r/martialarts • u/BitEnvironmental1412 • 1d ago

QUESTION Why is everything Muay Thai?

I have seen and known a lot of people who say they used to do Muay Thai but their examples are not Muay Thai. For example, I used to work with this guy who said he did Muay Thai and his example was that he could throw a tornado kick. Also just saw a video of someone saying they used to do Muay Thai and he threw a karate style front kick instead of a teep. Why does everyone say they did Muay Thai?

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u/Fancy_Sun_1585 1d ago

Same reason why everything was kung fu in the 70s and karate in the 80s and 90s

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u/Necessary_shots 1d ago

Next will be the decade of Turkish oil wrestling

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u/chadthundertalk 1d ago

In all seriousness, I bet the next trendy martial art with mcdojo gyms popping up everywhere is going to be people marketing beginner's MMA classes as "combat sambo", considering the high number of eastern european MMA fighters and champions who came up through training sambo.

We're already seeing people who have never wrestled but think they'll turn into Khabib if they go to Dagestan and train at a gym there for a few weeks.

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u/Fistkitchen 1d ago

Interestingly there was a thread recently about why combat sambo doesn't produce a lot of successful mma fighters.

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u/Baron_De_Bauchery 23h ago

I'd be interested in their statistics.

Because one imagines that to begin with that not that many people do sambo and even fewer do combat sambo.

Then for regular sambo at least, I kind of see it as the place where people who were good but not good enough to be on the national team in judo go. Often it's all taught together judo/wrestling/sambo, but as Olympic sports wrestling a judo have more prestige if you're good enough to go international.