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.

Hi there! What do you know about the Muay Thai uppercut elbow? Our next learning video will show you the move of this technique. First let’s talk about it just a little bit before we start.

The Uppercut Elbow is called in Thai “Sork Ngad” or “Sork Seuy”. This elbow move is used for targets like chin, jaw, or face area by thrusting the elbow diagonally upwards to hit the aiming target. See the example in our learning video here.

Basically there are two ways to perform this Muay Thai elbow move. The first is by using the lead elbow for the uppercut and the second is by using the rear one.

The normal way or the most common used is the Thai boxing rear uppercut elbow if you’re right handed. First, start with the Muay Thai boxing stance. Move your weight on your left leg and then twist your right shoulder and also hip and leg over to the left. Add more power to the impact by bending both knees just a bit. At the mean time, hold your right elbow in position to attack and raise the arm it diagonally upwards so that your fist is close to your face on the left.

Now the fun part. Thrust your right elbow slightly diagonally up and round, adding the force. Use the point of the elbow to hit the target.
For alternative, you can also use your left elbow for this Thai boxing move. It will be called “Lead” uppercut elbow. Besides using the lead elbow is somewhat easier. The body weight stay on your left leg just like when using the right elbow. But instead, raise your left arm diagonally so the fist is next to your face on the right. And you know what comes next. Thrust the left elbow diagonally upwards to hit the opponent’s chin, jaw or face.

Well I guess this is it! Hope this video and article will help you understand the technique and even better you will get a chance to use it. Good luck!

The Elbow Slash

Welcome back! It is time we move on to the next Muay Thai weapon: Elbows! The series of short clips we are introducing and suggesting you to see next are how to strike with your elbows. So don’t go anywhere because all of these are free. By the way, we just finish all the Muay Thai Boxing punching series, in case you want to check them out, feel free to do so.

Elbows, the connected part of your upper arm bone and your lower arm bone are sharp and hard and quite dangerous. They are the unique weapon in Thai Boxing which can cause serious injuries on your opponents. Learning how to use it is quite useful. And here we are at our first Elbow strike move called “The Elbow Slash”.

The Thai name for this strike is “Sork Tee” or “Sork Fun” which literally mean “elbow hit” and “elbow slash”. The targets for this move are such as nose, forehead, head, eye, brow bone and temple. It is used for attacking by bringing the elbow diagonally downwards against the target you choose to hit. The angle would be at about 45 degree, making it hard and sharp like a sword to slash the aiming target on your challenger.

If you want to add more power to the elbow, quickly turn your shoulder and hip and brace your foot against the floor so the power will run from your foot upwards to the hitting elbow.

Take a look at our clip for a clearer vision.

The move is not quite popular today since it’s quite hard and requires more boxing move to do. The next move we will talk about this time will be used instead of this one because it’s much easier.

The Horizontal Elbow

As you know, elbows are really unique in Muay Thai because they are your weapons. But how to use them right is not that easy, so that’s why we’re here to teach you. If you see any mistake, please let me know because the making production was quite fast and we might have missed something.

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Ok the move today is called the Horizontal Elbow. I told you that this is the easiest elbow move and very often used as elbow method. How to do the move is to swing your hitting elbow parallel the floor at the shoulder level from right to left if you’re using your right elbow and from left to right in case you use the left elbow. Confused? Take a look at the clip.

This Horizontal Elbow is called in Thai “Sork Tad” so if you see this name anywhere, it is the same with Horizontal Elbow. Targets for this elbow method are jaw, chin, temple and brow bone.

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The Spinning Back Fist

Welcome back to my blog! I hope my blog can sort of help you learn and practice Muay Thai moves by yourself at home. If you like what we do here and want to stick with us, you can check out our clips in the category on the right.

Some of Thai Boxing moves can be really hard to perform. It would be better if you also join a boxing gym at the meantime and practice these moves with your trainer. Though you can train this by yourself, no one can help correcting the move for you, in case that you do something wrong.

Spinning Back Fist is called “Mud Wiang Glab”. It is used for targets like chin, ear, jaw, and temple. How to do this move is turning your body around (round clockwise if you’re right-handed and counter clockwise if you’re left-handed) to the back, looking back at your enemy and at the meantime swinging your fist using momentum to help adding the power to your fist and hitting the target by using the back of your fist.

Take a look at our clip and do the same!

Another video I would like to show you today is the Uppercut technique. It can be really powerful if you use it right. Let’s get started!

The Uppercut

Muay Thai’s Uppercut or “The Star Gatherer” is what we are focusing on right now. This technique will be really effective when the opponent is close to you. The power of the punch is from bracing against the floor with the foot of the same side of the body as the fist that is being used. Just remind yourself “Right fist, right foot”.

The Uppercut in Muay Thaiboxing or kickboxing can be used to hi chin or solar plexus. The knees should be bent slightly. So should the elbow. And the fist should be thrown vertically upwards hitting the target with your knuckle.

Uppercut can be performed by your lead fist or rear fist. Take a look at the clip!

Notes: in Muay Thai Boran, the uppercut is punched horizontally forwards to the solar plexus.

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