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Muay Thai Weapons

Muay Thai Weapons

Originally, Muay Thai weapons consist of head, fists, elbow, knee and feet. Even though using head to attack is not allowed in professional and amateur competitions these days, but you can still learn how to attack by using head for self-defense.

Muay Thai is very unique in terms of having many of weapons and variety of method to attack. Compare to other martial arts such as Karate, Judo and Tekwando, which mainly use only hand and feet as major attacks, Muay Thai is very effective of using all parts of the body equally to attack as well as defend. Especially using elbows and knees, which have incredible destructive power when they are used correctly

However, this article is just the introduction to Muay Thai weapons. The comprehensive detail of Muay Thai attacks will be provided in training section. If you are a Muay Thai beginner, it is very essential to get to know these basic terminology of Muay Thai weapons as listed below;

Attacking methods--terms and vocabularies
There are basic key terms that we use calling part of the body and technique usage related to them as Muay Thai weapons.

Mud = Fists
Sork = Elbow
Khao = Knee
Tao = Foot

Technique
Punch = Chok
Elbow Strike = Tee Sork / Fun Sork
Knee Kick = Tee Khao
Kick = Tae
Foot-Thrust = Theeb

There are also some more words, which will be used frequently in training programmes. There might be different words for different masters or Kru, but only slightly different in what they called, while the principles and meaning are the same.

Jod = Muay Thai stance, ready for the fight.
Wong Nai = To fight by keep closer to the opponent.
Wong Nok = To fight by keep stay away from the opponent.
Sueb Tao = To move forward
Mae Mai = To attack opponent by using Muay Thai techniques
Look Mai = Techniques that adapted from Mae Mai techniques
Mai Tai = To Use very deadly techniques and opponent has no chance to defend.
Thoy = To step backward, prepare to defend
Koo Tor Su = opponent
Chang Wa = Chance to attack
Na Kaeng = Shin
Kad = same meaning as "guard", to lift arms for position ready to fight.

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Posted by MTS on April 3, 2007 02:09 AM |

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