22.03.2023 And so the Muay Thai clinch training, teaching and researching continues with my second client in a row who is exploring this area. After some specific clinch conditioning, we looked at a counter to a knee strike from the clinch. This involves using the hip to block and then pivoting away from the strike. This provides an over-rotation for the striker who is then dumped on the ground. Next we […]
15.03.2023 It looks like there is going to be something of a deep dive into the unique aspects of Muay Thai clinch with some of my clients. I begin the journey with my Wednesday night client, my oldest consistent student. Tonight we trained for 1.5 hours. The lesson began with a series of clinch-specific partner conditioning drills building into technique training drills. This started with working neck-ties against resistance, followed by collar and elbow-ties against resistance, before we moved onto […]
22.11.2021 The ninth hour of my client couple’s course on Muay Thai clinch brought elbows into the clinch. Our previous lesson isolated the technical aspects of the major and minor elbow strikes. Now we looked at how to set up and execute these inside the clinch. Setups included breaking posture to allow slashing and horizontal elbows over an opponent’s collar tie or uppercut and spear elbows from a fighter’s own collar tie as well as using knee strikes as distractions. […]
08.11.2021 Hour seven of my couple client’s course on the Muay Thai clinch brought kick-catching together with the clinch. We looked at countering after having a kick caught. We began with the simple drag down and then we covered clinching to break and knee strike. All of this was preceded with a revision of upright Muay Thai grappling and knee strikes. We finished 3 x 2 minute rounds of clinch-specific sparring. Services
11.10.21 Monday night’s lesson took my couple clients to hour four of their Muay Thai clinching course. We focused on entries into the clinch. This began with the simple jab entry. However, I made a particular emphasis on half-shelling with one arm to maintain protection on the way into the clinch. We looked at taking the clinch on the inside and the outside, use of the hips and the all-important positioning. After jabbing looked at combining the long-guard/pawing jab with […]
21.09.21 Monday night’s lesson saw my client couple begin their course in the clinch for Muay Thai. We thought it best to start at the beginning as one of the two clients has not covered this area before and no one is above basics anyway, including yours truly. So, after a warm-up geared towards aspects of grappling as well as strikes I introduced the main knee strikes. These were performed as line work and also as muscle activation exercises. This […]
