{
 "id": "chorakhe-fat-hang",
 "type": "move",
 "names": {
  "name": "The crocodile lashes its tail",
  "th": "จระเข้ฟาดหาง",
  "rtgs": "chorakhe fat hang",
  "said": "The crocodile lashes its tail"
 },
 "region": [
  "thailand"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "set": "mae-mai"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Number nine of the fifteen, and the only one of the thirty whose Thai name is still said out loud in gyms from Sao Paulo to Sheffield.",
  "story": "The Thai encyclopedia's description is four words long: the heel strikes the head. What it leaves out is why the name is a crocodile. A crocodile does not turn to face you before it hits you with its tail — the tail arrives while the head is still pointing away. That is the technique.\n\n*Inference —* the name survived translation where the other twenty-nine did not, and the reason is that it is the one whose picture and whose movement are the same thing."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ท่าที่เก้าในสิบห้า และเป็นท่าเดียวในสามสิบท่าที่ยังถูกเรียกชื่อไทยดัง ๆ ในยิมตั้งแต่เซาเปาโลถึงเชฟฟีลด์",
  "story": "คำอธิบายในสารานุกรมยาวสี่คำ ใช้ส้นเท้ากระแทกศีรษะ สิ่งที่ไม่ได้บอกคือทำไมชื่อจึงเป็นจระเข้ จระเข้ไม่หันมาหาคุณก่อนจะฟาดหางใส่ หางมาถึงตอนที่หัวยังหันไปอีกทาง นั่นคือตัวท่า\n\n*อนุมาน —* ชื่อนี้รอดจากการแปลในขณะที่อีกยี่สิบเก้าชื่อไม่รอด เหตุผลคือมันเป็นชื่อเดียวที่ภาพกับการเคลื่อนไหวเป็นสิ่งเดียวกัน"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "mae-mai",
   "as": "The list it is ninth on.",
   "rel": "move"
  },
  {
   "to": "shin",
   "as": "Except this one lands with the heel.",
   "rel": "weapon"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:maemai-th",
  "s:saranukrom"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:maemai-th"
  },
  "fields": {
   "move.gloss": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "this project's translation"
   },
   "move.refers": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "this project's classification of what the name points at"
   },
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "ramakien",
  "watching"
 ],
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "move": {
  "th": "จระเข้ฟาดหาง",
  "rtgs": "chorakhe fat hang",
  "gloss": "The crocodile lashes its tail",
  "refers": "beast",
  "figure": "a crocodile",
  "set": "mae-mai",
  "n": 9,
  "does": "Spin away from the opponent and drive the heel into his head on the way round.",
  "does_th": "หมุนตัวออกจากคู่ต่อสู้ แล้วกระแทกส้นเท้าเข้าที่ศีรษะระหว่างที่หมุนกลับมา"
 },
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "elbow",
   "type": "weapon",
   "name": "The elbow",
   "as": "A named technique that is not an elbow, and is mistaken for one."
  },
  {
   "from": "mae-mai",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "The fifteen mother techniques",
   "as": "Number nine, and the one every gym still says."
  },
  {
   "from": "wat-bang-kung-statues",
   "type": "art",
   "name": "The fifteen, standing in a courtyard",
   "as": "The one on the right of the row."
  }
 ]
}