Muay Thai "8points of contact"

Hey Guys! It's Marcus Lee again. In the last post i have shared about the different weight classes in Muay Thai and i said in the previous post that I am going to share more about the "8 points of contact" and so for the next few post, I will be sharing about the "8 points of contact". Muay Thai adapts a fighting stance of putting your feet should width apart and putting your arms up before executing any technique.

In this post I am going to share about the first 2 points of contact which are the Fists, punching or rather in Thai Chok.

Formal Muay Thai techniques are divided into two groups: mae mai or major techniques and luk mai or minor techniques. Muay thai is often a fighting art of attrition, where opponents exchange blows with one another. Almost all techniques in Muay Thai uses the entire body movement, rotating the hip with each kick, punch, elbow and block.

The different techniques in Muay Thai are as follows and i will be telling you the Thai romanization.

Jab(Mat neung)
Cross(Mat trong)
Hook(Mat wiang san)
Swing(Mat wiang yao)
Spinning Backfist(Mat wiang klup)
Uppercut(Mat soei/Mat soi dao)
Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muay_Thai

Thank you for reading this post. I hope you have gained some information about the "8 points of contact". I will be sharing about the next 2 points of contact in the next post. Thank you and see you again.