How to win a Muay thai Match.

Whether it's your first fight, or your 100th, you obviously want to win. Here are some tips and guidelines that you can follow to help improve your chances of winning.

Steps

1. Begin training about a month before your fight. During this month, wake up about 30

minutes earlier in the morning, and do 30 minutes skipping.

2. Use weights. You don't want to use anything too heavy, though, as you don't want to injure yourself. Follow the general rule of "light weights, high reps". So, instead of going big, you go "hard".

3. Watch videos of your opponent's fights, if you can. If you can't do this, watch fights from great nak muay (Thai Boxers). E.g. Ramon Dekkers, Buakaw Por Pramuk etc.

4. Stretch every day. This is very important. Spend about 20 minutes stretching every day.

5. Run. As more as you can If possible, use ankle weights as well, but definitely run. Aim to do this 3 times a week.

6. Do as much light contact sparring as possible. (Light contact so you don't injure yourself).

This will get you used to being in the ring, and in the situation of a fight.

Tips

- If you go into the fight scared, then you have just lost half the battle. You need to be confident. Very important.

- Work on your left side, fight southpaw every now and then. This will definatley confuse your opponent.

- Don't just go for the jumping knee, head kick etc. Keep it tactical, pick your shots.

- Pretend there's no audience. I tend to find the audience is pressure that you don't need.

Warnings

When lifting weights, stretching, sparring etc, be very careful; take it in moderation, if something

starts to hurt. Stop.

Things You'll Need

- Confidence

- Muay Thai equipment

- Skipping rope

- Weights

- If possible, a punching bag.