I can't help it but that very first clip is hilarious. The way he's holding his leg in pain, releases it just to get kicked again and scream in pain. Like dude just give up
Thats why Muay Thai fighters dont plant their lead legs, and keep it constantly on its toes. Calf kicks are very effective against fighters with a planted lead leg, cause it takes them much longer to react and defend against it.
Yes... Stretched and relaxed muscles are more vulnerable to damage. Also, if you retract that makes the attack slower, but the absorbed damage is also higher. In Thai box you block suck a kick by flexing your leg INTO the attack. Which is more painful at first, but the inner tissues are more protected. the automatic response is to avoid the attack, which results less pain but more damage, which accumulates and the end result is much more severe injury with excruciating pain which gets stronger and stronger. In such a fight you must learn to suppress you basic instincts and fight attacks with counterattacks.
Aren't normal low kicks to the thigh using the shin potentially safer than calf kicks? It seems that you might break your foot bones if you happen to kick them in the shin...
That's why one should never throw a low kick without some kind of set up. Even taking a side step can put you at an angle which will not result in a broken shin bone. Of course they can land without a set up but it's a risk I'd rather not take.
some casuals saying that low kick to calf/leg is a cheap strategy to win matches 🤷 it's a slow torture. the damage and pain are slowly building up until one more kick and your leg/calf is out.
The calf isn't the biggest muscle, but it turns out it's fairly important when it comes to being able to fight. Makes me wonder if some advice I read in an old-time self-defense book is true of the arm as well. The writer said that if a person's arm is fully extended, the biceps muscle is often stretched, soft and vulnerable, and if you can get a good karate-chop on it then it will do great damage to arm, temporarily rendering it useless.
Yes... Stretched and relaxed muscles are more vulnerable to damage. Also, if you retract that makes the attack slower, but the absorbed damage is also higher. In Thai box you block suck a kick by flexing your leg INTO the attack. Which is more painful at first, but the inner tissues are more protected. the automatic response is to avoid the attack, which results less pain but more damage, which accumulates and the end result is much more severe injury with excruciating pain which gets stronger and stronger. In such a fight you must learn to suppress you basic instincts and fight attacks with counterattacks.
The way Weidman broke his leg was exactly what happened to Anderson Silva at the same type of kick thrown to him before...Hope to see him recover the same as Silva too
Muay Thai fighters have a more proper way to check kick, there are videos around explaining it and why we don't see Muay Thai fighter snapping their shins when they low kick their opponents.
Low kicks to the leg in fighting games are really wimpy compared to how effective they are. I'm surprised most fighting sports that involve kicks haven't devolved into who's got the better leg and tactics to destroy legs.
I'd never fought a thai fighter before until a military combative class. He pulled out one of these call strikes on me and it was like my leg went instantly dead. "I" Could still fight but my leg refused to work. It was as informative as it was humbling.
I really appreciate how Uriah Hall felt so bad for Chris Weidman. You can see on his face he had tremendous concern, like he knows as a fighter how bad that injury is.
