Un-readability Pt. II - Thai Roundhouse

Whatever our goal in our Muay Thai practice, be it self-defense, competition, fitness, or anything in-between, one of the keys to success is to land a high percentage of your attacks, and the easiest way to ensure that happens is to throw them with no tells.

For the Thai roundhouse kick, this means not bringing the kick out wide, and rather cutting a sharp angle. It also means not showing a large wind-up in our arms and body before the kick pops out.

• Quickly point the toes of your post (front) foot in the direction your kick is going.

• Let your post foot and your kicking leg’s hip lead your roundhouse, with your kicking leg’s knee steering the direction of your kicking shin.

• Rotate your hip both through your kick and back from the kick.

Focusing on not letting our attacks develop tells is an important principle in all of our training. Last week we looked at how to ensure un-readability in our straight punches, and this week we look at how to achieve the same effect on our kicks, but keeping this larger principle in mind during our entire training process is important. One training methodology to ensure our attacks develop to be unreadable is to practice one round at a slow-medium speed with focus on form before speeding our attacks up. Skip goes over in this video how to execute this training method.