Muay Thai Low Kick Drill
PUNCH COMBINATIONS WITH LOW KICK PAD WORK
By Sean Fagan
One of my favorite types of Muay Thai pad work to do is this Muay Thai low kick drill! This is a great kicking drill especially if you have my style of fighting which is very similar to the Dutch style of kick boxing – hard hand combinations finished with brutal leg kicks.
This Muay Thai low kick technique drill is great because unlike heavy bag training or light sparring, you can work on everything that makes a low roundhouse kick so devastating. It will help you find your distancing, flow with your hand combinations, work on reaction speed and throw 100% power into each and every low roundhouse kick.
Click here or on the technique video below to check out my trainer, John Nuculovic and I doing a round of low kick pad work!
In this particular Muay Thai training video I’m only throwing low roundhouse kicks to my trainers lead leg, however, you
can add opposite side low kicks as...
6 Muay Thai Low Kick Setup Techniques
Advanced Muay Thai Techniques
How To Set Up The Low Kick
The Muay Thai low kick is a crucial technique that helps limit your opponents movement and deliver some serious damage, which could eventually lead to a fight stoppage.
As you progress as a nak muay, you need to learn how to set up certain low kick techniques so you are able to land them without the risk of getting them checked or blocked.
Take a look at these 6 Muay Thai low kick techniques and try adding some of them to your bag of tricks.
6 Muay Thai Low Kick Setup Techniques
Here are the 6 muay thai techniques you’ll find in the tutorial video:
- Fake and Drag – Fake a low kick by turning your hip slightly and dragging your back foot. This will ideally draw your opponent’s leg up to try to check your attack. Once they plant their foot back down, that’s when you throw the low kick.
- Stiff Arm – Use a stiff arm or a long guard to drive your opponent back. As your opponent steps...
How To Throw a Muay Thai Low Kick
The Basics of a Muay Thai Low Kick
It wasn’t until “The Fight That Changed History” where the Muay Thai low kick was seen as an incredibly effective and damaging weapon.
When there were no low kicks allowed, kick boxers could bounce around and not worry about having their legs chopped down. Now that 100% of Muay Thai fighters and kick boxers utilize the low kick, it’s important to know how to throw the Muay Thai low kick properly to maximize damage and limit the chances of having it blocked or counters.
Muay Thai Low Kick Basics
A few key tips about the basics on how to throw a muay thai low kick.
- Kick with your shin. Not your foot! If you end throwing a low kick with your foot and you have it checked by your opponents knee or shin, chances are you will do some serious damage to your foot and possibly even break it.
- Keep a defense. Just because you’re low kicking doesn’t mean you can forget about your defense. Make sure you...
