On Muay Thai and the 4 tactical virtues of masculinity part 2.

In our previous post (you can read it here) we talked about the 4 tactical virtues of masculinity and, we explained how strength and courage apply to Muay Thai.

In this post, we’ll take a look at the last two virtues, mastery and honor, and how they apply to Muay Thai.

Let’s start with emotions. Fighters that don’t master their emotions will have a hit and miss career.

The most well known example might be Cody Garbrant, who has been knocked out more than once for being too hot headed.

Being overly emotional serves no purpose in the ring and real life.

You’ll learn this the easy way or the hard way.

Either way you’ll quickly figure out that an overly emotional man serves no purpose.

It should be quite obvious when it comes to skills.

You want to master the sport and make sure you are out of  the ring as you entered it.

Meaning unscratched.

The person who has these skills is a dangerous individual.

This might be the hardest one to spot for most non- Thais. Nonetheless, honor plays a huge part in Muay Thai.

You’re not only defending you honor, you’re also carrying the gyms name when you fight.

Most people are not aware of the second part since there isn’t too much information about this.

Having a bad performance such as quitting, gassing out or throwing the fight could result in a ban from the gym because you disrespected the gym name, it’s owners, your promotors, trainers and so on.

So remember, when you fight you don’t only represent yourself. You represent your whole gym.

Thais don’t take this one very lightly and neither should you.

In part 3, which will be released next month, we’ll take a look at how to integrate all of the virtues in your life.

This post was a collabaration between me (@zerotoalpha) and Based.Strategos on Instagram.

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