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I have huge respect for Muay Thai fighters but training for 5 months in Singapore with other Thai fighters is a joke. If they are serious about MMA they need to train in the UK or US with the coaches and UFC fighters. Otherwise you will see these guys submitted in the first round over and over again because of a lack of real ground experience.
Interesting that the American, UK and other Euro fighters go to Thailand to train Muay Thai too. If you are going to do MMA you need a full skill set, no one style will be enough, and that IS the point. Ju Jitsu is also very useful to as well as good boxing hands. The best fighters seem to have a Ju Jitsu or wrestling/grappling (Brazilian or Japanese), Muay Thai and Boxing backgrounds mixed together.
A lot of elite MMA fighters have come to Thailand to train Muay Thai. Keny Florian was at Sitoydtong in Pattaya for a bit (i think), Alistair Overeem was at Golden Glory in Pattaya, Jake Shields, Brian Ebersole, Phil Baroni, Mike Swick, Elvis Sinosic and Roger Huerta have all trained at Tiger Muay Thai in Phuket. Huerta and Swick liked it so much they are building their own camp there.
All these guys probably came to do Muay Thai though, what Evolve has got that pretty much no-one in Asia has is a team of elite BJJ guys. A few places have got one or two black belts teaching but Evolve has got a whole team of them. Plus pretty much all their fighters are full time employees so all these guys do is train with the fight team and take a few classes themselves.
There have been a few famous fighters who have transitioned into MMA just to pick up the pay cheque and not really made any effort with the training, I'd put James Toney firmly in that category, but Yodsanen is serious about his MMA career and will have been working hard on his ground game.
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I have huge respect for Muay Thai fighters but training for 5 months in Singapore with other Thai fighters is a joke. If they are serious about MMA they need to train in the UK or US with the coaches and UFC fighters. Otherwise you will see these guys submitted in the first round over and over again because of a lack of real ground experience.
You know Evolve MMA has got at least three three BJJ world champions?
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Several photo posts with advertising URL have been removed - please do not post URL marked photos. Thanks.
In the past I have posted photos from yellow shirt protests, red shirt protests and the fighting on the Thai Cambodian border on this forum. In many instances before similar pictures have been posted anywhere else online.
In future I won't bother.
Congratulations.
That would be a shame - they are good photo's - sure there must be some compromise.
Maybe just having "© 2011 James Goyder" instead of the web link would be sufficient ? It would reflect the member's name and the copyright claim.
I use the watermarked photos in a lot of different places and I don't really have time to watermark my photos twice, once for thai visa and once for the rest of the world so I just won't post them on Thai Visa anymore.
TV effectively had a choice between getting good quality photos of major newsworthy events uploaded onto their forums rapidly with my website watermark on or getting nothing at all from me and it seems like they have opted for the latter.
It's a shame because if you look through my posts, assuming they haven't all been deleted by now, you will see that i was uploading pics fairly regularly.
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Several photo posts with advertising URL have been removed - please do not post URL marked photos. Thanks.
In the past I have posted photos from yellow shirt protests, red shirt protests and the fighting on the Thai Cambodian border on this forum. In many instances before similar pictures have been posted anywhere else online.
In future I won't bother.
Congratulations.
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This is the house near Chom Chong in which a civilian was killed yesterday afternoon. Direct hit from BM-21 missile, it's probably about 20km from the border.
if anyone can tell me what caused this I would be interested, i was told something like B512 but when i googled it nothing turned up. You can see where the original shell (?) has hit and the circular holes in the building are caused by something which must be thrown out on impact. A nasty weapon.
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I observed the Thai artillery at Soi 13 school from about 9:30am to 11:30am. They were firing M-11 rockets at regular intervals and judging from the empty casings they had fired about 100 as of 11:30 am. They were also unloading hundreds more and preparing to fire them. There were three howitzers and they seemed to use different co ordinates every time they fired.
No-one I spoke to had seen or heard any artillery coming from Cambodia but I wasn't actually allowed into Phanom Dong Rak itself.
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I interviewed a protester at Ratchadapisek last week who was adamant that none of the protestors were getting paid and claimed that many people had needed to sell land in order to raise money to come to bangkok to protest. If this is the case it would certainly explain why numbers are dwindling when protests are organized on consecutive weekends, the picture taken from the stage gives a pretty good indication of the turnout. there were people behind the stage as well but nowhere near as many.
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Jatuporn makes his way to the stage:
The view from the stage:
A red shirt protestor:
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A couple of pics from the demo at Ratchadapisek:
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A few pics from this morning. I estimate around 2,000 protestors and about 500 police when I was there. There was a second stage with a band playing but only a handful of people in front of it so I suspect the PAd were hoping for a bigger turnout.
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There's an excellent blog by an English teacher called Nick who lives in Kantharalak and he says that feeling against Cambodia is running high. I was really focussing on driving around taking photos whereas he actually lives and works in Kantharalak so his understanding is obviously better than mine. You can find it by googling morpheus429
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I didn't get any sort of a sense of nationalistic fervour, or anti Cambodian sentiment from the people who lived in the Ban Phum Saron area. My Thai is not fluent but the impression I got is that they all just wanted it to be over so they could safely return to their homes. One of the first things that struck me at Kantharalak refugee camp on Friday was how many Cambodian looking faces there were there.
excerpt from:
Locals divided over border clashes
Kantharalak, Si Sa Ket
Not far away, another male villager who joined the chat but asked not to be named, said the only solution was sending off F-16 fighter jets.
"If you want things to be over quickly, just dispatch the F-16s," he said.
"If we use heavy weapons, then it will be over in no time."
Thanks for posting that, interesting.
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The PAD have got a nerve, demanding tougher action against Cambodia and then attempting to try and bring aid to the very people this 'tougher action' has directly affected.
I didn't get any sort of a sense of nationalistic fervour, or anti Cambodian sentiment from the people who lived in the Ban Phum Saron area. My Thai is not fluent but the impression I got is that they all just wanted it to be over so they could safely return to their homes. One of the first things that struck me at Kantharalak refugee camp on Friday was how many Cambodian looking faces there were there. I think with the border so close there is probably a lot of Cambodian blood in these Thai communities.
I suspect the PAD may have completely misjudged the mood, as well as the aid situation which, at least at the main refugee camp in Kantharalak, is now good. On Friday there were approx 4,000 people there with no shelter or blankets. Now there are more like approx 1,000 -2,000 people who have tents, blankets, everything.
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Everything is almost back to normal in Kantharalak, there's a market today and all the shops are open.
Thee are a handful of people in the abandoned areas like ban phum saron and ban dan but refugees have not started to return to their homes en masse. I went on a tour of sites where Cambodian shells had hit and every single one had landed in a field. The only place where they have done any damage so far is Ban phum saron where a house got taken out and some school buildings got destroyed, as well as the 50 year old civilian who was in a field and sufferred a very unfortanate direct hit. I can't get to phu ma khuea (nor for lack of trying...) so I don't know what has happened there but it looks like the Cambodians just blew up a lot of Eucalyptus trees on Sunday from what I have seen.
The mood is pretty relaxed though, even among the soldiers and the media are starting to head home. It was the same situation on Sunday when fighting broke out again though so it is difficult to say with any certainty that it won't happen again.
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Sorry I don't have time to read this entire thread. Yesterday Thailand shelled Cambodia for a solid hour and I woudl estimate, although I wasn't counting, 100+ shells were fired into Cambodian territory. Villagers fleeing the border reported 20+ shells landing in Thailand but I think that what Cambodia fired is a fraction of what Thailand fired, I can't be certain of this though. Vietnamese news showed the damge to Preah Vihear, it is only superficial with bullets knocking out masonry, nothing had actually been knocked down.
Here are a few pics I took today:
A picture of the king lies on the floor after a shell devastated an outbuilding at a Wat near Ban Pum Saron:
A schoolbus full of buffalo joins the exodus:
Thai soldiers on their way towards Preah Vihear:
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A coffin for the 23 year old Thai soldier who was killed at Pra ma khua in the early hours of Saturday morning:
He looks very young:
He is very young, only 20, not 23 as a military spokesman originally stated.
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A coffin for the 23 year old Thai soldier who was killed at Pra ma khua in the early hours of Saturday morning:
He looks very young:
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Ban Phu Saron School with a hole in the roof:
The school buildings where another shell struck:
It would appear the Thais are getting their butt kicked....
If some nationalist soldier fired first, as seems to be suspected, but never admitted, he has a lot to be accountable for.
I'm on the Thai side of the border, have no idea what is happening on Cambodian side so couldn't comment on whether anyone was getting their 'butt kicked'.
There doesn't seem to be a strong military presence near Ban Phu Saron today so I think the only people who were affected here were civilians. I wasn't here yesterday though so I'm speculating.
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If you will forgive me a little journalism...
I am currently in Kantharalak on the border between Thailand and Cambodia. There was fierce fighting yesterday with the village of Ban Phum Saron targeted for reasons which remain unclear.
Only one civilian was killed but the death toll could have been far higher as around 20 shells landed in a populated area. Three shells hit Ban Phum Saron School, which was having a sports day, but fortunately no-one was killed or badly injured.
All that remains of the one civilian casualty, a 50 year old Thai man, is a chunk of charred flesh about five yards from where the fatal shell landed. Presumably he had been working in the fields and was running back to the village when the shell struck.
Ban Phum Saron has been evacuated but there are still a number of local people checking out the shell craters and posing for photos. The atmosphere is more one of curiousity than fear and there is no perceptible undercurrent of animosity towards the Cambodians just a couple of kilometres to the East. People seem more intrigued than angry.
In a camp set up at the police station in Kantharalak some of the refugees who have fled the fighting look distinctly Khmer and there is a sense that this is a political problem and not a local one. Although the refugees are being fed by volunteers the sanitation facilities are barely adequate to cope with the sheer number of people and it is clearly not a suitable long term housing solution. With more fighting and fatalities reported at Phu Ma Khua this morning it might be a little while before they can safely return to their homes.
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The red flag marks where a shell landed at Ban Phum Saron School. There was a sports day and all the children were playing on the field in the background. I have no idea of the timescale of the shells landing though so it is quite possible the children might all have been in the shelter by the time this one hit.
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A local admiring a shellhole in Ban Phum Saron:
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Ban Phu Saron School with a hole in the roof:
The school buildings where another shell struck:
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Thai refugees in Kantharalak:
A house in Ban Phu Saron which was hit by a shell, no-one in it luckily:
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Can you provide any details re: your hardware and applications? Are you using a smartphone? tethered? An aircard in a PC? What are your speeds? It seems like most results for smartphone speedtests I've seen on True 3G get ~ 1 Mega-bits per second downstream.
True uses 850 Mhz for 3G so I assume you're using a device with an 850 radio, and are within True's 3G coverage area.
There are other mobile broadband services but I have not stayed up to date on them. CAT CDMA has been mentioned often, with a data-only SIM in a USB adapter or MiFi device.
Im using it with a laptop not a mobile phone, should i have posted this in a different section?
World Champion Thai Fighters To Star At Major New Mixed Martial Arts Show
in Thailand News
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In answer to your first question, Yes, it's bigger than dream because it is broadcast on domestic tv, (Dream isn't) and is broadcast to a total of 24 Asian countries (Dream isn't). You will be able to watch One FC in THailand, you can't watch dream here.
For the same reasons it is clearly bigger than Shooto or Pancrase and Art of War doesn't exist anymore.
Does it send it's champions to fight in the UFC or Strikeforce? Well obviously not on account of the first show not having taken place and there not being any champions yet.