🧵 How to get into Lethwei?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:05:56 UTC No. 139484
Been training and competed in Muay Thai for 7 years now and have recently become interested in Lethwei. I have struggled to find to find any form of Lethwei gym outside of Myanmar and imo the situation over there does no seem ideal for foreigners atm. Does anybody have any pointers on ways to get into training Lethwei? or ideally gyms that could help me get a fight eventually?
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:29:11 UTC No. 139486
>>139484
Nobody here has ever trained lethwei and the people praise it are larpers
Anonymous at Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:49:01 UTC No. 139502
>>139484
It's literally Muay Thai with headbutts
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:43:07 UTC No. 139564
>>139484
youre only options like you said are either actually going to Myanmar (not practical) or finding someone (likely at a muay thai gym) who did go to myanmar and learn it to pass it on to you, but realistically
>>139502
just learn how to add headbutts in the clinch and practive your bag work bare knuckle
Dave Leduc gets shit on a lot but his youtube channel has pretty good techniques instructional videos
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:42:03 UTC No. 139581
>>139484
Why? It's washed, third rate nak muays beating on cans.
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:36:48 UTC No. 139582
>>139484
in my opinion you have better chance finding muay boran trainer rather than lethwei if you dont want to move to Myanmar
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:25:02 UTC No. 139587
>>139564
ahh man i can't stand dave leduc but yeah, maybe he is my best option
>>139581
seems fun and i am a third rate nak muay
>>139582
i guess but im more so interested in competing, i've had 1 kard chuek fight which is probably the closest you could get with muay thai, ive heard bad things about muay boran if im being honest but ill give it a lookk
Anonymous at Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:45:36 UTC No. 139597
>>139587
>he is my best option
He's a failed nak muay who mostly looks good because he beats up Cambodian manlets with poor kickboxing fundamentals.
Anonymous at Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:59:17 UTC No. 139661
>>139587
some moves in muay boran aren't really effective in real combat and most of the times you won't get any real muay boran sparring, mostly just muay thai with some additional rules. But this is also specific to who teaches you and where do you learn
Anonymous at Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:21:01 UTC No. 139664
good luck finding lethwei outside of Myanmar, just stick with muay thai
Anonymous at Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:17:53 UTC No. 139680
You must have a lot of issues to really wanted to fight without gloves and with headbutts constantly, all of the fighters are desperate to not starve, you can't sell that in other context.
Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:46:38 UTC No. 139725
>>139661
>>139587
is it correct to say that muay boran is muay thai+some blocks and grapples (like palankutan?) and its taught to the military, while NOT being "secret killing art"?
Anonymous at Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:40:36 UTC No. 139746
>>139664
stick with muay thai
Train Judo. Any Muay Thai fighter is just going to get dumped on their head the second a judoka gets their hands on them, rendering Muay Thai useless.
Anonymous at Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:06:08 UTC No. 140238
>>139746
Stop shilling one martial art you moron. I've seen you in like ten threads this week. Judoka wouldn't get their hands on a Muay Thai fighter if their legs got kicked out from under them.
Anonymous at Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:46:11 UTC No. 140592
>>139680
This https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=irTw9
And this https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansAreM
is even more extreme, yet people do it.