Some good questions on Muay Chaiya
First, let me apologise to readers of my site, and people interested in Muay Chaiya, as I've been very busy over the last 6 months and haven't had the time/energy to add any real content to the site.
I do however receive a lot of emails with questions regarding Muay Chaiya, to which I try my best to answer and usually end up writing longer answers than initially intended! Recently Zdenek from the Czech Republic contacted me with some good questions, and I thought I'd share them.
How to correctly pronounced muay chaiya?
Moo-ay Chai (pronounce 'ai' as an 'I' as in 'I am') Yaa
Where can I find the names of individual kicks, punches and exercises?
I don't think there is anywhere to learn the names of punches and kicks, or any of the basic moves (other than learning directly from a teacher). I have been meaning to write more articles and a book for a long time, but I have been very busy and my book draft was lost when my laptop was stolen several months ago. After opening my new school (Jan 2010), I plan to bring a whole suite of muay chaiya learning to the web, so you will be able to study and train at home. So stay tuned!
Here are some of the basic names to get you started:
- Jab - Tim
- Cross - Gra-taek (ae is like the vowel in 'air')
- Short Hook - Wiang Sun (wiang means circlular or round - sun means short)
- Uppercut - Ngut (pronounce the ng by pushing the back of your tongue to the roof of your mouth)
- Upward elbow - Tadmalaa
- Crossing elbow - Joob Sawg
- Downward elbow - Wiang Sawg
- Basic Knee - Yat Khao
- Front snap kick - Chat Kaa
- Chaiya turning kick - Wiang Kaeng
Note: Most Muay Chaiya hand techniques don't over extend the arm - so no straight arms on the punching techniques. This is to avoid having the elbow popped! On the Tim, Gra-taek and Wiang Sun, keep the elbow at fist level.
At present I train 2x day for 1 hour. It is better to under muay chaiya training thousands of times a single strike or kick or thousand times more complicated technique for example: a kick-strike-strike-elbow-strike?
1000x single technique or 1000xcombos? Well, only you can answer that! It depends on how quickly you can learn and master a technique (and everybody is different) My advice is to keep working a technique as long as you feel it is improving. When you are happy, work it into a combination, this will help your body adjust and find different ways of working the same technique from multiple angles and starting points.
You may need to go back to working a single technique several times before you truly master it... learning is an on going journey, and sometimes you need to tread the same path more than once.
Prefers muay chaiya strikes the hands or feet kicks?
Favour between punching and kicking? Hmmm... I think it depends on the fighter. Muay Chaiya has lots of hand/elbow techniques for attack and defense, but it also rellies heavily on kicking - especially leg kicks for both attack and defense. Both the hand and legs techniques have a lot of depth and are strong. So yes, I think it mainly depends on the fighter's preference.
However, when we do sparing the leg kicks dominate, as they control the range of the fight, but once the distance has closed from kicking range to punching range, the hand/elbow techniques take over.
Think about the kicks as a way to control range, and cause damage from a safe distance (I'm actually nursing a swollen knee from taking a hard kick yesterday!) as if you can disable the persons legs, then it puts them at a great disadvantage. When you have an opening, you close in quickly and finish the opponent with elbow or hand techniques. In a real fight, elbows make more sense.
Also remember that your style of attack may change depending on your opponent. You always work the range/area that your opponent is weakest in - so that you gain a greater advantage.
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