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Thai Boxing Training

January 11, 2010 on 4:30 pm | In Boxing and Thai Boxing | No Comments

Covered some Thai Boxing training similar to the way we did drills in Thailand. Also added some good kick shield work in the end.

Thai Boxing drills with thai pads and thai belly pad:

2 minute round each:

1. Call: Jab cross, cross jab, jab cross right up-knee, or cross jab, left up-knee

2. Call: Jab cross, cross jab, jab cross right round-kick, or cross jab, left round-kick

3. call: left push-kick right round-kick or right push-kick left round-kick

4. Feed a kick- make person block low-mid-high right or left round kick: and they counter with push-kick

5. Feed a kick- make person block low-mid-high right or left round kick: and they counter with push-kick and jab cross or cross jab.

6. Feed a jab cross- person covers the jab cross and counters with right round-kick, left hook, rt. Cross.

Kick Shield:

1. Low, medium, or high kick left and right side.

2. 1,2, or 3 kicks high, mid, or low to left or right side.

3. Hands set up distraction- jab cross right kick, or cross jab left kick.

Other training:
1. 4 point coverage (using muay thai’s T-block against hooks) cover jab, cross, hook, hook from scoring (3 and 3: you go, I go).
2. body hook head hook blocking (3 and 3: you go, I go).
3. counter punch system- cover body strike and counter with 4 punches, cover head hook counter w/4 punches.
4. bob and weave to outside: counter with hook-cross-hook vs straight right, or cross-hook-cross vs jab.
5. slip warm-up for correct positioning.
6. slip and counter: slip and 3 short punches.
7. go more freestyle using slip, bob weave, counter punch, and 4 point coverage.
8. drill out: 10 horse stance jumps, 50 punches, burpies, mountain climbers, knees, push ups, punching numbers.