How strong do you need to be?

[Mai mee 268]

You cannot fight a Thai guy, you can only fight EVERY Thai guy...  Keep it in the gym or the ring, there is no winning of a street fight for a falang in Thailand, it is not permitted. 

[FarangULong 286]

On 7/1/2020 at 3:11 PM, finy said:

 

If anything kicks might need to be something I work on.

 

 

Don't bother. Your "ok jaw" won't save you from dead leg(s) once you've taken a couple low kicks... I know guys who were doing low level pro fights here in Europe, and they succumbed to the low kicks when fighting in Thailand. Let alone someone who has to work on it.

[rcuthbert 39]

On 1/17/2021 at 10:48 PM, FarangULong said:

Don't bother. Your "ok jaw" won't save you from dead leg(s) once you've taken a couple low kicks... I know guys who were doing low level pro fights here in Europe, and they succumbed to the low kicks when fighting in Thailand. Let alone someone who has to work on it.

According to Larry, a Prison Emergency Response Team leader, four to five inches above the knee, on the outside of the thigh, is a zone that - if kicked - will render the leg practically useless. Unlike the shins, this zone cannot, other than building the surrounding muscle, be toughened up. I wonder how the Thai boxers defend the zone?