting or doing something incorrectly. not from actually having the body break down from excessive lactic and muscle strain@@jinfin221
When you train that hard you have no time for the Troubles of the world
Reminds me of Spartan soldiers..
this is what I mean when I say, the talent is there but it's not in the talent pool YET, wait until these demons start MAKING you see them. Break enough faces and people have to acknowledge.
What are you talking about they are definitely in the talent pool Muay Thai fighters fight all the time
@@Cole-sl9um when I say talent pool, I mean in the view of coaches and promoters willing to make their talents financially worth while.
Demons? What’s going on here 😂
@@pandamonium0073 tellin me triple g wasn’t a underrated demon smashing heads until he people had to look his way. Come on now.
@@user-od3zd2fu3j a demon though, I understand a good fighter but I wouldn’t call them demons. I don’t think they’re evil. They’re. Just good at fighting
Jamie pull up the video of a bear running in flip flops.
I trained at Jitti Gym in Bangkok for around 10yrs. We did 3km to the park, 3x laps of the 3km park (sprint finish for every last 500m), then 3km run back to the gym. 10 rounds sparring +500 sit ups. It's only now, at 47yrs old and 10yrs coaching that I see there's not many who are willing to do the hard work.
You would have probably gotten way better if you dropped the running and sit ups and just did more muay thai instead.
@@MrCmon113 2x World titles (in a time when there were World titles excluding Thailand, mine were inclusive), 3x European champion, British and English champion for 8yrs, IFMA (Muay Thai Olympics) bronze medalist. I think I got enough juice from the squeeze. There weren't big-money opportunities when I was fighting. Add this to the benefit of education n hindsight, maybe you are right.....but I got to the top of the mountain anyways.
"Jamie, pull up that video of the bear running and training Muay Thai at 5am."
I believe that is Khalil Rountree, and after he came back and fought after his Muay Thai training in Thailand he seemed like a different fighter. Super fun to watch.
Ain’t nobody running 8 kilometers in flip flops 😂
Hill sprints before every session
Made my kicking power go through the roof and my cardio was incredible
It got my 10k runs down to 32 min
I refuse to believe you ran a 10k in 32 minutes. Everyone can BS over the internet. 10k in 32 is at elite runners level who do nothing except running for years. Even if you were a professional and elite muay thai fighter, which you're not, 32min would be stupidly fast
@@bardia8225 wouldn't that just be a 6 min mile?
@@magi5587 no. That's a 5 minute and 9 seconds per miles for 6.2 miles. He is clearly lying.
I once got up at 6am on the weekend. I know the grind
I started muay thai last week and gone to 2 classes so far. Love it. They start us all off with 5 minutes of straight skipping with a rope. It is wayyyyyy harder than you think when you're an adult and i'm already fit
Chael Sonnen was right. He said It’s just a bunch of extra running lol
He should’ve done some extra running maybe he wouldn’t have got subbed by an injured Silva in the 5th
@@BigOleC11makes no sense
He might been champ if he did a little extra
@BigOleC11 better spend the time grappling than running in my opinion. You can't really run away when you're locked in a cage together.
@@Luc-1991 no but running is directly related to cardio and ability to output. Chael was gassed when he got finished
This is 100% correct, I went over to Phuket for a 6month stint at a training camp when I was 17. 3rd day there I got my ass handed to me in a spar with a 12yo. Kid had lived muay Thai all his life and I had nothing on any of them. Great respect for them
The marines of the fighting world
😂
I’ve always felt that as a fighter, unless you’re constantly trying to play the long game, should be doing nothing but sprints. Because realistically and in most cases outside of and even inside boxing sometimes, a fight is a sprint.
Just duct tape your feet and run. Old runners trick
Journalist asks the President of Thailand, "How's your economy doing?" President replies, "I don't know. Everybody is in the gym."
Edit: Thx for the info. I didn't know that Thailand was a constitutional monarchy.
Everyones is eather a prostitute or a jack dude
@@nmhjjp Nice Way to stereotype an entire nation of what you see in media🤡
@@funtv4920Americans are fat and are racist , British have have no culture have shit teeth, Canadians have no teeth bc of hockey, Koreans are alcoholic or athletic athletes, Jamaicans run or are prostitutes. Don’t pick and choose when it’s okay and not okay to stereotype??
@@funtv4920"nice way to stereotype an entire nation of what you see in media🤡" 🤓
@@funtv4920fuck thailand all my homies hate girlboys
The part with the reporters actually killed me 😭😭
I just came back from my first Muay Thai class and damn it's way more difficult than kickboxing
8km in flipflops???? 💀
Muai thai fighters over there are so tough. Watching them fight is insane.
i want this. the masculine urge to move to thailand and become a muay thai fighter.
Automatically lose 2 feet of height
Thailand: 50% warriors
50% lady boys
More like a bell curve. 1% lady boy 1% warrior.
I’m lady boooooyyyyy!!! 😂😂😂😂
"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be."
People are in the comments acting like this is something special to the Thais. Literally every 3rd world country that practices combat sports does this shit, Phillipines does it with boxing, Cuba with all olympic sports, Mexico boxing as well, Brazil w/ MMA etc
That sounds great
8 kilometers isn’t that bad ordinarily, but in flip flops I bet his feet were raw af
Already run 5am, 5 miles. Now I just need a team and some stuff to kick.
underrated comment
@@jegoxi3227What's underrated about it?
You a Glober?
Imagine having to train with them because you applied to be a janitor lol
Tbh it's exactly what he needed... His cardio was ass for most of his career now he's a savage
one of the factors of contact sport that americans overlooks is STAMINA ...
If you were a samurai in feudal Japan and you couldn’t run, you died! If you are in the zombie apocalypse and you can’t run, you die! If it’s war and you can’t run…☠️
Shut up fr fr
Spartans, what is your profession? ❤
This is my dream life! Eat. Train. Sleep. Sign me up!
Definition of Dedication 💪🏾
I trained in a gym in Chiang mai, every morning and afternoon before class a 8km run.
Then on a Saturday morning before class it was a run up Doi Suthep mountain trail 😂
it was a killer 🥲
Santai?
@@lunarwilt329 yeah😂 Did you train there?
What an awesome gym with lovely people. That was just before Covid I need to get back over sometime next year for a few weeks.
@@Sukhumvit1that’s awesome! No problem if you dont speak thai?
@@ellietny3238 yeah no hassle at all. Lots of westerners there. I prefer it to the gyms in Phuket.
It’s nice and quiet and You are far away from all the bars and temptations 😂
"they live at the gym they eat at the gym they sleep at the gym their whole life is in the gym"
So basically a gym bros heaven.
Thats top level dedication right there. Really makes me reevaluate my life a little lol
MUAY THAI is a life style 🥊🥊🇹🇭
Another thing I like about mt the run most not all bjj guys act like they are no need to run
Well, technically... you could just swim, row, bike.
There is no need to run.
Pretty much every drill and exercise in combat sports builds your cardio. And you're forgoing all of that in favour of sth that has nothing to do with fighting.
In bjj it's even stupider bcs running is even less specific when you're on the ground a lot. At least for muay thai, you might become a little lighter on the feet.
He went to a straight Muay Thai gym before going to a gay Muay Thai gym?
I know right He won't get the full experience
😂😂😂
This man stomped someones knee out of place. Craziest win Ive seen in a while.
Running is most important
If you actually ran 8 kilometers in damn flip flops, I’m wanting to know what brand they are! I blow a flip flop out, just getting my ass up, and going to my fridge for a beer.
Deadass😂
Man and here I was thinking I was setting some kind of record when I'm late for work and I run 3km in flip flops. I'm definitely training harder now, aiming for that flip flop 10km race
You probably suck at movement doesn't matter the footwear
You need to realise 1 thing. For us westerns Muay Thai is a sport. For the real Thai its like a religion. They grow up together, fight together, eat together. We will never understand that and get to that level of fighting. I live in Thailand for a long time and i see these guys train every day. Its insanity. They give up EVERYTHING to fight. Even their family. Which is very important to the Thai. Its unreal.
Don't say you lived in Thailand..not q flex...balding perverts live there
Thailand is aids capital on earth
So... Total idiots?
@@syys5640 keyboard warrior 😂 you wouldn't dare walk into a Muay Thai gym and say this lol let me educate you on something: there are very few financial opportunities in Thailand outside of Muay Thai soooooooo obviously most young men will do everything they can to turn pro
@@emanuelmartinez7267That's in contradiction to what OP said.
Is it a religion or just a good way to make money?
Modern day warriors
They are like modern day career fighting monks
Living the dream ❤
The thing is, running is the best way to develop strong legs in general. You can literally just do that and develop your entire lower body as much as I’d need to and if you want to go further just carry weights while doing it. Humans are built to run.
Absolutely not.
Long distance runners all have small legs. You don't need very powerful legs to run endurance races. To the contrary, they're contraproductive. And no amount of running, unless it's at a very steep incline, will make your legs meaningfully strong.
Some of my favorite life memories are training in Thailand.
Dedication pays off
I wish my country would take martial arts half as serious as thailand
Depends on where u at South American boxing and bjj, Eastern Europe wrestling, east Asia karate, judo, & taekwondo. south Asian Muay Thai. Pls don’t say this then live in like a big sport country because there’s your reason why 😅
no u dont because that would mean ur country is poor and shit
ทุกคนบนโลกสามารถทำได้ กายพร้อม จิตใจพร้อม เราทำได้
I feel this except at a tattoo shop I live there I eat there I sleep there this is my life
As long as you are happy doing it and even if you’re not maybe it’s a goal, don’t lose sight of that brother.
Yeah and it's like 10x less exhausting bruh.
Of course everything is exhausting after a long time but can't really compare that.
U do u
Fighting is cool, body mods are not.
I used to ride my bike in the early morning along Klong Saen Saeb and often encountered a bunch of fighters looking hungry, running. good times, oh how I miss Thailand.
Modern day Spartans
That’s because Thai fighters, in Thailand, are in extreme poverty and basically only have Muay Thai as an opportunity to make it out of poverty.
And that’s why I stopped Muay Thai n went back to boxing 😂
Why?
@@no-one9484 I use to train with a 5x world champ here in Australia, I won’t mention his name, and would train 5 days a week which consisted of 1-2 hours running and an 1 hour of training a day.
Was becoming a joke. Almost felt like doing karate again. As in it was more about the money then the training. I was 13-16 when I trained so maybe I was just too young for them to focus on but I was no beginner by any means, I had always trained boxing which I found far more exciting, the coaches took their time with you more and work on your flaws etc just the whole environment was different and more of a
family as a pose to a general class.
But I didn’t have to run more then I trained which was the main part. Felt like a scam if you get me.
I went to a very well known gym aswell
They obviously aren’t all like this
But In boxing I would go there and train for 2 hours straight then run several times a week in my own time.
I learnt far more in boxing then I ever did in Muay Thai.
Hope that makes some kind of sense to you mate
@@no-one9484to much, over working
The Oweeeee always gets me 😂😂😂
When he said “Oohhhh weeeeeee”
“Uuuuoohhhwwwoooo”
I felt that 🗿
I felt running 8km in flipflops. It's uncomfortable to just walk in those damn things.
Sounds like the Army life.
Bro this is a dream
I AHVE GOTTEN 5 JOE ROGAN SHORTS IN A ROW HELP
Bro thought we would believe an 8k first day run. Bro that's bs.
If you can train 6 hours a day you don't train right
This aint an anime
Muscle and the body evolves as response to trauma
But if you create too much trauma you will suffer life long damage have separate days for stuff
Like a house
Each step at a time
The thai fighters do it and look fine to me
@@narutokyuubi99and most finish their career in their mid 20s
@@pocztmistrzztczewa finish looking fine to me
@@pocztmistrzztczewathey also start their careers at a very young age, making money for family or the cost of living, and then still train and teach everyday after retirement
@@narutokyuubi99 those who can endure that stress
But if you don't train and rest your joints well....... Let's say you will know your doctor on a first name basis
Calculated aggression
Bro, Tiger Muay Thai, Phuket? Started by a dude, an American, who never had a fight. It's a fckn crossfit gym.
Muay Thai is basically a wrestling of the stand up game in terms of mental toughness and discipline
What happens when two gyms run into each other
Then they have a smoker!!!
Quick spar to see who's top and then back to running
They wai 😅
Morning runs are as manly as my grandma.
Found the guy who'd gas out in 1km
Man, those Mikes are fire.
Sounds like a good life
What is Sissy he oughta be training more