Hi everyone, welcome, Esteban here. Today I'm with my friends Marco Fuentes from the gym, his gym Naksu Muay Thai Here in Manzanillo, Mexico, a beautiful paradise. You have to come, you're welcomed to visit. And my other friend also, Chris Kew, from Canada from the Mas Thai Boxing gym in Canada. OK, today we are going to discuss a clinch. Something basic, the Muay Thai clinch and how we can illustrate an Anaconda with Steve. Yes? And how we can prevent it, we will also be demonstrating. Ready? So, first of all in Muay Thai when we are in the clinch, yes, it is very important …
Normally we are squared off like this, right? But when we're in the clinch (stay here), in parallel line. Yes? Heels up. OK? And the basic thing is, we usually go for control, elbows in and enter, ready? Control back of the back of the head, and to say if his head is lifted, I can lower it like this. And if he wants to stand upright, if he wants to get vertical, he cannot. Yes? But if he is standing straight, and we get control here, at the neck and try to pull the head with both hands, no. We cannot, right? But if I do it from here on the back of the head, not the neck, boom, down goes his head. Lift your head again Steve. He will not be able. Yes? Boom. Again. Boom, again. Each time, cinching down more and more, creating space, knee. These are brutal knees to the face. With gashed open eyes, it can open cuts here, fracture the nose. If you do not have a mouthguard, well goodbye teeth, no? Like this as personal defense.
Yes? It's very important. And a beautiful part of Muay Thai is that the knee strike techniques are very real and effective for self defense. OK. If we are here, whoa. Ready. Here, stand up vertical Steve and I'm going to lower you. Get in with one, like that, and if he wants to escape, boom. If he wants to escape, …
In a common defense in Muay Thai, he might want to hug me, right? He wants to grab and control me and also… He does not want to be there, right? He wants to get control of me and I'm here tightly cinched down, elbows closed, we create space and enter, no? Pushing forward and enter, yes? So, if I want, I can turn him and I have total control. If he approaches me, … Let's see. Yes? So from here, if he grabs me, yes, I turn, I enter, I control, yes. Or, I got back to my head clinch position again, and from there, knee, create space, knee. And if you want to turn him from there, boom. Yes? From there I can throw my elbow, yes? I have my options, right? Especially if Steve has his hands down as in that case. Hopefully they would not be there. It is a sign of danger. For goodnight. Well, that's it, those are the important keys on how to be ready with many options, no? From bicep, neck, … Yes? We have options. But today, only that part. Yes? And so from here Steve is going to give a brief illustration of an anaconda you said, right? Yes, that's right.
OK, so one thing that I like to do from a position of controlling the head and maintaining… The body will follow the head. When we have that good control with the Muay Thai clinch as my friend Marco explained, you can even get straight to the anaconda. One of my favorites. And so, he will allow me to explain it to you, like he did with good control. (Lower that.) So if I'm like him, controlling well with the Muay Thai clinch if I have his head down low, it's a short distance to reach the anaconda position. So if you are have long, strong hands (arms), you can lock it in and even from this standing position begin to roll down into the move. And from here it's nothing more than rolling around, grabbing the leg, and he's going away. It's very escape. It's a movement that I love, the anaconda! But today, Chris will teach us things we cannot do when someone wants to use an anaconda on you.
So I think the key things we need to look at (Así que creo que las cosas clave que debemos mirar) with the Muay Thai clinch in this particular ceremony (con el Muay Thai clinch en esta ceremonia particular) is the distance between the hips. (es la distancia entre las caderas.) As you can see Marco allowed his hips (Como puedes ver Marcos permitió sus caderas) to posture out which gave him room for the anaconda. (para postularse, lo que le dio espacio para la anaconda.) I'm going to reverse it back a step or two. (Voy a revertirlo un paso atrás o dos.) When he reaches for that Muay Thai clinch (Cuando él alcanza para ese Muay Thai clinch) what I'm going to do is I'm going to get (lo que voy a hacer es que voy a conseguir) the bicep and the forearm, and I'm going to (el bíceps y el antebrazo, y voy a) make myself small and I'm going to (hacerme pequeño y voy a) neutralize that position. (neutralizar esa posición.) When he reaches for my hand here, (Cuando él alcanza mi mano aquí,) or for my neck here, sorry, (o por mi cuello aquí, lo siento,) Reach for my neck, I'm going to posture, (o por mi cuello aquí, lo siento,) locking out his knees.
I'm going to quickly drive (bloqueando sus rodillas. Voy a conducir rápidamente) the knee, returning to inside plum or inside control. (la rodilla, volviendo a ciruela interior o control interno.) At this point, again, I'm going to take a half-step (En este punto, de nuevo, voy a dar un paso a medias) twist into the neck and bi (cep), (girar en el cuello y el bíceps,) breaking the nose. (rompiendo la nariz.) OK, ready?! Thank you very much!.
