Hello and welcome to the blog! That’s right, today’s article is devoted to Learning Muay Thai video. A friend and I have shooting these videos series hoping that they will be useful for those of you who want to learn Muay Thai at home. The moves are in slow motion. So you will see how to do each of them clearly.

The Thai Boxing elbow chop or “Sork Sap” is used for impacting on targets like face, head and collar-bone. At the right moment, this muay Thai technique is pretty easy to execute and surprisingly cause serious result. Basically, what you have to do is to bring the elbow down vertically to hit the target. The variations are you can also use both elbows at the same time for this job calling “Double Elbow Chop” or “Sork Sap Koo”.

This Thai boxing move can be used only when the opponent is shorter than you or is stooping down.

and here is the double elbow chop.

There are two ways to prepare the elbow for this. First, a more powerful method, you can raise you whole arm up straight and bring the elbow down vertically to the target. Second, raise and bend the elbow so the fist is over your shoulder then bring the tip of your elbow down.

There are two types of Muay thai elbow chop. Either using rear elbow chop or lead elbow chop.

The rear elbow chop is used when you’re at the boxing stance (the left foot in the front and using left elbow for the work). You will need to twist your body round including your shoulder, hip and extended right leg to the left. Then raise the whole arm straight up and bring the elbow down vertically to impact the head of your opponent.

For the lead Muay thai elbow chop, you don’t need to twist the body. Use your left arm to deliver the elbow chop straight down to the target.
Alright, that’s it for today. Come back later for next Muay thai elbow video. They’re free! See you next time.

Welcome back you guys! So how are my friends so far? Have you been perfecting the boxing moves I wrote about in this blog? And have you notice, this is our 24th Cherng Sork already. When you’re back next time, we are starting with something else. I’m thinking Muay Thai Knee moves.

The last Muay Thai elbow move is called “Naka Kluen Gai”. I don’t know why but it’s how the ancient Muay Thai boxers called it in the past. The best word to describe this boxing technique is the “Spiral Elbow”. This is quite an advance move. Extreme caution is needed when performing this technique. Here’s how.

The Spiral Elbow is normally used for defense and for escape from incoming attacks. To be able to execute this technique quickly, the boxer or in this case you have to open both elbows outwards. Keep the points of both fists next to each other and then start throwing the elbows alternatively left and right to strike the opponent’s chin. Do it as fast as you can and it will create more serious impact to the target. Step forward when necessary to keep balance and to be in a good range to the opponent to attack. This move will make the opponent unable to shoot any counter attacks.

To the attack: You must protect your jaws which are the main targets of this move from the pointy elbow attacks by holding your arm up to guard the face area.

To the Defense: Concentrate and watch out for the time when the boxer needs to get closer to you. Strike his solar plexus or any midsection with a fast strong kick.

I hope this is useful and that you have enjoyed my free Muay Thai lessons so far. And yes it’s about time to move on to another Muay Thai technique next time. At the mean time, perfect this move with your thai boxing master and get ready to learn more right here. See you next time.

Hi guys! Welcome back to our blog! There’s nothing much going on so far with me. I haven’t gone to the gym for a few weeks now. Got caught up with work and don’t know when it will be over. Hope I can go back to practice my Muay Thai in a couple weeks.

So this is what I do when I’m bored. I went through many online stores to look around something. And maybe if lucky I will buy something cuz you know that’s why we work. And then I find this.

Twins Muay Thai T-Shirt: Wai Kru Black

Looks pretty good, doesn’t it? What I like about this T-Shirt is the Wai Kru printing in the middle. Kinda different tho’. The Lumpinee Stadium, the word written above the Wai Kru picture, is the biggest Muay Thai stadium in Thailand. I have been there at the place when I visited Thailand last time and got to see a fight (a friend of mine whose uncle owns a gym took me there and I didn’t have to pay for the ticket yay!).

Anyway this model has another color, white. And I’m not really fond of white so if to choose between these two I would go with the black one. King’s t-shirts are ok. The one with the gloves and the Muay Thai word written in Thai are more like what I have in my mind. And the prices are the same.

King Muay Thai T-Shirt: Boxing Gloves Brown

Anyway I haven’t bought one yet but I wanna ask for your opinion. I want a T-Shirt that has some sort of Muay Thai printed on it. Or if you find something else online somewhere or maybe you already have one, let me know which one you got cuz I’m bored to dead now. I’m looking forward to your comments.

This is our 8th video already. Can you believe that? Only a few more of Muay Thai elbow to go and after that we will go on and start the Muay Thai Knee moves. Don’t forget the review the old video we have talked about here, Muay Thai punching moves and the previous Muay Thai elbow moves. Suggest your friends who are starting to learn Muay Thai. These Thai boxing learning clips will be useful for them.

Anyway, so today’s video is called “Reverse Horizontal Elbow”. It can be called in Thai “Sork Gratoong” or “Sork Wiang Glab”. This attack is great for hitting the side of the opponent’s face as the target. The elbow is thrown horizontally outwards or reversing and synchronizing the movements of your elbow, shoulder, waist, hip and leg for perfection to attack the target.

There are two types of reverse horizontal elbow. One is normally used as an offensive move and the other is as a follow-on move when the use of other elbow attack is failed.

The Rear Reverse Horizontal Elbow works great for a follow-on move. You can perform this when other elbow attacks like the elbow slash or the horizontal elbow is failed to hit the target. Turn it into an advantage by retracting the elbow back and impact the point of the elbow against to side of your opponent’s head. For example, if you’re using the right horizontal elbow and it misses the target, swing the elbow further to the left and pull it back forcefully to the right along the same path to hit the target.

The Lead Reverse Horizontal Elbow, on the other hand, is used as a direct attack since at this point you are much closer to the opponent or the target. Do it by twisting your left shoulder, including waist, hip and leg to the right with power before swinging them back bringing the ready elbow horizontally back to impact the target with the point of your elbow.

I hope you will find this lesson quite useful. Practice this with your Muay Thai trainer for a better result. Come back for more of these free Muay Thai boxing lessons right here. Enjoy!

Welcome back to our learning clips. Today’s move we’re presenting you is “The forward elbow thrust” or in Thai they call it “Sok Poong”. This move is relatively easy comparing to the uppercut elbow we talked about last time. The difference between this forward thrust elbow and the uppercut elbow is the direction you throw the elbow to hit the target. This move or the forward elbow thrust describes that the elbow is thrown directly forward in front of you to hit the target.

Targets for this Muay Thai technique are such as head, eyes, bridge of the nose, chin or brow bone. So to focus on this technique, you will have to throw or raise the attacking elbow forward (stabbing motion) to the aiming target or in this case the face area.

The common way to perform this move is to use the lead forward elbow. Here’s how:

First, weigh your body weight onto your left leg. Stand up and keep your body up straight while raising your left elbow in position to attack (bend the arm so the left elbow is pointing out forward and make the upper arm horizontal with the floor and fold the forearm back so that the fist is next to the boxer’s ear.)

Then, thrust the tip of your elbow fast with power to the target. To add more force to it, try to lean your body forward bending your left knee and extending the right leg while throwing the elbow.
Now let’s take a look at the video, shall we?

Still my recommendation especially for beginners is to do it with your Muay Thai trainer at the beginning since he will know exactly what you might have done wrong and correct you before you memorize the wrong technique.

Alright, I hope you like the video. I will be back with more Muay Thai video lesson. So don’t forget to check back for more and remember these lessons are FREE. Have fun training your Muay Thai. I’ll see you next time.