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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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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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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Ok, back to what I was starting. Yan Song Korn, is a Thai name of our next Muaythai elbow move. It is another “throwing the elbow to the back” move. Let’s see what the difference of this one from the others is.

This Thai boxing technique is mainly used for defense. The act of throwing the elbows backwards is used in a situation when your opponent comes close behind your back and attempts to lock you in place. This stance usually happens when, well let’s just say, you throw a round kick but accidentally miss the target. The opponent would rush in to keep you in a defenseless position. As your back is turned against your opponent, you must use your right and left elbows alternately to hit the opponent’s left or right rib or his abdomen area. You can also execute an upward elbow strike to hit the opponent’s chin. Just keep it simple at the beginning.

To the attack: Wrap your arms tightly around the boxer’s torso and keep his arms close to his chest to prevent being hit by the thrown back elbows.

To the defense: Insert your arms under the boxer’s armpits and reach for his neck. Try to push his head down towards one side and make a quick knee move to hit the boxer’s face or chin.

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!

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Thanks for reading and see you again very soon.

Back to the topic! Yotha Kluen Tap or a Straight Elbow is a technique used either for defense or escape. Starting by using the left elbow, the boxer bends his left arm, making sure that the tip of his left fist is pointed to the direction of the other arm. The right arm, on the other hand, assumes a forehand position, with the tip of the fist pointed to the back. Before executing the move, the body needs to be twisted slightly to the right side. Both elbows are then thrown with an extreme force to strike the opponent’s Adam’s apple or chin. Keep in mind to keep your guard tight and high, keeping your wrists at eyebrow level while you are performing this thai boxing technique. The reason is as well to avoid being given an elbow attack.

Let’s see how it’s done when your opponent is attacking or defending you with this move.

To the attack: Move backwards with a quite far enough distance to avoid the elbow and knee attacks.

To the defense: Deliver a strong kick aiming to the boxer’s chest area and immediately follow it up with another technique.

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The technique we are talking about is called Sudan Nake. Now, do not panic with the weird Thai name. Sudan Naka is how to throw the elbow to the back used for defense. Finding it more interesting now? Let’s see below how to use it properly.

This Muaythai elbow move is generally used for defense, especially when you are caught in a position where your opponent initiates an attack and places his head under your armpit. Get the picture? If his head is caught under your left armpit, quickly position your left foot between your opponent’s feet and shift your body to the left, then push his head downwards. At the same time, try to make your opponent lose his balance by using your knee to hit his knee. And while you are pushing his head down, deliver to his face a swinging back elbow striking the target.
Now are how to deal with the attack and the defense of this Thai Boxing technique. Pay attention!

To the Attack: Carefully cover your face to protect it from an oncoming elbow hit. It will be tough though.

To the Defense: Use the boxer’s moves described in Kwang Sabad Na or Shakes Elbow (See my previous article on Muay Thai Cherng Sok), as the opponent would assume an almost similar stance. Attempt to push your head out, free the arm and use it to strike the boxer’s knee. You can follow this move with an elbow punch to the boxer’s face.

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