Tom Young

Tom Young is a Muay Thai fighter from Thailand. He is based on Tony Jaa.

Fighting Style
Muay Thai is a martial art and combat sport originated from Thailand. It was initially created as a way to protect ancient emperors from enemies, and it slowly began to spread to other means of use. There are many different varieties of Muay Thai, and many different ways to train using it.

Description
Muay Thai is characterized by the combined use of fists (Chok), elbows (Ti sok), kicks (Te), knees (Ti khao), and foot-thrust (Thip), along with various clinching and neck wrestling techniques (Chap kho). Almost all techniques in Muay Thai use the entire body movement, rotating the hip with each kick, punch, elbow and block.

The elbow strike is considered the most dangerous form of attack in Muay Thai. The elbow can be used in several ways as a striking weapon: horizontal, diagonal-upwards, diagonal-downwards, uppercut, downward, backward-spinning and flying. From the side it can be used as either a finishing move or as a way to cut the opponent's eyebrow so that blood might block his vision. When well connected, an elbow strike can cause serious damage to the opponent.

Muay Thai is recognized as a very effective striking base within MMA, and is very widely practiced among mixed martial artists.

Weapon Style
Aranyik

Noted Moves

 * Big Boot
 * Quintuplet Roundhouse Combo
 * Spinning Wheel Kick
 * Triple Knee Strike Combo
 * Jumping Elbow to Opponent's Head
 * Running Jumping Knee Strike
 * Dtee Sawk Kao (Simultanious Elbow/Knee Strike to opponent's head/gut)
 * Roundhouse+Hook Combo
 * Annihilator (Double Knee Strike, followed by an Irish Whip & a falling knee to the face)
 * Elbow Strike
 * Standing Moonsault to grounded opponent
 * Anejaneya (Rolling Savate)
 * Arm Wrench Roundhouse