Female Muay Thai Clinch with Kru Jasper Tayaba

So much to learn and I'm very happy to learn something new everyday.

I learned quite a bit of clinching techniques in Kru Jasper's class but last week, I spar with someone who like to clinch and I didn't do very well. I asked Kru Jasper to help me to become a strong clincher. His first advice is believe in yourself, do not panic when someone clinched me (I did!).

So I found myself doing 30 min combination of clinch (head & arm, bear hug, etc) with Kru Jasper. Boy, he has a strong upper body and look at those knees....I hope I don't fight a female version of him and I can be a fraction of him (representing his style :) ).

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Female
• Muay
• Thai
• Clinch
• push
• kicks

[denmyos]

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[gabepizza]

Doing well!

[denmyos]

@CuppaWorkout so did i. :)

[CuppaWorkout]

@denmyos yep just responded

[denmyos]

@CuppaWorkout you are problaly right about the judoka. :)

I sent you a pm a couple of weeks ago, did you get it.?

[CuppaWorkout]

@denmyos yeah like Kru Jasper, he trains the heavy weight fighters and he can sweep those guys easily. He also has strong stance...I'm thinking it's because he has judo background too. I noticed in the class, people with judo background are hard to sweep....like their feet are planted on the ground during the clinch. I almost tore my shoulder trying to sweep this judoka.

[denmyos]

@CuppaWorkout if you come to thailand again go train at keatkhamtorn,, 2 hours clinch everyday.. :)

I got my ass kick by 14 years old boys, who was about 100 pounds.. :)

[CuppaWorkout]

@denmyos Kru Jasper loves clinch and sweep...I'm hoping I can represent his style. I start to develop upper body muscles to develop strong clinch (he gave me weight routines). I am just not skillful enough at this point to apply techniques in sparring....in due time, I hope it will come instead of giving up. I know many people esp girls don't like clinching because it's sticky and some girls say "eww...gross". Not to mention, we might wake up wtih stiff neck the next day too :D

[denmyos]

@CuppaWorkout what works for you. :)

[CuppaWorkout]

@denmyos well...getting close works for some but my sparring partner is a strong clincher. in fact, that's what I did last week. I just close the distance with the bear hug and she was able to outmaunuver me and pushed my neck to the side and my body to the opposite side (just like the first drill that Kru Jasper did in here). So it doesn't work. the best way will be to be a better clincher and stand toes to toes with her, that way I can learn too ;)