Blocking knees in a clinch or close quarters?

I have limited Thai experience, but I was always taught to shove my hips into them to take away the space, and if you are already bent over, the arm across the face is a last resort.

Once you get the hips forward, move towards them, don't just try to pull your kneck out, as it likely won't work and opens you up. So basically hips in close, move forward with force.

 

You realize Muay Thai is a huge part of MMA, and plenty of people here are actually bigger fans of/come from a Muay Thai background right?

No of course you don't, you troll.

 

Beebs pretty much covers all I know.

ps. STFU Hendo you homo.

 

Beebs dont give this son of a ***** your time bro. Ive trained alittle Muay Thai, you have trained Muay Thai and im sure plenty of others on this forum have as well. With how disrespectful and stupid this guy sounds I seriously doubt he has any form of training hell I doubt he even has a job.

 

Read up on thai snake, and also pushing off. If you are pretty strong, and perhaps taller, you might **** around and dominate head and balance control yourself. It's a very dominant thing to be able to do.

Counter to what Beebs says to do is the hook knee. The thing is, if they are hook kneeing, they are going to lose some balance, and you can do a lot of things being so close in an MMA rule-set. Like going for an inside sweep/body lock slam, etc.

I honestly like the technique beebs is talking about, because it puts you in position to counter.

 

Forearm blocks.

 

bobing and weaving , Pernell Whitaker style

 

Move your face towards the knee thats incoming? :huh:

 

I've been takin Muay Thai for over a year now and, according to my coach, the best way to deal with knees from the muay thai clinch is to:

(Assuming that you're an orthodox fighter)
- wrap your right arm around the back of your opponent's neck
- push off with your right shoulder (make sure that you rotate your shoulders and your hips)

This motion will enable you to break your opponent's muay thai clinch. Once you do this, the majority of your body weight will be on your left (lead) leg. You can use this to your advantage and counter with either of the following:

- Left Hook to the head
or
- Left Downward Elbow to the opponent's forehead

 

:yep

And STFU HENDO.

 

That is solid technical advice

That is not.

 

There's some good advice posted above. If you don't want to trade knees with your opponent - it is best to establish an upper body clinch and go for the takedown. If you want to trade knees - then whomever obtains the inside position on the neck grab will have control. A muay thai guy I trained with told me to never block knees with just your forearms because a strong muay thai fighter will snap your arms in two with his knees. He showed me how to bring your elbow and knee together to block knees coming from the outside. There are alot of different approaches. If you ever train with a muay thai fighter - ask him questions and get him to help you.

 

That is pretty much correct. In the ring even if you block the knees with your forearm you are losing important, easy points to the Thais.

 

Also you bring your body close so they cant't get full powers on the knee. If it's a side knee you can lift up your leg as they knee so it don't connect with your body. If they have the full clinch on you you just rest your arm on top of theirs and you wont get kneed in the face.