Hi and welcome back to our Muay Thai Boran’s lesson! Actually it’s not a lesson, because I’m not a teacher or muay thai expert. But I’m only a thai boxing fan who read and watch Muay Thai a lot. The ancient muaythai moves I have been talking about are from online articles and books. I read and memorize them and think they are quite useful so I want to pass them on to you. If you are an expert, you can also correct me if I’m wrong at some point. Since some of the moves are not really used in Muay thai ring these days, but knowing the moves help you increase your boxing skills. And here goes the move of today.

The move is called Ngoo Lai Tookkae (snake chasing salamander, yup that’s the literally meaning of the name, don’t ask me why). However, the English name is the alternating knees kicks. You might not get the picture now. But you will because I’ll break it down for you.

This is a very rapid move for attacking. It is the most effectively used when your opponent starts to lose his balance or is in a unsteady position. First, you as a boxer will hit your opponent’s left rib with a diagonal left knee kick (Kao Chiyang, check out our latest Muay Thai Boxing Video lesson from last month, we got a video on how to perform a diagonal knee kick and some instructions). Next, throw a straight right knee kick into your opponent’s midsection or solar plexus. Then, finish it off with another left knee kick into the central part of the torso.

To deal with the Attack: Avoid being immobile when your opponent is using this move against you. To handle the situation, you can sway your body and raise your right elbow to cover your chest area instead. And to protect your left rib, you will have to twist your torso to the right and use your left elbow to guard it.

To deal with the Defense: Use your left leg to kick the opponent’s abdomen to make him loose his footing. Immediately, follow it up with another technique to prevent another flood of alternating knees.

Alright, that’s it for today lesson. Check us out next month for more of this or you can also see our others articles throughout the month. See you next time!

Welcome back to our blog! I know most of you must have been waiting for this article to come. Since I’ve learned so far that our Muay Thai lesson article is the most wanted and the most interesting in this blog. And I’m intending to continue it until the end. We’ve finished the Muay Thai Cherng Sok which contains 24 articles of 24 Thai Boxing elbow moves, so check them out if you have not because you will love them.

Anyway, I have started to write a few articles already of another Muay Thai weapon’s move, Cherng Kao or Knee Kicks. Today Muay Thai Knee move is called Chuey Khang. It is basically a double knees kick using both knees as the weapons.

Chuey Khang or Kao Koo (double knees) or to be specific the flying knees kick is one of Muay Thai most powerful weapons in Thai Boxing arsenal. There are similarities in execution with the straight knee action. However, this flying knees kick is executed with a forward leaping motion while both feet will have to be apparently lifted off the ground. The move is perfect to be used for attack or as a counter-move. Before delivering the double knees kick, make sure you have enough clearance space of at least one step apart between you and your opponent to allow the room to leap. With the normal boxing stance, your left leg is in the front, you must take a step forward with your right leg bending both of your knees. Take off the ground, throwing both knees directly to the opponent’s chin with the full force jump. In addition, you can follow this move by some elbow strikes in your rival’s face.

To the Attack: If you are not stuck in a corner, you can avoid the Kao Koo attack by jumping backward and at the same time holding your left arm up to guard your face and head area and keeping your right arm down to protect your torso from the delivered flying knees kick.

To the Defense: With a jump, kick the boxer’s leg with your right foot and deliver a right elbow hit to the boxer’s face.

Alright, thanks for sticking around until the end. Come back for more of this useful lesson right here in our blog. I’ll try to update some new ones as soon as I can. By the way, at the mean time, you can also check out my other articles posted in this blog or visit the main site or click here to be directed there. See you next time!

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.

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.