05.02.2024
Tonight’s class was hour six of my couple client’s Muay Thai course. We continued to look into muay plam techniques and especially the sweeps that we began last week. In fact, the four selected sweeps will be a regular feature of my two other Muay Thai clients.
We began with five minutes flow sparring. This was then followed with a look at the quarter step sweep set-up. The technique is relatively simple. However, timing is crucial. It involves encouraging the opponent to push forward in the clinch and for the fighter to get a dominant collar and elbow grip (hand on the inside of the elbow grip). From here the fighter steps out 45 degrees and sweeps the opponent’s forward stepping foot. Spear knees can be used to weaken the opponent or distract them before setting up the sweep.
Next, we moved onto the Thai dump, where the fighter uses curve knees to move around to the opponent’s blindside. From here the fighter reaches around and grips the opponent’s head, throwing them over their leg.
The third sweep is back-breaker. Here the fighter gets a tight waist-lock on the opponent and walks them over into the takedown.
Finally, the push and pull sweep is a counter to the back-breaker involving the fighter blocking one of the opponent’s hips and stepping out to off-balance them.
We trained these using progressive resistance sparring.