Hey yall. Just finished my morning Muay Thai lessons awhile ago. It was a pretty good turnout of around a dozen people(morning classes are usually small). However after a few rounds of alternating bag work and leg exercises we got partnered up in pairs. I got partnered up with this overweight black lady. Basically she looks 80% like an aunt of mine, except with a darker skin tone. She had a gut and sandbag tits., bottomline sje was fat like most black people.
So the next portion of class involved padwork combinations. And let me tell you this lady sucked. As a holder she wouldn't hold the Thai pads right(i.e. holding them forward when I threw hooks) and seemed to forget the combos we were doing so it really ruined the groove I had going.
And then when it came time for me to hold, this is where she really sucked. Like I had to bend down pretty low when she did knee strikes or low roundhouses since she (by her own admission) was in bad shape and lacked the hip flexibility to do these simple moves. And when I said to do jabs and crosses, they came out as sloppy punches and her reflexes were bad as she couldn't check kicks right.
And after the class she talked about how she had started training at the gym in March and took 3 weeks off due to personal stuff including a death in the family and that she was gonna "get back into shape". LOL, seriously, you were never in shape to begin with! This is what ticks me off about fat people doing things like martial arts. They don't understand that you are only at your best when you are in good physical condition. They try to use it as a weight loss tool but fail to realize that starting out so in shape really slows it down for your training partners and denies them the experience.
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[–] Annoyingaardbei 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
If I were fat and needing to lose weight, I wouldn't start off in a martial arts class. The hell? Fat people just make the worst decisions, every time.
[–] DancingCat ago
They do it because they see their favorite action star or anime character do martial arts and imagine they are cool like XYZ is.
[–] DancingCat 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I put off starting martial arts training for a month while I got myself into better shape. I wanted to learn the craft, and when you want to learn it is best to show up with functioning tools.
I see fats show up in my class all the time. Very few stick around, and those that do tend to be actual small fats (bmi overweight but not obese) and they get down to human pretty quickly. Its hilarious in a way, the fats always end up quitting halfway through the warm up and rarely make it through the learning portion.
And never, ever partner with a fat! They are slow, they have poor form, they always smell terrible, their sweat smells even more terrible and it contaminates on contact, they don't know what they are doing, and they will not accept or ask for assistance. Newbs are better than fats.
[–] redpilledblackguy [S] ago
Anen. I'm assuming you are the Krav Maga guy, correct?
[–] DancingCat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Krav Maga chick actually, but that's just nitpicking.
[–] EvilQueenII 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
How are you supposed to know where to strike when her entire body could be called a "padwork combination?"
[–] redpilledblackguy [S] ago
LOL. Yeah. That and she couldn't hold the pads right for the right strikes. Oh and upvote.
[–] MyNameIsInigoMontoya 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Anything to avoid the cold hard truth: If you’re serious about losing weight, you’ve gotta push back from the table. Eat less crap. Or, just eat less, period.
[–] King_macaroni ago
This sounds like the girl I paired with last week. I’m gonna start by saying I’m pretty bad at Muay Thai. It’s only been a month though (give me time!!). But the girl I was paired with kept holding the pads wrong! I kept missing because she would hold it too off to the side or was to slow to move it...I hated being paired with her. Like I also don’t like being paired with the people who are super good because I feel bad for fucking up a lot and feel like it’s not fair to them...but honestly I never wanna be paired with this girl again!