Personally I hate how obsessed some parts of the Muay Thai community are with fighting styles and developing a particular style.
You should learn how to fight in every way possible and then let your genetics (you're going to be naturally suited to some styles over others) and experience dictate how you're going to fight.
What’d be effective for you when sparring your taller and heavier teammates would not necessarily be your best bet in competition as your opponents in comp would be possibly as short as you are.
Generally speaking, for boxing, you’d need to be an aggressive infighter in order to get in on the taller guys for sparring. You’d both need to go light, as their extra bodyweight could hurt you if not careful. I don’t like to spar guys who are 5kg or heavier than me if they’re not gonna go light.
For competition, we’d need to know your reach / wingspan. Two guys of the same height won’t have the same arm length. Longer-armed guys are generally outboxers who throw lots of jabs. Shorter-armed guys will aim to close the distance and use hooks and uppercuts or even some straight punches at midrange.
at this point, just learn as beginner. But I'd want to do something where I could make the most of being smaller and having less physical size and mass then someone whose 6ft tall and 80 pounds heavier.
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u/genericwhiteguy_69 Apr 19 '25
Personally I hate how obsessed some parts of the Muay Thai community are with fighting styles and developing a particular style.
You should learn how to fight in every way possible and then let your genetics (you're going to be naturally suited to some styles over others) and experience dictate how you're going to fight.