pedro villalobos

[shidokanatlanta]

YouTube - Muay Sangha Five Elements

my training partner from several years. he is originally from madrid and he now lives in chiang mai, thailand and teaches traditional thai martial arts. he has trained in muay thai, wing chun, bjj, boxing, krabri krabrong, and other traditional thai martial arts. he moved to thailand for good in 2002 after traveling back and forth for several years. he has been a muay thai and mma fighter (iska united states muay thai champion). he has had a big impact on my development as a martial artist. i present to you my dear friend. if any of you ever go to thailand stop by. pedro travels through spain and asia doing seminars on thai arts.

Muay Thai sangka - Thai Boxing School based in Chiang Mai, Thailand (http://www.ancientmuaythai.com) is his site.

[Dent]

Osu!

This is very interesting, ShidokanAtlanta. Is the first portion a northern version of Muay Boran? The last part is very similar to what we were doing with Azuma Jukucho.

Thank you for posting!

Osu!

[shidokanatlanta]

yes it is. pedro travels throughout thailand and burma to study. he has combined all of his previous training into what he does (wing chun, jj, etc.) he has studied martial arts since childhood (starting with judo, kickboxing,...). we met at a local gym and we were studying thai boxing. i worked a job that had me traveling a lot on projects in different states. i was in boston training with a guy who lived in thailand for 4 years. i told pedro, "we aren't doing muay thai". i won't mention any names to of any muay thai organizations. i invited him up to train with. pedro decided to go to thailand for a year. he traveled throughout the country (like cain in kung fu) and visited as many gyms as he could to train and fight. that's how we started training authentic muay thai and our journey began. the dojo i have now was all muay thai at one time (pedro's). when pedro decided to move to thailand for good, i took over, i changed locations and started to convert my thai fighters in shidokan fighters.

[shidokanatlanta]

YouTube - muay thay pedro solana villalobos

another post of pedro demonstrating the straight knee at a seminar in spain.

[Dent]

Osu!

Excellent stuff! Please keep it coming.

Osu!

[powerof0ne]

I'm impressed with his journey and remember seeing a few of his fights. One day I'd like to spend some time studying krabri krabrong.