Technique Vlog #1 - 9 Minutes (Nongki Style, Karuhat) (Patreon)

In this technique vlog I share the small and large things I'm currently working on as a fighter, things I want to bring to the ring.  A lot of these are specifically from my sessions with legends that I've been filming for members of 

Nak Muay Nation

 (you can read my

articles on some of those sessions here

). As I walk through the gym on this quiet morning in Pattaya you can see how I'm trying to integrate all these bits and pieces into movement. 

Things I’m working on:

1. Dieselnoi knees: I’ve been doing these on the ring every day for months now, mostly to try to develop his energy of repeated knees but also because the angle of them is so different from anyone else. Interestingly, Yodwicha recently told me to do them more like Dieselnoi (without name-dropping) because the upright position of the body, whereas I always focused on the vertical angle of the shin.

2. Namkabuan “slide” knee. I had a really hard time getting this when I was working with him, but I’m determined to figure it out because it’s so amazing when he does it. And it feels badass. I kept bringing my knee up in an upward arc, which Namkabuan doesn’t do. He submarines the whole thing. So I’m using the same corner where I do my Dieselnoi knees but covering distance and aiming to hit on the second rope.

3. Nongki Style: Namkabuan and his brother Nampol both do this really cool wide-stance hop that’s a bit like a boxer. I did okay with it when we were working together, but I noted how much it looked like bouncing on a tire, so now I use the tire to develop that shuffle. It works great. I’m using the Nongki Style in my sparring and on the bag, a little bit in clinching and trying to get it into padwork. But it effectively hides strikes, which is awesome.

4. Namkabuan slide knee on bag with the Nongki Style hop: this combines the two from before on the bag, which just helps me stay relaxed and have a target. Because the bag moves (and the corner of the ring doesn’t), I can really see how much I’m moving through a target.

5. Karuhat and Namkabuan right cross: both of these guys made fun of me for being too tense and their right crosses are similar. Karuhat’s relaxation is something I’ve been working on and Namkabuan hides the cross in the Nongki Style and a faked right kick, so I do both of those.

6. Pi Earn Guard: part of my right cross problem is that when I get emotional or nervous, the tension causes me to bring my right foot forward on a right cross instead of reaching out. It took me until this week to figure out that this is due to my guard not being tight. If I tighten up my guard on the left side, I don’t step with the right leg and I feel protected. I also adopted Pi Earn’s guard to “dive in” to my elbows instead of standing too upright.

7. And this week Pi Nu worked with me on my left low-kick. I can do one really nicely from far away and have nailed some opponents with it, but because I’m trying to stay closer to my opponents as a whole now, that long low kick isn’t the right range. So he focused my attention on hitting the IT Band and being quick with the footwork, rather than taking a big jump and kicking hard like a soccer kick. It also goes along with Sudsakorn’s left side body kick and Rambaa’s “jab” with his inside kick. Three birds, one stone.

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