Bullying is too good at martial arts (158)
2024 The year Muay Thai was introduced to the Olympics for the first time.
Muay Thai faces a crisis of withdrawal at the same time as it is adopted as an Olympic sport.
The reason was simple.
‘The game is not fun!’
Thailand’s traditional Muay Thai match is so intense that there is a saying, ‘if you can walk down after the match is over, you’ve won half’.
Most Thai Nakmu kids have their first game before they are even 10 years old.
Among adult players, players with records of 200 to 300 matches are common.
During that long period of time, he made countless blows of theca (low kick), teramtuwa (middle kick), tekanko (high kick), and sok (elbow shot).
Nakmu children’s legs and elbows become as hard as weapons.
Using this weapon, Nakmu children literally operate a hideous game.
If boxing is flowing water, Muay Thai is hard rock or steel.
The chopping action and clinging attack are the same as the symbol of Muay Thai.
The Olympic Organizing Committee judged that this authentic Muay Thai was ‘too cruel’ to put on the Olympic stage in its original form.
They created Muay Thai ‘for all audiences’ that can be presented in front of the public around the world, such as rule revision, prohibition of elbow use, and wearing of kick guards.
However, the result is neither one nor the other.
Kicks while wearing a kick guard did no damage.
Most of the players played passive games focusing on points, aiming for a decision win.
Of course, the viewers also booed, but in fact, it was Thailand’s Nakmu children who were the most angry than anyone else.
Since they have dedicated their lives to Muay Thai, they must have waited and waited for the moment when Muay Thai was introduced to the world for the first time.
However, the sight of them throwing toddler kicks with a kick guard on the TV screen was never the Muay Thai they have been playing.
In the end, Muay Thai at the 2024 Olympics was ignored by everyone.
After narrowly surviving the 2028 exit crisis, the movement for renewal began.
“Let’s show the real Muay Thai!”
Although it may be a bit brutal, Muay Thai is originally a hot fighting sport.
The IOC completely revised the rules of Muay Thai, leaving only the ban on elbow attacks.
Thanks to this, hot matches poured in from the preliminaries, raising public expectations.
Nakmu children from Thailand poured out onto the Olympic stage with the will to ‘show the essence of Muay Thai this time’.
No matter how hard you train, no matter how thoroughly you strategize.
It was not easy to overcome the Nakmu children who had trained their shins by kicking palm trees since they were seven years old.
Eventually, in the lightweight division, Thailand began to devastate the entire weight division.
At the center is the legendary Nak Muay, the coach of Thailand’s Muay Thai team.
There was a ‘bat (baseball bat)’ Samco.
Anyone who knows even a little bit of Muay Thai cannot know the name ‘Ssamko’.
He has a legendary record of 321 wins and 26 losses, but what is more famous than that is probably the hellish left-footed terramtuwa (middle kick) that gave him the nickname ‘baseball bat’.
Samco’s kick was truly a special move among special moves.
A crazy mid-half kick that breaks all of your ribs if you don’t guard and fractures your arm even if you block it with your arm.
No matter how much the opponent attacked, the appearance of swinging the iron pipe-like left foot while silently advancing one span at a time was truly demonic.
As he kicked like a human without any sense of pain, many people asked him.
Do you not even feel pain?
Samco’s answer to this was simple.
“It hurts because I am a human too.”
People were surprised to see him say that he was sick in an unexpectedly cool way, but many people couldn’t help but be moved by what he said next.
“But you can’t stop just because it hurts. There are people who pay money to come and watch my game. I have to give them the best performance.”
Nak Muai is a seeker and a kind of ‘performer’ at the same time.
That’s why you always have to be on the offensive, and you have to play with the momentum to take your opponent’s breath away.
Ssamco, with such a mindset, took on the coaching role of the Olympic team.
That’s why Thai players had no choice but to be thoroughly disciplined from the mental state.
In addition, the bloody left foot kick, which was Ssamco’s main weapon, is a bonus.
But ironically, Muay Thai was the reason Muay Thai was chosen because of Samco.
Events with overlapping schedules for the finals are Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu and Taekwondo.
He was not familiar with Taekwondo, but Jiu-Jitsu was already a sport that he could aim for a medal because he had already trained with Artur Marcelo for a long time.
Nevertheless, Mugyeol chose Muay Thai, which was unfamiliar to him.
From the moment I heard the news that Samco was coming to LA as the coach of the Thailand Muay Thai team, Muay Thai was my absolute choice.
If Samco can beat his player with a great game in front of his eyes.
If only I could impress him through that game and bring him to my ‘Legendary Gym’.
I could learn the kick technique from Im Jin-soo, but I couldn’t learn the essential ‘power’.
However, if you train with Ssamco, you will definitely be able to absorb that crazy kick power.
Such an upgraded kick will be an essential weapon in conquering the WFC light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions.
How could I miss this opportunity!
Finally, the -95kg class Muay Thai tournament has begun.
Mugyeol entered the ring against his first opponent, Joshua Guderian of Germany.
Coincidentally, Ssamco was also sitting in the bleachers to observe the heavyweights’ matches.
Beep-.
With the sound of the buzzer, the round of 64 match in the -95kg class began.
* * *
“Hmm-.”
Ssamco’s expression, sitting in the crowd, looked quite bored.
All of the main lightweight fighters advanced to the finals, but could not leave because the heavyweight tournament was still pending.
However, heavyweight Muay Thai fights are far from realistic.
Due to its large size and slow movements, the kick has a sense of weight, but it is not light.
In most cases, a boring clinch fight is followed by a throw or, at best, a match where they attack each other’s stomach with a dip (front kick).
Well, I would have noticed if there was a player who was remarkably good at managing such a boring game.
“Looks like no one can beat our Samat!”
A deformed monster born by Samat Saipa Lumpini (Muay Thai Stadium in Thailand).
Nak Muay is the only weightlifter in Thailand’s Muay Thai national team and the gold medalist in the -95kg class is a strong contender.
Born between an American and a Thai, Samat was abandoned as a child and raised by Lumpini workers.
Lumpini’s workers gave him the name of the legendary Nak Muai, who had been abandoned without a name.
Perhaps because of the name, Samat started learning Muay Thai as if it were destiny.
From the age of three, he started kicking with a rope-wrapped wooden club and competed in his first Muay Thai match at the age of seven.
It was a Samat who had both talent and militancy, but the problem was that his body had grown too much.
The most popular weight class in Lumpini is the lightweight division in the 60kg range.
Lumpini’s most popular weight class was the light weight division, where he enjoyed watching the game and had a long career as a player and was also active in gambling.
On the other hand, unlike other martial arts, heavyweight was not popular.
In the first place, bettors did not bet on heavyweights because the player pool was not wide and the game was often boring.
It was Samat Saipa who completely put an end to Lumpini’s dying heavyweight division.
In order for the Lumpini match to be successful, a match with appropriate odds must first be formed.
That’s why even the strongest Lumpini champions fought against each other, and Nakmu children with a win rate of over 90% were unexpectedly defeated.
However, Samat Saipa was not defeated by anyone.
Even the traveling heavyweights from Lumpini Rajadamnern were no match for Samat.
It was Samat who reigned as the undefeated champion with 64 wins and 0 losses in the Lumpini heavyweight division.
It was released as if it were kicked out of Lumpini for the reason that ‘dividend itself does not come out’.
Many organizations reached out to him.
The first thing that caught his eye was PLF’s Ray Defoe.
Ray Defoe, a former kickboxer with a keen interest in kickboxing and Muay Thai fighters, fell in love with Samat the first time he saw him.
“Even if you teach this bastard a rough tackle defense, he will chew up the entire MMA edition in 3 years!”
Excited Ray Defoe offered a huge contract and launched an ambitious recruitment operation, but Samat shook his head.
“why!? Are you short of money?”
But right after that, Samat turned down an offer from Fellator Scott Coker, who offered him a larger offer.
If you get into MMA, you can make a lot of money.
But Samat Saipa is Nakmua.
‘I haven’t paid Muay Thai anything yet!’
After rejecting all offers of a large sum of money, he joined the Thailand Muay Thai national team led by Ssamco.
To properly introduce Thai Muay Thai to the world.
Although Samco coached the national team mainly with lightweight players, there was no reason to refuse to join Samat Saipa.
Samat was the one with the spirit of Nakmuai that was superior to anyone else.
Living together with the national team, Samco didn’t even have to train Samat.
Or rather, I had to keep an eye on him at all times to prevent overtraining.
Every time I saw him like that, I felt sorry for his opponent.
With a body of 192cm and 95kg, he wore elastic and powerful muscle armor.
When he was training teramtuwa (middle kick), two people had to work together to hold the kick mitt.
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With each kick, his feet sounded like lightning.
A relentless kick as if Ssamco had descended into the heavyweight division.
Samco nicknamed the kick ‘Saipa (thunderbolt)’, and that nickname soon became his ring name.
Thai national team coach Samco never even thought about Samat Saipa’s defeat.
-Until I saw Yoshua Guderian’s match in the round of 64 in the 95kg class.
uh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
“Heo-eok-.”
[Terramtuwa!! Terrible terramtu and bombing!! It falls away from the opponent who is attempting a flawless clinch and bombards with a huge
middle kick!!] [Joshua Guderian barely guarded, but the shock seems to be transmitted beyond the guard!! Guderian’s face turns blue-purple as if he’s suffering from lack of oxygen!!]
Joshua Guderian, Germany’s best kid, threw a counterattack punch with a dying expression, but he didn’t care about the integrity.
Perok-.
Even if the fist hits the face, it comes back with a calm expression that makes you wonder if a fly has landed on it.
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
Even if he tried to catch his breath in the clinch, he tore him off and threw him into the ring line, and he did it again.
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Even if Guderian, who was half-conscious from the pain, fired a foul elbow shot, he avoided it and went back to the right and fired again.
uh oh oh oh
In the end, Joshua Guderian collapsed onto the canvas with a groan.
In the hot game, the audience raised their voices and chanted the name of Innocent and the Korean cheering song.
Yes that is muay thai!
The moment he finished Guderian, Ssamco unknowingly slammed his knee and jumped up from his seat.
Is that guy flawless?
It’s the guy who used to do MMA and tried to compete in 3 Olympic events.
I didn’t know boxing wrestling, but I thought it was reckless to challenge muay thai.
He also started playing Muay Thai at the age of seven, and most of the athletes who competed in the Olympics had more than 10 years of experience.
However, what is that overwhelming game management method?
A violent talent that chews up the opponent with just one Teramtu without needing defense or anything.
I didn’t want to admit it, but it was similar to Ssamco’s past style.
Plus that thunderous sound from the kick.
“Isn’t it the same as the sound of our Samat kicks…?”
Samco involuntarily swallowed his saliva.
I found a huge ambush in the -95kg class tournament that I only thought would be stable.
But at the same time, his heart was beating.
Not as a national team coach, but as a Nak Muai and a man.
Who will win if the two of them come together?
It is a question that will naturally be answered as the tournament progresses.
It was a heavyweight tournament where he was about to leave after checking his opponent, but before he knew it, Ssamco corrected his posture and sat down, paying attention to the ring.
To observe his game without anyone else.
