Sylvie's Technique Vlog - Training Ruup & Composure (Patreon)

above my vlog on ruup. In Thai "ruup" (รูป) is an image, a photo, a figure.... composure. In Muay Thai, "ruup" is your posture and composure, and it's incredibly important for fighters. When you break someone else's ruup, you are emphatically dominant. When your ruup is broken, it marks against you strongly. I've lost fights with broken ruup, as my opponents have won with  better ruup.

What's important is training it. I've said this many times, but you're always training something, whether or not you're aware of it. If you're unaware of your ruup, it's highly likely you're wearing grooves of allowing yourself to look tired, scared, hesitant, or even accidentally badass or cocky. But, as with all things, doing it mindfully or with purpose is better because it can be built. Improved. Sculpted.

How you train ruup is basically just becoming aware of it, and at the same time becoming aware of when you're unaware of it. I know that sounds pretty esoteric, but it's not. It's like catching that your mind has been wandering or you've been driving on auto-pilot for 10 minutes and get back to focusing on the road. And training ruup isn't super complicated in that you just find the big, silhouette points to make right first (shoulders, head up, back straight). You can do it not even in the gym; you can do it coming into or leaving a round before becoming aware enough to do it while hitting pads, the bag or even sparring and fighting. It's not about constantly having perfect composure and ruup, it's about getting back to it as quickly and easily as possible.

Here are some links to where I've talked about Ruup before:

watch this podcast and vlog compilation edit on Ruup here 

read my blog post where I first discussed the silhouette  

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