Is Muay Thai good for self-defense?

Muay Thai involves mostly knees, elbows, and brutal variations of punches (see: spinning back fist) which in most cases are much more dangerous than punches or kicks and conventional self-defense technique. If you want to incapacitate or possibly kill your opponent on the street as your means of self-defense, go for it. read more

Muay Thai for self-defense: skills and techniques. Muay Thai workouts: strength and stamina training. Muay Thai is very demanding when it comes to physical performance. This will give you a great advantage no matter how good and technical you are. read more

Muay Thai is good for self-defense but to a limited degree. The reason being they do not do ground work, and they don't do weapon disarms, or train to fight against multiple people. It's an incomplete system. read more