Muay Thai Chaiya Techniques - Basic Kicks Part 01

Muay Thai Chaiya Kicks

Learn the Yat Khao (knee), Chat (front kick) and wiang kaeng (turning shin kick) of Muay Thai Chaiya.

Filmed at Baan Chang Thai in Bangkok, I'll take you through these kicking techniques, and give you tips on training and practice, so you make a good start at home.

This is part one of two, so once finished here, go straight onto part 2!

Thanks to Ajarn Lek, Kru Aof and Kru Yee at Baan Chang Thai for their generous help with the filming.

For those of you who want to continue learning from home, I've just setup my new website www.LearnMuayChaiya.com, which has lots more videos for you to learn at home from. Also the ability to upload the videos of you training so that I can give you pointers, hints, tips and make sure you're learning is going along the right lines!

Check out the following sites for more information:

www.learnmuaythaichaiya.com
www.mymuaychaiya.com
www.samkhum.com

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• kru lek
• ajarn lek
• baan chang thai
• bangkok
• thailand

[blackangel1113]

Thank you! I'm currently learning muay thai from my dad, but I think it's harder on him since he's not young anymore. :D I can't wait to use this on boys at my school!

[nathanbrown19]

@blackangel1113 use for defense only pleeeeeeease!

[Z3N1T4]

Muay Chaiya looks like such a great style I know it fares well against ring muay thai what I'm wondering is how well it does against other styles say MMA.

The one legged hop seems like an opening for a takedown have you had any experience sparring with MMA fighters?

[nathanbrown19]

@Z3N1T4 I've played a bit, but not enough. It's on my to-do list to get my ground game up, and play more cross discipline.

You're right that the raised knee guard does look like an opening for a grapple, grabbing the leg is one of the best forms of leverage on a take down, luckily, Muay Chaiya isn't just about that guard ;)

I've put a fair amount of thought behind countering a grappler shooting, and there are a number of techniques that MC has that could do the job.

[OosteifoO]

Stupid video I do Thaiboxing about 6 years and nobody kick like that -.-

no powerful!

[nathanbrown19]

@OosteifoO lmfaoo... and during that time you've only done ring style, and don't even consider other possibilities?

The power comes from the whole body, not from the scissor like movement of the ring style kick. Loads of weight from the body, quick, no telegraphing, moving out of range of attacks, works with several defensive movements, leads onto a multitude of attacks... it's not easy to learn (and harder to master) but the benefits are obvious - to the open minded.

[MERVILLE3]

@nathanbrown19 Check out Anderson Silva to see how to counter a grappler.

[JGTristan]

@nathanbrown19 idd, of for competetion.

[TheReadySetShout]

@blackangel1113 Learn Pencak Silat

[sportmuaythai]

nathanbrown19, I appreciate foreigner taking deep interest in Thai culture. What brought you to MC? Have you done any ring sport muaythai? If so, what differences have you found?

[hootchieman5]

@nathanbrown19 - hi nathan , thanks for the great lessons , i wanted to ask you which part of the foot should intend to hit with ? - in order to be effective and ofourse not to BREAK it cause i hurt it once by not doing it righti.

Im assuming the Heel ?

[dmeowmiixer]

@OosteifoO

If you could balance, you'd be able to transfer the power from your hips into your opponent better.

Turning your body so you're facing downwards opens your hips giving you maximum rotative thrust from your leg kicks. Same thing if you do a Corkscrew aerial [correct me if i'm wrong]

[brozac1011]

@MrSecondhorseman it's more primitive and more traditional