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Muay Thai Learning Clips: The Diagonal Knee Kick

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Hi and welcome to our blog. Today Learning video clips is our second modern Muay Thai knee move. I hope you loved the previous one and want to continue learning this one. I apologize if you don’t like our video clips but I think they are quite ok for newbie to get to learn what to moves are like. Perhaps you can help us creating muaythai demonstrating videos? How about that? The videos I used are from YouTube and these are created by a friend of mine. You can go straight to the YouTube channel and subscribe so check out his latest boxing video clip.

The move as you will see in the clip below is called the diagonal knee kick or Kow Chiang (Kow means knee and Chiang means diagonal). This move requires you to use your both hands to grasp and pull your opponent’s neck downward while you’re raising your knee upwards diagonally to impact the un-escaping target which can be the thigh, the rib-cage or the side of your opponent’s waist.


Muay Thai Learning: The Diagonal Knee Kick from YouTube

To break the move down, there are two ways to do this technique. First is to use your rear knee as the weapon and the other is to use your lead knee which is a bit harder and require more practice.

The Rear Diagonal Knee kick is started by leaning forward and transforming your body weight onto your left foot which is in the front of your boxing stance. Start grasping your opponent’s neck with both of your firm hands. Deliver the knee kick by thrusting your right knee (from the back) diagonally upward from right to left pointing all toes straight down to the ground. At the time of impacting the knee, you must pull down your opponent’s neck from left to right and bracing your left foot against the floor and impact the aimed target with your knee cap.

The Lead Diagonal Knee Kick is slightly different because you’re using your left knee to deliver the kick from the basic boxing stance that the left foot is in the front. Lean forward but this time put your weight onto your right foot and grasp your opponent at the neck and pull it down from the right to left while you’re trying to thrust your left knee diagonally upwards from the left to right. Keep practicing to master the lead knee diagonal knee kick.

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Muay Thai Moves: The Uppercut

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Welcome back! This is time to learn some new moves! How are you with the previous Muay Thai move I talked about last month? I hope you can still remember it. Today I want to talk about another ancient Thai boxing technique. But it’s not that ancient since we still use this technique in modern Muay Thai. Let’s check it out!

The action is best used when there are only a small space between you and your opponent. The punch is perfectly used in close range. And as you deliver an uppercut, don’t forget to transfer the power right from your leg because the force will be driven through the lifting of your legs through your body and then fists. Make the uppercut move from the inside because it is easy to counter attack the move if you use the outside uppercut because you will be left widely open while you’re bringing the arms down to gain the power for the punch. To do this Muay Thai move, you have to step toward your opponent to the certain range that is close enough to easily bring the punch upward to strike the opponent’s heart, chest, and abdomen or rib area.

To the Attack: Thwart the boxer’s right arm with your left arm and suddenly twist your upper body to the right to prevent the full blow to your chest or abdomen area. Don’t forget to guard the left side of your ribcage with your left elbow holding up on guard.

To the Defense: Use your left knee to hit the boxer’s ribs or midsection. If the opponent uses his left hand instead of the right to throw the uppercut, you alternate it by using your right knee to perform this counter attack to the move.

Thanks so much for visiting us today. Don’t forget to check back for more lessons at our blog. Next time I’m thinking of writing about modern Muay Thai move, one of those we got on video. Check it out next month because I think it will be a good demonstration. Feel free to leave your comments down below about this lesson and our blog. See you next time!

Muay Thai Learning Clips: The Straight Knee Kick

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Muay Thai Cherng Kao or Knee Kicks is another offensive weapon in Muay Thai arsenal. The knee kick will involve bending and raising your knee and striking the target on your opponent’s body with the point of the knee or the inner part of your knee joint. The key to a perfect knee kick is to always keep your toes pointing down the floor for the sharpness of your weapon and more power to the hit.

Now let’s get started with our first thai boxing knee move, the straight knee kick or Kow Dhrong. It is the most basic muay thai knee strike that you will have to learn. The move targets the opponent’s abdomen and solar plexus.

There are two ways to do this move. Common one is to use the rear knee for the hit and the other is to use the lead knee. Here’s how to perform the both of them.

To use the back leg from the boxing stance to strike the straight knee kick, start off by the boxing stance and lean forward and transfer your body weight to your front foot assuming your left foot if you are the majority right-handed. Then reach your arms out to grasp your opponent’s neck with both of your hands.

Now it’s time to deliver the kick. Slightly twist your right hip to the left to add more force to the coming knee hit. Raise your right knee up attacking the target and always keep your toes pointing downward making the knee at the sharpness. At the same time of striking, pull your opponent’s neck down. If you do it right, you will feel that as you’re hitting your opponent your body will slightly bend to the back and your left foot heel will be off the ground.


Muay Thai Clips from Youtube

And if you prefer to use the front foot of the stance for this Muay Thai technique, just do the same but transfer your body weight to the other leg and add a bit more power to the hit to make it effective.

Alright, that’s it for today. Hope you enjoy the clip and how to instruction. See you next time right here!

Muay Thai Moves: The Lengthy Punch

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Welcome to MuayThai Sport! One more month has past and you know it’s about time to learn some more Muay Thai Boran moves. I hope you got to practice some of the previous moves. If you want, share your experience of trying out those moves with us right here below stimulating our Muay Thai fans to do the same.

Today move was given the name “Intra Kwang Jak”. It is just a fancy name from the past and has nothing to do with the move or anything. Non of that matters. So why don’t we get started with how to do and when to apply this ancient technique.

This Muay Thai Boran move is used for facing the coming attack, dealing with the defense and escape of your opponent. It is very accommodating when there is a certain good amount of distance between you and your fighter. Furthermore, this muay thai punch move targets the opponent’s neck and is so used when the neck area is left opened vulnerable. To perform this move, the boxer has to hold up his right fist in front of him. Then soon after, straighten or extend forcefully his right arm making a step forward toward the opponent with his right foot. Now it is the time to deliver the long range downward blow from your right fist onto your fighter’s neck or maybe nose.

To deal with the attack: Move very quickly to thwart the long punch away by moving your straight left arm above your head like when you’re guarding your face and immediately swing your left arm outward to brush the opponent’s right long blow away.

To handle the defense: With powerful force, throw a left swing kick aiming for the boxer’s right rib. If the ancient long punch is being thrown by the left arm (your right side), then instead, swing your right leg to deliver the powerful kick from your right hitting his left ribcage.

Alright I hope you enjoy the article. Come back for more of these ancient moves articles and other related to Muay Thai. Enjoy!

Muay Thai Move: The Bent Fist

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Hello again, my MUAY THAI BOXING sport friends, nowsday the world is turning too fast, sometimes I get migraine! That’s why we all should pay more attention looking back into our past, how our civilizations has grown and ended. MUAY THAI is one of the most famous civilizations of the world and it was almost forgotten by our new gens more and more. Such a beauty of arts can’t be forgotten that easily though. Let’s go back to our ancient world again and enter the world of fighting art and try Strengthening your muscles!

Here’s the Muay Thai Move of the day! THE BENT FIST!

The Bent fist is all about delivering a punch, by bending the boxer’s elbow and even your inner wrist, it would apply such a great and powerful punching force to your punch or blow. After bending your muscle, throw the blow sidewards and downwards, aiming for the boxing opponent’s nose or jaw, this is just called The Bent Fist, a technique of defending and attacking.

To complete this fabulous Thai Boxing hitting technique, you must put your left foot forward and twist your body to the left, throw your punch down by a swift. Try not to look down on the feet or the ground if your opponent would want to throw the uppercuts. And you know how hard it’s gonna be to avoid this big hit? Well, the key to defend yourself from this punch blow is to hold up your left hand defending against the blow coming from your left. Afterward, you sweep your left arm over smoothly to ward off the opponent’s right arm. Keep in mind to maintain your balance well by swaying your body only slightly bit.

Here’s the part of the boxing move you are waiting for, defensing mechanism of this throw, use your left knee to hit the boxer’s right rib. If the boxer is a left-handed one, reverse the described moves using the opposite side of the body.

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