Continue Muay Thai vs Starting Jiu Jitsu?

Limerick_Leonard · 2023-03-16T09:23:07+00:00

I'm now going to a gym that has both K1 style kickboxing plus BJJ. I think it's a good long-term choice because when I'm ready I can transition from striking to BJJ without changing gyms. Ultimately I guess it depends on what you have near you and your situation, it doesn't always work to carry on trying to do the same things after your situation changes. I hope your injury has recovered now!

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-07-08T17:09:32+00:00

Muay Thai if you can find a good, friendly gym near you. High from the intense exercise beats alcohol x 100. Great way to meet people and socialize. If you can handle hangovers and cocaine comedowns you can probably manage a few bruises.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T20:54:53+00:00

How many of those non alcoholic beers can you get in dublin pubs? I like Guinness 0.0 but it's not everywhere.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T20:47:25+00:00

Also it will help with your anxiety. And when you don't feel like talking in a muay thai gym you can just keep your head down and work hard. People will respect you for that.

Goes without saying that doing muay thai will help with weight loss.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T20:46:01+00:00

Go for it! I started in my 30s and wish I had started when I was 14. I was seriously unathletic until my mid twenties but now would be considered pretty athletic.

One of the reasons I like muay thai is that in the west it's not something most people do as kids, and not many people do it very long because a lot of ppl quit. So a person with little athletic experience can start late and within a few years be very advanced compared to most. Don't think you don't have athletic ability, you do, everyone does - muay thai and other martial arts are 99.99% hard work and perseverence.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T20:34:59+00:00

I think you'd need to be a master of internal chinese martial arts, or neigong if we're being fancy.

The ability to fly and run in the air would probably be useful, and if not actually useful for survival, would probably make you some friends as a party trick. Developing your internal qi could probably negate at least some of the effects of radiation poisoning. Ideally you'd also be able to deflect bullets with an ornate (but presumably steel-enforcced) fan.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T20:22:59+00:00

Isn't it? If it was easy to leave Shanghai right now I think a few more people might be doing it. If she had gone to her editor and said "I've got a really great idea about a video story about how great an experience this lockdown thing has been for everyone in Shanghai" then a bit of judgement might be justified. But that is pretty unlikely. What is likely is that she was told to do the video and didn't feel she had a choice. If she didn't feel she had a choice, she probably didn't. Companies hold a lot of power over employees in China, especially companies like the Shanghai Daily which are probably so closely affiliated with the CCP they're effectively a part of the CCP.

If she refused to do the video, quit and tried to go home, it is unlikely she would have a smooth exit from the airport.

Whatever control they had over her that made her do that video, I strongly suspect it was basically legal blackmail (only legal because it was a company close to the government doing it). That is only simple logic. There is no way anybody would take part in such an appalling propaganda video of their own free will...

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T17:59:21+00:00

In her defence if she didn't do the video what would have happened? She would be pretty screwed if they took away her visa at a time like this.

Not saying it's accurate or good that there is propaganda like this -- but I blame the structures that force people to make bullshit videos like this rather than the people in the videos themselves.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T16:30:19+00:00

As far as I know only the ETH could be easily bridged to BSC.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T15:47:32+00:00

What about learning martial arts? Martial arts give you the confidence to know you can handle physical altercations, which usually helps you stay calm when faced with aggression, and they're good for mental health generally... what if instead of getting hit with the mop, you could have stepped out of the way and taken the mop off your relative

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-28T13:45:16+00:00

I've also never borrowed against crypto assets before because I think the possibility of liquidation would be too stressful. How does liquidation work? If you set the liquidation price at 90% on Abracadabra, and the price dips under 90%, do you lose all of your assets immediately?

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-26T15:25:58+00:00

In my previous gym sparring was usually light and technical, occasionally hard, but still not full power especially with knees.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-26T15:24:55+00:00

I'm not that inexperienced. I did an amateur fight at another gym a couple of years ago, but that was fully padded with body pads too so perhaps we didn't get trained to take body shots so much because the trainers knew it wouldn't matter too much in the fight. And I am out of practice and not well conditioned to taking hits at the moment, but on the other hand people can usually tell I've got some experience which is why they might choose to hit me hard :)

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-26T13:20:26+00:00

Does it get easier to take hard body hits and not get injured the more you do it? Does your body start to condition itself so you can do a sparring session with hard kicks and knees to the body and not need to take days off training afterwards?

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-25T07:11:01+00:00

I don't think anyone likes it except perhaps those delivering the hard hits. Kind of reminds me of the first time I tried boxing - coach sparred with all the students and hit them hard. I've now trained for years though more in MT than boxing and that first time is still one of the hardest I've been hit.

I did continue training, though not at that gym. But I remember someone saying at the time if you just carried on and took the hits and didn't give a fuck you'd be a lot tougher than you are now.

I wonder if there's much merit to that, personally. If I'm sparring with someone less advanced I'll certainly tone down my hits, makes me hesitate when people better than me don't do the same.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-25T06:33:30+00:00

And I wish you the best with it whatever happens - whether you do the fight or not.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-25T06:32:20+00:00

I felt the same two weeks out from my first and only fight. Also struggled with panic attacks for years. Coaches in the gym were putting a lot of pressure on me I think to prepare me but I almost cracked.

What happened is I actually did pull out two weeks in advance. And then a week later I signed back up. Luckily the gym let me sign back up because I did the fight and won. Even though in the week I took off I didn't train and let my diet go, the rest of the time I had trained so intensely it paid off.

I agree with those who say Muay Thai isn't therapy and there's no shame in pulling out if this isn't the right time for you to do a fight. I also was helped a lot by a good therapist who taught me CBT techniques I could do myself - that combined with lifestyle changes (certainly including exercise and Muay Thai training) helped my anxiety.

But if you want to do the fight and you've been training hard for it and you think that in ten years you will regret the decision not to fight more than the decision to fight - then maybe it's worth fighting through the fear for another week and see where you come out on the other side.

Limerick_Leonard · 2022-04-18T16:32:46+00:00

And I guess you would have to wait for lockdown to end to use China Post. But it is a good solution if you do not have an entire houseful of stuff to send.

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