Nice I retired a few years ago from fighting to finish college, etc.
I had my last fight in 2012...old as dirt for a fighter and within spitting distance of senior division. Muay Thai was some of the best times of my life but it was time to hang up the gloves. I still keep fit but don't train like a fighter anymore, focusing on career since as you know, training like that is practically a full-time job in itself.
One thing I hate in movies right now is that spinning flip strike people keep doing in movies.[...]It makes them look retarded but I guess some people out there like that. I don't get how that's better than planting your feet and decking the opponent with a well timed shot.
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Then there's the classic woman fighting style where they jump on the guy and choke them out with their legs. Everyone is doing that. Just saw it again in the new Mission Impossible
Yeah, audiences love that stuff.
It's almost forgivable for the Daredevil scene you posted, and you can see how they try to ground it in reality by the way they land it. For Cap it's way overdone.
In the last few tournaments I either participated in or attended, I noticed that the US fighters in particular were doing a lot of high-energy (i.e. inefficient), flashy strikes that if executed well were real crowd-pleasers; an attempt to get attention for themselves from promoters and to draw more laypeople into the sport.
Particularly on the uneven amateur playing field, it doesn't always have the intended effect.
Traditional Muay Thai is about brutal basics and timing. You have flamboyant fighters like Saenchai who can do all kinds of tricks but guys like that are on another level. You could argue that superheroes are like that, but when lives are on the line and the fate of the world hangs in the balance, it doesn't make sense to get flashy, but hey....comic book movie!
One of my favourite Thai fighters remains Buakaw. Brutal basics. I also like Yodsanklai for incredible timing.
I've seen some good fights in MCU that weren't too over the top, and I get that the superhero aesthetic demands a little flair; but I'd love to see something fast, technical and nasty like that fight scene between Bourne and the another agent in The Bourne Identity.
That's really how Cap should fight most of the time, IMO.
