Muay Thai -The slap knee

The slap knee is done exclusively in the clinch when there is no room to throw anything else. The knee comes up to the side and swings into your opponent’s ribs. He can see it from the side. The knee comes up and swings into the ribs. There is virtually no room between you and your opponent.
This is the typical dancing footwork seen in the Muay Thai clinch. Use this action to get your knee up and around easier. Let your feet swing out wide. Let your lower legs swing out like a pendulum then swing the knee back in. Strike the ribs with the hard part of your inner knee, not the whole lower leg.

Hold your opponent in tight in the clinch. There is no need to create space to strike with this knee.

Here it is all together. You can gain some real power with this knee. Focus on the pendulum action of the leg and striking with a hard beat on the inner knee joint.


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