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By Kru Hemanth Kumar Published on: Wed Mar 9, 2022
This final set is all about evasion and counterattacks. When an opponent tries to clinch you, use the downward 45-degree elbow to break his arm hold. A side elbow can help evade an opponent’s strike as well as reversed to cause actual damage. In the diagonal rotational 45-degree elbow, the elbow moves diagonally, dealing quite a blow.
Seasoned Muay Thai fighter and 3-time bronze winner in the world championships, Kru Hemanth Kumar has also perfected Self-Defence techniques targeting vulnerable pressure points. He has spent three decades teaching and training in multiple styles of Muay Thai.
This brings us to the last of the elbow strikes. These are specialised moves that can prove quite effective in any fight. In case you missed the first 9, navigate to the previous posts so you can quickly bring yourself up to speed before starting with these.
When an opponent tries to clinch you, the elbow can be used in a downward 45-degree angle to effectively break his arm hold on your neck or shoulder, before following up with a counterattack. This can be quite a lifesaver and particularly useful when the fighter finds himself pushed into a corner.
In this variation, the opponent’s strike is first dodged with a side elbow movement. The same side elbow motion is then reversed to cause the actual damage. Both these elbow moves are effective to block an attack – one to break your opponent’s hold on you and the other to step away from his attack entirely. They’re also swift to follow through with a counterattack, allowing you to easily switch from a position of weakness to one of strength.
There’s one final elbow which delivers an effective and forceful attack, allowing one to quickly take control of the fight.
This strike begins by using a certain type of footwork to step in to the opponent’s centreline. As the body turns in a spinning motion, the elbow moves diagonally towards the opponent’s face or head, dealing a lethal blow.
That completes the Muay Thai elbow training. In the next few posts, we’ll be moving on to knee strikes which can be a perfect and deadly complement to the elbows in a fight, and usually work well in combination moves.
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