Tag: muay thai fight

Defending and attacking against the elbows. All right, so facing my partner, hands up nice and high. If my partner decides to throw a right elbow, as he steps in…

Once we've moved around a little bit in our fight stance, forward, backward and to the side, okay, we're going to go through the basic punches. Now, we start with…

Wrapping our hands. It's very important we wrap our hands to look after our hands. Putting your hands without any wraps in the gloves and hitting a bag can be…

Kick boxing is the western name for Muay Thai, which is a traditional sport in Thailand. It originated from having, like the 16th, 17th century, the warriors. Once they were…

Shadow boxing. We use shadow boxing most of the time to warm ourselves up and get our limbs nice and loose. Also, we will use shadow boxing in a particular…

Faking a kick, punch, roundhouse kick. Okay? Now, just like boxing, they fake a lot of punches that you think that their opponent thinks is coming and then they end…

Conditioning your shins. A lot of you may have seen on YouTube Thai guys kicking bamboo trees in order to condition their shins. That's all well and good. If you…

Now we're going to touch on some drills. Now one of the drills I like to do in order to help with my balance and my kicking is rapid fire…