The physical condition of a thai boxer is simply "abnormal", the physical condition of boxers in general also, and thai boxers it's even worse, and not even after a long time, I mean after a year training 1h45 a day 5 to 6 days a week, after a year even if you suck balls by your club's standards technically speaking, it's not fair to put you against a guy who doesn't train even if he's heavier; you're made of iron and he's made of cheese essentially
I remember in high school, when we were doing high jump during sport classes, I was able to beat everybody in a pool of 3 classes
You may say "yeah and so what?" Well I didn't even have to use the fosbury flop technique, that's what. While everybody used it to jump, I jumped like a frog, like that https://youtu.be/K50E7il1BWM?t=8 en force, and I was far from being the tallest
Well that's the result of thai boxing conditioning after a year, at the rate described above
Sport teacher was kind of pissed lol
The steel/cheese analogy is spot on. I wish I wasn't in the cheese side lol.
In the context of your question, it's not just physical condition at play, it's also the fact that his opponent instinctively always take the good angle, when he takes a blow, it never lands exactly where haggerty wants to land it, just enough to make the difference between fatal and "annoying"/bearable
On a middle kick for instance, if you move one actual human foot/a foot and a half forward/toward the attack, it's no longer the bottom part of the tibia near the malleolus that hits https://pic8.co/sh/AvOlKO.jpeg it's the middle of the tibia/upper part near the knee, which is much less effective
What I don't get is why blows look much more violent in Thaï boxing than in other combat sports. Also, can they do headbutts in this format?
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