Hi there! I’m really excited to write about this article today. Our learning video is my favorite article of all time. Though I got some feedback that some of the videos look quite bad but oh well. It’s all I can ask them to do. But at least I still think that you can still learn what’s good from the video and notice the mistake and will not repeat it.

The move in the video today is a straight knee kick. Yup, we have moved on to the Muay Thai Knee Kicks lessons. This will be our first Kao or Kow move. It’s the most basic and the easiest technique if I must say. But you just have to do it right. Let’s take a look at the clip first then.

Muay Thai Learning Clip from Youtube

The Straight Knee Kick or Kow Trong is used for targets like abdomen and solar plexus. How to do it is to grab and pull your opponent’s neck with both of your fists and swing the knee up to hit the target. At the mean time, try to keep your face tucked in slightly just to be safe and don’t leave your eyes from your opponent.

There are two ways to perform this move. First is by using the rear knee for the kick and another is the use the front knee for the attack.
The common one is to you the back knee of the stance for the attack since pulling the knee all the way from the back will already add some more power to the knee kick and make it easier and more forceful.
Start by leaning forward and shift your body weight onto your left foot and strongly grasp your opponent’s neck with both hands. Thrust your right knee up to hit the target with adding a little twist of the right hip for more power. As you kick, the toes of your right foot should point downward, the hands should pull the opponent to bend down. As you are performing this method, your body will lean backward naturally a little to keep yourself balance.

For the lead straight knee kick, you have to transfer your body weight to your right foot and thrust the left knee up with additional power for greater effect, keeping your toes pointing down to the floor while pulling down the opponent neck.

Now it’s time to go out and enjoy Muay Thai!

To be direct, I want to answer the question first and then explain later. I would personally say NO to the question and so do most of you. Here come the reasons.

To tell you the truth if you are a starter, I would recommend you to train with any real Muay Thai teachers. Someone that has learned and know Muay Thai well and is able to pass on the knowledge will do just fine. My first Muay Thai teacher was my friend actually. He taught me some basic moves and helped me correcting it. And I really liked him as my Kru Muay.
However, if things get more serious, you might want to look for a more professional Muay thai teacher. Which I’m pretty sure they are almost everywhere in the world now. They can give you good lessons and instructions of Muay Thai. Many of them have spent lots of time learning from respected Kru Muay in Thailand for a certain amount of time and they are confident enough to help you out.

Don’t think that a lot of great muay thai teachers are in Thailand. I don’t think that’s true. Good teachers are someone who can communicate best with you. Whoever has all the knowledge but is able to pass it on to someone else correctly is not a good teacher. It’s true that different teachers have different methods of teaching. You just have to choose which method work best for you to improve.

One more thing about Thailand is that the country is not so good at keeping best people inside. A lot of respected Muay Thai teachers now work outside the countries because they have a better life there. So who know, you might already have known some of them in your hometown. Knowing this, why bother coming to Thailand?

Unless you want a taste of being trained in Thailand. Just for an experience. I would recommend you take a short course in some private thai boxing school somewhere in Thailand. Like a month or a few months. That will be a very good life experience that you can go back and tell you friends about for the rest of your life. Just a warning though, the boxing course you take in Thailand might not be with a Kru Muay who is better than the one you already have in your country.

But anyway, just enjoy what you’re doing. If you have the money and time, go for it. Thailand is such a great place to spend time in. If you’re interested in taking some courses in Thailand, maybe I can recommend you to some Muay thai gyms I know outside Bangkok. There are some good places in Phuket which will be best for your vacation. Just let me know.

Alright so far I’ve learned that this is the most interesting articles voted by my friends and readers so far since not so many people would write the similar articles about Muay Thai Boran or Ancient Muay Thai techniques.

Just so you know I am not really the expert of Muay Thai. I’ve learned and studied some from online articles, mostly from books and friends. I tried some of these moves I read myself and I still think it’s very crucial and being an advantage to know about the ancient moves. Just like learning history, you learn and adapt from that and improvise in the present. Muay Thai learning is not that unalike.

Ok let’s get back to the topic. Today’s Muay Thai Boran 11 Cherng Kao or thai boxing knee kicks is called “Yok Nang” which is just the fancy Thai name given in the past. But anyway basically “Yok Nang” is the swinging knee kicks. Here’s how to do it.

This action is most ideally used for defense when the opponent is at close range. The boxer turns his body slightly to the right and in one swift movement swings his left knee from the side to hit the opponent’s right rib. As this swinging knee is delivered, the boxer needs to bend his torso over to the opposite side to maintain balance. He must also have his left arm raised high to Attack any punch that his opponent may throw at his face.

To the Attack: Sway the body to avoid the oncoming swinging knee from the side and move back a bit or pull down to protect your right rib.

To the Defense: As the boxer leans his body to the right, it becomes an easy target for a defensive left knee kick. Throw your knee to his ribcage as he raises his left knee; this will put him off balance even if you cannot deliver a forceful blow. If the boxer throws you a right knee, counter with a right knee to his left rib.

So, that’s it, the Swinging Knee kicks from the ancient muaythai. I hope you still like to read about these awesome Muay Thai Boran moves and techniques. See you next month right here for more of these. Thank for reading. Enjoy your Muay Thai!

I just added more Muay Thai shorts from Raja to the store and in case you haven’t noticed or checked them out I want to introduce you to them today. These are some good quality products and quite a variety also. Some of them were made of Satin, shiny fabric, polyester or satin/polyester combined and some are made of special silk just for the different taste.

Give them a try. These are very new and look really good and I think that you should have at least one of these.

Between the 3 types of fabric I still prefer Satin to the others. Since I’m used to it and it gives me the most comfort and remind me of how Muay Thai shorts should really feel. And as you can see we don’t sell cotton boxing shorts here because it is not traditional in Thailand anymore.
Special Silk Muay Thai Shorts

Satin thai Boxing shorts

Shiny Boxing Shorts

Polyester/Satin Muay Thai shorts

Check out these new Raja Muay Thai boxing shorts at our store, click here.

Hi and welcome back to our blog! As usual, I’m back here today just to review some of our hot products from the month. These three items below have been best seller at our online store at MuaythaiArt for a few months now. And I think maybe you want to check them out what they are.

First, believe it or not. It’s the Muay Thai Liniment again. Yup again! As I recalled it was one of our best seller last year. But wow, more and more people are willing to try this liniment. I know that in Thailand the Nam man Muay is a must to have for every Muay Thai fighters but I don’t expect these many of orders from outside the country. Maybe you just have to tell me why you like this item so much and how it helps you.

Boxing Liniment 120 c.c.

Thai boxing liniment is believed to help taking care of any strains and sprains from the boxing training and fighting. The user can just apply this oil based product onto your shin bones or muscles before and after the fight to help relieve the pain. You can check this product out by clicking on its picture.

Our next hot item is this pair of Muay Thai boxing gloves from Twins Special. One good outstanding thing about Twins that I like is that they have so many products’ choices for our customers. They are just not lazy to create and design and put ideas into their products. And that’s why their products can still be launching in the market and make best-seller very often.

Lastly, well not exactly the last because these are another pretty tough Muay Thai products to choose according to the numbers of styles and brands. However, Windy, to tell you the truth still cannot beat Raja and Twins in the market but that doesn’t mean their goods are good. A lot of time I find windy shorts look better than the others. These Muay Thai shorts from Windy look really great and I actually got some orders for this item.

Windy Muay Thai Boxing shorts: WDS-026

Alright, don’t forget to check them out. These are all good quality products that I would recommend to my friends and to you. Thanks for visiting my blog and store. See you next time.