Muay Thai Classic

It’s been almost a month now since we restart the blog one more time. And I really think our blog is really useful and very knowledgeable for those of you who really want to learn Muay Thai. Not the one that is used in contests today but Muay Thai Boran or Ancient Muay Thai. And this Ancient Muay Thai makes people around the world know who great this form of martial arts is.

All you really have to do is to come here and learn one move at a time and make sure before you continue to the next move, you have practiced and learned everything about the previous move already.

The move of today is actually a bent punch. You might wonder what the heck the bent punch is. Well I am not the first on who call it this way; I just call it after other people. But let’s see how to throw this punch and that might help explaining why it’s called this way.

Ok this punch is used for attack only. The hit will be delivered by bending the elbow and sending the punch sideward and downwards. The targets of this move are nose and jaw. Try aiming to these targets. Even the inner wrist is bent to apply greater force to the punch to make it more powerful. If you want to use this trick, step your left foot forwards while twisting your body to the left and the punch will be thrown down in a speedy move.

Defense: Avoid looking down on the boxer’s feet or on the ground if he is wont to throw uppercuts. To defend against this punch, the left hand is held up to defend against the blow coming from the left side. The left arm is then swept over in a smooth motion to ward off the boxer’s right arm, and the body is slightly swayed to maintain balance.

Attack: Use your left knee to hit the boxer’s right rib with. If the boxer is e leftie, reverse the described moves using the opposite side of the body.

So this is our 4th punch of the ancient Muay Thai already. I forgot to tell you that in the Muay Thai Boran’s punching method, there are altogether 15 of them. So after we finish this one, we still have like 11 more to go. But don’t push it too hard. You want to make it perfect. Just knowing what they are only is not really helping. But practicing and doing it make the move more valuable.

The punch today might be known as the turn front side punch. But in the past we always give names to every move and this punching method was named “Prakarn Perd Lok” and if you know the meaning of it, you will agree with me that in the past people always gave really cool names for this ancient martial arts.

Anyway, the Prakarn Perd Lok was just the name. Let’s focus on how to do it, shall we?

The boxer takes a step frontward and proceeds to bring a right uppercut to the other person’s chin. This move is primarily used for defense or escape (this is our first move so far that won’t be normally used for attack). You can throw an uppercut with either hand, but it should be thrown from the inside. When this punch is thrown from the outside, you become vulnerable to defend the attack from your opponent and can easily be thwarted by your opponent since you allow time for him to defend or attack as you throw your hand back to increase force.

Defense: Try using the left hand of you to create a sweeping motion and wipe the boxer’s arm down. Your head can also be leaned back to avoid the oncoming uppercut. You don’t want to get hurt while avoiding one attack.

Attack: Try using your left foot to hit the boxer on the abdomen. You can also throw your elbow to the boxer’s face. If the attacker is left-handed, then the Attacking and countering moves should be done in reverse.