Hi, this is Carlos Coello three times
Muay Thai world champion and sponsored athlete
by RoninWear. In my next videos I will be
teaching Muay Thai techniques, basic and advanced. If you want to learn more,
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videos. The teep is the front kick. In Muay Thai
we use it to defend and also to attack.
Do you want to know how to throw a Teep in Thailand?
Stay here and I will explain you how! For the front kick, important,
starting from guard position, do not throw the kick directly because we can land
too close and will be a risk, so
from guard position without moving forward or backward
we elevate the leg that we are going to use for the front kick just to our waist
height, ok? Why do we do this? cause from here we can directly look the
distance and the place where we are going to throw the front kick. From there we can throw low
or we can throw to the mid section. This way our opponent is never going to know where we will
be throwing the front kick. Another important thing is to elevate the leg cause if he
is coming with another movement, we already
have our leg ready to block in any direction he will be attacking.
So, guard position, knee up to our waist.
Then, with out hip y the same hand of the foot we are using for the teep, we boost to take
all the power from our hip One, Two. Again, one, two. The front kick
is thrown with the ball of the foot We don't use the heel or other part of the
feet cause if the opponent is moving forward to us, he is going to move us and
the movement is not going to be useful, losing all our power.
This kind of front kick or teep
is used mainly to control the distance. In a fight where I am taller than
my opponent, it will be good for me to fight with a longer distance.
So, in a distance that I think is good, we wait until until the shorter opponent,
wants to move close to us to hit us, and in that moment we use
the teep to keep our distance Teep, teep, always taking advantage of the
opponent's step to, in the moment he does the step he finds our front kick in his belly.
This teep to the leg have 2 uses, one to stop an aggresive opponent moving
always forward, so we use it to stop him cause we detect he is coming with a big step, and the
other one, also in attack when we are working in the kick to the leg, after punishing him
several times with the kick to the leg, now we use this teep to keep making
damage in the belly.
The teep tro, or teep to the belly may be useful also to stop
an aggresive opponent, so we can keep our distance, or also, when
an opponent is in a situation against the ropes or where
he can't move much, attacking,
cause this way, he can't move backward
to defend the teep.
In that position, we can attack, to then continue
with another attack when he is out of balance.
And the third one, the teep to the face, in thai called teep na, or "bata loop pak"
that would be the expression in the traditional and old Muay Thai, not in the sport one.
And well, like before, we use it to defend aswell to attack.
For defense, we are going always to take advantage
of the step forward that an aggresive oponnent is doing,
to stop him just in that moment with the teep.
We shall not wait for our opponent to be with the step in the front,
as we won't have enough distance to do the teep. We need to include
the movement of the opponent.
So if for whatever reason, when he is moving forward, we are back,
we use the step we need to get enough distance knowing that him,
being aggresive, is going to
come to us again, and in this moment we throw the teep. We don't always have to launch it
the first time and rush.
He is coming, now not, now the second time, coming, now we kick.
This would be for a defense, and to attack like we saw before, the opponent is moving
backwards, he can't move more cause he is against the cage or the ropes,
depending on the discipline we are doing, so in this case for Muay Thai, the ring ropes will be behind
him and in that moment we throw the teep to the face.
The teep, in professional use for competition
may be also used as a "big fake", called "mai teep", that in thai means "no teep".
To execute a mai teep, we always start doing a real teep. From guard
position, we use our front kick, to the stomach, or to the leg, so, in the next movement we fake the teep to connect a different strike,
because in that moment where we are throwing teeps to the opponent, he is going to react differently,
not always taking the kick, but he is probably going to try to catch our leg,
like here my partner did.
Or he is going to try to move my leg, and in that exact moment is when we take advantage
of our previous real teep, to fake the movement exactly as if we were about
to throw it. In that moment we strike, in this case with my elbow, or with
another strike that may be useful in that situation.
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Chok dee!!.
