The New Workout: Muai Thai Without the Bruises
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For the last two years, Raymond Wilburg, 27, has been training hard at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn. At first, it was for fitness. “It’s therapeutic,” he said. “All of the world’s problems, whatever I have outside of the boxing gym, it just falls away.”
Then the workouts grew more intense, and he began sparring more frequently. Soon Mr. Wilburg, who grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and works in a Verizon store, started fighting in amateur bouts, late start be damned.
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Muay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on shins is known as "the art of eight limbs" because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, being associated with a good physical preparation that makes a full-contact fighter very efficient. Muay Thai became widespread internationally in the twentieth century, when practitioners defeated notable practitioners of other martial arts.
