Curved Thai Kick

Muay thai techniques

Muay Thai techniques;

Delivery of strikes

Four weapons of the Muay Thai arsenal are;

Foot

Foot is the long range and most powerful weapon.  There are several ways to strike with feet.  For kicking,there are several ways to strike with feet.  For kicking, there are low kick , high kick,straight kick,round kick, and turen-round kick, to name a few.  For foot-thrusting, there are peaking foot-thrust with curled toes, sideways flicking heel-thrust, as examples;

Knee

Knee can be either a long range weapon like throwing a knee bomb, or close range weapon like a knee strike while clinching the opponents's neck.

Elbow

Elbow is a dangeroud close range weapon, whick can be executed in five ways;

1.Elbow strike : pressing the tip of elbow forcibly.

2.Round elbow strike : throwing the elbow horizontally

3.Elbow uppercut: swinging the elbow upward.

4.Shooting elbow strike : throwing the elbow straight toward the opponent.

5.Reverse elbow strike : turning the body around to throw the elbow backward.

Fits

The use of the fist in Muay Thai is richer than the western boxing.  Aside from straight punch,hook and uppercut. Muay Thai has pitching swing and overhead seing for example.

The art of foot execution

 

Kick is the movement of a leg from its knee down to the end of its foot to strike the target.  If the movement is vertical from beloe,it calls the straight kick.

If the movement slants to the left or right, it call the sideways kick.

If the movement if curving up and striking horizontally or downward, it is called the round kick, which can be execued in several ways up on the height from the ground: the low round kick, the middle round kick, or the high round kick.

If the fighter raised his bending leg and suddenly flicks his shin or foot tip to the target, it is called teh flicking kick. 

Legs are the longest appendage in the body which provide the widest range strike.  Plus, the tibia (shin boneX is a large, atrong bone shich can inflict severe damage on teh opponent.

For good practice, delivery of a kick should be spontaneous with voluntarily twitch of muscles from arms, shoulders, hips,trunk and thighs.  This will make the kick more powerful and devastating. 

The targets of a kick can be any parts of the oppoment's body,depending upon how to execution:

The low round kick aims at the opponent's knee folds.

The middle round kick aims at the thinghs, waist, abdomen,cest,or arms of the opponent. 

The high round kick aims at the opponent's chin and neck.

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About the Author

Master Burklerk Pinsinchai got "The Muay Thai Ambassador award"  on 2010.  He would like to do full functional of his award.

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