Red Neck Muay Thai
November 18, 2008 by nopstar
I don’t know what it is, but it seems like hicks/rednecks (country folk) are the same everywhere you go. How do you come up with this stuff? It’s got to be the booze and the boredom, those are the two constants in all every part of the world.
via Richard Barrow’s Thai Blog
Diimak sent this my way the other week. It’s blindfolded children’s Muay Thai! Seriously… I know when viewed through the prism of our western eyes this can seem pretty effed, that’s because it is! Ok at least they’ve got head gear on.
I’ve seen vids of the adult matches where they’re not. Not actually all that interesting though… if you want you can find a few vids on youtube, not really worth posting though.
Anyway, in this pic they lay down the dried palm leaves, so the fighters can hear each other. Which leads me into my next question.
Say you had to do this… who knows maybe you could find yourself the only drunk falang at some temple fair in the upcountry, it could happen. What do you lead with?
Do you swing for the fences? Do you just kick at rib height? Or do you just cover your head and hope you don’t get clipped?
I’d just throw light probing teeps until I felt something, then smash in a kick at rib height.
I don’t think I could do it. It’s scary enough when you see shins and such flying at you, but to not be able to see it would make me cry lol.
I would make fake shuffling steps so the guy thinks I’m moving, and when I think he’s close enough to me I’ll step in with huge leg kicks. I wouldn’t want to be defending leg kicks while blindfolded. Otherwise you could always slowly advance until you make contact and then clinch up and never let them go.
I would listen carefully… quietly…. ready to strike like a cobra…
… and then, perform Nopstar’s patented move.
Can anyone guess? It has something to do with grapes…..
Nopstar,
probably none can answer your questions, cause this type of fighting, or whatever you wanna call it, is simply and utterly stupid.
Maybe this type of fighting is just a step becoming a fighter, for example that you have to control yourself in the ring, never lose your mind no matter what. I know that it sounds like some cheap Van Damme movie from the 80s.
I was gonna say Bloodsport LOL Gusnark, but other than that, I would do the Frank Dux, where he sits and cryes and screams after he is blinded!!
flying knees all day until i hit something.
when i first saw this pic, i didn’t think much of it, due to the fact i saw this a number of times in northern thailand. guys i knew who partook in it, thought it was really funny and had a good time doing it – sometimes they’d stick 3 or 4 of them in the ring together. sometimes it would be children, but more often than not, it was fighters and/or past fighters. any time i saw this go down, it was never serious though. i didnt read richard barrow’s blog about it, so if this was a serious fight, it’s out of my realm of experience.
o, and nopstar, i agree with you, i think this was born from booze and boredom as well.
Well, I’m definitely a redneck . . . blindfolded fighting is great fun . . . I’ve done it a few times for shits-and-giggles.
In fact, any kind of redneck fighting stuff is fun . . . Had a game of soccer-boxing just last week (one glove per person). We laughed our arses off.
Don’t agree with little kids doing it though … you should have to be an adult before you’re allowed to do such childish, stupid things
:P
fight geek,
“you should have to be an adult before you’re allowed to do such childish, stupid things”
Well put! :)
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