It is not Muay Thai when you wear pads on elbows and clinches are broken up after three seconds - how can you cut someone when you are wrapped up tighter than an Egyptian mummy? Call it what it is - San DA versus watered down, piss weak modified Muay Thai.


I have several of these tapes and they are a snoozefest - far better events are held between Thailand and Burma. IKFMDC - I would love to see a rule allowing downward elbows, i think that would go some way to addressing these lazy and sloppy shoots which seem to be a feature of these events. Knee to the head is a risky move to counter the shoot - MMA has proven that the sprawl or downward elbow to the back of the head (now banned but used brutally by Orlando Weit and Don Frye in one of the early UFC's) are possibly the most effective counter's however they are not allowed in these events.