Balance
Build a stance that keeps you ready to strike, defend, and reset without wasting motion.
Striking & timing · Adults
Sityodtong
Muay Thai.
Train Muay Thai in the Sityodtong lineage at Chicago MMA.
The practice
The training focus.
Sityodtong Muay Thai at Chicago MMA is built around a disciplined striking practice: stance, balance, range, rhythm, pad work, controlled partner drills, and the patience to sharpen fundamentals over time.
Timing
Use pad work and partner drills to understand when to enter, when to answer, and when to let an exchange go.
Composure
Train with intent and respect so hard work remains technical, focused, and sustainable.
Style background
History with
context.
Muay Thai is a Thai martial art and combat sport whose traditions include training, ceremony, and modern ring competition. Its historical development moved from older fighting practices toward formal sporting rules, rings, and international organization.
The background is provided for context; it does not add unverified lineage, competition, or teaching claims to Chicago MMA.
The program
How training
takes shape.
Muay Thai is a striking art with Thai cultural and sporting traditions. Chicago MMA’s Sityodtong context centers on stance, balance, range, rhythm, pads, and controlled partner work rather than a promise of a particular competition pathway.
A typical session builds from movement and stance preparation into a technical striking theme, then gives students coached ways to rehearse it.
- 01
Set the base
Warm-up and stance work prepare balance, posture, and movement.
- 02
Build the skill
Technique may be practiced through shadow work, pads, or structured drills.
- 03
Practice the exchange
Partner work is scaled by class format and coaching direction.
This describes a typical training flow, not a fixed timetable or guarantee. Current class formats, intensity, and availability can vary; review the weekly schedule and confirm questions with Chicago MMA.
What students can study
Build your
foundation.
Students may explore the eight-limb striking vocabulary of fists, elbows, knees, and shins alongside the movement and decision-making that support it.
The areas below describe skills students may study, not a promise of specific health, self-defense, competition, or performance outcomes.
Stance & footwork
Study posture, balance, distance, and rhythmic movement for entering, exiting, and resetting.
Striking & defense
Practice punches, kicks, knees, elbows, blocks, and parries through coached technical drills.
Clinch awareness
Explore close-range posture, position, and controlled clinch work within the format of the class.
Chicago MMA team
People in
the roster.
The source-controlled public roster connects the following coaches to this training path. Confirm current class instruction and availability through the weekly schedule or directly with Chicago MMA.
- Rosie AybarMuay Thai
- Shah ZolfighariMuay Thai · MMA
- Siron HarrisonMuay Thai · MMA
- Karina GonzalezMuay Thai
Study the art
What practice
can develop.
Students use structured striking practice to develop stance, balance, range awareness, rhythm, and disciplined repetition. The culture of Muay Thai also foregrounds values such as respect, tradition, excellence, and fair play.
Training is a contact activity. Individual outcomes, intensity, and readiness differ, so no fitness, self-defense, or injury-prevention result is promised.
Your first visit
Start with a clear next step.
Review the weekly schedule for current class details, then explore membership options when you are ready to choose a training path.
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membership.
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begin?
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