Today we’re going to teach you how to do a diagonal knee kick in our Muay thai video lesson. The kick is called Kao Chiyang in Thai which is the literally meaning of diagonal knee. This is one of the very basic knee kicks in Thai boxing arsenal. So here goes.

The targets of this technique are such as thigh, ribcage, or the side of the body. Basically, the move is performed by grasping and pulling the other boxer’s neck with both fists and delivering the knee diagonally hitting the focused target. I’ll break it down for you later but first let’s take a look at the video we made.

There are two ways to perform this muay thai move. First is to use the rear knee to deliver the hit and second is the use the lead knee. Let’s start with the common used one first.

Rear Diagonal Knee-Kick
Start with the boxing stance as usual. Lean forwards shifting your body weighting onto your left foot. And grasp your opponent’s neck with both of your hand. Remember to grasp the neck from the inside not outside to avoid counter-move and be on guard in case there is an elbow attack. Then, throw your right knee diagonally upwards from the right to left keeping the toes stretched straight down. At this point, you will pull the neck downward diagonally from left to right before bracing your left foot against the floor and impacting your knee cap with power to the target.

Lead Diagonal Knee-Kick
This is not easy to do by anyone, but here is the basic instruction. Lots of practice is required. First, with the boxing stance, lean forward but the body weight should be transferred to your right foot. Grasp your opponent’s neck with the same method above pulling it downward from right to left. Now thrust your left knee diagonally upward from left to right forcefully. Hitting the chosen target with your knee-cap.

So that’s it with our video lesson for today. Come back for more of this. I’ll try to upload more Thai boxing videos on YouTube, so you can also go check them all out 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!

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.

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.