Welcome to Art of Muay Thai Blog! I’ve learned that the most popular articles of ours are the learning video of basic Muay Thai lessons. And that is what we continue doing today. The next elbow move is the elbow strike performing while jumping into the air, aka Gra-dod Sork, aka Jumping Elbow.

The Muay Thai technique is created for targets in the face area, for instance, face, head and collar-bone. The move requires the boxer to perform any kind of Muay Thai Elbow (The elbow chop is the most popular) while in the air while both feet are off the ground, especially while about to land to add more force to the elbow. The boxer can either land with one foot or both into the Muay Thai Basic Stance.
The tip is the height of the jump. The higher the jump, the more power can be added to the strike.

Example:

Mid-Air Elbow Chop

Leap into the air bending your knees for extra push. Twist the body to the left and perform the elbow chop. The left arm instead of holding up to defend, the boxer can leave it hang naturally at the side. Chop the elbow down while you’re starting to land or on the way of coming down. Land with one foot or both feet right back to the basic Thai boxing stance.
Here’s the video we made. FYI it might look not so good for some of you but we hope it will be helpful especially for someone who want to start Muay Thai.

Muay Thai Video : The Mid-Air Elbow

Thanks for visiting us and come back next time for more articles related to Muay Thai or Thai Boxing and the next Muay Thai Learning video clip at our blog. See you next time.

Hi GUYS! Once again I’m back. This week has been such a busy week so far. I went to many boxing gyms and saw those great great moves! I just can’t get over it. But then afterward, I would go check out some new cool stuff to see if it would look awesome on me. Yeah, you can trust me, it is THAT GOOD! Let’s go see my new coolies!

This is called Wai-Kru black T-shirt. Wai-Kru, as some of you would know, means Giving your master respects before you go on the move! Moreover, It’s all written over by those cool Ancient alphabetical pictures used so much in Thailand’s old capital city over 500 years ago. The Capital city of Ayuthaya! The very very base of Muay Thai origin. Some say it has great force coming with these lettering picture just like Egyptian ones, the force of defending, so that no one can touch your skin! And The Lumpinee Stadium, the word written above the Wai Kru picture, is the biggest Muay Thai stadium in Thailand. See how it is so cool and I, myself, can’t even leave my eyes out of this new T-shirt. There’re many color you can chose, so just go take a look.

But before you would check out this thing more thoroughly, I still have 2 more of them for you to closely look at them. Here’s another one

This is TOP KING MUAY THAI T-SHIRT

See how’s that so cool. Well This shirt looks pretty good. King’s t-shirts are okay with me. But here’s another one, the one with the MUAY THAI word written above the cool boxer pictures. The Price of these T-shirts are all the same, but I still have difficulty deciding which I would like the most. I prefer Black that’s why you see a lot of blacks in my blogs! Okay now I’m leaving you with these awesome T-shirts. Share your opinions with me cuz’ It would be more awesome to know your styles!

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Straight Knees

Welcome back to TOTALLY FREE MUAY THAI Lesson. How’re you guys doing with all the new moves!? Today I bring you such a famous move to practice on. Let’s find out. The move is called KUMPAN PUNG HOK
KUMPAN PUNG HOK is one of quite famous maneuver for attacking, escaping, and defending yourself at the same time. How to make this Thai Boxing move? Let us tell you..

First, you as the boxer just bends your right knee and raise it up in the oblique position toward the left.

Second, Twist your body to the right and hit your boxing partner, or in case of the real ring fight your opponent, try focusing on the abdomen or the chest if your opponent raise his/her knee at a higher position.

Third, be sure that you can keep yourself well on your own position which you only have your left leg to rely on, raise your arms in the execution of this art of muay thai technique to control your balance well and to defend yourself from your boxing partnet attacks.

For, Deliver straight knee.

Now let’s go through these things just one technique at the time
When Attack , your opponent would twist his/her body to prevent your straight knee on the chest or abdomen, and more importantly, he/she must raise his/her left elbow to prevent the ribs from the attack

Now what about defending

The point is to set your weight well on your left leg, try to throw such a forceful right foot to your boxing partner.

Remember always to wear your protection, such a sport injury can be really harmful, defending techniques are always useful to prevent a serious injury, try not to forget it.

Boxing is such a beautiful art and powerful sport of defensing, and protecting, it has been used and modified for hundreds of years, this art is belong to what we call “a fair fight”. Keep this Martial Art’s beauty is to use it in an admirable way. Use it well.