Welcome to the website! Are you planning on visiting Thailand next month? Here are some activities for you to consider. You might want to see and join these events. These are just some ideas in case you have some more time left to see these marvelous events.

First is called Bang Fai Phraya Nak or Naga Fireball
Date: 10-16 October 2008
This extraordinary miracle always occurs at the beginning of the full moon night in the eleventh lunar month. It can be witnessed along the Mekong River in the districts of Mueng, Phon Phisai, Pak Khat, Bung Kan, Tha Bo, Si Chiang Mai and Sangkhom. What you will see here? Bang Fai Phaya Nak is a term used for red and pinkish fire balls which is believed to belong to Phaya Nak or Naga or the great serpent of the underwater world. A lot of people always go to witness this occurrence.

Second is the Illuminated Boat Procession
Date: 9-15 October 2008
The festival was firstly aimed at paying respect to the Lord Buddha. But then the competition of the illuminated boat procession was organized to add more color to the event. The boats lined up in the middle of the Mekong River will create an impressive scene for all the viewers.

And the last one I’m presenting you today is a Wax Castle Festival in Sakon Nakhon.
Date: 8-14 October 2008
This is one of the biggest event in the end of Buddhist Lent or Ok Phansa Day in Thai, the assemble of the wonderful wax castle created by talented artists in the province. This is a great tradition of Sakon Nakhon people.

Information from www.tourismthailand.org

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Welcome to the website where you can update yourself with the knowledge of Muay Thai, Thailand information, or even Thai language learning articles. And today is time for us to continue Muay Thai 24 Cherng Sok or how to use your Elbow in Muay Thai whether to attack, to defend or to escape from any attack.

If you are new here and want more like this, check out our articles in the past and look for Muay Thai’s 15 Cherng Mud. We have finished that last month on how to use your fists as crucial weapons. But now is our second lesson, Cherng Sok. There are 24 of them and we still in the middle of it. So if you want to learn Muay Thai or ancient Muay Thai for free, don’t miss this.

So let’s start our next lesson now.

SAI LIEW LANG, if you can recall I remember that I said this name a couple times ago. SAI LIEW LANG is a defense method also known as Skew Back Elbow. This technique is used as a follow-up move when your kick, elbow or fist misses its target at the first time. Instead of taking the arm or leg back to the boxing stance position, you can turn your body and from your right swing your bent elbow from the level of your chest up towards your opponent’s Adam’s apple or his chin. From doing this you are preventing your opponent from rushing in after you have failed to connect with a fist, an elbow or a fist.

To an attack, use your left hand to wipe the oncoming elbow to the left and sway your head to the right to keep it away from getting hit by the elbow.

To a defense, use your left foot to hit the opponent’s calf and swing it to your right. Watch out not to allow your opponent’s elbow to strike you while you are doing this. If your opponent is lefty, don’t forget to reverse all this to the other side.

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Welcome to our blog and of course to our Muay Thai lesson! Moving on with the Muay Thai Cherng Sok or how to perform Muay Thai with your elbows is what we are doing today. As we always do it, we start the lesson with telling you what it is and then how to perform the technique step by step. What you might want to do is to practice this a lot at home or even better you should practice this with your Muay Thai trainers guiding you really close. You have to understand is all we can do is guiding you what you can do, but the trainer can correct your mistakes while we cannot.

In the past this technique was named JAK NARAI. It’s a name of “Swinging Back Elbow”. Now it’s time to follow these steps below of how to do it.

The move is used for escape from an attack or for defense. You can first bend your right elbow in front of you and get your hand ready for a backhand drive. You have to be able to approximate your distance between you and your opponent before you use this move, the swinging back elbow, because you will be having your back to your opponent. Later you will have to put your right arm up to your opponent’s chin’s or chest’s level and turn your body so that your back is turned to the opponent. While doing this, support your weight with your left foot. You should quickly give your right elbow blow back to hit your rival’s chin or jaws.

The opponent should insert his hand through the fighter’s arm to try to pull down the fighter’s neck with his other arm. A knee should be thrown to the fighter’s chin or face as it is pulled down. If the fighter is a leftie, just reverse all descriptions above to the other side.