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Irish Muay Thai article

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  • #2
    corkma
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭corkma


    It's a shame that the article opens with an misinformed picture of MT as some savage sport


  • #3
    aws
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭aws


    Im not really sure where you getting this picture from, it doesnt come across that way to me, infact its totally the opposite. Some documentaries or articles describe its as the brutal sport of MT and its far from described like taht. Unless its from this qoute? “I've had a few injuries that have left me unable to walk,” says Jono Bracken, Ireland’s reining light-middleweight Thaiboxing champion.
    “Mostly leg injuries from kicking and being kicked.”

    Sure you could say that of any contact sport, injuries are inevitable in every sport. Its not like they take the line of two men enter one man leave. I think its actually quite tame they way they portray MT.


  • #4
    Rob Carry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭Rob Carry


    corkma wrote: »
    It's a shame that the article opens with an misinformed picture of MT as some savage sport

    I don't mean this in a negative way but isn't Muay Thai about as about as brutal as sports come? As the interviewee says, the idea is to get in there and inflict as much damage on your opponent as you can before he does it to you. I love Muay Thai and don't mean that as a criticism but lets call a spade a spade.


  • #5
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    I really liked this article.

    I think people train for different reasons, some love the discipline, for some its the history and perserving traditions and a whole lot of other reasons, all of which I respect.
    There are some people who just like to fight, I reckon Thai is very well suited to those people and I think that this is represented well in the article.
    Rob Carry wrote: »
    lets call a spade a spade

    Its just my opinion, but having trained with and having been trained by Jono I reckon he is one of those people who likes to fight and he would much quicker refer to himself as a 'Fighter' before 'a martial artist'.


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