I Trained MUAY THAI for 4 Years (Sparring Before and After)
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2023
- I spent 4 Years training in Muay Thai… how did I improve? Did I improve my roundhouse, sparring, clinch, elbows and knees??
Big shoutout to @yokkaoboxing and @WonderboyMMA for letting me spar the legend!!
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Did you see my spar with the legend at the end? 🤯
Lucky devil.
Yes
I am mad jelous. Looked awesome my guy.
blew my mind. event of a lifetime i guess. nice one seth
That was great, and I'm glad you kept it light and respectful. I've seen clips of him getting mad at other fighters, and he is very dangerous when he is pissed.
Man, I saw you sparring against Saenchai in Wonderboy's video yesterday and I'll repeat the sentiment here: I would have spent an absolutely irresponsible amount of money to attend that seminar! Saenchai, Wonderboy, Sensei Seth, and Icy Mike all together in one place, teaching and learning extremely high level techniques? Take my life savings!
Same bro I loved seeing those martial mind together!
What if you need to sell your kidney to afford one ticket? Would you do it?
Same! I never learn about opportunities like that until its too late
@@Sang_Akrobatis I only need one kidney! Considering my life savings doesn't amount to much, this might be my best bet 🤔
You only really need one lung/kidney/eyeball/arm
I'm so happy for Sensei Seth to have the privilege to spar Saenchai. That must be one of the most unforgettable experiences of all time. Saenchai always brings a smile to everyone and impresses with his technical prowess.
I've never been to one of his seminars, so I could be completely wrong, but I feel like receiving one of Saenchai's cartwheel kicks in a friendly sparring match is like a badge of honor. Like, you've been clowned on by greatness in the coolest, most awesome way possible.
Back in the (late) 90's (or early 2000's, I forget), I went to a kickboxing gym owned by one of the early UFC champions (Maurice Smith) - and yeah, once he let everyone get in the ring with him for a few minutes. Needless to say, he spent my 2 minutes (lightly) kicking me in the exact same spot on my lead leg - and even with that, it was sore as heck afterwards, just due to his technique and momentum.
If there is one stand out thing that I always appreciate about a Sensei Seth video, is your ability to weave together a concise narrative in each video. Really speaks to the amount of effort put into each of these. Always watch a Sensei Seth drop, thanks Seth for the great content!
Thank you for noticing 🙏
@@SenseiSethMuch respect. U mentioned how your dad was a karate instructor. Out of curiosity how did he feel about you giving Muay Thai a try? Maybe you can do a video on that. That would be a good video.
Love the videos where multiple martial artists played by Seth hang out and talk to each other, each individual character feels completely different
@@SenseiSeth Seth, I'll say it,
"You've got grit." Don't make it weird.
Don't make me kick you.
@@SenseiSeth Fist up and knee a wall, and hold it there, perfect the knee, push. Higher Seth, ... Higher. Push against the wall harder. Now maintain forward knee pressure on the wall, as you hop around. Add elbows. Then the other 4 things.
Sparring senchai and not putting it in the title has to be one of the most humble thing i've ever seen
Really cool to meet you at this seminar (I was the tang soo do guy). Saenchai really is so smooth…
You Jesse and Buakaw are the people that got me into muay thai, I would have spent an ungodly amount of money just to watch that seminar you did with Saenchai Stephen and Mike, take my house and all my things
Something about the last clip is so incredibly beautiful. There is almost a childlike innocence to how happy you are sparing a guy like sanchai. The fact you are just having fun with him but at the same time on your toes. There is no ego or competitiveness. Just love for the art. Every time sanchai throws another feint or sets you up differently its like seing new colors you never saw before. This feeling that something is really special. Seing that irradiating smile while he makes banter with you almost as to say "see you get it". Your love for this sport and this journey culminated in that sparring session. Watching it was something special.
I'm 39 and have just been training Muay Thai for 2 months, best decision in my life as I have completely fallen in love with it! Thank you for your inspiring and fun videos!
I am 40 and a month in. I agree. Muay Thai is great. I found a gym with a very inviting and friendly vibe too.
As someone who has embarked on the same exact journey of a long-term Karateka turned Nak Muay, this is such an invaluable insight into the lessons learned organically through the years of hard work on your part. I see so many components of your list and analytical breakdowns in my own sparring, which until this video I never really put much thought into but simply reacted to 'whatever works'. i.e. still utilising a long karate han zenkutso dachi style stance but a little more upright to deal with the threat of leg kicks by checking off the front leg, and opening up that back leg for the power muay thai roundhouse. I feel like I'm on the cusp of the same point you are - where I'm training to learn to deal with Muay Thai fighters using the tools I already have, rather than getting good at Muay Thai itself. It's been a point of insecurity for me for a while that no matter how hard I trained or tried, in the heat of a sparring session I reverted to my karate instincts and got my butt kicked (or more pointedly, my legs chopped down), no matter how much I trained and drilled a strict Muay Thai form. It's only recently that I've begun to find myself able to deal with things so much better when I stopped worrying about it, and found that naturally I arrived at this hybridized style like you. It's far from perfect, and a good Nak Muay will absolutely be able to pick it apart, but it's as you said a good enough point where I feel like I can begin playing around and having fun rather than worrying too much about the power kicks and head punches.
To sum up, thank you for everything you do with your videos. Other than just putting the rounds in, your videos are probably the best training and educational resources I could hope for. I look forward to keeping on top of your journey!
This comment summarizes my experience perfectly. I have no formal Muay Thai training but I have been sparring a lot lately in a more Muay Thai way and it’s cool to see how I use my karate background to form a weird mixed style. I’ve been looking for a good Muay Thai school and progress further into it. It’s great watching this video and reading this comment n seeing I’m not the only one who has come to a similar hybrid karate Muay Thai fighting style. The leg kicks and checks have been a huge mix up and fry my brain sometimes lol, working to make them as instinctual as some of my karate moves.
Respect I grew up with kyokushin and judo from my father and transferred to Mauythai.
A karate base with Muay Thai elements works really well. Karate's roundhouse gets replaced with the swing kick for sure. But I prefer a front kick to a teep. Great bag of tricks to draw upon. Your progress was super cool to see.
The karate roundhouse could be thrown in still, especially mixed with some ???
Also with some karate takedowns and throws
Man, I'm so glad you had that year one footage. Watching the progression was really, really cool.
I think your karate stance would work really well with a Philly shell. You can use a lot of lead leg kicks and head movements, and I think it just works perfectly with karate. Would you do a few videos on working on the phily shell?
Great idea
Not a bad choice, but can't use the back leg much for kicks when that's actually the power leg
That reminds me of ryu from street fighter guard stance
@@gambeer134I agree. I was only able to use it for back kicks and spinning hooks.
@@theoneaboveall7708 exactly. That's the only minus with this stance. Faced the exact same problem when I sparred in Philly shell
Idea: You've trained like Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Chan and other legends. How about Bill "Superfoot" Wallace? Right or left leg (preferably left), but in his style. I feel that you would be a natural to catch on to his snappy, quick style which got him multiple championships back in the day. How about it, Sensei "Superfoot" Seth?
Can’t wait to watch this vid, just joined mau Thai myself and had me second ever class. Keep up the vids
I am a Karate black belt (Shotokan, 2nd Dan) and started Muay Thai 1 month ago... I feel like a complete and total beginner (😅🤪) but your video encourages me to keep on working on myself. Thanks a lot! 🥋🫶
Really cool to see you getting more comfortable with the thai style of striking! Just started with Muay Thai a few months ago during my travel in Thailand and fell in love with it🤙🏾
evolution and yoga huh,
a seducing spirit AND a doctrine of demons..
get yourself some Jesus brodie
What the lady explained about the crowd overreacting is true, atleast i heard that too but the noises saenchai makes are the targets he hits in thai, he will sometimes say leg and kick you in the leg and sometimes say leg again and punch you or sweep you, he uses it as a verbal feint, is like looking at a target really aggresively and hitting something else, yes saenchai is that guy.
missed opportunity to title this video " I spared with saenchai" or " I Trained Muay Thai for 4 years to Fight the Final Boss" followed by you v saenchai in the thumbnail.
Nope stupid joke attempt
The final boss is always yourself.
I really like the style of you reviewing the sparring sessions with the camera behind you and the viewer seeing the video the same way as you do on the screen. Very creative I love it.
Awesome! Love to see you pick up new things and it's always fun to see your one day excursions but this is something more profound and more lasting. Great to see!
Yes Seth! This is awesome, I’m so happy it happened. Real bucket-list thing here. Super video, had a big grin on my face the whole way through. 🙏 Oowee
Awesome. Well earned, must have been amazing to share that moment.
Man went to to toe with saenchai! Amazing! Just a quick thanks to you Sensei Seth. As a karate practitioner thats also currently doing muay thai and trying to explore other martial arts, its a real inspiration watching you explore different style and meet incredible practitioners from around the world in your video's. Love your work man.
Great video! Dude that ending with you sparring with Saenchi was just very wholesome. I've seen videos of guys trying to hard spar him with power and a look of disapproval on his face. I can tell you both were having fun here.
omg what a beautiful friendly spar at the end. All smiles everywhere!
Great video Seth
Humble and efficient way to progress.
Across the years, I can see more confidence during your sparring and a better energy management
Keep up the good work💪
You did a great job on going with the playfulness of Saenchai's "spar". I think a lot of people get caught up on his stardom or take it too seriously.
And then proceed to get humbled 😆
Genuinely so happy for you that you got to meet and spar with Saenchai, especially after that recap of your Muay Thai training 🙏🏾 👊🏾
I love how much fun you have watching footage of yourself - its infectious!
The sessions at Upstate Karate and 36 Chambers have really paid off it looks like. Plus, sparring with Jeff Chan and Icy Mike seem to really have made a difference in how you move in and out. Congratz on all your progress man, it really shows here.
Great Video Brother! Love to see your growth!
Hey Seth. I can't profess to being seasoned in either style as I only trained Shotokan for about a year, then much later trained Muay Thai for around 2. Even with my limited exposure to Karate, going into MT was a similar experience - the muscle memory and emphasis on "perfect technique" held me back for a while as Muay Thai seemed so "loose". However once I got past this, that duality you spoke of (the hardness of the stance and techniques contrasted with the "flow" of actual execution) was mind-blowing. I haven't been able to train for over a year but looking to start back as soon as I can, and watching this has definitely stoked the fire 😁
I saw your sparring Saenchai on the Yokkao page, its an AMAZING example of just how sparring should be, You played perfectly.
some great content here!! OSU
Love the spar with the Goat !!!
Great video to see the development
great to see the growth.
I also started muay thai around the same time you did so I understand pretty well the kind of things you've gone through.
granted I don't have the black belt experience, nor any martial art experience prior. I recommend all tkd/karate guys to take up muay thai. It's too easy to deal with yalls attacks and they never spar either so they freak out when punches come at their face. The only time they're dangerous is at kicking range, which with muay thai, you can easily bring it close into punching range, switch to clinch, etc.
now the hybrid gyms, they're caught up to the meta, they're dangerous.
As soon as i saw you and Mike in the Wonder Boy video, I knew you guys would have some decent content to soon follow. Assuming (hoping) some others from the gang were there too, just didn't see them, Kevin Lee, Sweet T etc
Can you imagine if you never got the courage to befriend Wonder Boy 😮
It’s good that you expanded to Muay Thai. You learned so much and gotten more aggressive and stronger which enhanced your karate
had to be such an amazing experience sparring an all time legend!
Man I coming over from icy Mike and am a big WB fan and all of you guys are doing the dang thing keep it up man, AND STILL shout out to Jeff Chan lol!!
is it only me or videos getting better and better in term of creation, scenario, and overall quality of products 🎉 wery good 👍
Well done!
@SenseiSeth. Fantastic. I had the same, going from a shotokan karate-ka to beginning Thai boxing 16 years ago. Like you, it changed the way I moved, using various elements of the karate mixed with Muay Thai. Even though, now at 51 years of age I'm slower in some respects, I'm feel a much better fighter for both styles today and MT is now my main martial art.
Holy shit I was not expecting that massive special guest star at the end. Huge pop.
When you were in there covered in red pads it reminded me of Ironman version 1 suit! LOL
Love Muay Thai
Sparring the legend and not even using it as clickbait. Wow
Bro Saenchai is tricky as hell to spar. Good work!
Oweeeee Sensei Seth! I'm 4 years into Muay Thai myself with a black belt in Karate so I KNOW the feeling lol. Looking great though!
Can't bring your girl around Saenchai. That guy is just too cool.
the first video i saw of you i didnt like you , today i am proud of you
It's interesting. In the beginning I can see you're very hesitant to exchange inside because...well in a point karate context, the longer you stay in the higher your chance of getting scored on and it's match over very quickly. Once you started getting over that, your stance started squaring a little more, giving you access to more of your tools. Well done.
I like that Saenchai is just touring the world, sharing his passion for the art.. never knew I would see the day, I hope I could spar with him someday and get wreck lol that would be an honor.
That's just, amazing.. 👏👏👏
You did great Seth bro 👏
I don't follow muy thai boxing, but even I have heard of Saenchai. Looks like you had loads of fun. I stopped doing Karate like many other dads due to injuries.
That ended was the coolest 😄
You're an inspiration to all
Man what a way to celebrate 4 years of sparring with the goat
this is relatable, used to just stop after finishing a combination, or look to reset and get caught doing it, unable to throw back until i finished resetting, as well as let people throw their combo before looking to land my own. did a lot of leaning as i was throwing punches. At some point i realized the first thing i needed was to get comfortable in the pocket and saw gaethje using the high guard with leg kicks to find his opponents in the pocket. I would purposely walk into range like that taking hits til i was able to do it fearlessly. I wonder what the most common method to getting comfortable in the pocket is
I can still hear Wonderboys Dad yelling, "Oh my name's Seth and I studied karate my entire life now I'm a Thai Boxer."
Yup 😂😂
Bro posting some Quality content🔥
The sound that a Muay Thai boxer makes, saying "Oui" when it comes to sparing, is actually a signal. A signal that the opponent says he will kick or punch so that the sparring partner can prepare to defend so as not to get hurt. In another case, it is a warning sign that the partner is kicking and punching too hard and may cause injury before the actual fight, which is not a good thing for sparing. If my English is not good, I apologize. I tried to use Google Translate.
I like your style, it's beautiful to watch
It totally feels like you need to go to thailand and do a fight. you'll learn exactly what works, and what does not and your training will get so much more focus after that.
This might be a little contrarian to a lot of advice but one thing that really helped me was actually going to boxing classes in a different gym for boxers. It really helped me learn how to properly defend punches and be comfortable in the pocket, and of course to have better defence in the form of movement, footwork, angles, punching backwards, etc.
Your videos have got me saying oooie all the time
You know what's crazy? That new stance kinda in between karate and muay thai is almost exactly our stance in JKD. Makes a lot of sense that it would converge like this.
I replayed this video so many times, loved it! It sure was a great experience!
Just relax and remember the basics my friend 🤝
That’s a night and day difference from year 1 to 4. And great work with Saenchai!
Awesome video
Mad respect for putting Seanchai at the very end and not in the thumbnail to bait more clicks! What a surprise.
Muay Thai is a good system for you with your size and weight. Congrats!
Very cool!
This soooooo relatable.I’m 17 and have been training kickboxing for almost 5 years now but I’ve been doing karate since I was 10 until I turned 13 then picked up kickboxing.I compete as well I have a record of 5 wins 0 draws 0 loses
How many days a week have you dedicated to Muay Thai Sensei Seth?
That’s fantastic progress!
bro can switch stances mid fight, he goes from some muay thai shit to some crazy karate stuff, getting combo's by both stances would be wild
Heck yeah!
Fucking awesome end of the video! Nice that you had control and didn't hit him in the face for no reason. Kept it playful
Seth, do you think that karate offers a wider choice of kicks than Muay Thai? Which kicks do you think are the most powerful, fast, useful among all the kicks you learned from karate and muay thai? Could you do a video (maybe you already did) about the kicking aspects of these two disciplines?
I am not talking about what is better in street fights or what is better in a karate or muay thai competition, that would be silly, but just from the point of view of someone who is good at both things I would like to know your thoughts about the kicks.
Dig your introspective videos.
Do you plan on ever visiting Thailand to train and watch live fights?
I am a fellow American that has been living and training in Thailand for 5 years now. Would love to show you around and do some friendly clinch sparring specifically because most western people simply aren't very good at it.
I will tell you that filming spar sessions is not a common practice, however, pad work on video is super common. I don't think it's bad etiquette, just not a thing a Thai people do over here often.
Regardless if you consider my offer,, you should come out here and really experience Muay Thai culture.
This was wholesome.
A beautiful journey of transformation. Very uplifting.
Very nice! What are you weighing in at Sensei Seth?
Good job
Nice Muay Thai Sensei Seth! Have you seen the Ong Bak Trilogy? Can you please do a reaction next time?
man i love muay thai
I’m looking forward to Seth’s debut in the UFC.
HEYYY!! look at you go with Saenchai!!
so muay thai is one of your staple martial arts that you train? what else? sumo? and maybe still karate? if you only had 3 martial arts that you could train for the rest of your life (and a bonus one for the 4th place because im curious. ;P ) what would you train?
for me it would be bjj for the ground game, judo for the standup (but rather the old less restricted style) and muay thai for the striking techniques. my 4th bonus martial art would be hema or something similar because having some knowledge about all types of weapons is a part of martial arts and fun, right?
love your videos. :)
I always thought the "ooh-wee" was like the karate "ki-ya" or other Asian martial art scream/shout to help generate power in your strike. Glad to hear of another reason for that "ooh-wee"!
I know that pro wrestler Kevin Lloyd have trained in Muay Thai. As well as Japanese juijitsu, bjj, catch wrestling, and freestyle wrestling. And yes he had competed in bjj, catch wrestling, and freestyle wrestling. As well as a "pancrase" fight at Jigoku Grand Prix. Pancrase fight as in slapping rather than punching but using his Muay Thai training.
Transformation of Sensei-Seth in to Kru-Kseth !
That's hardcore!
I don't even train muay thai but i sometimes say "oowee" when i punch a bit harder than i wanted ,cause of all the saenchai videos, it is very strange .
YYYYEEAHHHH SAENCHAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our krav maga club has expanded a lot recently and we now also have boxing and kickboxing classes. Being a fencer myself the hardest thing for me is dealing with kicks. I'm not good at kicking despite having long legs and because I need to use my legs to check kicks now, my base and distance are all over the place, while my punches are decent, if nothing spectacular. It's interesting to see that your karate background gave you a leg up (heh) at kicking while your punches were shakier at first. The progress you've made is really interesting to see, and I hope that in a few years of training, I'll be much better at boxing and kickboxing as well. Your channel (and those of many of the other martial arts RUclipsrs) really were massive influences in my decision to expand krav into boxing and kickboxing as well. Keep up the great work!
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