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Originally Posted by shinobijesus
or touching on MMA again, people believe that muay thai is the strongest striking art or that it "has the strongest kicks". again, that doesnt make sense but people accept it as true.
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I can somewhat attest to this. A guy who supposedly said he was sandan and did karate thought that knock down was lame. A trainer who works at the gym i go to. He saw my shirt (kyokushin tournament shirt) and mentioned he did that too.
However he does the Tae kwon do variety. Helmet and everything...pads, etc and punches to the face. It was point system.
I told him he should try knock down (said he had never done it, which i found odd) and thought it very lame when i told him you couldn't punch to the face...even though there was no protection for anything else. He said he was thinking to switch to Tae Kwon Do since he found it more fun. To each his own.
It's the no punch to the face thing. I've heard kyokushin bashed many times because of this one little fact.
Muay thai is so great because you can punch to the face.
Oh well.