Tonight’s 1.5-hour Muay Thai lesson focused on strategy under pressure. No long combinations for their own sake. No bag work to hide behind. Every round had a rule that forced a decision. That is where good training starts to look like fighting. A student can have a clean round kick and still freeze when the distance changes. They can punch well on pads and still fail to exit after a clinch. Strategy fills that gap.

This blog describes the third set of 2-hour lessons in my client's four lesson intensive course programme over the festive period. My client is brand new to CCMA, having studied Muay Thai in New York City for just less than a year at two different gyms. Whilst visiting relatives for Christmas and New Year he decided to book in eight hours of private training with me. So far he has covered two hours of teep work and two hours of round kicks. During this lesson I helped, yet ag