{
 "id": "clinch",
 "type": "move",
 "names": {
  "name": "The clinch",
  "th": "จับคอตี",
  "rtgs": "chap kho ti",
  "said": "Boxing separates them. This does not.",
  "said_th": "มวยสากลแยกออก มวยไทยไม่แยก"
 },
 "region": [
  "thailand"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "set": "everyday",
  "range": "close"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Hands locked behind the other man's head, forearms on his collarbones, both men fighting for the inside position — and knees going in the whole time.",
  "story": "This single rule is why muay thai is not kickboxing. Because nobody pulls the two men apart, a fight has a wrestling phase, and the wrestling phase is where fitness cashes out. Watch a fifth round: the man who wins the clinch is usually the man who wins.\n\nIt is also the part that looks like nothing happening, and it is the part a Thai crowd is loudest for.",
  "how": "Palm on the back of the other hand — not fingers laced. Three reasons, and the article gives all three: you are wearing gloves and cannot lace them; the grip has to press down on the crown of the head, which wants the hands high on the skull rather than round the neck; and laced fingers break, and cannot be let go of quickly enough to throw an elbow."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "มือประสานหลังหัวอีกฝ่าย ท่อนแขนกดไหปลาร้า ทั้งคู่แย่งตำแหน่งวงใน และเข่าเข้าตลอดเวลา",
  "story": "กติกาข้อเดียวนี้คือเหตุที่มวยไทยไม่ใช่คิกบ็อกซิ่ง เพราะไม่มีใครแยกสองคนออกจากกัน ไฟต์หนึ่งจึงมีช่วงปล้ำ และช่วงปล้ำคือที่ที่ความฟิตถูกขึ้นเงิน ลองดูยกห้า คนที่ชนะในวงใน มักเป็นคนที่ชนะไฟต์\n\nมันยังเป็นช่วงที่ดูเหมือนไม่มีอะไรเกิดขึ้น และเป็นช่วงที่คนดูไทยส่งเสียงดังที่สุด",
  "how": "ฝ่ามือทับหลังมืออีกข้าง ไม่ใช่สอดนิ้วประสาน เหตุผลสามข้อ และบทความให้ไว้ครบ คุณสวมนวมอยู่จึงสอดนิ้วไม่ได้ การจับต้องกดลงบนกระหม่อม ซึ่งต้องการมือสูงบนกะโหลกมากกว่ารอบคอ และนิ้วที่สอดกันจะหัก แล้วปล่อยไม่ทันจะออกศอก"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "knee",
   "as": "What it exists to deliver.",
   "rel": "weapon"
  },
  {
   "to": "elbow",
   "as": "The other thing waiting in there.",
   "rel": "weapon"
  },
  {
   "to": "hak-kho-erawan",
   "as": "The named version of it.",
   "rel": "move"
  },
  {
   "to": "clinch-work",
   "as": "How it is trained.",
   "rel": "drill"
  },
  {
   "to": "scoring",
   "as": "Why the crowd is shouting.",
   "rel": "rule"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-muay-thai"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-muay-thai"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "watching",
  "beginner"
 ],
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "clinch/clinch-muay-thai-knee-clinch.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Muay thai knee clinch.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Muay_thai_knee_clinch.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMuay_thai_knee_clinch.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY 2.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/",
   "author": "superwebdeveloper",
   "credit": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/superwebdeveloper/5106996626/",
   "alt": "Knee in muay thai clinch",
   "date": "2010-10-22",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "c8935d7c29a1636782bd1fab9fc40b1f70eb910db2cac3bbd83fed4bb254d575"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "eight-limbs",
   "type": "weapon",
   "name": "The eight limbs",
   "as": "What legal knees produce."
  },
  {
   "from": "elbow",
   "type": "weapon",
   "name": "The elbow",
   "as": "Where most of them are thrown from."
  },
  {
   "from": "knee",
   "type": "weapon",
   "name": "The knee",
   "as": "What makes it possible."
  },
  {
   "from": "hak-kho-erawan",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "Breaking Erawan's neck",
   "as": "What it is."
  },
  {
   "from": "sweep",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "The dump",
   "as": "Where most of them start."
  },
  {
   "from": "muay-khao",
   "type": "style",
   "name": "Muay khao",
   "as": "Where it lives."
  },
  {
   "from": "buakaw-k1-2004",
   "type": "bout",
   "name": "Buakaw at K-1 Max, 2004",
   "as": "What was taken out."
  },
  {
   "from": "clinch-work",
   "type": "drill",
   "name": "Clinch",
   "as": "What is being trained."
  },
  {
   "from": "why-foreigners-lose-decisions",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Why you thought he won",
   "as": "The part that looked like nothing."
  }
 ]
}