The Straight Punch

Now we have moved on to the punching section. That’s right, this is going to be another great Muay Thai learning clips collection where you can come in and take a look, so you can practice Muay Thai at home.

The Fist in Thai is called “Mud” and to punch called “shok”, so this is for your information, so that when you heard these two words you will have the idea of what they are.

As you know there are a lot of styles of punching in Muay Thai. And of course we are not able to list and make a short clip for each of them but we try our best. I hope you like them.

Today’s punch is the most basic one, the straight punch or Mud Dhrong (Dhrong means straight). The targets aimed are eye-sockets, mouth, nose or chin.

How to do it is nothing much to explain. Just throw a direct punch forwards towards the targets, keeping the palm downwards. The reason is because you would want the back of your knuckles hit the targets for the greatest impact.

The power of the Mud Dhrong is from twisting the shoulders, hips, and heel at the same time. Now it’s time for you to take a look at our short clip and follow the move.

There are two types of straight punch; first is the Cross and another is the Jab. Basically the cross is Mud Dhrong with the rear fist and the Jab is the straight punch with the lead fist. Really simple! So now you can see that the clip above is called the Cross.

Don’t forget to keep your palm downwards always for the best impact on the expected targets. And we are moving on to the next move, The Hook!

The Hook

In Thai we call in Mud Wiang San. The best and most effective time to use this move is when your opponent is in close enough range to you.

Let’s take a look at our clip first! Then I’ll explain.

Quite the same with the straight blow but you have to curve the elbow about 90 degree angle aiming to the targets which are either face, ear, jaw, chin, or temple, using the back of your knuckle to hit the target for great impact.

Just like straight punch, there are two types of hook. One is the rear hook and the other is the lead hook. Now see what type we put in our clip?

Note that the power will come from the movement of your foot, hip and shoulder to the blow. And all the time keep the palm downwards, or you would end up wasting power without good enough effect or break your finger bones.

If you are interested, come back to this blog and check out our next useful Thai Boxing video clips. Or subscribe to our videos in YouTube. Thank for reading.

Welcome back you guys to my blog! How fast the time flies! At the end of the month like this is the most happiest time for many people, including me, who’s been working my ass off the whole month. You have no idea how happy I am right now…(just got the check)…Hooray!

Today is one of my product talks again. I’m pretty sure not many of you have ones of these at home. Actually they are not necessarily to own at home because you will need a partner to wear them. But if you do, get a pair of these to extend your training time at home.

Here below are the kick pads and punch mitts. Again there are so many styles that you can find in Muay Thai or sport department nowadays. Pick a pair that you like. These here are what I’ve been working with at the gym I go to and they are great.

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See you next time.

Welcome back to my blog! Old folks, I’m going to continue our Muay Thai Elbow Techniques lesson today…it’s out number 20 already. New folk, do not panic if you think you can’t follow up and/or because of that Thai name (Yan Song Korn).

Right here, we Muay Thai Art want to help you learn and improve your thai boxing skills, so we came up with an idea of teaching (more like a talking) you Muay Thai Boran’s moves which we think would be useful for you to adapt and change it to your own method. Follow our blog right here or you can now look for us in Facebook or Twitter.

Ok, back to what I was starting. Yan Song Korn, is a Thai name of our next Muaythai elbow move. It is another “throwing the elbow to the back” move. Let’s see what the difference of this one from the others is.

This Thai boxing technique is mainly used for defense. The act of throwing the elbows backwards is used in a situation when your opponent comes close behind your back and attempts to lock you in place. This stance usually happens when, well let’s just say, you throw a round kick but accidentally miss the target. The opponent would rush in to keep you in a defenseless position. As your back is turned against your opponent, you must use your right and left elbows alternately to hit the opponent’s left or right rib or his abdomen area. You can also execute an upward elbow strike to hit the opponent’s chin. Just keep it simple at the beginning.

To the attack: Wrap your arms tightly around the boxer’s torso and keep his arms close to his chest to prevent being hit by the thrown back elbows.

To the defense: Insert your arms under the boxer’s armpits and reach for his neck. Try to push his head down towards one side and make a quick knee move to hit the boxer’s face or chin.

The Boxing Skip

What you will learn today in our Muay Thai Learning Clip is how to do the boxing skip or in Thai “Dhen”. To tell you the truth, it is the easiest thing to do; even a kid can do this. So why did we do a lesson about this and have actually made the clip ourselves? Well to Dhen or to skip is one of the basic footwork techniques that you must know. Learning to all the methods will give you all these following advantages:

- You will be in the spot that allow you to use Muay Thai Weapons successfully
- You will be able to avoid most of the attacks
- You will have more gain than your opponent
- Your opponent will not have chance to attack

Please note that Skipping or Dhen is not formerly from Thailand or in ancient Muay Thai but it was taken from the western boxing. But it has become one of the significant basics of Muay Thai footwork that you need to be taught today.

While performing boxing skip or Dhen, the body-weight will be shifted between the two balls of the feet in a ratio of 90:10.

How to do the boxing skip

Skipping a little continuously while always maintain the Muay Thai stance, you have to shift your body-weight to the front foot.

Then Shift body-weight back to rear foot.

Then you might want to know that while skipping how you could attack your enemy. Well not that hard. For example, when you want to kick, you must use the leg which is not supporting (90%) most of your body weight.

Let’s take a look at the clip we made!

It will help us improve the clip or the lesson if you can add the comment for this clip at YouTube.com

Let’s move on to the next move, shall we?

The Leaping

Today we will continue with another the Muay Thai or Thai boxing footwork moves. Remember that some of the moves are not originally from ancient Muay thai or Muay Boran but from the western kick boxing. However, what we are teaching you here is the move that is used in the present Muay Thai today.

The Muay Thai technique today is called Leaping not jumping. In Thai we call this technique Gra Dode that means jumping but that would be funny if jumping around in the ring right? So in the clip you will see that it might look just like the boxing skip that is used in the fight to move around and be prepared to fight. But a slighting leaping has move advantage. It helps you move quicker than skipping.

The footwork method of moving forwards or backwards as prompt as you can by a simple leap while skipping. So now you can see there are two variations: backwards and forwards the descriptions are pretty much the same except you are bending to dissimilar way forward or backward.

The pressure pushing from the bent knees and both two feet should be utilized to leap into the air (not so high) and, and then when landing, the two feet should be in the same applicable positions as start.

The only different between the forward and the backward leaping is in the start. When forward, you first bend your knees and drive yourself upward to the front using the power from your both feet, and the backward you just push yourself upward to the back. The rest is the same.

Right now let’s take a look at our really short clip. So you can practice this footwork at home.

For more footwork you can check out our past articles or you can also visit YouTube and search for “Muay Thai Learning”.

See you next time!

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Twins Special Product Set: Starter Kits

In this set, you will have a pair of boxing gloves, handwraps, shin pads and ankle supports and a head guard of your color.

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Thanks for reading and see you again very soon.