Known all over the world Thai boxing- quite severe sport. However, not only men, but also girls do it. There are women's Muay Thai competitions, women achieve serious sports results along with representatives of the strong half of humanity.
Our school organizes Thai boxing training in groups for girls. Training in them is based on female physiology, involves less stress, but provides the desired result. Studying with us, you will master the techniques of Muay Thai and will be able to stand up for yourself in a critical situation!
Why Thai boxing?
It is believed that Muay Thai (or free fighting) is as close as possible in character to street fight. It uses fairly simple, but effective techniques, allowing you to successfully repel blows and attack the enemy. Thai boxing technique is one of the foundations of training MMA (mixed martial arts) fighters.
All of the above does not exclude the fact that Thai boxing is contraindicated for women. On the contrary: it is the technique of free combat that is most suitable for use in street conditions, to protect against attacks and neutralize offenders. And simple techniques are easier to learn if you do not have any skills in martial arts.
Thai boxing involves serious stress on the body. Intense workout- a great way to tighten the figure, reset overweight, improve well-being. And most importantly - you will gain self-confidence and independence, which will give you additional attractiveness.
It's safe?
Any contact sport is the risk of getting bruises, bruises, scratches, cuts. However, according to statistics, injuries in Thai boxing do not exceed the level of other martial arts (such as, for example, karate or taekwondo). In addition, in women's sports, injuries are usually an order of magnitude smaller than in men.
It is important that from the first lessons you will learn to defend yourself and repel blows. This will allow you to develop effective self-defense techniques and, thereby, reduce injuries to a minimum. In training, the mentor will make sure that the level of load corresponds to your capabilities. The same applies to sparring: you will be able to train with girls whose level of training is comparable to yours.
Modern Thai boxing competitions are held in helmets and protectors. In addition, the conditions in women's fights are much more forgiving than in men's. The round usually lasts no more than 2 minutes, and the same amount is given for rest.
Classes for girls are a fantastic opportunity to discover new horizons for yourself, to become more slender, toned and resilient. This sport is a system of high-intensity training and allows you to achieve significant results in the shortest possible time.
In Thai boxing, even the weakest and most insecure representative of the fair sex will sooner or later be able to feel self-sufficient and confident. Indeed, in the modern world, a woman can not only read books and cook dinners, hundreds of roads are open in front of her, which only men could walk until the recent past.
Muay Thai is a contact martial art. According to the rules, wrestling is prohibited in it. It would seem, why does a fragile girl need Thai boxing? Muay Thai classes for girls - will become great way learn useful self-defense skills. After all, unfortunately, no one is immune from unpleasant situations.
Regular Thai boxing training will make you physically strong, focused, and most importantly - will provide an opportunity to get a real fight practice.
Muay Thai section for girls in Moscow - the right way to the result
Pursuing Thai boxing for girls , you will become not only strong, but also:
- more resilient;
- physically trained;
- self-confident;
- flexible and plastic;
- learn to make quick decisions.
Having learned the technique of Thai boxing, the girl will be able to stand up for herself, because she will be invulnerable to almost any opponent. The main thing in Thai boxing is perseverance and determination.
With the modern rhythm of life, a girl just needs to learn how to protect herself. This practice helps to harden, to become invulnerable to offenders.
Thai boxing for girls in Moscow in the LESTA sports club - an individual approach to everyone
Experience, age, occupation do not matter for the development of this type of martial arts. During training, you will do a lot of work on yourself, become stronger both in body and spirit. And often that's what they come here for.
The LESTA sports club in Moscow will offer you:
- free first lesson;
- flexible training schedule;
- modernly equipped training rooms;
- individual approach to everyone.
And, most importantly, experienced trainers who will help you master the difficult, but very effective form martial arts like muay thai.
Thai boxing is the oldest martial arts originated in Thailand. It is also called Muay Thai (which means free Thai fight in translation). By its nature, it is similar to other types of Indochinese fighting, but it also has striking differences. In modern Muay Thai, it is allowed to strike with fists, elbows, feet, shins or knees, for which it is also called "fight of eight limbs." Thai boxing for girls is popular these days and is often offered as a self-defense course.
Thai boxing for women
Despite the fact that Muay Thai involves a contact fight, there are more and more girls doing Muay Thai every day. This is not surprising, because the range of benefits from such training is very high:
- Thai boxing classes replace sets of classes with individual exercises for the buttocks, abs, legs and chest. This allows you to keep your figure in shape without making any special efforts for this.
- Permanent, subject to a reasonable diet, contribute to the normalization of weight and improve the figure.
- Being engaged in martial arts, a woman becomes more dexterous, graceful and graceful.
- After several months of such training, a woman begins to feel very confident, because she understands that she can fight back absolutely any bully.
- The longer a girl attends training, the better she knows self-defense.
As coaches like to joke, when a wife is engaged in Thai boxing, the husband does not forget to take out the trash or wash the dishes, and the children bring only excellent marks from school. The benefits of these workouts are very high, much more complete than from regular fitness classes.
Thai boxing - training
Trainings are quite dynamic, and include a lot of useful exercises on coordination of movements, strength, agility and stretching, due to which the complex development of the body occurs. After the first classes, the girls notice changes in themselves and their attitude.
In the video below you can see short presentation training, which includes a long warm-up and preparation, practicing blows on a pear bag and even a contact fight in full equipment. There is no need to be afraid of such activities - no one will force you to fight if you are not yet sure that you will do everything right. By using the skills you have learned, you will be able to improve your mental and physical condition and become much more confident in yourself.
Since ancient times, martial arts have been predominantly men, and while they beat each other out of all the nonsense with bare hands, women sat at home and kept the hearth. But there were among the wrestlers and women who were considered a kind of exception to the rule. There were also entire nations in which matriarchy reigned. For example, the Amazons: according to legend, there were no men among them - they did not tolerate them and did all the work themselves. They did not just defend their state themselves, but even raided the surrounding area and were known as courageous and cruel warriors.
Many years have passed since then, however, among us you can find women, descendants of the Amazons, capable of putting any man on the shoulder blades. One of them - Andreeva Svetlana Mikhailovna, world champion in kickboxing - teaches in our sports school female boxing. She does not seek to make great warriors out of all the girls, but teaches how to resist a man in a difficult situation.
Kickboxing
Kickboxing is called fist fight with kicks included. Women's kickboxing is less violent than boxing. Scars, cuts and bruises are unlikely, since the legs of the girls are usually long - they are used in kickboxing for protection. Therefore, kickboxing is an activity for girls of not the smallest stature. In addition, there are restrictions on body shots.
There is only one main difference in boxing for men and women - it consists in the mandatory wearing of special protectors on the chest.
Kickboxing, in addition to the ability to stand up for yourself, teaches concentration, attentiveness, trains the reaction. And these are very useful skills not only in the walls gym but also in the real world.
Girls who are engaged in kickboxing are often more beautiful and feminine in relation to boxers. They have an almost flawless figure and a beautiful face, thanks to constant training and work on themselves.
Boxing
It was once believed that only desperate girls who have nothing to lose go to boxing: offended, beaten, notorious, dreaming of compensating for their shortcomings where men dominate.
Perhaps it was so before.
But there are no identical types of men and women. Some guys tend to do rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming, and some girls have a predisposition to weightlifting or boxing.
If you exclude bloody blows, you can look at boxing from a completely different perspective. It looks like a dance, a kind of fitness that strengthens the figure, helps to lose weight. excess weight, makes human movements more free, relaxed, coordinated.
In addition, boxing radically changes a woman, and for the better: she becomes more free, independent, able to fend for herself in unpleasant situations.
Is it bad?
Boxing is ideal for letting off excess steam. After a hard day at work, you can perfectly discharge yourself in training by waving your fists. Would a woman want to “throw plates” at her husband after that?
Thai boxing
Muay Thai or Thai boxing is the toughest of contact martial arts. It allows the maximum possible number of strikes. Elbows, shins, forearms and knees are connected to the traditional fist and foot. If in boxing and kickboxing the clinch is a “peaceful distance” at which athletes feel relatively safe, then in Thai boxing this distance is one of the most dangerous.
Knee and elbow strikes are swift, almost impossible to see and block. Plus, they are amazingly powerful.
Throws and grabs in Muay Thai are also prohibited, but, as the practice of real "fights without rules" shows, this element of martial arts is not required. There is only one opportunity for boxers and kickboxers to resist a fighter who has studied Thai boxing - to keep him out of the close range.
Muay Thai has rightfully earned the title of one of the toughest and most effective martial arts. It is not for nothing that in America it is called "mortal combat".
Thai boxing is classes for girls who are quite self-confident, firm not only in body, but also in spirit. Sometimes in training you have to be tough and strong. However, having reached the end, you will realize that you are able to fight back not only the usual intruder from the gateway, but also real boxers and kickboxers.
If you are in doubt about the choice of martial arts, we advise you to start with kickboxing: not as hard as boxing, not as hard as muay thai. After attending several classes with our professionals, you will understand whether to lower or increase the level of load, and the teachers, having assessed the level of your abilities, will give the best advice on choosing a section.
If you are still thinking whether to record or not, we tell you with confidence - it will never be superfluous to try. If you don't like it or find it too hard, you can always leave. But who knows, perhaps in these types of martial arts you will find yourself.
Our address: Address: Moscow, Open highway, 15 building 21, sports club "KITEK", metro station Rokossovsky Boulevard, Eastern Administrative Okrug(Eastern District of Moscow)
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Text: Maria Semendyaeva
In 2011, I worked at Kommersant as a culture correspondent, lived in a rented room in a commune, and my salary was barely enough for food, and the need sports loads became quite obvious when I couldn't fit into my only winter pants. I went to Thai boxing for several reasons: the gym was close to work, the training was ruthless, all the equipment was given out in the classroom three times a week and it cost about 4 thousand rubles a month. It was especially pleasant that the main instrument was own body, and you could train anywhere - there would be a sparring partner.
Thai boxing, or Muay Thai, is a type of wrestling that is considered an adaptation of an even deadlier ancient martial art. In Thai boxing, three levels of shin strikes are used (high to the head, middle to the stomach and low to the thigh), as well as punching boxing techniques, elbow and knee strikes, a direct kick (tib) and, of course, the clinch - fighting without a ground floor, that is, on the feet, not on the mat. In order to start training, from the equipment at first it is enough only boxing gloves, bandages and mouthguards, but in the future you will need protection on the lower legs, a helmet and chest protection. Thai shorts are a special aesthetic pleasure, but not only: you can’t imagine more convenient for training.
Contrary to popular belief that Thai boxing is a tough martial art “not for girls”, there are many girls in this sport, and, other things being equal, they often achieve much more serious results than boys. This happens because, firstly, not all girls are such fragile creatures, and secondly, because there is much less competition in this area than among men. For example, in the category up to 70 kg, as I had at the beginning, in principle it is not easy to find a worthy opponent. Even in the category up to 63.5 kg, there are several times fewer athletes than athletes, and in a few years, in principle, it is realistic to achieve the title of master of sports.
Even if you don’t set yourself the task of participating in competitions, Muay Thai training will definitely help you believe in yourself, but in order to achieve at least some progress, you need to practice at least three times a week. Today, contact martial arts can be considered a type of lifestyle: people visit the gym once every couple of weeks, do without practicing technique and without heavy exhausting sparring, lightly thresh a pear and then post cute selfies from the locker room. You can meet girls and boys who have been practicing Muay Thai for several years, and at the same time they have neither punching technique, nor strength, nor even resistance to pain.
Talking about why people go to martial arts, there is a risk of getting too deep into complex combinations of complexes, social settings and aesthetic preferences. For me, Muay Thai has become a path to emotional health (although physical health still a little undermined). Firstly, training in Thai boxing brings up the habit of overcoming difficulties: usually the lesson lasts from one and a half to two hours, and about an hour of this time is devoted to a tedious warm-up and hitch.
Giving your best in training is an effective way to get rid of irritation and resentment,
and push-ups clear your head much better than caffeine or alcohol
Running, jumping rope, push-ups, jumping-outs, stretching, technique development, exercises for coordination and for the vestibular apparatus develop the body from various sides. Everyone good coach he will explain that even if one thing does not work out - for example, my vestibular apparatus is very weak - you can develop some other area and focus on it. Already after six months of training, for the first time in a long time, I believed in my strength, when in light sparring I defeated a beginner who came from classic boxing, - I just used my knees, realizing that “on my fists” he was stronger than me.
Secondly, after I started practicing Thai boxing, I became much more confident in myself. It was the confidence that I could stand up for myself, even if I had to do it physically. Unfortunately, this method is less accessible to girls than to guys, because from childhood we are taught to negotiate, not to insist, and to rejoice that violence is used against us, and not to fight back - after all, pulling pigtails and pinching in the corridor is a manifestation of attention . Once I realized that I could fight back, it literally became easier for me to live and cope with stress - from the mere awareness of my security, and not the readiness to get down to business. In addition, give everything in training - effective method get rid of irritation and resentment, and push-ups clear the head much better than caffeine or alcohol. The punching bag with the face of the boss is a world-famous invention of Japanese clerks, who cannot better vent their irritation than by beating such a scarecrow from the heart.
Frankly, sometimes even thinking about exactly how (in detail!) You can respond to the aggression of others helps to restrain the manifestation of this aggression on your part. True, it is better to be careful with these thoughts, because in fact it is very unpleasant to hit a person, and a feeling of shame for this act will inevitably come - sooner or later - especially if your opponent is not a Thai boxer at all. Recently, a Facebook acquaintance wrote that after the action, he thought about whether to send his daughter to knife fighting classes. I answered him the following: if you master some kind of deadly skill, it is very difficult not to use it. I now realize that when I was a muay thai neophyte, my behavior was often unnecessarily aggressive.
As in any other fight, it is not easy to be a beginner in Muay Thai. The prospect of a fight with a real opponent scares off many from the very beginning - they say, they will pile on me, I don’t know how, they will beat me. The truth is that the danger usually comes from the beginners themselves, who do not yet know how to calculate their strength and can hit too hard, causing real injury. Girls in Muay Thai often behave in a peculiar way: many at first apologize a lot when they put a little more power into the punch than they did to squash the mosquito. “Oh, I'm sorry! Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, "- these absolutely uncontrollable phrases are spoken by every girl in the first few months of classes. People who have already been practicing for several months can react to this in their own way: often it seems to them that the opponent is “hypocritic” and does not work at full strength.
Another issue is the attitude in society towards a girl who has learned to stand up for herself. Today, martial arts are no longer considered an aggravating circumstance in the commission of a crime, and yet, in the news about the case of Russian powerlifting champion Tatyana Andreeva, who stabbed a rapist friend and was convicted, she is stubbornly called “athlete”, as if this type of activity determines the degree of resistance during rape. In turn, the MMA star ( mixed martial arts) Ronda Rousey was even condemned for domestic violence after she described her quarrels with her ex-boyfriend in her autobiographical book. However, such cases are rather rare: real violence and sports-limited "violence" in training are completely different things, and it is quite possible to say that in wrestling classes, women and men gain an experience of equality and learn respect.
The relationship between athletes and athletes in training is a separate difficult question. Sexist jokes in the gym are not uncommon, as is internal misogyny among female athletes. However, if a girl can be joked about menstruation, a guy can not avoid ridicule for the fact that the girl laid him with a haikick.
For many men, being paired with a woman is akin to humiliation, but gradually learning that the partner has breasts that cannot be hit, and much easier weight category, a Thai boxer may well get used to sparring with a girl. There are also such athletes who like to "teach" beginners, especially women, they immediately hit with full force, as if declaring: "If you want to be on an equal footing - get it." In this case, it is very important how the coach behaves. If he encourages such behavior, it is necessary to leave this hall, because sport is sport, and not a platform for self-assertion and demonstrative flogging.
Like any other combat sport, Muay Thai is traumatic and not very good for physical health.
Passion for Thai boxing came to the masses from street confrontations between fan groups and conflicts between left-wing radicals and right-wing radicals, but is gradually becoming a thing of the past along with these phenomena. After three years of training, I lost seven kilograms, became the champion of the Moscow region in Thai boxing, won one master tournament, visited several amazing competitions. However, when at that very masterful tournament one of the coaches began to tell me that the Holocaust was invented by the Jews, and several guys from my gym once again began to joke about the Eastern name of my opponent, I realized that all this had nothing to do with sports that I spend a huge amount of time with people who are completely alien to me.
This is one of the most important problems that people face when entering the world of martial arts. The regulars of ordinary, not the most expensive gyms, where they can train very serious fighters, are mostly schoolchildren or students, schoolgirls or students, with a high probability belonging to some ideological group. For example, in one of the halls where I trained, all members of the Spartak fan company "School" were engaged, in another club where I went, Evgenia Khasis was trained, convicted of complicity in the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. Last time When I made an attempt to go to Thai boxing classes a year ago at the Institute of Physical Education, at the end of the training I was offered to do it cheaper at the expense of the sponsor. In exchange, it was required to go to rallies on call and support the point of view of a construction company, known, in particular, for dispersing the old edition of the Russian Planet.
This was the last straw in my passion for Thai boxing: it became obvious that it was extremely difficult to practice it and stay away from ideology. Today Muay Thai in Russia is a sport that will require you to reshape your life and perhaps even your interests and attitudes - and more so the longer you do it. While you are still interested in exploring the world of youth subcultures, trying yourself in a new role as a boxer, choosing colorful bandages and running to training with anticipation of new knowledge, it makes sense to think about how next sport you will take care of. If you are not going to become a professional and make money on fights, any sport has a development ceiling.
In any case, the opportunity to learn a couple of simple punches and, in general, become physically stronger is a definite plus. In addition, any girl who has ever tried herself in martial arts expands the possibilities of self-realization for all women. Once in training, a guy asked me: “Why did you go to boxing, because this is not a women's sport?” I asked if his mother drives a car and if his sister wears jeans. Of course, he answered in the affirmative, because it could not have occurred to him that in many countries of the world these are still “not women's” occupations.