Muay Thai Feet Techniques

Muay Thai Feet Techniques or "Foot-Thrust" or "Push Kick" is the method of bend at the knee, then quickly extending your leg to use foot or heel to attack the target. This techniques, we called "Theep" in Thai. This weapons are different from any other Muay Thai weapons in terms of objective to use. Foot-thrust will be mainly used as offensive technique to block the opponent's attack. The foot-thrust also use for make the opponent off balance and take a chance to attack. It is quite rare to see boxers use the foot-thrust agressively as a deadly weapon to knock out, but using foot-thrust frist then follow by kick or other weapon quickly maybe the good practice to learn.

Becareful when you launch the foot-thrust, make sure you pull your leg back as quickly as you can before the opponent can grab your leg and counter attack when you are off balance!! Variety of Muay Thai foot thrust strike are described below:

1. The Straight Foot-thrust (Theep Trong)
2. The Sideways Foot-thrust (Theep Khang)

The Straight Foot-thrust (Theep Trong)

This technique is quite straight forward to do nad use, you just to bend the knee joint and then thrust the foot quickly to attack the tatget. the target are vary from face, chest, abdomen and down to the lap. Also you can use different part of the foot to attack the target such as toes (theep Jik) and heel (Theep Yan) and you need to find out which method is fit you the best.

The Sideways Foot-thrust (Theep Khang)

The usage of sideway foot-thrust is similar to the straight foot-thrust but sideways will be used when you are in the position turn the side of the body facing the opponent. However, using the sideways foot-thrust, you need to becareful of maintain the balance when you turn the side to opponent. The sideways foot-thrust generally be counter-attacked by side lower kick to your leg.

Five popular Muay Thai Kicks

Muay Thai kick techniques is one of the important techniques in Thai Boxing because kicks are violent and powerful weapons. There are five types of kicks that are popular in Muay Thai KickBoxing :

1. Tae Tad (Side Kick or Round Kick)
2. Tae Chiang (Diagonal Kick)
3. Tae Kod (Hook kick or Down round kick)
4. Tae Pub Nok (Kick to the outside of the knee joint)
5. Tae Pub Nai (Kick to the inside of the knee joint)

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