Full Muay Thai Sparring | YOKKAO Fight Team Toe to Toe with American Top Teams BEST
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2023
- When the best of Muay Thai meet the best of MMA and put their YOKKAO sparring gear only fireworks are inevitable! The YOKKAO Fight Team go toe to toe with American Top Teams best MMA athletes in a clash of worlds and striking traditions. Saenchai steps up and takes the matts with another big personality in Bellators Danny Sabatello. These two didn’t waste any time getting to know one another as they exchanged shots back and forth. Finally finding themselves in the clinch, the GOAT went to sent Danny flying but his extensive MMA training kicked in resulting in the two flying across the mats in a hilarious fashion. Saenchai goes on to spar with his now teammate in Jonny Eblen as the two have a wholesome sparring session with each trying to outdo the other. Chalawan displayed his fluid combinations and rock solid footwork, giving his opponents a hard time to adjust to the change in style that they’ve grown accustomed to in MMA. Similarly, Duangdawnoi pushed the pace with a much bigger sparring partner but used her strength in her savage teeps and aggressive defence. All in all this was an incredible experience for all involved. YOKKAO & American Top Team combining forces and ready to show the MMA world what this partnership can really do! What was your favourite moment during these sparring sessions? Let us know in the comments below!
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The efficiency of movement from the Thais is awesome. No energy wasted.
Well, can't beat guys who are doing it since they are 5 years old lmao
Ouey!!! Oueyy!🔥🔥
The ego's in this room. Can you imagine if Saenchai went to a wrestling seminar and got frustrated being taken down, decides he would throw a knee just to let the wrestler know that he is better at something? These guys/girls getting frustrated with being out classed going for double legs and judo throws because they feel inadequate sparring Muay Thai.
the guy doing the take down did this in response to saenchais signature kick. technically his kick is illegal.
the takedown i honestly think is legal, its a faster dumb
but the second your knee touches the mat its a knockdown lol
Going to a muay thai seminar and showcasing your takedown skills out of frustration is uncalled for. it speaks a lot about that inflated ego.
agree. Imagining doing judo and then suddenly punching a dude because you couldn't take him down.
I think its just all good fun, no need to take it so seriously.
@@Garrythecatman Don’t be ignorant as well
@@evanlimcs not being ignorant, I just know I wouldn't mind it since I was sparring for fun, and not going hard. I don't see how he would get mad over the cartwheel kick and retaliate since he blocked it?
@@Garrythecatman Cartwheel kick are allowed in muay thai matches. Take down dosent.
Again, this is a muay thai seminar.
A lot of egos with all those pros from American top team except for Kayla Harrison. As soon as they got taken advantage of they shot double leg take downs in a Muay Thai seminar. It was quite embarrassing watching them barely strike in a striking seminar😑 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽
MMA is 99% about takesdowns
@@UltraVioletMilk apparently you're dyslexic and didn't see where I said it's a Muay Thai seminar. And no it's not. I've seen plenty of MMA fights where they didn't grapple at all. So stop lying to drive your narrative.
99% about taking down your pants @@UltraVioletMilk
@UltraVioletMilk but its NOT MMA seminar it's Muay Thai!
Very true but this is par for the course with MMA fighters when they start getting tuned up by strikers even though it's a striking class. I'm surprised Team Yokkao didn't turn up the power, this usually eliminates that threat.
If it's a muay thai seminar I feel that they should stick to Muay Thai techniques and avoid double leg takedowns etc even in jest. Otherwise the sparring was mostly reasonable, except for Natalia Kuziutina who went crazy. Why even bother if you are just looking for opportunities to clinch and takedown.
Double leg were totally fine I think. It was just for joking and lighten the atmosphere
the ego of the mma fighters
I know they're trying to have fun but i cringe every time
Agreed. It's disrespectful and makes them look ridiculous.
Natalia? Funny name for a bloke.
This video really highlights Saenchai and his ridiculous reaction speed...top level fighters who are larger, getting frustrated not being able to counter
Top level is still under god level brother😁🙏🏽
His reaction time is just insane, the ease with which he catches kicks...
Considering the size differences, the Yokkao team completely outclassed the Americans.
Considering that the "Americans" are MMA fighters your comment makes no sense
@@NAKMEEZYconsidering, it's just sparring too
@@PostTenebras-lux_ exactly!
“Just” sparring that most of the larger Americans tried to, for no reason, ramp up in terms of intensity with hard strikes and takedowns in a striking session, only to not be able to completely dominate? I think my original comment made alot of sense. But, to each his/her own. You have your views. We’re just different.
@@bertt1055Both sides are competitive and want to appear dominant. The sparring favors Muay Thai specialists because it's purely striking so obviously the Thais will outclass them, even despite size. One could argue that it's an ego thing on their part to choose larger American opponents so they could appear to be clowning on them, only for MMA fighters to clown on them back by reminding them of the superiority of MMA as a fighting style. Or you could just chill out and stop trying to put people down and just enjoy the video for what it was
The ego on these guys going for takedowns in muay thai sparring
that proves Thai guys are better strikers
@@andrewrex9041we needed proof? Come on now
@@andrewrex9041it also proves att are better wrestlers
i feel like these guys are not understanding the point of sparring these Yokkao athletes. they should be trying things to learn new techniques and patterns from people that don't come from their martial art, instead most of them are trying to win "points". I think that's wasted talent and time.
It’s not,yokkao athletes are people who CAN spar,they use effective striking techniques and obviously they don’t go for the KO,bro It’s literally a spar,not a match
That guy who tackled Sanchai should’ve known better.
100 what an idiot. It's MT not MMA training. He was throwing stiff one twos also
Legend has it, gray shirt is still in the locker room, throwing feints...
he was good tho
@@GamingLeguan he has good movement, but sparring with 8 oz gloves vs 16 is just poor taste especially that guy is 225 lbs+
Natalia Kuziutina's thoughts were:
"-I have weak Muay Thai, so I'm going to be knocking people over in a Muay Thai seminar, because my ego is fragile and I don't want to show how limited I am."
Pathetic and disrespectful
THE LEGEND at its best. I wish more of these videos of Saenchai in action.
Why are they incorporating takedowns against Muay Thai fighters. Lame, can’t believe it
Gosh. Kuzy had something to prove huh? Insecure much?
Save the tears here 🏺 buddy
The judoka was a joke lmao what's the point of sparring with the Yokkao team if you're just going in to tie up and take them down? Literally no attempt to even try to strike with Duang. The other dudes did takedowns for fun but obviously focused on their striking at least.
That's Kayla Harris, she's known to have an ego.
Spar Muay Thai or spar MMA.
@@justinmaxwell5866That’s Natalia Kuziutina. Kayla was the one before her who was really light….
It was a long time coming for Duang 👍🏻👍🏻
Idk why anyones doing takedowns on them , can they at least prevent takedowns on the goat 😅
Always a treat to watch the master playing ❤
5:58 As soon as I heard,”Don’t kill me”, I had to check for the haters. 😂
She has to spar so much harder than Saenchai just to keep up with the everyone trying to prove themselves.
@@whatilearnttoday5295 Nah, I remember a video where someone specifically went to spar her and she said it just looks hard and she pulls the punches or something. Jeff Chan says he does the same thing. I simply don’t mind, ain’t no girl about to make me whine about hitting too hard in sparring. 😂
I understand Kuziutina is an Olympic Judoka, but her striking is freaking embarrassing. And the fact, at the slightest discomfort, she would start grappling with a much smaller girl, instead of trying to improve her kickboxing and gain something from this, was disgraceful.
I feel the only takedown that was necessary to the fullest was the 1st guy after getting that Saenchai signature🤣 even that playing field, baby! Haha. I love Saenchai
its a Muay Thai seminar, why would you do take downs..
If floyd mayweather does a boxing seminar, would u kick him to?
bunch of Egos got hurt in stand up 😘
"Don't kill me" ... proceeds to light up her opponent with stiff teep kicks 😂
ikr??' She always does this. And you can see in her face that she entered the game on state.
She's brilliant and I like it that she is tough. You guys are all making Gen Z comments. Basically your all pansies
@@ravifonseca8She’s probably just taking some pressure off herself in case she doesn’t perform, or lowering her guard. It doesn’t mean she’s about to be soft, they all are sparring relatively hard here.
She saw the huge egos in the room from Saenchai and other fellow (sorry) sparring with them and they went for MMA takedowns in a bloody Muay Thai seminar against nak muays. Kayla Harrison's judo throw honestly has the potential to KO her. Can't blame her for saying that, but Kayla is a humble champion and smart also, so just stuck to striking like you're supposed to for basic respect and intelligence without ego.
@@imeaniguess.6963 I don't know. But just like I Said, she ALWAYS does this, whether the spar you see in this video, whether in another video with lesser experienced practitioners and people who go mostly technical.
And not everyone went as hard as her. Case in particular, saenchai as usual, who manages always to escalate accordingly to the flow and also de-escalate.
Muay Thai Seminar.
Why is there wrestling here? :D
If you want to wrestle without breaking Muay Thai rules, try clinch.
If you feel insecure with a master in sparr, don't show off, just walk away. You're here to get the most out of your sparring experience. To learn from the masters. It's a unique, great experience that many people envy.
Love you, Yokkao.
their all masters though, everyone shown sparring is a pro fighter in some kind of martial arts, I am not defending the takedowns but it could be out of muscle memory possibly
@@Tokio_Tsu No its not out of muscle memory. Pro fighters know how to isolate their techniques for training.
This is awesome to watch. I started Muay Thai a couple weeks ago and I sparred hard as a beginner which wasn’t proper sparring etiquette. I’m learning now that sparring is more about practicing technique. lm loving this channel!
The Americans seemed to be very outmatched. Didn't look like they took it very well either.
The YOKKAO team were very concise in their movements.
Each with meaning and purpose with no flamboyancy like the Americans.
This was clearly a treat to see. The mental and physical focus of the YOKKAO team is exceptional. Excellent!
This was fun to watch but I felt slightly disappointed in how half of the American team was going hard with lacking control while the Yokkao team was chill and controlled.
Yokkao Team went to easy on these MMA guys attempting to grapple. :). I train MT at a predominantly MMA gym and the MMA guys always go for the shoot once they start getting uncomfortable on the feet even though it's during the MT class. Usually turning up the kick power to near full and adding knees prevents them from doing it again. :)
Correct they do. However, it is their MO, if getting beaten in one area move to the other....
I also feel if MT fighters actually learned a bit of takedown defense Your egos wouldn’t show so much either, everyone talking about the takedowns literally all of the yakkao team was throwing heat at the Americans and almost all the Americans were being respectful
The Thai fighters took advantage of that Saenchai and Duangdawnoi both especially Duang yet all of ATT were respectful if you can blast kicks as hard as you want then you should be able to keep yourself on your feet if you want to do so🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️Etiquette is a two way street
@@BooGaLouBae Thai fighters were going at 50% at best so of course you can get taken down if your kicks are not respected.On top of that these were Thai Boxers, not MMA's thus making it even less challenging for them. The problem is that MMA fighters need to follow the trend the elite striking that the most of the top fighters are now achieving, especially those that have been training in Thailand and I'm sure the gym invited Team Yokkao there for that specific reason. What a waste of time if all they were going to do is fall back on grappling when they should be upping their striking game.
If I'm sparring a MMA fighter during a kickboxing specific class and they try to take me down I simply starting marking knees and kicking at 80% until they are dissuaded and get the message.
@@maxrey4055 Seminars are just glorified meet and greets, been to one and the while I learned stuff it didn't exactly "up" my striking game. Sparring is where it's at and most pro mma fighters trying to improve their striking should just straight up go to Thailand and stay there for a few months. Also funny how you make it sound like the MMA guys were straight up putting these thai fighters in chokeholds. The dudes simply did takedowns as a joke can't say the same for that girl judoka tho.
@@annuchi1947 I’ve been to three different seminars. Liam Harrison x 2 and Damion Alamos and by no means with these just meet and greets. Everyone who attended was there to learn and I would assume that since you didn’t get anything out of it, you’re probably not strictly Muay Thai. And by the way, Judaka girl had a game face on.
Awesome!
glad everyone else sees the same thing... kinda upsetting sometimes, jus fuel for the fire...
Having lived in Thailand, I would never trade places with ANY of their MT fighters - most come from incredible poverty in the provinces and very few ever earn a fraction of the millions of baht that changes hands ringside (it's illegal but no-one seems to care). That said, their discipline and pain tolerance are superhuman - pound for pound, the Thais are outstanding,
Love the way, most of these fighter were rather playful..
Fighters are a different breed, most people you shoot a double leg on them and take them to the floor they are out, winded and afraid.. A fighter laughs at it and praises you for it.
Very disappointing and disrespectful display from ATT
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@@unknownentity8256 what part don’t you understand?
Who is ATT?
@@Jack-ok1vw What was disrespectful?
@@xakushonx8798 American Top Team
Some of this is honestly hard to watch. I get that maybe these Americans have not trained in Thailand so maybe they don't know Thai sparring etiquette, but they are all going way too hard. @ 7:40 the blonde guy starts sparring, instantly goes for the takedown, then loads up a punch ready to hit her while she's on the ground..... Common bro show some respect
That's Natalia Kuziutina. I don't understand why she was sparring like that. She treated it like MMA sparring. She's like a smaller female Ivan Drago.
Yeah a lot of ego with that blonde woman, especially knowing she's an Olympic judoka. It's like, congratulations, you proved you can out grapple a Thai fighter from a weight class below you who's not trying to grapple.
I could be wrong, but my sense is that many women often spar harder than they should.
@@alanh7247 You are not wrong
most russian/germans tend to act like that, but they get humbled pretty quickly with some hard shots or whenever ur better than them, really pisses them off and hurts their ego@@juandenz2008
Very cool
Losing the stand up so they do a take down pfft 👎🏼
Why they keep going for takedowns in standup sparring? lol We get it you do MMA, ego sparring for sure lol
10:00 Saenchai shouted "body" and then tried to take his head off; that's so dirty 😂
That's mind game
This guy Saenchai... WOW!
"Don't kill me", then straight proceed to kill mode.
Great! Saenchai hands look better! or was this filmed before his fight?
Kayla threw that very hard left at Duang right at the start. After that, Duang totally outclassed Kayla…
Kayla take too much steroids
Girls always spar so hard with eachother, I remember at my muay thai school they'd always be covered in bruises and injuries from sparring.
You think the Yokkao Team will say "oh this guy or girl is good, come with us"? Well, they won't, so stop trying to prove yourself to them because its very disrespectful. They are legends, come on.
Short hair girl trying to prove something? She was going all out wtf
to be fair the thai fighter was going hard on her teammate before trying to prove a point so that may have factored in
yeah that also crossed my mind@@zeshawnali5676
Nice push kick for the one in pink. Add a question mark kick to her arsenal then you have some problems for people
This was hard to watch. Inflated ego and lack of respect American stereotype checks out. Kayla Harrison was literally the only one that showed humility and actually showed keenness to learn and improve by properly engaging.
The last fighter in the video is Borys Mańkowski, a professional fighter fighting in the KSW federation. :)
muay thai is best
seanchai is best
First guy gets the point.
mt is the best. love the takedown. lol'd
I agree with these opinions. But sorry, the name "TOP Team" seams not very self reflected. Size don`t matters. There are a kind of fitness boxing class with MMA attitude.
I was wondering wtf was going on with the takedowns when I thought it was MT exhib
The first guy with green gloves move well
''Don't kill meee'' means = I'm gonna give it to you
@10:50 This guy is old enough to know moving around that much will wear you out. Economy of motion!
Borys💪
Was hoping for thiago to hop in and spar
the push kicks were giving Kayla Harrison fits
3:04 dont do him like that xD
Last guy was cool 😂
Doing take downs to try and show off. Good for them that the are going easy on the mma fighter's
какие то веселые спарринги...
the lady with pink shorts is fierce and charming at the same time
I like light sparring but there has become a massive fad on the internet about attacking all sparring and acting like it is all violent and out of line, I dislike this fad much more than actual hard sparring.
Moving forward a lot in this clip. A lot less reactive than some other days.
att was good a while back but they should re name it to american bellator team
When you come to Netherlands land of Rico Ramon Ernesto Holzken .. they love Muy Tai bro no ego
What?😅
the girl is so pretty
Lots of Muay Thai girls (the Thai ones) are legit gorgeous and have amazing legs. Check out Rodtang's wife. Sheesh!
the last fighter in the video is Borys Mańkowski
so why no mouth guards?
These Yokkao 's oppennents are very aggressive for sparring no ? It's embarassing...
that punch feint when shes on the ground.. embarassing af
What is it on 7:40 ? Nor woman nor man
That's Sage Northcutt
It's a man
Roided egotistical lesbian
You can relate
Is it just me or pink short girl always do hard spar. Of course you should sometimes but pity for those who came to learn especially beginner (not talking about this vid cuz none of em are) end up not having a lot of chance to practise what they learn during seminar
She hard spar with those who're beyond a certain level. There were some vids recently where she went totally light against total beginners who just started MT.
Just a typical Thai who thinks this is *their* sport and they must display dominance
The girls sparring harder than the men.
christ guys the takedowns were a joke, and even saenchai was laughing. he even did a youtube short gag where he got taken down multiple times as a funny followup. i get that some people take sparring him too seriously and try to hurt him, but some of yall are white knighting the goat way too hard. the guy has taken punishment much worse than a random joke takedown.
I agree. The lads were just having a bit of fun, but that second blonde woman was not!!
Erm - by this logic, let’s all start punching and kicking during judo sparring.
Sparring etiquette needs to be observed for many reasons. In this video, it’s simply ego tripping.
pink gloves yo
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7:53 takedown and roll-away ... Impressive!
Mae-Mawari-Ukemi is impressive? Ok, first thing you learn in Judo 🤣
@@unknownentity8256 Impressive because you do not see it often in contests or sparring.
@@farkinarkin5099 I quite commonly see it in our gym and probably MMA gyms in general when a kick is caught you turn your knee and roll, like rolling is the natural reaction after you're trained a bit and are in a situation where you're falling and using legs for base isn't an option.
@@unknownentity8256 Me thinks we are talking about/seeing two different things ...
tkd flutter leg kick I learned from hard2hurt
I wonder why Saenchai never teeps in these sparring tour sessions
Didnt even notice that good take
imagine using a takedown on a LEGEND because he had some fun, lame ego from the American dude
Ella odia que le peguen 😂😅😂😅
Is there only world champion of something everywhere? LOL
I see what type of fighter Kyla is going to get destroyed against
Borys!
bro the kuz chick was fighting for her life.
small pertinent remark when the boxers had no option with a fist he threw people to the ground too bad it was the time to learn
borys the best hahah
The American team members have a chip on their shoulders or something… the first guy was throwing stuff at high speed. And then that takedown?? Insecure need to prove oneself? It didn’t make him look good in my eyes. Just a sore loser who needed to cheat outside of the fight style.
The blond girl was embarrassing. She would have deverved a proper lesson and get her ass kicked. Poor actitude from that American team
Does anyone know the name of the Thai girl in pink shorts 6:30 ?
Ives cateather
Don't know what that lady in black was doing at 6:00. Keeps throwing her upper body in first after getting kicked several times. She was pretty much scared the rest of the fight and throwing punches and kicks out of her range because she doesn't want to get kicked again.
5:56 does'nt she say ''don't kill me, hehe'' and the proceed to go quite hard herself while the other is chilling? shes provoking at that point tbh.
Where is Super?
In his room thinking how to counter takedowns
She is crazy and cute the 1 on pink 😊
quem foi o brasileiro que gritou "vai xuxa" aos 7:50 pelo amor de deus kkkkkkj
First guy takedown omg disrecpectfull ego
That old man is more than twice their age.
that shot hair girl pissing me off
sparring helps, but at the rate of these fighters, they need more drilling.