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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