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Muay Thai is also known as Thai kickboxing. American Top Team  Fort Lauderdale training gym teaches Muay Thai. We have professional instructors that specialize in teaching you Muay Thai. Call today and learn more 754-423-5765

Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese styles, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and Muay Lao from Laos. Descended from muay boran, Muay Thai is Thailand's national sport.

The word muay derives from the Sanskrit mavya. Muay Thai is referred to as the "Art of Eight Limbs" or the "Science Of Eight Limbs" because it makes use of punches, kicks, elbows and knee strikes, thus using eight "points of contact", as opposed to "two points" (fists) in boxing and "four points" (hands and feet) used in sport-oriented martial arts. A practitioner of Muay Thai is known as a nak muay. Western practitioners are sometimes called nak muay farang meaning foreign boxer.


Formal Muay Thai techniques are divided into two groups: mae mai or major techniques and luk mai or minor techniques. Muay Thai is often a fighting art of attrition, where opponents exchange blows with one another. This is certainly the case with traditional stylists in Thailand, but is a less popular form of fighting in the contemporary world fighting circuit where the Thai style of exchanging blow for blow is no longer favorable. Almost all techniques in Muay Thai use the entire body movement, rotating the hip with each kick, punch, elbow and block.

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American Top Team Fort Lauderdale is a MMA - Mixed Martial Arts training gym in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida serving Dania Beach, Oakland Park, Lauderhill, Hollywood, Plantation, Davie, Coconut Creek, Tamarac, Sunrise, Pompano Beach, Hallandale, Aventura, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Margate, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach & more. American Top Team Fort Lauderdale training gym teaches: MMA - Mixed Martial Arts, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai, Thai kickboxing, Submission Wrestling, Grappling, Kickboxing, Cardio Kickboxing, kids MMA, MMA fighter training and bout preparation, personal training, & women's classes.


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