To "Alan Wong"

You write "I have vast experience in both so it is no point arguing your points with me". This is a pretty amusing statement. Care to elaborate on your "vast experience"?

There are plenty of people doing Chinese martial arts who simply can not fight, in fact our tradition has degenerated more than any other Asian tradition. It is sad. I don't doubt that you saw Chinese martial art people defeated, but it was because they were not trained correctly. I've seen some crappy, poorly trained Muay Thai fighters over the years, I attribute it to bad coaches and bad gyms, not to Muay Thai itself being bad

You write "Sanshou is a recent creation of the Chinese for reasons which I would not like to get into..." quite another funny statement! "Recent"? Is 1927 that recent? That is when the first San Shou program was established. In the 1920's Muay Thai was also going through a transition from traditional art to ring art. The first San Shou book was published in 1956. OK, San Shou was not developed by ancient Chinese cave men to fight wild bears but it isn't that recent a development.

Elbow pads? So if they had not worn elbow pads? Seems the issue is always elbows? Is Muay Thai so desperately in need of its elbows to win? Muay Thai has kicks, punches, knee, throws and kick catches, yet whenever they lose the elbow becomes an issue.

If you switched to Muay Thai because you like it, more power to you. But like many people who had poor instruction, you blame the art and not the poor instruction.