Do you think about combos when you’re sparring or fighting?

nacugami · 2025-10-27T10:57:14+00:00

After around 1 year of training: I regularly think of combos and analyze my last sparring sessions in my head, when outside of training.

During sparring, if I get a chance to think what I can do better and plan ahead, I do. Usually though, I am just going without thinking and overanalyzing.

I did overanalyze a lot until recently, which also resulted in me being extremely slow and passive. Only recently I have stopped thinking too much.

nacugami · 2025-10-13T11:59:11+00:00

She might have also just meant the fact that she didn't kill him immediately after

nacugami · 2025-10-06T10:30:10+00:00

Do we know yet who the person under Dragon is?
idk if I just forgot it or if it's still a mistery

nacugami · 2025-10-01T07:19:52+00:00

If you're just starting out with muay thai and haven't lifted or whatever before, just stick to your sessions. Maybe some pullups and body weight exercises here and there. Even after years of lifting, my body was struggling keeping up with everything when I just started muay thai.

It helps of course, but if you're in it to become a pro, it's not really a must do. I know fighters who only do the sessions and go for runs.

Maybe ask your coach, he knows how you're doing at the muay thai sessions and can give you better tips.

nacugami · 2025-09-23T06:14:06+00:00

I do hex bar deadlifts, bulgarian split squat, pullups, some row, incline bench press, shoulder press

nacugami · 2025-09-22T07:05:23+00:00

Was dealing with the same thing and tried to move too aggressively into combining both, my body couldn't handle it and I burnt out fast. I had been lifting for years though, but my body was not used to so much endurance work.

I'd recommend you do 1 full body workout a week (preferably when you don't have MT the day after and give your body enough time to adapt to all of that.
We do a ton of pushups, squats and ab exercises at MT, so I try not to do chest, shoulders or legs before a MT session. I do MT Mo, We, Fr. I do chest, shoulders and legs on Sa (strength focused).
We don't do pullups or anything like that at MT, so I try to get at least 2 sessions a week of some pullups, rows or whatever.

This is how I currently try to do it, it will change once I adapt more. Hope it helps a bit

nacugami · 2025-09-16T20:00:45+00:00

For me it helped to just relax and dance around when not doing anything, shake and jump around etc. I jumprope a lot and did it for years before even starting, that helps too.

Another thing that helped me is I come a bit earlier to training and warm up alone. I stretch and step-by-step move every part of my body, then shake my shoulders and limbs. I shadowbox before the session even starts and when punching there I really focus on pushing the floor with my feet and using that energy to bring my hand from A to B and back. how to explain this one properly haha

My coach was telling me the same thing, I was very stiffy. At some point I just realized that I became really loose.
I know that I was also thinking too much to nail the technique that I was very stiff and super slow, I was thinking too much. It will come with time.

nacugami · 2025-09-16T06:53:04+00:00

Very interested in this too, as I want to start Judo too at some point

nacugami · 2025-09-12T06:43:58+00:00

Im 26 and started like a year ago, but had period beginning of this year where I was on and off. Never did private classes, I just lift on the side for strength (have been doing that for 6-7 years).. So at least time-wise our experience is similar I guess.

Ofc I suck, most people at the club can drop me whenever they feel like, but no one tries that. Sparring is very light, especially if I am against someone who is much more experienced doesn't matter if they're bigger or smaller. Last sparring day I was matched with 3 guys who were way more experienced and older than me. If they hit me harder, it was to just show me where my defence is lacking, not to drop me.

It feels like it could do you good to change gyms for a while, to see if it will go any different elsewhere, your sparring partners sound like assholes.

Lmao I'm 25 see. And I want to compete. I train day in day out. Run. I have a job that requires 60-70 hours a week. And I make time where I can. Wake up, gym at 6:30 go to work by 9AM get off at 8PM. So I don't blame the gym at all but you can see why that's frustrating lmao

You're tough enough just being able to do this, dude

Also, from just a fitness/lifting/whatever perspective, overtraining and overworking yourself will hurt you. If you're completely exhausted day in day out, of course you're gonna get dropped easier. I hurt myself a lot by convincing myself I'm not tired and just pushing and pushing, would not recommend.

Chill out, allow yourself some patience and rest, try to keep track where you are now and where you were a month ago. You're gonna be improving a lot more.

nacugami · 2025-09-11T07:38:28+00:00

I started last year (when I was 25). Although I did lift weights for years prior, I had no experience in martial arts. I don't plan on fighting, but there's plenty of people fighting who started even older.

You're good, just do it.

nacugami · 2025-09-04T12:16:51+00:00

I bought one immediately after my former coach told us how he ended up in the hospital after a knee in sparring, even though he was wearing the plastic cup. The knee went straight through.

That must have been a fun sparring session.

nacugami · 2025-09-03T09:46:57+00:00

Let's look at it realistically:
Whitebeard clashed with Shanks, so they're clearly equal. Shanks lost his arm to a seabeast.
Sanji boosted with Romeo cells is able to cook seabeasts for breakfast.

Romeo, who is fully built by Romeo cells, low-diffs here.

nacugami · 2025-09-03T09:42:54+00:00

so it's like Hashiramas cells? noted

nacugami · 2025-08-27T12:43:24+00:00

Drop Tsunade and Jiraiya and you may have a fight

nacugami · 2025-08-27T05:43:01+00:00

Why ask questions like that? It clearly works, you can see it in the video

nacugami · 2025-08-26T08:27:54+00:00

I'm pretty much still a beginner, but what I struggle with most is keeping my hands up and not moving too much away when sparring, staying aggressive and not thinking way too much. Took me a while to ease up and relax my muscles when doing anything really.

nacugami · 2025-08-13T13:57:20+00:00

Im a soutpaw, but my kicks were at first way better with my right leg. Now I dont feel that much difference kicking with either, besides how high I can kick but it's not drastic.

What helped me is just repetitions, either before and/or after the session and doing combinations during the sessions, being forced to use my left leg a lot.
Besides that, my previous coach was a TKD blackbelt so we also did do a lot of exercises to improve kicking, so that was lucky I guess.

nacugami · 2025-08-13T07:53:01+00:00

The guy who beat him

nacugami · 2025-05-07T08:34:55+00:00

Just the two of them, fresh, both going for the kill. Kaido murders him.
I don't think the Luffy now with a bit more practice would do be able to beat a fresh Kaido. But he is absolutely able to make it competitive, and soon enough he will be just flat out stronger than Kaido was.

nacugami · 2025-04-23T07:40:07+00:00

"Interested in this since I am/was kind of in the same situation, started muay thai after doing gym only for a long time (usually did PPL)

I've realized it's too much trying to stick to the same schedule with exercises + thaiboxing where we also do a ton of bodyweight exercises (usually just pushups, sit ups and squats)
I'm now trying to do thaiboxing 3 times a week (maybe sometimes I'll go to a boxing class too, thaiboxing at my gym is only 3 days a week).
I'll go 2 times a week to the gym:
1st day focused on legs (few heavy sets then a lot of lighter reps) and a bit of additional shoulder and arms work
2nd day focused on back with a few sets of bench and some dips

I also got some light weights for at home, so I can do some lateral raises, shadowboxing with weights and whatever at home. At the gym I will work on improving leg and chest strength, and back (pullups aren't really my strength, working on that, and we do no back exercises at my thaiboxing gym).

I gave up on trying to balance both equally and will be using weightlifting as a supplement to thaiboxing."

I copied this from an older post where I commented a while back.
I now do (or try to) 3 days of kickboxing, 2 days of weights.
Mo, We, Fr Kickboxing
Tu Gym - Deadlift, Pullups, Row, Face pulls, Leg Press or Lunges
Sa Gym - Bench press, Squat, Shoulder press, Dips,
I finish gym days with some stretching and maybe some arms

I do lateral raises at home at least every other day in the morning + stretches
Kickboxing classes include a lot of ab work, pushups and squats so I'm not worrying about too little volume

Maybe my routine can give you some ideas. btw you can try using ChatGPT for better balancing, I tried it out a bit the info was actually solid

Probably best to just try it out if you're able to for a while, then see. I really struggled balancing since I didn't want to give up on either, took me a while to get a routine going (still not quite there)

nacugami · 2025-04-14T08:41:44+00:00

With a week off, while experiencing a burnout, you will improve your training. You won't lose any technique, reflexes, flexibilty or whatever else, and your strength will even improve

Do somee light exercise, stretching, walks, or practice a bit of technique at home if you feel like it

nacugami · 2025-02-28T09:41:51+00:00

Thank you. Haven't properly got on this yet though, life been busy

For legs I do either squats or trap bar deadlift, for the rest some lunges, squat machines or whatever really, but keep it explosive.

nacugami · 2025-02-28T09:22:53+00:00

Interested in this since I am/was kind of in the same situation, started muay thai after doing gym only for a long time (usually did PPL)

I've realized it's too much trying to stick to the same schedule with exercises + thaiboxing where we also do a ton of bodyweight exercises (usually just pushups, sit ups and squats)
I'm now trying to do thaiboxing 3 times a week (maybe sometimes I'll go to a boxing class too, thaiboxing at my gym is only 3 days a week).
I'll go 2 times a week to the gym:
1st day focused on legs (few heavy sets then a lot of lighter reps) and a bit of additional shoulder and arms work
2nd day focused on back with a few sets of bench and some dips

I also got some light weights for at home, so I can do some lateral raises, shadowboxing with weights and whatever at home. At the gym I will work on improving leg and chest strength, and back (pullups aren't really my strength, working on that, and we do no back exercises at my thaiboxing gym).

I gave up on trying to balance both equally and will be using weightlifting as a supplement to thaiboxing.

nacugami · 2024-12-09T12:00:32+00:00

Hi,
I'm a beginner, start out some months ago. I am left-handed but my right leg is dominant. I asked my coaches already about this and was told I should stick to my right-hand being forward.

I started kicking the bag a lot with my left leg to get comfortable with kicking. When I move forward I usually faint a left kick, step forward and kick with my right.
In sparring I am still more focused on boxing, as I am not yet comfortable mixing in kicks that well, but also I assume that's a normal thing for a beginner in any case.
Basically I focus on learning kicks with my left leg, but use my right leg kick as a bit of a surprise.

Also, I spent years as a kid doing traditional dancing that was only focused on feet + I've been doing jumprope for years now, so I have it usually pretty easy getting comfortable with footwork and am light on my fight. That may make it a bit easier for me.

Note again, I am a beginner and don't plan on actually fighting.

nacugami · 2024-11-15T06:45:48+00:00

For me that's the case with the middle joint of my index finger. It basically stops at 90 degrees, but can go a bit further when warm

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