UFC's Zhang Weili Explains Sanda vs. Muay Thai
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ย. 2022
- Zhang ‘Magnum’ Weili is a mixed martial artist, she is the former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion and is the first-ever Chinese champion in UFC history.
Zhang was born in Handan, Hebei, China. She started training in martial arts at a young age, beginning at 6 with Shaolin Kung Fu under the tutelage of a local master, after she was inspired by Kung Fu films. When she was 12, her parents sent her to a specialized martial arts school in Handan where she began training in Sanda and a Chinese style of wrestling called Shuai Jiao. Her life led her down many different career paths which took her from working as a front desk receptionist to teaching and eventually becoming a UFC Champion.
Join us today for a spinning backfist of an episode with the Fruiting Body Podcast, Zhang joins us to talk about her upcoming fight with Carla Esparza at UFC 281. We discuss the preparations needed for a championship fight, why she has chosen to train in Thailand at @Bangtao Muay Thai & MMA and how each coach has a different influence on her fighting style as well as winning mentality.
Finally, find out more about Zhang’s Shaolin training, the difference between Sanda & Muay Thai and what she wishes to be remembered for in her legacy as a leading Chinese Woman in the sport of MMA.
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This is why I think Sanda is a much better base for MMA than Muay Thai. Yes, there's a lot of power in Muay Thai Strikes, but that kind of overshooting makes it easier for wrestlers to hit you with a takedown.
Sanda fighters on the other hand fight wrestlers pretty much their entire careers since wrestling is a vital part of the sport - so their takedown defense is much better honed than that of a Muay Thai fighter.
also how they synchronize strikes with takedown shoots is way superior to Muay Thai and transfers well to MMA
It sounds like it’s basically the same as Sambo.
It’s true but it’s a largely point-fighting system.
Why are there no strikers who are masters of Sanda in UFC? It hasn’t been applied at a high level yet.
@@wavyturkmusic Isn't the person in this video a sanda practitioner in the UFC?
@@James-jh3sz yeah she’s still an exception to the rule. And she’s successful because she also knows how to grapple, not just Sanda.
Any men’s examples you’d like to share please do lol
Sanda should be mentioned up there as one of the more practical Martial Arts for self defense
100%
Love that in the cage she can meld the two styles together
with Josh Hinger ion her corner for BJJ she has truly become an elite star. More importantly she is now training at Bangtao Muay Thai & MMA and improved drastically on her wrestling with George & Frank Hickman.
@@FruitingBodyPodcast Thats quite the all star team she has the opportunity to work with. I as a Zhang Weili fan need to thank all of Bangtao for helping her improve!
It's interesting cuz the Sanda I learned is from a Chinese special forces agent and it has a lot of elbows. I don't doubt this person's expertise, at all. but the spinning elbow i learned from Sanda is one of my favorite strikes.
There's military/law enforcement and sport Sanda. Sport Sanda doesn't allow elbows and knees in most competitions (sometimes it's okay) but military Sanda mixes in elbows, knees, and Qin Na which is Chinese joint locking Martial Arts, similar to BJJ.
@@Mharriscreations No SanDa amador, realmente não aceita nem cotoveladas e nem joelhadas, mas no profissional já aceita.
@@danielfilho607isso
I appreciate how respectful he was towards Muay Thai and what I study now. I appreciate when other martial artists show respect for each other even at the basic level
That’s a woman. Shes a UFC fighter Zhang Weili
The Sanda I was learning up until around a decade ago incorporated knees and elbows too; was a lethal combination.
Where were you training Sanda?
@@FruitingBodyPodcast Manchester U.K. Under Master Salah.
I trained Sanshou Sanda, all aspects of training are involved. Alot of individual training for the practicioner. You train in close combat, mid combat and long distance fighting :) I feelt like it was something close to JKD
Some sanda has knees though
As much as people want to hate on kung fu, sanda IS kung fu. The only difference is the Western boxing punches.
The only minus thing about Sanda when compared to Muay Thai is that Sanda is not as popular as Muay Thai. Western people are more in Thailand, so it helps the spread of Muay Thai worldwide rather than Sanda, which is relatively new arts in China, the development of Sanda somewhow is not as hype as Muay Thai due to the culture aspect. I think chinese people are more closed minded when it comes to spreading their arts heritage, at least they used to.
Another drive is the fact that many muaythai fighters went to the western countries to spread Muay Thai via exhibitions (well but the westerns didn’t care that much they just wanna beat Asian people up but many Muay Thai fighters won so that worked out). Not gonna lie I would love to see sanda fighters do that too for real many of them westerners needed to be humble so bad.
@@jessadalim8497yeah that will never happen , cause mma has been invented a long time ago in the western world . Muaythai came and beat the American kickboxing at a time when mma was not there. And mma is far better than sanda cause it's just a mix of different martial arts with a set of rules and not a martial arts in it's own .
So is it new? Some says it date back to how the Chinese war combat in ancient times. To me it looks like a modern creation like K1 but it started later that’s why a lot of people still don’t know about it.
@@VisibleMRJit’s a little complicated. The competition format “lei tai” which means raised platform has been around for a very long time and it was how students of Chinese martial arts would challenge and compete with each other, but the actual style of sanda was created more recently, after most kung fu schools stopped sparring to counteract the fact that Chinese martial arts were slowly dying off and getting getting humiliated by other styles.
The common movesets include grappling from shuai jiao and qinna, striking from various kung fu styles like shaolin and choy li fut, and western boxing
If Bruce Lee was alive today he would have practiced Sanda and spreaded it to the west just like how he did with JKD and other martial arts of Kung Fu…
Sanda(full) have knees and elbows
I'm not sure how true, but Josh Hinger said he showed Zhang Weili that choke she did on Carla. Seems plausible since it looks like she was setting that up twice that fight.
Muay Thai is scored on balance, composure, and ring control. That’s why they’re much more upright and throw from a solid base. More of a war of attrition as opposed to the in and out guerrilla warfare of sanda
Muay thai lacks hands and footwork, lets be real. It's essentially kicks and knees with some punching.
散打结合八极，应该很精彩
Is the translation right? Since Grappling isn’t allowed in Muay Thai (sweeps and clinch work are) but it is allowed in Sanda (up to 3 seconds)
Yea she actually said clinching instead of grappling
sweeps and clinch work is grappling mate
Sanda also has elbows and knees😂
Muay Thai 💪🏽🔥
Sanda 👊
Why are there no elbows in sanda??
because they want it to look more civilized same thing with kick boxing elbow can quickly cut and cause bleeding
It's strange cuz I learned elbows in Sanda! From China.
@@SaintSanic i started this week and they taught elbows
It came from traditional Kung fu and I don’t think there are elbows there
@Michael89240 no there are a ton of elbows in kungfu. Some styles are almost only elbows. Like baji. There are hundreds of traditional kungfu styles.
That voice
So sanda in general is just another version of kickboxing
Sanda is Wushu ( kung fu) is not kickboxing
are you being funny? The Sanda/Sanshou you see is actually a sports sanda, not for the military. Sanda for sports is also very different from Kickboxing, since when did kickboxing involve slamming, throwing, sweeping, scissoring, lifting the opponent. it is Shua Jiao's martial arts. and Sanda kicks are northern Shaolin kicks, you can see that a fighter with basic pure northern Shaolin kicks is Don Wilson, a kickboxing fighter and that is clearly different from kickboxing kicks which come from karate and adopt a bit of Muaythai. while Military Sanda is from Bajiquan Elbows and Knees which are very intense, then there is Chin na or Chinese joint locks, more or less like Grappling in BJJ and combined with what I mentioned above. The basics alone are very different
Muay Thai is overrated anyway
how sway?!
The internet Muay Thai warriors are so annoying
What? Tell that to Volk and Izzy's striking base.
It's not Muay Thai is a great striking art it just lacks wrestling and ground game
@@bullymaguire1697it’s the keyboard fanboys
Sanda is like karate people hate but once you master it you become a master
Don't compare Sanda to McDojo styles like Karate, Taekwondo and similar styles. 🤣🤣🤣
@@Anti-McDojokarate is not mcdojo dawg karate has takedowns throws
@@Anti-McDojokyokushin karate
@@dvdbox360there’s more than Kyokushin like Okinawan and isshin they even have takedowns and throws Muay Thai dosent even have
@@Anti-McDojokyoukushin>sanda
Sanda has amazing rules, but it’s more point base so the conditioning isn’t as good as kyoukushin which is obviously the muay Thai of karate
I thought she was a guy
There aint differences 😂
There’s several
Except in Muay Thai you're not getting single-leg, double leg, or fireman's carry slammed on the mat
She just explained that in Sanda there’s less knees and elbows… Ain’t that a difference
@@jumpvelocity3953 So if a fighter uses more elbows and knees in today fight, he does Muay thai. Then next fight, he sweeps a lot bur rarely uses elbows and knees, then he now does Sanda? So if he throws a lot, he becomes a Judo fighter? ......
@@iROChakri different sport different rules.