I've been living in Thailand for many years. I've trained at many muay thai camps and know that if you want to lose weight, you need to go to Phromthep Muay Thai. This is THE place to lose weight.

This is the website: www.ThailandMuayCamp.com

Everything about the camp is geared toward you burning off a lot of fat, very very quickly. There are literally people losing..


Whilst that might sound to good to be true, I'll tell you why this kind of stuff has been happening...

First off, when you go to this camp, your lifestyle instantly changes.

You sleep on camp.
You eat on camp.
You train on camp.
You relax on camp.
You have fun on camp.
You do EVERYTHING on camp

Of course you can (& should) venture off the camp every so often (go to the beach, etc). But because for the most part you are part of the camp and are taking part in the activities everyday - you have a very healthy lifestyle, Instantly.

So now instead of staying out drinking all night or staying in eating, you are on Phromthep Muay Thai camp and losing weight.

You eat the weight loss food, you do the weight loss training - and you lose all your fat very quickly!

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There are a number of techniques that are considered to be the best scoring techniques. These are the primary techniques that win fights and include:

·        The primary scoring criteria and the most effective technique is a legal technique of any type that ‘knocks out’ or ‘stops’ an opponent so that they are unable to continue the fight.

·        The next best scoring technique is any legal technique that either knocks an opponent to the floor with a concussive blow or causes the referee to give an ‘eight count’ (if the referee gives an eight count, two points are initially be deducted from the counted boxer’s score card, if the boxer fights back strongly or has previously dominated the round, a one point difference may be awarded). (the ‘A grade’ techniques detailed earlier).

·        Unbalancing an opponent with kick or throwing action and immediately following with a strong striking technique

·        Knocking an opponent off their feet with a strike or kick (The ‘B+ grade’ techniques detailed earlier)

·        Throwing an opponent to the canvas using a legal throw and attempting to follow with a kick or knee.

·        Continually throwing an opponent down

·        An attacking technique or combination that results in an opponent turning their back on the attacking boxer.

Another oversimplification but yet again another useful rule of thumb: If everything else is close judges look for real differences in the damage caused by blows. For example, if the same number of kicks and knees to the body landed by both boxers, judges may award a fight to a boxer who made his opponent very tired through being hit with strong weapons or cut their opponent with an elbow or some similar damage.

Before detailing the specific criteria, it is important to put them into context. Although the criteria detail scoring at a round level, fights are actually judged more holistically than merely by accumulating points round by round; judges judge the fight as a whole and not round by round. Sometimes it is difficult to determine who the most effective boxer is until the later rounds when accumulative damage can be better assessed and tiredness has set in showing which boxer is the strongest over the whole fight. However, the hierarchical criteria do offer a good insight into what is important in scoring.

As well as a technique causing an opponent to move physically, the target hit can also determine how well a technique scores. Kicking and kneeing the body and head (neck) tends to considered more effective than kicks and knees striking other targets; given the same physical effect on an opponent. While punches, low kicks and elbows do score, to score well they have to cause a physical effect (or get an opponent to show they are hurt). For example, if a boxer was kicked to the floor, that is considered an effective technique. However, as suggested above, if a boxer can land clean kicks and knees to the body (or kicks to the neck) these are considered strong techniques (if they are delivered on balance) even without visual effect or obvious injury (if they do manage to cause a boxer to lose position they score even better). Another example of the target of an attack being important is when kicking or kneeing an opponent’s back. If you can hit their back with kicks or knees it is considered a really good score as it shows your opponent can’t protect him or herself.

The simple answer is all effective MuayThai techniques. It is possible to score with all MuayThai techniques; kicks, punches, knees, and elbows. However, this needs some explanation. All techniques have the potential to score equally in MuayThai, but to parody George Orwell; some techniques are more equal than others

 

 

 

catching a kick and countering with a strike will score highly

In MuayThai an important distinction exists between amateur and professional competition, this distinction often has little to do with the experience or status of the athletes involved, but more to do with the rules and protective equipment worn by participants. Amateur fights are normally fought over four, two minute rounds with fighters wearing headguards, elbow pads, body protectors and shin guards. Although most of rules used in amateur competition are the same as “A” class professional fights, there are differences in scoring. The term professional in this article refers to fighters competing without protection (other than gum shield and groin protector) and doesn’t refer to their experience or to the purse money fought for.

There is often real confusion, even amongst some people involved in the sport outside of Thailand, as to what scores and what doesn’t score in MuayThai. There are a wide range of misconceptions aired by fans, coaches and even some officials regarding scoring.  These misconceptions have ranged from “punches don’t score”, “leg kicks are the most important kicks for scoring”, “it’s the variety of techniques that’s important”, to “the scoring is the same as international boxing and kickboxing”. All these statements are untrue and highlight the confusion over scoring in MuayThai. So how are MuayThai fights actually scored? What are the fouls? What are the legal techniques? This article attempts to answer these questions.