Jeff Westfall – Muay Thai Novice 1-3 & Intermediate 1-2

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I only have the first two videos from the intermediate series.
The video quality is plainly VHS, then converted into DVD, and then pirated by unknown ripper gangs.
There are numerous hidden jewels – instructions and maneuvers not commonly found in other Muay Thai training films.
Jeff Westfall is a Black Belt in the Marcello Monteiro Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Association, a Full Instructor in the Thai Boxing Association of the United States of America under Sesara Ajarn Surachai Sirisute, and holds three ranks in the Inosanto International Martial Arts Instructors Association, under Guro Dan Inosanto.
They are: Jun Fan Gung Fu Full Instructor, Filipino Martial Arts Full Instructor, and Majapahit Martial Arts Instructor.
He also has a Second Degree Black Belt from the United States Judo Association and is an approved Combat Submission Wrestling representative under Sensei Erik Paulson.
He has studied Kyokushin Karate, Tai Lung Gung Fu, Boxing, Thai Boxing, Jun Fan Gung Fu, Filipino Martial Arts, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Shoot Wrestling, Silat, Judo, Fencing, and other disciplines since 1971.
He has been teaching martial arts in Evansville since 1976, and he founded the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts Academy in 1980.
Jeff maintains his official study by visiting conferences throughout the country and taking classes in different arts locally.
He follows a strict personal training routine to improve his skills, cardiovascular fitness, strength growth, flexibility, and longevity.
He argues that too many instructors set a terrible example for their pupils by failing to maintain proper fitness, satisfied to remember past triumphs and get by only on their expertise.
Except for Western Fencing, Jeff offers lessons in all of the techniques offered at the Rising Phoenix Martial Arts institution.
Jeff Westfall Interview Amber Asher conducted an interview with Jeff Westfall. Dave Rogers had an interview with Jeff Westfall in 1997, which has been reprinted.
This item was originally published in the TBA Newsletter.
Amber Asher, Jeff’s student, interviewed Jeff Westfall on 11/13/97. Amber is an amazing fighter with a winning record who also trains in Muay Thai.
Jeff is the Evansville, IN TBA representative.
Asher, Amber: How long have you been practicing martial arts? Westfall, Jeff: I started Karate in 1971, so I’d say I’ve been doing it for roughly 26 years.
AA: How long have you been doing Muay Thai training?
JW: In 1984, I attended a Kali lecture with Guro Dan Inosanto.
It was a week-long seminar, so Guro Inosanto got out a pair of Thai pads and asked for volunteers to do a three-minute round of kicking the pads.
That event, along with Guro’s encouragement to seek out Ajarn Chai and train with him, motivated me to begin training, and I’ve been doing so ever since.
AA: Are you active in any other forms of art?
JW: Right now, I’m practicing and teaching Kali-Silat, Jun Fan, Brazilian Jui-Jitsu, and Muay Thai.
I also do Judo and Fencing and hope to begin Sambo in 1998.
AA: How has Muay Thai training benefited you?
JW: Where do I begin? I studied traditional Karate and Gung-fu for many years and acquired a lot of really practical and valuable principles and methods, but something was lacking.
I felt like I was practicing on the outskirts of realistic fighting but never really getting to the real thing.
You know those “what would I do if” scenarios that we all offer to ourselves and students on potential self-defense situations?
The skills I had studied were not providing me with all of the answers I desired.
Then I encountered Ajarn Chai and Guro Dan, and I was confronted with the difficulty of having a lot of answers but only 24 hours in a day to practice internalizing them.
Then there’s the issue of training volume.
I had previously trained extremely hard and diligently in the arts, but Muay Thai increased the bar significantly.
Preparing for and completing the Instructors test was a watershed moment in my life, challenging me to go deeper inside myself than I had ever done before.
It significantly altered my perspective on training and teaching.
I owe Ajarn Chai a great deal of thanks for it, as well as many other things.
AA: What do you believe contributes to the popularity of Muay Thai?
JW: It’s a straightforward art; what you see is what you get.
The typical individual may not recognize good technique when they see it, but when they see and listen to a competent Thai boxer using the Thai pads or fighting in the ring, they are convinced of their ability.
You may give folks all the cultural stories and magical lore you want, but nothing will impress them more than their own eyes and ears via plain observation.
Furthermore, while it may take a lifetime to perfect, you may become quite deadly in a relatively short period of time.
The movements are really natural, and it’s incredibly soothing, according to several of my pupils.
AA: What do you enjoy most about teaching?
JW: There are many things I enjoy about teaching, but the best part is being able to observe how the personalities, spirits, and physiques of these pupils, who often become excellent friends in the process, change over time.
AA: What do you consider to be your most difficult difficulty in teaching martial arts?
JW: That’s a good question.
I believe it’s time and energy management.
If I devote all of my time and energy to my pupils, my own skills and traits will suffer, and I will be presenting a poor example and hampered in my ability to convey procedures and concepts.
If I devote all of my time and energy to training myself, I will be too exhausted to offer my students the attention they need.
AA: What, in your opinion, constitutes a good instructor?
JW: A good teacher never sits on his laurels.
In this life, you are either changing or becoming extinct, thus a teacher should often reassess his teaching techniques, seeking for ways to increase training efficiency.
You should aim to be the finest example you can be as a person and a martial artist because this has far more effect on your students than anything you say.
The most essential thing, I believe, is to recognize that you must teach each person differently.
AA: If you could alter one thing about the martial arts world, what would it be?
JW: I’d make it easy to do the one thing we should do as often as possible: train! Because of the political power battles and ego competitions in the martial arts, many of us are squandering time and energy, as well as excluding possible training partners.
I believe that many of those reading this will agree that a dependable, consistent training partner is one of their most valuable possessions.
When you give in and play these “my style is better than your style” or “my teacher could kick your instructor’s ass” games, you cut your own throat by losing another prospective training partner, not to mention all the others he tells about your conduct.
Ajarn Chai always advises us to stay away from politics, and I completely agree with him.
In the same way, I want commercial Martial Artists to recognize that our rivalry is not each other, but rather the public’s ignorance.
If the general public actually knew the benefits of Martial Arts instruction, there would be more potential students calling than we could manage.
AA: What is your own workout routine? JW: In addition to jogging five miles twice a week, progressive resistance training three times a week, and attending three Judo sessions and one Fencing class each week, I strive to perform at least five developmental and five maintenance exercises every week.
Long, rigorous sessions in a specific art form are what I mean by developmental training.
The maintenance exercises are still hard, but they are substantially shorter in order to squeeze in more of them.
I cycle between the arts such that each one is concentrated on for developing training on a regular basis, while maintaining my level from decreasing in the others for maintenance training.
Muay Thai is so good to me that I cycle through it twice as frequently as the other disciplines, so I do a lot more of it.

AA: Where do you see the martial arts going in the future? JW: Right now, somewhere in relative obscurity, someone is practicing an art that will be popular in 10 years but is unknown right now.
When someone like him comes up with fresh solutions to age-old issues about personal fighting, there will be people ready to study them and hold them up to the standards of more established disciplines.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I have every faith that Muay Thai will be at the forefront of this process, evolving as an art and garnering even more recognition than it already has.

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