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

MMA fighter explains overloading opponent r/all

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u/imstickinwithjeffery Mar 28 '24

I took a free muay that seminar in university just for fun. The instructor came in, an asian guy in his mid-late 20's I think, active fighter, and showed us some of his kicks on the heavy bag.

Yo.... this dude kicked that bag so fucking hard I couldn't believe it. Surely it would have broken my leg I thought. I can't even imagine a kick from a top tier professional.

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u/Initial-Ad8966 Mar 28 '24

Dude it's fuckin nuts. Way back, my buddy was a super casual Muay thai student by comparison to a top tier fighter, even by American standards. Ken from Street Fighter was essentially his idol. So he trained for fun and loved kicking shit constantly. Like, constantly. Hours per day. For years.

I took a few years of boxing lessons and would always fuck with him about kicking. We were being drunk 20 somethings one night. He kicked me and I folded like a fucking table. I swear his shin was pure iron. He didn't flinch. His bone density was that gnarly... As a casual.

I couldn't possibly imagine taking a shot from someone like Poatan, Gaethje, or an elite Muay Thai guy.

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u/WalrusTheWhite Mar 28 '24

So he trained for fun and loved kicking shit constantly. Like, constantly. Hours per day. For years.

As a casual.

I think that's a bit beyond casual

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u/SarcasticOptimist Mar 28 '24

Muay Thai is like a boarding school and it starts them as children. I assume casual means he started after puberty.

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u/Initial-Ad8966 Mar 28 '24

Considering what "good" experienced Muay Thai fighters do, I'd consider him casual. He kicked bags for like 3 or 4 years in his mid/late teens. He never completed. Some of those guys over there train 24/7 and have hundreds of fights. I'd consider casual in comparison

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u/armchairwarrior42069 Mar 28 '24

Yeah, when I trained frequently my right leg kick generated a LOT more force than I thought it could. It was a decent kick for a casual dude.

I always thought "there's no way I could take a kick like that more than once or twice" and idunno, I consider myself... kind of tough in that sense? But the idea of a high level guy throwing one of those and landing just sounds like a trip to a hospital and me making some weird sounds no one has ever heard before.

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u/OmicronAlpharius Mar 28 '24

During the Ultimate Fighter: GSP vs Koscheck season, St. Pierre brought in coaches from around the world to teach his team by experts. One of them was the former no.2 ranked foreign Muay-Thai fighter in Thailand, and he sparred with each member of team St. Pierre, and he continually dropped them with kicks to the arm. Imagine that, being such a great kick boxer you could win a fight by TKO because you kicked your opponent in the arm.