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ORANGE COUNTY JIU-JITSU & MMA
- Beginner Friendly: Our Fundamentals classes are the perfect place to start. Our welcoming instructors and students will make you feel like part of the family your first day. No Muay Thai or fitness experience required.
- Individualized instruction: You will get personal attention from the instructors and you will get better. All of our instructors have trained at Thai boxing camps.
- Authentic Muay Thai: The best way to describe our technique is proper. We teach every aspect of Muay Thai-- kicks, punches, knees, and elbows. Training sessions are along the same format of Thai Boxing camps in Thailand-- footwork, bag work, pad work, and clinch.
- Custom Diets and Nutrition coaching: From nutrition and weight cut coach to UFC fighters Brian Stann, Kenny Florian, Rory MacDonald, and UFC Champion Jon Jones
- FREE Fitness & Diet Consultation: From a nationally certified personal trainer.
- Friendly Environment: No Egos, No Politics. As long as you walk in the door, you will get in better shape and leave %1 better everyday.
Orange County Jiu-Jitsu & MMA is completely equipped with Boon Sport training pads.
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Difference between authentic Muay Thai and imitations
If you are searching the web for information on Muay Thai training you will notice that many gym throughout the world list the word "authentic" attached the the title of their Muay Thai classes. What does this mean? Well, with the commercialization of martial arts in the 20th and 21st century many martial arts schools and health clubs offer cardio kickboxing classes or standard kickboxing classes and call it Muay Thai.
14x Ladies Muay Thai World Champion Julie Kitchen seminar at OCJJ featured in AthletesLiveHere.com video
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Authentic Muay Thai usually describes to primary aspects:
- First, real Muay Thai refers to 8 points of striking: punches, kicks, knees, and elbows. Kickboxing as seen in the world famous K-1 organization uses 6 points of striking: punches, kicks, and knees. Boxing refers to 2 points of striking, involvling only punches. In Cardio kickboxing classes you hit a punching bag for about and hour, with the primary goal being fitness and little to no technical instruction.
- Secondly, Authentic Muay Thai training sessions have a specific format based on Thai boxing camps in Thailand. In thailand their training sessions are often 3 hours long. Each session is broken up into segments such as running, weight training, skipping rope, shadow boxing, footwork, bag work, pad work, clinching, and sparring. At Orange County Jiu-Jitsu our training sessions are a 1 hour long and involve many of the same segments as camps in Thailand. Outside of Thailand many gym which offer Muay Thai classes have students spend a majority of the time hitting a bag or doing partner drills, where each partner take turns hitting striking, while the other holds the palms of their gloves out like pads, mimicking pad training. This is incorrect. A significant amount of time needs to be spent doing multiple rounds of pad work, with an experienced pad holder, who is actually holding Thai pads. At Orange County Jiu-Jitsu & MMA we spend a great deal of time doing pad work, because this is what develops fast, powerful and picture-perfect strikes.
Orange County Jiu-Jitsu & MMA's Ben Wynkoop & Kenny Tran sparring during a Muay Thai training demonstration at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California
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- Learn more about our Muay Thai classes for kids
- To learn more about finding the right Thai boxing gym, check out our related article on Muay Thai gyms in Orange County
