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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The Straight Punch

Now we have moved on to the punching section. That’s right, this is going to be another great Muay Thai learning clips collection where you can come in and take a look, so you can practice Muay Thai at home.

The Fist in Thai is called “Mud” and to punch called “shok”, so this is for your information, so that when you heard these two words you will have the idea of what they are.

As you know there are a lot of styles of punching in Muay Thai. And of course we are not able to list and make a short clip for each of them but we try our best. I hope you like them.

Today’s punch is the most basic one, the straight punch or Mud Dhrong (Dhrong means straight). The targets aimed are eye-sockets, mouth, nose or chin.

How to do it is nothing much to explain. Just throw a direct punch forwards towards the targets, keeping the palm downwards. The reason is because you would want the back of your knuckles hit the targets for the greatest impact.

The power of the Mud Dhrong is from twisting the shoulders, hips, and heel at the same time. Now it’s time for you to take a look at our short clip and follow the move.

There are two types of straight punch; first is the Cross and another is the Jab. Basically the cross is Mud Dhrong with the rear fist and the Jab is the straight punch with the lead fist. Really simple! So now you can see that the clip above is called the Cross.

Don’t forget to keep your palm downwards always for the best impact on the expected targets. And we are moving on to the next move, The Hook!

The Hook

In Thai we call in Mud Wiang San. The best and most effective time to use this move is when your opponent is in close enough range to you.

Let’s take a look at our clip first! Then I’ll explain.

Quite the same with the straight blow but you have to curve the elbow about 90 degree angle aiming to the targets which are either face, ear, jaw, chin, or temple, using the back of your knuckle to hit the target for great impact.

Just like straight punch, there are two types of hook. One is the rear hook and the other is the lead hook. Now see what type we put in our clip?

Note that the power will come from the movement of your foot, hip and shoulder to the blow. And all the time keep the palm downwards, or you would end up wasting power without good enough effect or break your finger bones.

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The Boxing Skip

What you will learn today in our Muay Thai Learning Clip is how to do the boxing skip or in Thai “Dhen”. To tell you the truth, it is the easiest thing to do; even a kid can do this. So why did we do a lesson about this and have actually made the clip ourselves? Well to Dhen or to skip is one of the basic footwork techniques that you must know. Learning to all the methods will give you all these following advantages:

- You will be in the spot that allow you to use Muay Thai Weapons successfully
- You will be able to avoid most of the attacks
- You will have more gain than your opponent
- Your opponent will not have chance to attack

Please note that Skipping or Dhen is not formerly from Thailand or in ancient Muay Thai but it was taken from the western boxing. But it has become one of the significant basics of Muay Thai footwork that you need to be taught today.

While performing boxing skip or Dhen, the body-weight will be shifted between the two balls of the feet in a ratio of 90:10.

How to do the boxing skip

Skipping a little continuously while always maintain the Muay Thai stance, you have to shift your body-weight to the front foot.

Then Shift body-weight back to rear foot.

Then you might want to know that while skipping how you could attack your enemy. Well not that hard. For example, when you want to kick, you must use the leg which is not supporting (90%) most of your body weight.

Let’s take a look at the clip we made!

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Let’s move on to the next move, shall we?

The Leaping

Today we will continue with another the Muay Thai or Thai boxing footwork moves. Remember that some of the moves are not originally from ancient Muay thai or Muay Boran but from the western kick boxing. However, what we are teaching you here is the move that is used in the present Muay Thai today.

The Muay Thai technique today is called Leaping not jumping. In Thai we call this technique Gra Dode that means jumping but that would be funny if jumping around in the ring right? So in the clip you will see that it might look just like the boxing skip that is used in the fight to move around and be prepared to fight. But a slighting leaping has move advantage. It helps you move quicker than skipping.

The footwork method of moving forwards or backwards as prompt as you can by a simple leap while skipping. So now you can see there are two variations: backwards and forwards the descriptions are pretty much the same except you are bending to dissimilar way forward or backward.

The pressure pushing from the bent knees and both two feet should be utilized to leap into the air (not so high) and, and then when landing, the two feet should be in the same applicable positions as start.

The only different between the forward and the backward leaping is in the start. When forward, you first bend your knees and drive yourself upward to the front using the power from your both feet, and the backward you just push yourself upward to the back. The rest is the same.

Right now let’s take a look at our really short clip. So you can practice this footwork at home.

For more footwork you can check out our past articles or you can also visit YouTube and search for “Muay Thai Learning”.

See you next time!