Tyrone Spong: Powerful Shifting Attacks

Finding a way to take away space and staying loaded into power strikes is critical for a forward dominant fighter. Watch this breakdown by Lawrence Kenshin to see how Tyrone Spong executes this technique in his attacks with efficiency.

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Iman Barlow signs two fight deal with Muay Thai Grand Prix

Muay Thai Grand Prix has just announced that Iman Barlow has signed a two fight deal with the promotion. Barlow is expected to be in action for the promotion in 2016 on their March 26th and October 15th shows.

Barlow is the current Enfusion 54 kg champion and holds wins over Alexis Rufus and Karla Benitez.

The announcement of her first opponent under her new contract with Muay Thai Grand Prix is expected to take place at the November 22nd MTGP 2 event.

The Matics Method: Resolve In Fighting

by Matt Embree

For an introduction I'd like to get into the mental aspect of fighting and in particular the resolve you carry as a fighter. You've probably heard it many times before, that fighting is for the most part mental. Drawing on my own experience of fighting plus lots of research into the mind state of warriors, soldiers and fighters alike one thing that sets apart the winners from the losers is their resolve and morale. 

Napoleon said that " The morale is to the physical as three to one." Resolve and Morale go hand in hand. Once you've made up your mind and decided on victory you've set your resolve in motion. Morale is what will keep your resolve firm. So from the get go, before the fight even happens you should have made victory clear in your head. It starts in the training, in your approach to each training session. You have to visualize the victory before it has happened. I try to make it a point in my head to accept nothing less than victory. I either win or I die. Carrying that into each training session, whenever the thoughts of easing up or slacking arise you have to push thru and beat those doubts out of your mind. The thing is it is something that has to constantly be refined because negative thoughts will continue to pop up. 

It’s easy to keep your composure and be positive in nice, calm situations, but it’s the mark of a true warrior to maintain that composure under fire in the chaos of a fight. Cultivate a winner’s mindset for when negative thoughts appear. Remember that internal dialogue affects external performance. Resolve to be great, tell yourself you’re the best, take a stand that you will do whatever it takes to win. In my opinion, it's that confidence in yourself and resolve to win that is characteristics of all great fighters. When it's time to fight, there's no more time to be humble, it's time to be audacious, time to be confident, to prove why you’re the better fighter. Fighting, if you want to be good, is about winning, plain and simple. Set the standard high for yourself, give yourself permission to be great and don't let anything stop you. 

It all starts with training. "In combat we don't rise to the occasion, we sink to the level of our training". It is hard to beat an opponent who never stops trying to find a way to win and refuses gives up. So when you maintain that in training, you refine that state of mind and transfer it over to your fight game. Resolve to win every day, every battle. When you forge your resolve in the trivial things, that same mastery will transfer over in the great and important things. If you treat every fight as your last, and put yourself on death ground everyone will have significance, and victory will become a must. If that is your mentality going into every fight your will to win will be unbreakable and your victory will be almost guaranteed. 

F.N.O. - Failure's No Option.

Matt Embree is a Muay Thai fighter based out of Toronto, Canada. He is a WBC Muay Thai and WMC Muay Thai North American Champion. He has has competed all over the the world and has fought on some of the biggest shows including Lion Fight and Top King. He has trained in Thailand on several occasions and competed at the highest level.

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Bob and Weave with Kru Walter Michalowski

Kru Walter Michalowski is the head instructor and owner of Sityodtong LA. After a successful fighting career he has turned his focus to training he next generation of Muay Thai athlete. He is one of the few given the Sityodtong name by Ajarn Yodtong himself. His goal is to promoter the growth of "real" Muay Thai in America and around the world.

He has recently come out with a training series called Path of the Brave which we will be sharing video from here on our site. It is a great tool for anyone looking to gain a little extra knowledge from an experienced fighter and coach. In this video he talks about bobbing and weaving in Muay Thai.

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Jab Defense - Parry and Distance with Kru Walter Michalowski

Kru Walter Michalowski is the head instructor and owner of Sityodtong LA. After a successful fighting career he has turned his focus to training he next generation of Muay Thai athlete. He is one of the few given the Sityodtong name by Ajarn Yodtong himself. His goal is to promoter the growth of "real" Muay Thai in America and around the world.

He has recently come out with a training series called Path of the Brave which we will be sharing video from here on our site. It is a great tool for anyone looking to gain a little extra knowledge from an experienced fighter and coach.

Make sure you go subscribe to his You Tube Page here

Julie Kitchen talks about her upcoming fight with Martina Jindrova and more

Julie Kitchen has an upcoming bout with Martina Jindrova for the Muaythai Premier League on September 2nd. Muay Thai Authority was able to speak with Julie about her upcoming bout as well as get her thoughts on Miriam Nakamoto's withdrawal from the league.

MTA: You are participating in the Muaythai Premier League which will offer a new type of league format on their events. What are your thoughts on the format?

Julie: This is the first tournament I have ever entered into. I am very honored to be invited to compete alongside the best of the best, whereas in the UK the top shows only usually feature regional fighters fighting for world titles because they can sell tickets. As a top fighter & promoter, Clifton knows who the top fighters are , what a fighters needs consist of and a lot of effort/headache has gone into the league tables, he needs to be applauded for what he has achieved with all this and I really hope to still be in the tournaments final stages to represent the UK as I always have done to the best of my abilities.