Today’s move is called “Kow Yown”(Kow means knee and Yown means to throw) see in the clip below of how to perform this attacking move and right down below the clip I’ll break down into step-by-step. The move is used for attacking the abdomen and the solar plexus area. The boxer will raise his knee and thrust it forward to hit against the target in a sliding motion. The difference from other previous knee kicks is that you don’t need to use your hands to grasp your opponent’s neck and pull it down against the knee blow. Let’s take a look at the clip.

Muay Thai Learning: The Knee Bomb from YouTube

Start with the boxing stance as usual. Put the body-weight onto your front leg in this case the left foot. Then you lean slightly forward lifting both of your heels off the ground. Extend your right arm and fist to the front to protect the open area of your body which is your chest and your abdomen while holding your left fist close to the jaw line. Before delivering the knee kick, lean backward before twisting your right hip round to the left and thrust your right knee up using your right knee cap or the upper part of your shin to hit against the target.

You can also use your lead knee or the left knee that is in the front in your Muay Thai stance as the weapon. You need to first step forward with your right foot and you must shift your weight onto that foot. The rest is the same. Instead of your right fist, extend your left arm and fist to protect your midsection while performing the knee kick. Lean backward and twist your hip from left to right and thrust your knee diagonally upward to impact the target.

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Today’s move is the Muay Thai knee slap. This is a modern boxing move so if you’re training Muay Thai right now, you might have seen this move before or already know how to do it. The Thai name of this thai boxing technique is “Kow Tob”. It is used for targets like trunk and the ribcage. The focus of the move is that you grasp and pull down the neck of your opponent with your both arms while raising the knee upward to the level of the aimed target before using the inner of your knee joint to impact the target. Let’s take a look at the clip from YouTube.

Muay Thai Learning: The Knee Slap from YouTube

Let me break it down for you step by step of how to do this boxing technique. First start with your boxing stance as usual. The right foot in the back and the left foot in the front you arms and fists are up ready for guarding. When your opponent is in close range, grasp his neck with both of your fists. Transfer your body weight onto your left leg in the front and raise your right knee outward to the side up to the same level of the target like the trunk or the ribcage of your opponent. When performing any knee kick, keep in mind that you have to keep your toes pointed straight down to the ground just like when you’re doing the Horizontal Knee kick. The tip of your left foot will work as the pivot point when you leap yourself up open the heel of your left foot and twist your body and hip over to the left. Before the knee impact the target with the inner part of your knee joint, pull down the opponent’s neck downward in order to block your opponent from escaping.

There is also the knee slap with your front foot or the lead knee slap. To do this you have to shift your body weight to your right foot and raise your left knee out to the side and twist your hip to the right making the ball of your right foot as the pivot and open the heel. Impact the left knee with the inner part to the intended target while pulling down your opponent’s neck downward.

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Today’s move is called the Kow Thad (Kow means the knee and Thad means to cut in this case I think it’s used to describe a movement of moving your body part horizontally like when you’re cutting something with your hand). The Horizontal Knee Kick is used to hit targets like the trunk and the ribcage of your opponent.

To do the technique, extend your right arm out forward to grasp your opponent’s neck like the curving knee kick and use the arm to pull down the neck from left to right while you’re delivering the knee kick. However, you right knee will be raised up but just to the same level of your target and then thrust it sideway to impact to target parallel to the ground from the right to left. Let’s take a look at the clip.

Muay Thai Learning: The Horizontal Knee Kick from YouTube

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Right now I want to break down to move a little so you will get a clearer picture of how to do it. First lean forward and over to your left putting your body-weight on the left leg and extend your right arm out forward to grasp your opponent’s neck on his right side. Prepare the knee by lifting your right knee upward to the right side to the same level of height of the aimed target pointing your toes straight down to the floor. And finish it off by pulling down the neck and twist your hip using your left foot at a pivot round to the left opening the heel and flip your right knee over to parallelize to the ground before thrusting it sideway against the target horizontally.

There is also the Lead horizontal knee kick but it will need a lot more practice. If you interested please ask further advice from your Thai boxing teacher so that you will do it right under supervision. Thanks for visiting us today and see you next time for the next video clip. Happy Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Even though the move of today is one of the basic, it doesn’t mean that it is that easy to perform. All Muay Thai moves need lots of practice to master because in real situation it will be hard to decide which move you should apply. And if you don’t respond quickly enough, it might cause you to lose the fight and get hurt. Anyway, the move of today is our next attack technique with your knee. Check out our previous video articles for other weapons’ techniques.

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Muay Thai Learning: The Curving Knee-Kick from YouTube

The move is called “Kow Khong” in Thai (Kow means knee and Khong means round or curve). It is used to impact the targets like your fighter’s thigh and the ribcage. In this move, the knee is raised higher than the target and then it will be brought down and round to impact the target while twisting your body to right left pointing your left foot’s toes backward open heel, stretching all toes of your both left and right foot.

Here is the step by step of how to do the curving knee kick. Start from the basic boxing stance and lean forward to put your body weight onto your left leg. Extend your right arm out forward to grasp the neck of your rival from his right side. Then lean your body to your left to lift your right knee up to the higher level of the focused target. Make sure that your right toes are pointing straight in a line. Then to finish it off, you must twist your body and hip round and over to your left side open your left heel and bring your right knee down in a curving motion to impact the target while pulling down your opponent’s neck with your right arm from the left to right.

You can also perform the curving knee kick with your lead knee but it will require a lot more practice and harder to do. Ask your Muay Thai master for advice on that. I hope you like the video lesson. Don’t forget to click like and subscribe to the channel. Thanks for being with us until the end today. See you next time with more Muay Thai related articles right here. Have a good one!

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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I have been there personally with some friends and I know why lots of people love to go there on weekends to relax and get away from the busy life in the city. It’s beautiful and man the food was great. We stayed overnight at a resort and traveled around during the days at the waterfall and villages nearby and got some local fruits for souvenir. And I don’t see why I wouldn’t go back there again.

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So, if you have not planned anything yet and already in Thailand, visit Wangnamkheo to get to know more about Thailand in depth. Travel and relax in this peaceful and private environment in Thailand and you will want to visit there again just like me.

The Mid-Air Elbow Strike is also called in Thai “Sok Kradod or Kradod Sok”. Use this Muay Thai technique for impacting the targets like your opponent’s head, face or collar-bone. If you can recall, these are the same targets as the Muay Thai Chop or Sok Sap from last article. Anyway, the reason is because it’s basically the same move, but this time you’re doing it in the mid-air or while you’re jumping in the air at the point of coming down landing. You can apply this jumping elbow move with another elbow moves. Instead of the elbow chop, you can use the horizontal elbow hit while jumping. To be more successful, jump as high as possible and strike the elbow down to your opponent’s head as fast and as hard as possible at the point of landing on the ground. And always remain the boxing stance position while landing that you can either land with your both feet or just one.

Let’s do the move. First bend your knees for extra power for taking off and leap into the air as high as possible. Twist your body to the left just like when you do the right elbow chop. When you’re about to land, strike hard onto the target with speed.

I hope you like the clip and this move. Actually this is my own favorite muay thai move and let me tell ya it’s not that easy as it looks. What’s your fav?

In Muay thai or in any types of Martial Arts, Punching bags are great for building up strength of your fists punch or kicks. Besides, some people use punching bags for their stress relief. So heck even though you don’t box, there’s still a pretty good reason to have one around. Anyway let’s go back to boxing. Boxers from beginners to professionals use them a lot because practice with bags are great for creating muscles, stamina and improve boxing techniques. Now let’s choose a good quality and a right type of punching bags for you.

The First type of boxing bags is called the body-shaped bags. This human figured bag is used by professional boxers only and quite hard to find. It is a type of Pedestal bags.

The most common punch bags are heavy bags. They are cylindrical and hung from the ceiling with chains. The bags are strong and can handle hard and powerful workout or practice of your punches and kicks. Choose real leather bags filled with grains for long time use.

Pedestal Bags is like heavy bags. But instead of hanging from the ceiling, pedestal bags stand on the floor. However, if compare to the hanging heavy bag, I would go for the heavy bag because I can practice more Muay Thai moves with its swaying motions.

Last but not least, speed bags. This one is much smaller and easier to buy. Air filled speed bag are great for learning how to keep the hands up at post, improving the speed and perfecting the body coordination.

Train with the right bags that fit for your training purposes. Another thing to concern is the weight of the bag, heavier is more stable and on the other hand the lighter the harder to control.

Cautions: Never go with bare hands and use boxing gloves that are made for bag training. Enjoy!

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Since some of these are ancient Muay Thai moves, you might think you don’t need to know. However, I found that a lot of professional Muay thai fighters also need to learn ancient moves to get improved. So why wait, let’s take a look at Today’s lesson.

Its ancient name is Khok Nasa. But that doesn’t describe why it is the bent fist move. This move is perfect for attack. To start the move, throw the punch while bending the elbow and deliver the blow from the side downwards. Aim for the targets like nose, or jaws. To create more force to the punch, also twist or bed the inner wrist while punching and also step forward with your left foot and twist the body to the left (when you’re using the right punch).

To the attack: Do not look down on the boxer’s feet or ground to avoid the uppercuts. To defense against this Muay Thai fist, the left hand should be held up to block the incoming blow from your left side. The left arm is then used to wipe away the boxer’s punching fist outwards. Keep balance by swaying yourself a bit.

To the defense: Attack your opponent’s right rib with your left knee kick. Reverse the side of your knee kick if the blow is coming from the other way.

This Muay Thai elbow or Sork is called “the elbow chop” or “Sork Sap” in Thai. It is used for such targets like head, face or collar-bone. If you do things right, this Muay Thai technique can help you winning the fight because it’s pretty deadly if you ask me. Interested now? There’s nothing to it. You can bring your elbow vertically down to impact onto the target. And if you use both elbow for this matter, it will be called “the double elbow chop” or “Sok sap koo”.

However, the only time you can use this move is when your opponent is in a lower position for example while he’s stooping, or if he’s shorter than you.

Two ways to get your elbow in ready position for the hit are: to bring your arm or both arms straight up high above the opponent’s head before bring it vertically down powerfully to the target. Second way to do it is to bend the elbow pointing the elbow to the top of the opponent’s head placing the fist right over your shoulder, then bring it down causing the point of your elbow to hit the target.

There are two types of Muay thai elbow chop : Rear elbow chop and Lead elbow chop.

Let’s start with the rear elbow chop. Start with the boxing stance as always. Twist the body, shoulder, hip and extend the back leg. Raise the arm up ready for attacking and boom.

For the lead Muay Thai elbow chop, do the same without any twisting.
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