KHAN 5 ELBOWING
1. Sok Tee
Sok Tee/Elbow Strike
Elbow strike is considered a short reaching hit that is used only during close quarters fights. The target of the elbow strike is to the face of the opponent, which you could injure, bruise or break. There are two types of elbow striking, with the front elbow or the back elbow. The direction of elbow strike is from top to bottom or upright or below. To train for the elbow strike, you start by bending your knees,
straightened the upper body, put the weight of the body to the back of the hind leg’s foot
and push the elbow in the opposite direction and then twist your hip and shoulders and transfer your weight to the front foot.
As for the back elbow strike, the procedure is the same as mentioned before. The key to an effective elbow strike, is to shift the force from back foot to the front foot and by twisting the hip, waist, shoulders, swinging of the arms and transferring weight from the back to the front
2. Sok Tat
Sok Tat /Horizontal Elbow
Is a type of elbow strike that strikes using the elbows to the face in the direction that parallels to the ground, which could be done either from the left to the right or the right to the left. Horizontal elbow striking is divided into 2 types, front horizontal elbow strike and back horizontal elbow strike. Front horizontal elbow striking uses force and weight transfer from the back foot to the front foot. Keeping the back foot stretched, twist the body and shoulders
while throwing the elbow by pulling your other shoulder to the back, stomach and arms twisting clockwise.
The weight of the body is transferred to the front elbow and front foot. Target of this strike is at the face or chin of your opponent. Back horizontal elbow striking will be a stronger attack than the front elbow strike because of the shift in weight from the back to the front foot combined with throwing the back elbow to the target that could potentially damage the opponent more.
3. Sok Ngat
Sok Ngat /Elbow Uppercut
Striking with the front elbow or the back elbow uppercut is in the direction from bottom to the top. Target of this strike is to the chin, chest, pit of the stomach or to the face. To create strong impact elbow uppercut, you must bend the knees and stretch the body upwards while shifting the weight from the back foot to the front foot. Then launch a quick sharp elbow uppercut strike by twisting the hips in the same direction as the elbow.
For example, if you use the left elbow to strike, twist your hip to the back right or if your using the right elbow, twist your hip to the back left. This will help to send more power to the elbow uppercut. Usually the back uppercut elbow has a higher impact ratio than the front uppercut elbow because the stretched hind leg’s weight is shifted to front leg and helps to put more weight into the elbow uppercut.
4. Sok Pung
Sok Pung /Forward Elbow Thrust
Elbow is pointed straight in the direction of the opponent, fold the elbow and put the sharp corner pointed forward towards your opponent then walk towards the opponent. Hardening the elbow and keep it close to your chin, shoulders and head to create higher attack impact. The target of the forward elbow thrust is to the forehead, eyebrow, eyes, nose, mouth, face, chest, neck, shoulders and the stomach.
Right-handed boxers usually do the forward elbow thrust with left elbow and left-handed boxers usually do the forward elbow thrust with their right elbow.
Forward Elbow Thrust is also a good form of counter attack if your opponent attacks and misses. In the past, back in the old days, forward elbow thrust was used with two elbows to prevent an attack but it is no longer used in the present because it is difficult to find an opening to use this move on your opponent.
5. Sok Gratung
Sok Gratung/Poking Elbow
Occurs when you attack using your elbows and miss, so you must retrieve back your elbow in a diagonal manner and to the side of your body. It is used when your elbow strikes misses the target
when the opponent approaches either from the back or tries to do a clinch. For best results, the power of the strike should come from the feet as well.
6. Sok Klap
Spinning Elbow
The spinning elbow is an attack where you spin the body to the back and strike with your elbows instead of a front attack that passes in front of your face like the elbow slash or the horizontal elbow strike. The back of the elbows is usually used for spinning elbow attacks because of higher impact it causes and can be done in an upward, downward or paralleled to the ground motion. To start this technique, you can start using the front foot as a spinning base and shift the weight from the back foot to the front foot. After that, step forward with the back foot
and turn yourself in reverse while setting the elbow to a striking position and strike in the same direction of the turn. Twist the waist, body, and shoulders to put the weight to the elbow. The target of this spinning elbow move is the chin, face, head, eyebrow, cheek and the eye sockets. This move and turn creates a powerful impact and is used when the opponent is approaching without any awareness or in the case where the opponent loses balance, only then you can take advantage of the situation with this strike.
7. Sok Thong
Sok Thong /Elbow Nudge
There are both front and back of elbow nudges that are used when the opponent is behind you or is around your body to the shoulder area. Direction of the elbow will move from the front of you to the target in the back of you. If it’s an elbow nudge towards to the front, then it is common to use front elbow to nudge downwards by lifting the elbow high up and spreading the angle of the armpit as wide as you can and keeping the nudge downwards by using the armpit as the spinning base of the Pla Mor Tack Ngaung.
It is the elbow move that spreads both elbows away from the body and uses the corner of the elbows to hit the target such as the chin, face, head or the ribs. It is used when the opponent is approaching without awareness or it can also be used as a good defensive technique, or you can attack the opponent when they slip or loos balance. However, it is not commonly used today because if you’re not precise in your strikes, it can leave an opening for the opponent to counter attack.
8. Sok Pla Mhor Thag Nghueg
Sok Pla Mhor Thag Nghueg /Around Elbow Strike
This elbow strike is by spreading out both elbows away from the body and with the sharpest end of both elbows, hit the target at the chin, face, head or ribs. It is used when the opponent is approaching without awareness.
You can use it as defensive barrier and you can also use for attacking if the opponent is of gaurd.
However it is not commonly used today because if your not very skilled at doing this move, it could lead to an opening gap for the opponent to counter attack.
9. Sok Kuu
Sok Kuu / Paring Elbow
Using both elbows to attack at the same time. This could be done in many directions, such as going upwards to downwards, or going downwards to upward kind of attack. Pairing uppercut elbow is to move both the elbows from downwards towards upwards to hit the target at the same time. It is used when the opponent is approaching you with both arms to clinch you or to wrap around your neck. If your open to an attack from the opponent, you can lift the arms up close to your face
and keeping the elbows close and firm, then do an uppercut in an upwards direction with both elbows.
The target of this strike is the chin, mouth, cheek, eyes, eyebrows, forehead and head. Today, it is not commonly used because it requires a very well trained fighter and is difficult to find an opening to strike the opponent. If the boxer is not very well trained in this, it could leave an opening for the opponent to strike back easily.
10. Sok Cheang
Sawing Elbow
It is the use of the elbow to cause more injury onto the opponent’s existing wound to further widening their cut and bruises. It is used when the boxers are fighting in close quarters, leaves an opportunity to further their injuries to cause more pain and disrupt their concentration.
This will help you gain advantage to the fight due to the severe injury on the surface of the opponents face and to cause the fight to end sooner with surrender.
11. Sok Ched
Sok Ched /Whipping Elbow
It is to do an elbow strike towards the target, with palms up and using the arms to whip or saw the wounds of your opponent to worsen their physical injury. It is used when both boxers are fighting in close quarters and boxer can saw using the elbows to worsen their wounds.
This would help the opponent to surrender sooner, or to decrease their ability to fight back in order to open the gap for boxer to attack with other moves. The Whipping Elbow can be used in any suitable situation.
12. Sok Chiang
Sok Chiang/Diagonal Elbow
It is the Elbow strike that is diagonal in an upward or downwards direction. You can use both the front and the back of the elbows for this attack. All the targeted area of attack is around the head, such as the face, temple, chin, the collarbone or the ribs. Unleashing this attack move is just like doing an elbow slash or an elbow uppercut.
Transferring the weight from the back hind foot to the front facing foot combining with twisting the body, snapping the hands and the elbow strike. By putting the weight towards the elbows, this will add more force and power towards you target.
13. Thoy Sud Ra Ya
Thoy sud Ra Ya (Moving backward)
To step out of the attacking range means to move away from the opponent in such a way that boxers might jump away, move backward or step back but these movements must be out of the opponent’s attacking range. Therefore,
to move back means to step away while the opponent is trying to attack. At the time the boxers are out of the attacking range, they should be in the ready position to strike back at once.
14. Yok Lhop
Yok Lhob (Swaying)
To sway or to move out of the range is sometimes called “Kan Dueng Tua”. It means to sway or to move out of the opponent’s attacking range in order to avoid the direct attacks without jumping back or moving aside.
This kind of dodging or movement should not be too far from the opponent so that the boxers will be able to attack back at once.
15. Pa Ta Duay Thon Khane
Pa ta duay Khane (attacking with arms)
Pa ta duay Khane is to use both arms to cover up all the weak parts to defend the attacking elbow. Literally, to cover the facial part with both forearms by elevating them in front
and folding them back toward the ears in order to protect the chin and the jaw. After blocking, boxers must be in a ready position to fight back at once.
16. Khod Pra Chid Tua
Kod Phra Chid Tua (Clinching)
Clinching is used for both offensive and defensive purposes. Namely, it means to use the stronger body parts to block the targets which opponent intends to attack such as chin, chest, body part, sternums, etc.
In order to block the attack of the opponent, first, boxers must face with an aggressive strike, and then, boxers could use different tactics to strike back like kneeing when both fighters are intertwined.
KHAN 6 BASIC OF SELF PROTECTING
1. Pa Ta Duay Khane
Pa Ta Duay Khane (Blocking with arms)
Pa Ta Duay Khane is when a boxer uses their fists to defend and block all the weak parts of their body by attacking the opponent with a punch. As they are blocking, they must also be ready to counter-attack immediately.
Pa ta duay Khane (attacking with arms)
Pa ta duay Khane is to use both arms to cover up all the weak parts to defend the attacking elbow. Literally, to cover the facial part with both forearms by elevating them in front and folding them back toward the ears in order to protect the chin and the jaw. After blocking, boxers must be in a ready position to fight back at once.
2. Pa-Nga
Pa-Nga (Drawing back/Dodging)
Pa-Nga is used to draw oneself back from the attacking range of the opponent without jumping back or moving aside. For example, when the opponent does the Roundhouse Kick-High on the upper-part,
boxer must bend back to let the opponent’s feet pass through the body. However, this kind of dodging or movement should not be too far from the opponent in order to remain in range for a counter-strike.
3. Thoy Sud Ra Ya
Thoy Sud Ra Ya (Moving backward)
Thoy Sud Ra Ya means to step back from the opponent like jumping back, moving backward or stepping back, but the move must take the boxer out of the opponent’s attacking range.
Therefore, the boxer should fall back at the same time when the opponent attacks. At the time the boxer is out of the attacking range, they should be in the ready position for a counter-strike.
4. Phad
Phad/ (Defensive Swipe)
Phad is to swipe the attacks of the opponent away by using a wrist or an arm, and to make the opponent lose their balance which would give us the opportunity to strike back. We could possibly swipe all the attacking
techniques away such as punching, kicking, kneeing and elbowing, but this swiping technique usually works effectively with the attacks which come straight in front; straight punching, straight kicking, straight kneeing etc.
5. Chak Lhob
Chak Lhob/ (Evading Move)
Chack Lhob is to move every part of your body out of the way or range of a strike. After evading the attack, the boxer must be in a ready position to strike back.
6. Thoy Sud Ra Ya Te
Thoy Sud Ra Ya Gan Te (Defending a kick by moving backward)
Thoy Sud Ra Ya means to move away from the opponent including jumping back or stepping back, but the move must take the boxer out of the opponent’s attacking range which means
the boxer would step back at the time the opponent attacks. At the time the boxer is out of the attacking range, they should be in the ready position for a counter-strike.
7. Thoy Sud Ra Ya Theep
Toy Sud Ra Ya Gan Theep (blocking a push-kick by stepping backward)
To step out of attacking range means to move away from the opponent in such a way that boxers might jump away, move backward or step back, but these movements must be out of the opponent’s attacking range.
Therefore, to move back means to step away while the opponent is trying to attack. At the time the boxers are out of the attacking range, they should be in the ready position to strike back at once.
8. Jhap Gan Te
Jhab Gan Te (blocking kick by grabbing)
There are many ways to take down the opponent with the grabbing technique, but according to the boxing rule, boxers are not allowed to cross the opponent’s leg. Therefore, boxers can use the “Bang Kho Jab” tactic
and push or throw the opponent down, also, hold the opponent tightly around their chest or waist, then lift them up firmly and throw down. However, in order to take down the opponent, boxers also need to recognize the throwing strategy.
9. Phad Gan Theep
Phad Gan Theep (Blocking a push-kick by swiping)
To swipe the attacks of the opponent away means to use a wrist or an arm to swipe the attack of the opponent into the other direction so that it misses the target, or to make the opponent lose their balance, which would give the boxers the opportunity for a counter-strike.
We could possibly swipe all the attacks away such as punching, kicking, kneeing and elbowing, but this swiping technique usually works effectively with the attacks which come straight in front like straight punching, straight kicking, straight kneeing etc.
10. Phad Gan Te
Phad Gan Te (blocking kick by swiping the attack)
To swipe the attacks of the opponent away means to use a wrist or an arm to swipe the attack of the opponent into the other direction so that it misses the target, or to make the opponent lose their balance, which would give the boxers the opportunity for a counter-strike. Boxers can possibly parry all the attacking
techniques such as punching technique, kicking technique, push-kicking technique, kneeing technique and elbowing technique. But this swiping technique usually works effectively with the attacks which come straight in front. For example, straight punching, straight push-kicking, straight kneeing etc.
11. Ching Theep Gan Te
Ching Theep Gan Te (blocking a kick by seizing push-kick )
To seize the attack or the counterattack is to readily attack the opponent while they are trying to attack you or to hit the opponent before they attack. Moreover, our attacks must hit the crucial point of the opponent’s body. In order to seize the attack before the opponent, boxers must understand the strategies of the opponent and react faster, beside,
boxers must have a great knowledge of all defending strategies.
For example, before the opponent is trying to do the roundhouse kick-high and right diagonal kick, boxers should seize the left straight forward punch, and etc. Boxers who are able to seize the attack before the opponent must be well- trained and have a great knowledge about all defending strategies.
12. Ching Theep Gan Theep
Ching Theep Kan Theep ( Blocking a push-kick by seizing push-kick)
To seize the attack or the counterattack is to readily strike the opponent as they are trying to attack you or before it lands. Moreover, our attacks must hit the crucial parts of the opponent’s body. In order to seize the attack before the opponent make any counter-strikes, boxers must understand the strategies of the opponent and react faster, beside,
boxers must have a great knowledge of all defending strategies.
For example, before the opponent is trying to do the roundhouse kick-high and right diagonal kick, boxers should seize the left straight forward punch, and etc. Boxers who are able to seize the attack before the opponent must be well- trained and have a great knowledge about all defending strategies.
13. Yok Lhop Gan Te
Yhok Lhop Gan Te (blocking kick by swaying)
To sway or to move out of the attacking range is sometimes called “Kan Dueng Tua”. It means to sway or to move out of range of a strike in order to avoid the direct attacks without jumping back or moving aside. For example, when the opponent does the Roundhouse Kick-High on the upper-part,
boxers must bend back to let the opponent’s feet pass through the body. This kind of dodging or movement should not be too far from the opponent so that the boxer can remain in range for a counter-strike.
14. Yok Lhob Gan Theep
Yhok Lhop Gan Theep (Blocking a push-kick by swaying)
To sway or to move out of the striking range is sometimes called “Kan Dueng Tua”. It means to sway or to move out of the opponent’s attacking range in order to avoid the direct attacks without jumping back or moving aside. For example, when the opponent
does the Roundhouse Kick-High on the upper-part, boxers must bend back to let the opponent’s feet pass through the body. This kind of dodging or movement should not be too far from the opponent so that the boxers will be able to attack back at once.
15. Gan Duay Khao Gan Te
Khao Kan Te (blocking a kick by kneeing)
Khao Kan Te means to use strong parts of the body to cover/defend all the weak parts. Most blocking tactics usually receive a lot of impact from the opponent’s attacks, therefore, boxers must use stronger body parts to defend their body than
the parts that the opponent uses to attack; using knee to cover up and defend the stomach and the body part, and using elbow and knee to defend the chest. However, as boxers are blocking, they must also be ready for a counter-attack.
16. Gan Duay Khao Gan Theep
Khao Kan Theep (Blocking a push-kick by Kneeing)
Defending with knee means to use strong parts of the body to defend all the weak parts. Most blocking tactics usually get a lot of massive impacts from the opponent’s attacks, therefore, boxers must use stronger body parts to defend their body than the parts that the opponent uses to attack.
For example, using knee to defend the stomach and the body part, as well as, using elbow and knee to defend the chest. However, as boxers are defending, they must also be ready to attack back at once.
17. Jhab Thum Te
Jhab tuum Gan Te (Blocking a kick by throwing)
There are many tactics to take down the opponent, but according to the boxing rule, boxers are not allowed to cross the opponent’s leg. Therefore, boxers can use the “Bang Kho Jab” tactic and push or throw the opponent down without using too much strength.
18. Gan Duay Khane
Gan duay khan (blocking with arms)
Defending with arms means to protect the weak points of the body with arms like using elbow to protect the chest, but however, after using this blocking technique, boxers should be in a ready position to strike back at once.
19. Jhab Toom
Jaab Tum (Throwing over)
There are many tactics to take down the opponent, but according to the boxing rule, boxers are not allowed to cross the opponent’s leg. Therefore, boxers can use the “Bang Kho Jab” tactic and push or throw the opponent down without using too much strength.
20. Gan Duay Khao
Gan duay Khao (blocking with knee)
Gan duay Khao means to cover up all the weak parts by kneeing. However, most blocking tactics usually get a lot of massive impacts from the opponent’s attacks, therefore, boxers must use stronger body parts to defend
their body than the parts that the opponent uses to attack, for example, using knee to block the attack from the chest and the ribs. However, as boxers are blocking, also, they must be ready to make a counter-strike.
21. Plak Hai Seay Lhak
Plak Hai Seuy Lhak (pushing away the opponent)
First, boxers use “Bang Koh Jhab” strategy which means to block the attack from the opponent, then grab and trap the opponent’s body parts like arms or legs. After using “Bang Koh Jhab” tactic,
boxers must take the opponent down by pushing with full strength on both upper arms. After blocking, boxers must be in a ready position to strike back at once.
22. Pa Ta Duay Khane
Pa ta duay Khane (attacking with arms)
Pa ta duay Khane is to use both arms to cover up all the weak parts to defend the attacking elbow. Literally, to cover the facial part with both forearms by elevating them in front
and folding them back toward the ears in order to protect the chin and the jaw. After blocking, boxers must be in a ready position to fight back at once.
23. Yok Lhob
Yok Lhob (Swaying)
To sway or to move out of the range is sometimes called “Kan Dueng Tua”. It means to sway or to move out of the opponent’s attacking range in order to avoid the direct attacks
without jumping back or moving aside. This kind of dodging or movement should not be too far from the opponent so that the boxers will be able to attack back at once.
24. Thoy Sud Ra Ya
Thoy sud Ra Ya (Moving backward)
To step out of the attacking range means to move away from the opponent in such a way that boxers might jump away, move backward or step back but these movements must be out of the opponent’s attacking range. Therefore,
to move back means to step away while the opponent is trying to attack. At the time the boxers are out of the attacking range, they should be in the ready position to strike back at once.
25. Khod Pra Chid Tua
Kod Phra Chid Tua (Clinching)
Clinching is used for both offensive and defensive purposes. Namely, it means to use the stronger body parts to block the targets which opponent intends to attack such as chin, chest, body part, sternums, etc.
In order to block the attack of the opponent, first, boxers must face with an aggressive strike, and then, boxers could use different tactics to strike back like kneeing when both fighters are intertwined.