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Thoughts on Muay Thai Thailand visit and recent training

February 17, 2010 on 3:35 pm | In Boxing and Thai Boxing | No Comments

I really had a great time training this year in Thailand. I did some privates at Fairtex in Pattaya and regular classes at Kaewsamrith in Bangkok.

The training is much different that how we do in America at Novamma.com. Here is a sample of how things go in Thailand and I will end with some sample classes at our school.

Thai boxing in Thailand:
Start out with running 1-2 miles or 10 minutes jumping rope.
rounds are set to 3 to 4 minutes:
- shadow boxing rounds
- bag hitting rounds
- thai pad rounds
- clinch sparring knee rounds
- light sparring/specific technique rounds
- Conditioning: 5 minutes jab cross punches, 30 push ups, 100 sit ups, pull ups.
- closing stretch out drills: breathing drill, neck, shoulders, waist, elbows, arms, spine, hips, knees, wrist, legs and ankle stretches.

Recent Thai boxing classes at Novamma.com

Mu’s class:
Warm-ups
Kick shield:
- Jump rt round kick 25
- jump left round kick 25
- 3 kick- low high low (left then right)
- Moving forward rt and left round kick
Other:
- Boxing drill- freestyle mitts
- 150 squats
- 150 crunches

Todays class- Teddy
Kick shield:
Push kicks- left and right moving forward into fight stance
Round kicks- left and right
Push kick, round kick moving forward
5 kick drill- 5 low, 5 waist, 5 high, 5 waist, 5 low, 5 high (left leg then right leg)
Other:
Jab cross right kick drill(3 n 3) block kick with low ‘k’ block.
Jab cross right kick, counter low left kick – cross hook cross.
Jab cross right kick, counter with left hook , cross, left hook, right kick.

100 punches
10 left kick
10 right kick
30 knees
20 burpies