Thai Clinch Kickboxing Technique

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Andrew Bridden here on behalf of expertvillage.com I'm here with Kyle Reese cage fighter and Robert Garcia our head kickboxing instructor here at the Arizona Center of Mixed Martial Arts. Kyle and Robert are demonstrating one of the bread and butter techniques of Muay Thai which is the Thai clinch. Have this guys break for a second here. The proper position for the Thai clinch is crucial to getting this technique many people think that in order to clinch the head they want to interlock there fingers like that. When actually that is incorrect. The proper position is hand over hand like that it allows you to really squeeze the elbows together and control the head which is crucial to the Thai clinch. From here Kyle really got a really good control position on Robert where he could really he has a lot of options from here. Including knees, he throws repeated knees to the body and really worse the opponent down. While he is doing this he keeps the control in the head, he might even move him around a little bit. The body would fall on the head which allows Robert to not really have his balance and Kyle to keep his offense. There is also a lot of elbows you could throw from here including downward elbows like that. Right punches to the body. You could do it from here letting one hand go and you regaining the clinch to regain control. It is a lot of options from the Thai clinch one of the Muay Thai's main techniques and it causes them to point together. "