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Jeet Kun Do eh, impressive. And I see some of you know modern day ninjutsu and we have an Aikido person too. Those styles aren't very common. That in mind has anyone heard of Capoeira?

Of coarse!
It's a very nice style, Very like tae kwon do, and muay thai, in the sense that it's a style the pounds the opponents guard and doesn't let up. I hear all the flipping and what not really build your stamina

oh no, I didn't mean in action, that they are similar, just that I have a close friend who does muay thai, who is actually in this guild, he's Duckmasta. and another friend who does Taekwondo, and ive heard them talk about how both of there style focus on chaining attacks to push your opponent back until he has no defense left, and an opening is found

bla im bored

iso a life partner in the rp >.> *bored*

Well you are both correct a good fighting styles pounds the opponent looking for an opening but not all decent fighting styles do this, such as Hapkido, Judo, Juijitsu Brazilian and Japanese, Aikido, multiple styles of Kung-fu and Wushu, Taichi and Tang Su Do.

Yes Muay Thai focuses on endurance, muscle building, and speed. In a fight you hammer your opponent with a series of conbinations to find an opening, or block a series of combinations and come with a counter. The only key difference is in teh acual execution, training, and fighting basis.

In Muay Thai the training is tough, you train to strengthen your arms, legs, and abbes along with building up stamina, endurance, and strength. You learn a series of basic punches and kicks, and three blocks to be used. In Tae Kwon Do the training is more focused on honing perfect form and kicks.

The execution of the techniques varries greatly between the two styles. If you watch a Muay Thai fighter throw a front kick it has great force, but is more wild then the Tae Kwon Do fighter who has learned better control and balance to strike in a key area and hit with great accuracy. While one has brute strength the other is targeted both having the same outcome.

And lastly we have the actual competition fights. Muay Thai fights are round based fights that score on, technique, aggressiveness, punches and kicks landed and reaction to being hit. the fight is scored on a score card and watched by at least three judges who right down these scored on their cards. A Muay Thai fight is won by Knock Out or is is drawn to a Unanimous or split Decision decided from reading the score cards. A Tae Kwon Do fight has two stles of Competition.

1. Olympic style competition

& 2. Sport Competition

Olympic style competition is a three round continuous sparring match. You fight continuously through the round and gain points based on successful hits to the Hogu or head. A hogu being the large chest pad a combatant wears. The points can only be earned by landing a clean and visible kick, as Tae Kwon do focuses on legs and blocks alone. the more point you score in a round the better. Like the Muay Thai there are judges, but there are four instead of three and these judges are all standing at a corner of the open ring watching the fight for kicks that have landed so that no landed blow will be missed. At the end of the three rounds teh points will be totaled and a winner will be decided.

Sport style competition is point based. The fighter will be set up like usual facing each other and a single judge will commence and observe the fight up close. Upon one fighter landing a clean hit the two fighters will be stopped and set back up and the cycle continues until a set maximum amount of points has been reached by one fighter.

Sorry if I continue to seem like a know it all sweatdrop It's just that I've had experience in multiple fighting styles over the course of my life.....sorry sweatdrop

@Gregar - beat me to it

@Koga - That's perfectly awesome, I only trained heavily in two in my younger days, and wrestled in high school.