muay thai and being short in your weight category

easyontheeye

hi,

does anyone good frustrated that no matter how good you are someone not as good but taller will always have the advantage! you have to work a hell of alot harder as a shorter fighter. Also i did abit of googling and youtubing and found a majority of wins and KO's are by the taller guy!

how do people train or prepare for a fight against a taller guy? i dont think this is much an issue for MMA becuase once your on the ground height becomes less a factor.

bjj-fighter

Haha cool Im 6ft and almost 14.Im gonna be a bleedin Muay Thai champ at this rate

hardCopy

Depending on body-type you could always try cutting to a lower weight division

HammerHeadGym

I have this problem myself. Not in Thailand, they're all short arses over here but anywhere else.

Anyway, I have been working with a short thai guy over here, who is in the same boat and he showed me a few combos for geting in on the big fella's.

Basically, teep's followed by big hooks, overhand rights and other painful stuff. Very soon the tall guys cover up, even when I dummy a teep, so I can leap in close.

I'm sure your trainer has a few tips, no?

cowzerp

O'k im a boxer but i believe there will be similarities-the taller fighters will usually use there advantage and try to keep the fight at distance, if your smaller and can learn to work in close your smaller limbs can give you the advantage-hooks uppercuts and kicks close range, so being shorter you should focus on being a pressure fighter and keeping the fight in your range-i'd be interested to hear from the muay thai trainers if this would be correct for muay thai? hope it helps

HammerHeadGym

That's pretty much exactly what my trainer had me doing Paul

RedXIV

hey i'm a TKD practioner but thought i might throw a comment or two.
i'm 6ft5 so you can imagine that i use my legs to full extent in my fights but when one of the other members in my club asked my instructor how some one could get past that my instructor was painfully co-operative.
His main theory is the bigger they are, the closer you should be.
Theoretcally smaller people should be that small bit faster. i know i'm nowhere near as fast as some of the members in my club. so if i go for a simple turning kick to the head, my instructor moves in quickly to smack me a few times in the chest/head.

I've yet to fight someone significantly bigger so i've had no experience myself on how effective his ideals are but i've the bruises to show that it works for him anyway

crazy monkey

Being tall is nice
But Ramon Dekkers is a midget and he would kick @ss with most bean ploes...
for more info on short @ss yet amazing thai fighters contact paddy clint...

As for being short and doing thai and it being a disadvantage...move in close and tight kick yes you'll get punch and elbowed but if a man can stand a man can't fight....just watch Bas Rutten's last mma [yes mma not thai] fight re:devasting leg kicks

On a different note....randy couture vs sylvia...overcame the height difference

Any advantage an opponent has can be negated by application of a good game plan [the power of the mind wooooooo]

Best of luck with your training and no doubt you'll kick @ss regardless of weight category/height

ciao

dlofnep

Some people adapt.. Look at Dekkers or Zambidis.. those two guys are absolute killers.. Small guys seem to use punches more than kicks, get in close and work the body and head with strong hooks.. Doesn't mean they can't kick, just means punches work more for them.

I'm short too, but I'm not much of a striker - so doesn't matter to me either way!

I think height in MMA is of less importance.. Sherk is 5'6" and runs LW, Hughes is 5'8" and runs WW. Fedor is only 6'0" and runs heavyweight.. Silva is short enough too for 205.

ColinJennings

I'm only 5'4, so almost all adult competitors are taller than me. I just make sure that I control the range and move in quickly. One thing I do quite often is I move back in a straight line to entice them in only to jump to the side an hit them as they moved past me like a train.

You simply need to outsmart them. Yes they have a reach advantage, but that is not the only element of any fight.

dlofnep

Woohoo, someone else is 5'4"!

Nothingcompares

Fight Fight Fight

dlofnep

lol, no thanks - i have horrid memories from being battered in the clinch from owen roddy. i think i'll pass!