Fighters are athletes however they’re in a sport that is extremely stressful, fearful, and exciting to a much higher degree than your routine weekend team sport game. The less experienced a fighter is, the more likely they are to have trouble listening in the middle of the fight or between rounds. The ability for a fighter to listen to their coach during the competition is often the difference between winning and losing and is critical to the performance of the

For every coach, business owner, manager to be aware of to avoid potential peril. An important lesson in leadership. Underestimate the power of this ticking time bomb at your peril. Manage it early or risk seeing everything you build damaged. The phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” implies that the more you know someone increases the likelihood that you will develop a lack of respect or appreciation for them. This can happen because familiarity exposes people to deeper, less superficial aspects of

A comparison and review of the different scoring from different sanctioning bodies. This is a 2-part article. Please read part 1 first. Introduction. Rules from different sanctioning bodies and how they differ in scoring, explanation, and culture. Show how judges trained in one organisation can make mistakes with another, and anyone not trained in the scoring of one body can struggle to understand some decisions. It also addresses what can be seen as strong bias influence in scoring/opinion when it

Why it is so hard to Judge Muay Thai fights consistently? Everyone is biased. Everyone has a bias, that’s why! Then there are various rulesets that have equally varied interpretations that are compounded by very little formal & consistent training. This is a 2-part article. Part 1 – Everyone has a bias – what are yours? Wherever you have humans deciding, you have biases. You get more than one human deciding, you get an exponential amount of bias. Bias can

Will your insurance cover you? Are you ‘qualified’ to coach Muay Thai or Kickboxing? This is an article for club owners, managers, and head instructors. I am contacting you to just check something regarding your club insurance. I am not selling you anything and am not a, insurance broker. This is just out of concern and experience for how damaging a claim can be if made against you. The claim doesn’t have to be substantial or even real or even