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Muay Thai in MMA

Muay Thai is one of the most popular fighting style practiced in the realm of martial arts. Originating in Thailand, it simply translates as “Thai Boxing” and as with most boxing styles, muay thai gear is simply a pair of muay thai shorts and gloves. Mixed martial artists the world over has recognized the efficiency of muay thai as a stand up fighting form and many prefers muay thai as their base stand up fighting style with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or BJJ as their base ground fighting style. In the most elite mixed martial arts competition, the Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC, many fighters use this combination with other choices such as boxing, wrestling and judo amongst others.

In Muay Thai, fighters maximise the use of the arms and legs to strike their opponents. Cinching is also a very integral component of muay thai and those who perfect it can knock the breath out of their opponents as they grip them and rain their endless tirade of lethal blows to the ribs and face.

Mixed martial artists and fighters know that Muay Thai is one of the best stand up fighting forms around if mastered properly and effectively and many have gone to great lengths to perfect their Muay Thai knowledge and where else better than to go to Thailand, the birth place of Muay Thai itself to study at well known Muay Thai camps.

So what makes Muay Thai so special? For one, Muay Thai was borne out of survival and war. The original purpose of Muay Thai was to defend oneself in a warring environment and the main objective in Muay Thai is to kill rather than maim. And that explains the vicious moves that Muay Thai posses.

In Muay Thai, fighters make use of as many natural body parts as possible to wield as weapons. As such, Muay Thai fighters use as many as eight different parts of the body to strike their opponents and they do it with the intention to kill rather than maim or injure.

Since Muay Thai is more a survival fighting form rather than an art and it originated in desperate times, Muay Thai gear is very simple and straight forward.