2. Introduction

9/22/2024

Marek Żydek (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552409027984) and Lethwei Polska (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552409027984) asked to see why dodging in to sweep up legs is dangerous and not seen in the ring, like in this video:


If the video link is broken, sorry the source no longer has it. My answer is based on ignorant people who would try a sweep like that against a master-level letwhayte warrior like me. This kind of detail interactive explanation, answering specific questions as the “book” is written, is how MTB VOL 3 will progress with public.

Awareness of the where the opponent’s head is very important in letwhayte. You have to know where it is even without looking, time 11:52 on URL https://aaw.link/knight-foundation/letwhayte-system-secrets-book.html. I put the video here again for easy view:

Letwhayte warriors do not look at the opponent’s face while fighting. They are not looking at anything or focusing their eyes on anything particular and small, but rather creating a big wide vision that is fully alert to respond movements from the opponents. This training is called Complex Vision Principle, published in MTB INSTRUCTION VOL 2: Conditioning Methods & All Mechanics. I will put MTB VOL 1, a nd VOL 2, instructions on the same URL for Myanmar Traditional Boxing VOL 3-- very soon open to public but with copy right.

Legs are trained to win Elephant-Step battles (this trick Dave Leduc (Marek Żydek’s first letwhayte teacher) learned very well and mastered it, used it all the times in the ring, but I see his weakness even in this) on the bottom, and hand attacks are dealt with in various ways, such as Bull Guard, which can turn into Bull Rush, suppressing hand from One-Hand-Extension stance, time 9:09 in the URL above (or more advanced Two-Hands-Extension stance), counter attacks, which you can see plenty in the video at various times, and direct answer to your question, bobbing head, stooping down head, is forbidden in letwhayte, is at time 13:13. Note I am not talking about clinching, elbow battles, and head-butts here. All my disciples (apprentices) were explicitly trained for realistic skills and abilities like this. I don’t waste their times and my time making them do nonsense like holding disgusting pads and make them hit. I detest all pads and gears. Training like this, https://youtu.be/36qYRvVyxZg, is what makes mainstream Muay Thai fighter, kickboxers, and many kickers you see, so ineffective in the ring. They are kicking up like upper-cut kick and they cannot kick directing the force to the sides anymore. Their body mechanics can’t do it anymore! That’s why you see many kicks land back and forth but nothing much happened at MMA and Muay Thai fights. I can take out most people with 3 clean-landing kicks. Even one clean kick can take away 20% of their energies like at time 9:08. The guy you see at 7:46 received about 5 clean kicks and finally gave up. A shin kick at 8:05 hurt him and he started to realize that I was hunting his head. Most people would be done by then, getting about 6 kicks from me, but he was also a tough warrior from Myanmar. All the actions you see were all real, not scripted videos. That guy was wearing a very thick pants that helped him a lot and the loose mats on the floor moved as I generated power reducing it, and made the target move also reducing the impact effect in addition. I realized this, so I moved and kicked from bared floor, while he was on mats. I could finish him with one punch on the face, but I was using him to demonstrate applications of letwhayte on video and to my students watching. That stranger had absolute courage to fight me without knowing who I was. His two friends who brought him there regarded him highly on his martial skills. He did not seem big, but he took out my big tall disciple Graham Farmer with a kick landing from the back area on the balls. No excuse for my disciple Graham Farmer. We had no rules like don’t hit me in the balls. I took on many strangers and counting on them attacking my eyes and balls, although I NEVER attacked them at those area and cheated the fight! Don’t call yourself a martial artist if you don’t know how to protect your balls and rely on the rules for the opponent to not hit it. Letwhayte Elephant Step Principle, if anyone really mastered it, automatically protects the balls all the times. If your balls get hit, it means your ES Principle broke or was weak, especially if you are fighting someone who is completely ignorant of it, then you were beaten! Old letwhayte rules have no groin protection rules and I think we still have events, which rule is in effect. High-level warriors do not attack the balls intentionally out of respect, but most don’t complain if hits come land on it. ES Principle makes impossible for clean hits to land on balls.

I told all my disciples always, if you think you are so powerful and your legs are so hard, kick my legs for training (most don’t want to kick me anymore after about 10 times), or join me in kicking the tree 50 times or 100 times-- they can’t do even 3 times. No one wants to take even one kick from me (although blocking is allowed but they don’t know how to block (if stranger) or my disciples can’t beat me in the small-adjustment battles in landing).

Don’t put yourself in pads, or make someone wear them and challenge to fight. If you are a teacher, but you can’t let your students hit you without pads and you don’t know how to deal with or feel the pain, then you shouldn’t be teaching! All my disciples were given opportunity to destroy me before they were accepted as disciples. I told them all before accepted, even high-level teachers at other martial arts systems, to kill me in 3 minutes. I was not allowed to attack back, but can only block and defend myself. None of them could even hurt me. I hung out with pro MMA fighters. Many of them flattered me or made the relationship confusing, instead of challenging me or humbling themselves as disciples and learn valuable knowledge. Because of some disrespectful and dishonest behaviors, I never taught anyone on “casual” relationship status. I issued many challenges from my side to others (even the stranger teachers at other schools), but 99% of them dodged it when they realized I was not joking or my skills, and background in martial arts were what they considered a nightmare they never wanted to face. I helped out many pro MMA fighters going into ring, refraining myself for an opportunity to challenge them when they had pro fights pending, but all of them I knew were pathetic injured people living in pains, while acting like supermen in the ring. They didn’t know how to take care of themselves or heal.

Time 11:03 is how I trained my disciples. Everyone couldn’t kick me more than about 20 times. No one can take one kick from me. The kicks you see whether low and mid height, and head kick (blocked by hands) have little invisible ways (tricks), landing area adjustments, and counter attack in the block that can hurt the kicker and/or off balance, which I called Stop Block Principle. You can see it applied many times in 13:16.

Some lame teachers like Phil Dunlap commented that my students were not really students but disciples. I thought about it and accepted the word--it’s not a bad word. I honor and practice truthful honest behavior in relationship. I don’t not turn blind ears and eyes to lying insolent behaviors in anyone. I do not fake anything!