More and more
individuals take an active interest in Muay Thai and would
like to learn this fascinating type of martial-arts. Regardless,
whether the priority is to improve the body's fitness, to
learn a type of self-defence or to compete in events, the
aim can only be achieved by long-term and regular
training.
Newcomers to Muay Thai are initially taught the basic
stance and the sequence of steps. Thereafter, the
basic attacking techniques must be trained. A selection
of these techniques can be found in the book "Muay
Thai – Traditionen, Grundlagen, Techniken des Thaiboxens"
(Delp 2004). A complete list of attacking techniques is shown
in the book "Thai-Boxen
basics" (Delp 2001).
The student initially trains the attacking techniques
slowly and controlled into the air, however, without
interruption. If he succeeds in the correct use of the techniques
into the air, he can add the training on punching
bags to his programme. In the process, the techniques
are first trained one by one before they are combined. Once
the student has had some training sessions on the punching
bag and succeeded, for example, in stabilising his wrist on
impact, he can also train the techniques on pads and with
a partner.
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