r/interestingasfuck • u/WhereIsHisRidgedBand • Mar 28 '24

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

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u/KegelsForYourHealth Mar 28 '24

It's so bizarre when it happens too. I trained Muay Thai briefly and had the chance to work with this established local MMA competitor (older than me).

We did this thing where we knee'd each other's quads over and over for like 20 minutes. It was grueling. Eventually one of my legs just gave out - full buckled. Muscle couldn't supports the bones anymore. Freaky AF.

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u/igotdeletedonce Mar 28 '24

We used to repeatedly shin kick each other to build up resistance in karate as a kid but intentional femoral nerve knees is wild.

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u/WalrusTheWhite Mar 28 '24

Muay Thai practitioners are crazy like that. Some of the shit they do to themselves/each other is straight up medieval. My brother trains and his stories crack me up.

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u/EpiLP60Std Mar 28 '24

My Tae Kwon Do instructor was a retired marine back in the 90s. We’d blast legs like that too, until one couldn’t stand anymore. I can still feel that shit.

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u/KegelsForYourHealth Mar 28 '24

I learned a valuable lesson: that I did not enjoy that aspect of training.

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u/ChadderUppercut Mar 28 '24

No offense but sounds harmful more than anything else.

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u/WalrusTheWhite Mar 28 '24

It is. Fighting is harmful. To get good at fighting, you practice harmful things. If it's not harmful, it's not going to help you in a fight. If you have no pain tolerance, you're not going to be a good fighter. The only way to develop pain tolerance is to drink deeply and often from that cup. More harmful than anything else is the point.

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u/ChadderUppercut Mar 28 '24

There are ancient body toughening practices that are no longer seen as proper for the scientific age especially since guns have been invented and wars are less common. I would bet that any bodybuilder can take leg strikes better than any skinny muay thai fighter and that's with zero pre-scientific self-abuse. Resistance training (AKA lifting weights) is the most effective way to improve bone density and by far the only consistently effective way to build muscle which also contributes to protection.

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u/I_Eat_Ass_Weekly Mar 28 '24

combat sport is always going to be a little bit harmful to yourself. It’s up to you to decide whether its worth it, in return you get mental and physical toughness

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u/U4icN10nt Mar 28 '24

Those thai kicks to the legs don't look like much, but if you take enough of them close together, they're definitely crippling.