Hi everyone welcome to the Muay Channel
Today in this first video
I will start by explaining to you why I wanted to do
this course. I have been practicing Muay for 15 years now I have been teaching for five
years and very regularly I necessarily repeat the gestures to my students I
wanted to condense all the movements of Muay into a series of
short videos so that it is explained as best as possible and possibly
share as many as possible. You'll see I'm going to make a series of videos
maybe ten or fifteen, we'll see, addressing specific themes
each time. Why does an elbow strike go like a
saber strike from top to bottom and not perfectly horizontal. How to
send a good knee that hits well. How far to send a good
knee, why when you block you should not raise your foot or lower your
foot but leave the foot perfectly relaxed.
We will go through all
the ranges of Muay Thai with small supporting examples.
So there is a very important point that I would like to discuss with you which will
be controversial: you will not learn to box here. And I'm going to be more general
than that, you won't learn how to box on the internet. And I'll go even further than that: Those who tell you that they
teach you how to box on the internet are liars! Boxing is not just the gestures we watch on the Internet.
Boxing is
going to the gym, sweating, bagging , paddling, sparring, taking it out,
giving it away, it's really a lot of things but not just sitting around eating
chips, I see you you!, in front of the Internet Training takes place in the gym,
with a coach who corrects you, who makes you progress, not just by
watching videos on the Internet. Now we are clear on the
fact that this video is useless you will not learn how to box here we will be
able to talk a little bit about gestures we will now talk about the guard
lagarde it's really the b to ba in thai boxing this is what you have to
learn in the first lesson how you stand in a ring the level of the guard
that's good you are going to face the opponent it is your loved ones or your
shoulders come imagine that you you're on a big clock your opponent
is straight up in front of you your boards and you shoulder
him let's do your left leg your front leg if you're right-handed will
clock in between 10 and 11 o'clock for a straight time back leg don't lend
between 1 p.m.
And 2 p.m. these positions of employment it is absolutely essential to
understand them well and to memorize them well during the first days it is
what is most important why is it so important
because they will condition your blockages and your shifts have gone ir
that in Thai boxing when you start an action you always have to break the
distance and to break the distance you have to go slightly on the
offset side and not go in front directly on the opponent for that it helps
to have the foot directly in the right direction, that is to say around 10 11 a.m.
Is
able to move in the right direction
the other point is that you will see that being much less ducky
will condition your blockages you will see talking about it right after with the
blocks at the level of the hands the right hand of course extend it the left hand
very slightly in front of the sounding slightly unstuck that's why we
say big boxing like chickens but I remind you that we have need her to
catch middles possibly we can send nudges and
also be able to enter the par accor if necessary so we can't be too
closed like in English boxing so the hand in the right hand
the bride is sure to extend her hand from gauge slightly t in front of the pieces
comes duck around 10 11:13 a.m. 2 p.m. anyway it's facing my opponent
there I'm ready to box two important things
first of all your gaze when you box someone you must always
fix it at the level of his chest why because by staring at his chest
you will be able to see these people start up and his arms start up if you
look him in the eye if the sending of the Englishman you're going to see
lets him go but if he follows with the legs it's going to be complicated to see it
happen so we always watch the opponent at
chest level provide as much as possible for their legs and arms at the same time a
pout on the movement which is extremely important there is a
key sentence to remember we never move towards the back leg of the opponent
in general we are going to move in Thai boxing rather in not
chased from solothurn obviously we are going to avoid crossing our feet yet
move because if you do that already you will not really be good nne position
to be able to block if the Serbian pair to shoot and then to the opponent and will
have to and precisely he taught me to work very hard locally and
take you the two legs of a tale so that is to be avoided
we will rather prefer the hockey sidesteps are to move around
the opponent then I was talking to you about fighting in the nose on the back rim of
the opponent it is very important when you box right-handed right-handed for example
not to leave on the opponent's strong lamp on wise forward which can
be powerful too but he will need to do a little jump we
sent his leg that gives you more time so we won't swim
behind the opponent otherwise really at the risk of suffering the logic and the
middle which is really really very important so that raises a question
when it's a fight between right-handed people we will both agree to
turn on the opponent's left leg of left and will have to be
master mo t agree in the same way the stars who are going to avoid
the opponent's left tongue and therefore they are going to prefer we were at the helm
now what happens is that when a left-handed will cost right-handed
both are going to want going in the same direction
that's why left and right fights often have to be street fights
the two boxers always tend to tuck
in instead of turning together to the stars of the ring now i would like to
talk about blockages the quality of your blocking will depend on your position the
fact of being slightly duck like that will allow you on your blocks
to present your shin directly to the opponent's shin if you are ever,
as often veiled, starting with the left leg too much wind there are two
options either you'll be blocked in front it's going to be ineffective the opponent will
work the calf or look for the back leg or you
'll take too much time in an arc to come back to the side and
you won't be efficient on your local what we want is in a
position that immediately you will be able to present your target of
possible showers for blocking I will simply lift my knee and come and
put it on the level of my sleeve under my neck as the only round for the
back leg it's the same I'm going to come rain my knee to put it under
my elbow at the level of my hip you have to be careful not to lift it too much
not yielding the opponent we going to hit below you must of course obviously not
lower the trobada hand otherwise you will discover me it is really at the level of the
hip that the blocking joint must always be done the dha type in
opposition to the type of opponent there are blockages which is possible it is
well researched with the front leg on the married agent that is often when
the opponent has worked well here at the level of the day ok we will simply raise
the leg to come chase the leg of the adversary always urs in order to
put his shin in opposition to the opponents here I present to you a shin
you must not raise and fold down we see that the weapons certainly it is round this
next evening badly positioned in front to go and find a room on the side
it is too slow and it's the same so young
and inside in the wind in front of me a year bringing it back it won't work no
the gesture it's direct on the side I come right away to put my shin in
motivated opposition to the opponent at the level of the distribution of your weight
we will say general story and 70% on his back leg 30% on his front leg
indeed you will see known or blockages your left leg will have
to block the opponent's tongue quite regularly
sometimes outside sometimes inside but whatever it is it
will be often enough to live these concepts the boxers are sometimes
slightly ball getting up regularly so a word on both
feet you will see quite a story is o n must block like that like
that or like that it is a question that they send me help
in fact it is important to leave the foot perfectly relaxed at the moment of the
blocking that is to say that when the whole thing happens you will receive it with the
tibia and wadi which is relaxed at this level there limambas linking to why I
am approaching to explain in fact by lowering the foot or by raising it or
by contracting your calf the enormous means which are made available to me do
not allow you to zoom in to show you that but concretely what we
want to avoid these two advisers your calf between your own little well
studied opponent for that we do not contract the calf and therefore you have to leave
your foot alone the other mnemonic device so I can help you
in this bet to know if it is in the right position is to tell you that if
you draw an imaginary line which speaks of your feet which goes straight
this line there it must never touch your partner she must never
touch it she has to frame it that's it, someone serious certainly to
keep it in front of you and to take it where you want ok while being ready to present
the shins to the shin the opponent if I had it shoots and being able to
take you well you want without being overwhelmed
find yourself in a position not blocked so now talk about the station at the
level of the guard your right hand arrives on the side of your time your
left hand very slightly in front and especially the most important is to
lift your shoulders well and your chin in the entrance so as to be as
airtight as possible if you watch a little bit of boxing on TV you
see that professional boxers are often slightly added to
all that in the objective to protect their chin well by tucking the
chin into their chest and shoulders as much as possible when the need
arises that the opponent attacks in English you will have to learn to
close close that means that we will indeed to bring back the
elbows along the body to protect the flanks especially the choice we are going to stick
the gloves to his face to avoid blows from the opponent
on this there are a bit of two schools there are those who prefer to stick the gloves under
their eyes to this level there and to those who prefer to put them on the forehead
above the eyes like that after each its advantages and its disadvantages
either I box like that it's true that often the elbows are a little higher
it's a little more complicated to be well sealed at the level of the liver and the
ribs but I have the feeling of being better protected that the costs arrive in
my face others prefer is like that are
more sealed at the level of the flanks on the other hand at the level of the forehead they are
always worried more exposed on that I would say that it is really up to you to
find the formula that suits you best but there is something that is very
very very important which requires time and practice it is to understand
in the guard that the gloves must wind be glued to the face all the time if you
don't know the big ones there are two options either often beginners or a
small reflex a little bit of refusal and puts itself a little behind and sends an ego
so its general rule we are not more – guard and on a devil the hook
behind it will hurt we came to get the job we are very exposed to
hooks or so if we are a little behind like that and his
stronger opponents the gloves which often happens
well it's that we're going to hit ourselves and hit ourselves it can hurt
while going back to the sealed guard stick well you'll see it's
really a blow to take at the start the new ones they are a little disoriented
because that they feel the costs arrived then not there blows in the
guard we still feel them not badly but
we feel them that it does not hurt it's really a habit to take
when you are arrested like that well close the costs it rings it moves a little bit
they are not painful do nc always stick the gloves to your face that we
boxing harry strong on you you have to know how to hurt yourself back into your
shell so for those who watch a little boxing
you may notice that in boxing boxers they can spend
almost an entire round against each other like that working a little on the
entrances to the exits very hard for us obviously that does not exist because we
have elbow strikes and we also have the clinch so you can don't plant yourself in
front of an opponent like that and wait for them to come and work for you
that doesn't exist it's too dangerous for us the opponent we see English
ok we'll close then either we'll have to get the hell out
ok either you will also have to counter to bring out the whole thing is to manage
to always keep an eye on the opponent whether you are like that or
like that you have to see the opponent see what he is doing me personally
when I am like that my back friend we always see a few of them but in
front of what happens either that they are like that maybe it's a little bit
more I don't know what to say I hope you
liked it we see quickly for the rest this test is big the little ones will always be
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takes a excavator and if voltaire can nothing more does not shock me to enter
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