What we will cover
Stance and Posture
A strong Muay Thai stance is the first thing that you will need to learn before anything else as everything else is built from this foundation.
Footwork
Focusing on a Muay Thai structure and following the “art of eight limbs”. Combos feature punches, elbows, knees and shins to strike your opponent in powerful and rapid succession. Plenty of time is devoted to practicing combinations that will prepare you for competition.
Punches and Kicks
Fundamental boxing skills can also keep an opponent from moving into range and there are more to kicks than sublime attacks and highlight reel stoppages. Kicks can be used in a number of ways and for a variety of reasons, including both attack and defense.
Knees and Elbowls
From short-range knee strikes to flying knee variants, the sheer power and effectiveness of these strikes have led to many mixed martial artists basing their standup game almost exclusively on Muay Thai. Although elbows are criminally undervalued and overlooked by many martial artists, the good thing about this is that it gives Muay Thai practitioners the upper hand. Elbows are one area of a Muay Thai fighter’s overall game that makes him stand out amongst practitioners of other martial arts.
Clinch
The clinch is akin to grappling on the feet with the aim of dominating your opponent in order to land significant close-range strikes, score points on the judges’ scorecards, or even to wear them down and cause damage that you can exploit in the fight. There are a number of offensive and defensive benefits a master of the clinch can avail of, but honing your clinch technique to a solid level will take much practice.
Defense
A strong defense prevents your opponent from entering your domain. A solid guard combined with observation and antecipation of the opponent's moves will be practised during the classes. You'll learn various head movements and most important, how to be elusive.