{"id":7404,"date":"2018-06-15T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2018-06-15T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T06:52:11","slug":"the-muay-thai-teep-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=7404","title":{"rendered":"The Muay Thai teep kick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teep, or front kick, is an underappreciated tool.  Often taught as a defense against a slow roundhouse kick, or a way to create space between combatants, it is often overlooked for its sheer power: firefighters used this technique to kick in doors for years (until being replaced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Halligan_bar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halligan bar<\/a>, and the huge mechanical advantage it provides); others in the door-kicking business still use this when no Halligan bar is available.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of a recent Muay Thai fight that is an excellent display of the direct application of an offensive teep.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/yOiHXpd.gif\" alt=\"muay thai teep\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was the end of the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Initial clip posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Yodsanan\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yodsanan<\/a> on Twitter. The full fight is available on YouTube here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UFAuL6e-lG0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UFAuL6e-lG0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(All media reproduced under Fair Use, and with credit.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teep, or front kick, is an underappreciated tool. Often taught as a defense against a slow roundhouse kick, or a way to create space between combatants, it is often overlooked for its sheer power: firefighters used this technique to kick in doors for years (until being replaced by the Halligan bar, and the huge mechanical advantage it provides); others in the door-kicking business still use this when no Halligan bar is available. Here is a video of a recent Muay Thai fight that is an excellent display of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/?p=7404\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63,5,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maelstromcore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}