Plateau at 17 months — what helped me push through

Around the 17-month mark in Muay Thai I hit a wall. My progress with elbow strikes wasn't improving and I felt like I was spinning wheels. It's apparently common but that didn't make it less frustrating.

What helped: going back to fundamentals with my coach, spending more time drilling eight limbs slowly rather than at full speed, and watching Saenchai breakdowns to understand what I was missing. the clinch game opening up eventually returned once I let go of trying to advance too fast. finding quality sparring partners was actually the underlying cause of the plateau — once I addressed it, things moved again. If you hit that wall, stick with it. It passes.