Anyone here do muay thai/boxing and work in an intellectual field?

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I never understood this mentality. Any martial art gives you the option to not spar so you can obviously elimate the risk of head injury. And many professional fighters don’t hard spar a lot such as Rory Macdonald/GSP until they get close to their fight camp so you will certainly learn the skills to defend yourself. I think leaving an incounter where you have to lose your own self respect or defend your self seems entirely illogical unless of course a certain loss of life. So to me you either sound like someone who’s done sparring and got hurt or your a punk bitch who wouldn’t defend your self or you think lifting heavy weights will be enough. And for op im a law student not stem but still respectable.

it's not up to you to decide what's respectable buddy

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head trauma increases the risk of schizophrenia which is probably even better for an abstract creative field like pure mathematics

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If you don't go pro, don't even worry about it.

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I may be able to give some advice, I trained in mma throughout my undergrad and am currently doing my masters whilst still training.

It really all depends on gym culture. Most traditional mt gyms, if they're run by a thai spar pretty light. This is because back in Thailand, they'd have fighters who need to fight every weekend so they can get paid and send money back home. Because of that, they can't risk injury in training but they still need the application of techniques under pressure which you can't really get anywhere else other than sparring. If a gym you're checking out goes hard every time they spar it may not be the best place for you to train and you should probably look elsewhere.

Your other option would be to look into grappling since you can go 100% without the risk of CTE.

Good lucks with your degree in maths bro.

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Woah if Rory doesn't do hard sparring I might need to rethink some shit. Did he at least live through a Dexter-like experience? That bastard is in the running for top psycho in MMA after Robbie Lawler and TRT Vitor

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this guy gets it.
do your Thai boxing for a few years then switch to grappling

>Sparr light. You will make it.
Is that a thing? Explain. My wife does Muay Thai and I'm trying to help her stay in it.

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>inb4 lol u gonna get headkicked
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I did the matrix on 4 head kicks yesterday.

Is there a class where I can spar with only surgically-enhanced azn qts?

If you had to spar with them, what would you do? Hit or try to dodge whole time?

Don't do a striking Martial arts if you plan to make a career with your brain. Try BJJ. Being in mathematics you'll probably like the logical aspect of it as well.

Muai thai is great if you have a good teacher.
Thai pad training back and forth does a good job of training your perception and reflexes as well as preparing you to handle the impact efficiently. Conditioning is excellent and with proper ppe and a good gym culture your risk is minimal during sparing.

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light teeps, light low and middle kicks, lots and lots of clinching with gentle knees. that's how you spar a girl and turn her on

Ground-and-pound.

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Don't bother getting into it, if you're worried about that kind of shit you are too high inhibition and low T to ever succeed at fight sports.

do i need to go to muay thai classes to surround myself with these?
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Body sparring is an option (no head shots). Controlled sparring with a good partner would be fine.
Can confirm that lifelong boxers get brain damage eventually. Its not worth it unless you are thick already and have nothing to lose.

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2 please

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>Life altering CTE :(

This isn't how it works, OP. You would feel yourself in pain before you had neurodegenerative diseases. I'm not saying it's the same, but it reminds me of people who say they're afraid of getting too big by going to the gym. If you wake up with a headache, feel dizzy while you're driving, feel less control over your emotions, etc. you have a chance to stop while you're ahead. It seems overly conscious to assume that your head is going to get sloshed around like a bobblehead inside of your skull. Did you never fall off the monkey bars as a child? Did you never go dirt biking? If you wanted to be that safe, then why don't you just join your girlfriend for a tea party instead?

Apparently everybody who's ever done freshman football has CTE at some level. Also, CTE can certainly happen and it's a concern for MMA fighters and boxers. I doubt that it's going to be a concern in your coach-mediated sparring class at the dojo down the street. You do get training and instruction before they put you in a ring with Borris the ex-KGB agent with an attitude.

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Hoping for #2.

5 is cute too. I'm fine with these results.

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CTE should be the least of your concerns. I'd say knee or wrist pain should be your number 1 concern.

CTE was only a problem in the time of muhammad ali. these days close combat sports have a better way to prevent that. if someone gets knocked out during a boxing match atleast 6 months of recovery is plannd.

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>but the potential for CTE scares me.

do a non striking martial art then. jiu jitso for example, it's really cool and fun and competitive too, and you dont get your brain beat out of your head every time you enter a match.

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if you're afraid of brain damage you probably shouldn't subject yourself to repeated hits to the head.

its like if you're afraid of lung cancer you probably shouldnt smoke

most would call this common sense

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2 please