Muay Thai Basics for Beginners

By Valery Niazov, Oliver Olsen and Harald Olsen

Muay Thai is a century-old fighting system born in Thailand. It offers an enjoyable fitness system that combines cardio, endurance, strength, and conditioning exercises with development of cognitive skills. It enhances concentration and builds a strong and balanced mind. Others find in Muay Thai an exaltation of a combat and a test of ones skills. Whatever one seeks in Muay Thai, it rewards its practitioner with a physically demanding but very gratifying experience. Because of its versatility, this sport is accessible to any person at any age and gender. Not surprisingly, Muay Thai is popular around the world, and some of its techniques are also used by MMA fighters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Jun 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781504311038

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Balboa Press rev. date: 06/27/2018

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WILL

GUIDE YOU ON THIS JOURNEY

CHAPTER I

BASIC FOOT WORK AND STANCE

CHAPTER II

BASIC STRIKIES

CHAPTER III

SLIPPING AND BLOCKING PUNCHES

CHAPTER IV

BLOCKING/PARRYING PUNCHES AND KICKS

CHAPTER V

STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING

CHAPTER VI

HOW TO HOLD PADS

WHAT WE HAVE COVERED

MESSAGE FROM OLI AND HARALD

INTRODUCTION

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell