MT instructors slagging off an organisation for trying to bring some professionalism into a sport that's full of sell certified, self back patting, self importance idiots!

All UK fighters bar none who are at the top of the tree are so through a massive influence and teaching time from and in Thailand. Then the fighter comes back the instructor pulls on a Team X t-Shirt and he's a legend all of a sudden. The 6 months the fighter just spent in Thailand is quickly forgotten and the legend status roles on! That's just as ridiculous as being qualified on this course. The course should be called an introduction to Muay Thai Teaching and a mentoring system set up. Very flawed at the moment but it just needs tweaking

The old timers are getting up in arms because their reputations have come from equally dubious things such as claiming to train someone when they see them two months a year. The other day I had a conversation with a so called top MT instructor about lactate buffering. I may as well have been talking about sausage throwing. Not an effin clue! Big changes will come to this industry soon enough and it won't be the old timers leading the way that's for sure!

UKMF shouldn't be qualifying people on a weekend course as its dangerous! But equally the so called leading instructors shouldn't be fleecing people up and down the country for 30-50 quid a session because they are a trainer of champions when their charge has spent the 32 months of the last three years in Thailand because that's just as misleading as being qualified in a weekend!

Ooooooo....That's put the cat among the pigeons haha