How does full contact Karate and Muay Thai differ ?

[goose 5]

In terms of rules and techniques .

[gilgamesh]

To my knowledge Full Contact Karate only allows hits to the chest, body and legs. I'm not sure if knees or elbows are allowed.

Muay Thai allows Elbows, Knees, and blows to the head.

I'm not 100% sure but I think headbutts may be allowed in Muay Thai too. At least in Thailand.

[goose 5]

There are karate matches on television that allow strikes and kicks to the head. the fighters wear gloves.

[Steveh583]

depends which style/promotion

[Steveh583]

To my knowledge Full Contact Karate only allows hits to the chest, body and legs. I'm not sure if knees or elbows are allowed.

Muay Thai allows Elbows, Knees, and blows to the head.

I'm not 100% sure but I think headbutts may be allowed in Muay Thai too. At least in Thailand.

you are thinking of lethwei

[gilgamesh]

To my knowledge Full Contact Karate only allows hits to the chest, body and legs. I'm not sure if knees or elbows are allowed.

Muay Thai allows Elbows, Knees, and blows to the head.

I'm not 100% sure but I think headbutts may be allowed in Muay Thai too. At least in Thailand.

you are thinking of lethwei

I may be.

I'm no expert on this stuff. I've just gathered what I've gathered on it.

I've always found Muay Thai and Kickboxing fascinating though.

[Steveh583]

To my knowledge Full Contact Karate only allows hits to the chest, body and legs. I'm not sure if knees or elbows are allowed.

Muay Thai allows Elbows, Knees, and blows to the head.

I'm not 100% sure but I think headbutts may be allowed in Muay Thai too. At least in Thailand.

you are thinking of lethwei

I may be.

I'm no expert on this stuff. I've just gathered what I've gathered on it.

I've always found Muay Thai and Kickboxing fascinating though.

lethwei is brutal but the talent pool is understandably not as deep

[Counter-puncher]

The Muay Thai in One Championship is in my opinion quite clearly the most consistently exciting combat sports in the world. Muay Thai with MMA gloves, well-matched fights and incentives/rules/refereeing that all mandate action, it’s simply unbeatable in my experience. The recent Friday Fights have been off the scale. 11 fight cards with good action in all of them and all out wars in the majority. I absolutely fucken love it, it is single handedly saving my love for combat sports

[Counter-puncher]

Over about 50 fights in the first 5 Friday fights alone i have seen two *womens* fights that had me going mental over them. And I’ve prob only seen 5 or so womens fights, that’s a fair representation