Basic Clinch Entry

Some fundamentals of entering the Muay Thai clinch properly, finding your hooks/handles without lowering your defenses to get them.

The clinch is an entire art in itself, and many a very talented striker has lost fights due to a deficiency there. It's immensely important to do a lot of clinch work in your training regimen, as the clinch is a major key to a complete game.

If your opponent can detect that they’re better than you in the clinch, it’s very simple to use entry techniques like this one to dictate where the fight is going to happen and choose clinch fighting. Likewise, if you gain some skill in the clinch, you can impose your will on opponents who are scared to engage in it.