{
 "id": "shin",
 "type": "weapon",
 "names": {
  "name": "The shin",
  "th": "แข้ง",
  "rtgs": "khaeng",
  "said": "Not the foot. The foot is full of small bones.",
  "said_th": "ไม่ใช่เท้า เท้าเต็มไปด้วยกระดูกชิ้นเล็ก"
 },
 "region": [
  "thailand"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "range": "long"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The front edge of the lower leg, swung on the end of a turning body. The round kick is the sport's signature, and the shin is the part that lands.",
  "story": "The kick draws almost all of its power from the hips rotating, with the shoulders and arms counter-rotating to add torque. The leg is not a whip; the whole body is.\n\nFighters are trained to connect with the shin and not the instep, because the foot is a bag of small bones and the shin is one thick one. It is toughened by hitting dense objects — pads and heavy bags — and the bone answers by thickening, which the medical name for calls cortical remodelling.\n\n*Inference —* the banana-tree and glass-bottle stories are about the same mechanism told as folklore. The bone does adapt. It adapts to bags.\n\nA kick that is checked — blocked with the outside of the other man's raised shin — is the one exchange in this sport where the defender wins the trade outright."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "สันหน้าแข้ง เหวี่ยงไปตามลำตัวที่หมุน เตะวงคืออาวุธประจำตัวของกีฬานี้ และแข้งคือส่วนที่ลง",
  "story": "แรงของเตะเกือบทั้งหมดมาจากการหมุนสะโพก โดยไหล่และแขนหมุนสวนเพื่อเพิ่มแรงบิด ขาไม่ใช่แส้ ทั้งตัวต่างหากที่เป็น\n\nนักมวยถูกฝึกให้ลงด้วยแข้ง ไม่ใช่หลังเท้า เพราะเท้าคือถุงกระดูกชิ้นเล็ก ส่วนแข้งคือกระดูกหนาชิ้นเดียว ทำให้แกร่งด้วยการกระแทกของแข็ง — เป้าและกระสอบ — แล้วกระดูกตอบด้วยการหนาขึ้น ชื่อทางการแพทย์เรียกว่าการปรับรูปของชั้นคอร์เทกซ์\n\n*อนุมาน —* เรื่องต้นกล้วยกับขวดแก้วคือกลไกเดียวกันที่เล่าเป็นตำนาน กระดูกปรับตัวจริง มันปรับตัวกับกระสอบ\n\nเตะที่ถูกเช็ก — บล็อกด้วยสันแข้งที่อีกฝ่ายยกขึ้นรับ — คือการแลกครั้งเดียวในกีฬานี้ที่ฝ่ายรับชนะขาด"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "eight-limbs",
   "as": "The count it belongs to.",
   "rel": "weapon"
  },
  {
   "to": "te-chiang",
   "as": "The kick itself.",
   "rel": "move"
  },
  {
   "to": "teep",
   "as": "The other thing the leg does.",
   "rel": "move"
  },
  {
   "to": "bag-work",
   "as": "Where the bone is made.",
   "rel": "drill"
  }
 ],
 "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": [
  "beginner",
  "watching"
 ],
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "shin/shin-muay-thai-low-kick.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Muay thai low kick.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Muay_thai_low_kick.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AMuay_thai_low_kick.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY 2.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/",
   "author": "superwebdeveloper",
   "credit": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/superwebdeveloper/5106991788/sizes/o/in/photostream/",
   "alt": "Fighter throwing a lowkick during an amateur muay thai competition.",
   "date": "2010-10-22",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "5a8e046a376314a071708fea93e639a2e5949cb22e2f4d2b7c30a4d98e5957a0"
  },
  {
   "file": "shin/shin-thairoundkick.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Thairoundkick.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Thairoundkick.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AThairoundkick.jpg",
   "license": "CC0 1.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
   "author": "Claudio Scott",
   "credit": "https://pixabay.com/photos/football-kick-boxing-combat-gloves-2239040/",
   "alt": "A fighter leans back to evade a round kick",
   "date": "2011-04-29 16:59:18",
   "primary": false,
   "sha256": "789e9b522bd4104d732357484517c3aff160f03874d8069722dc9a5fef352a39"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "eight-limbs",
   "type": "weapon",
   "name": "The eight limbs",
   "as": "One pair of the eight."
  },
  {
   "from": "check",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "Checking the kick",
   "as": "Bone against bone."
  },
  {
   "from": "chorakhe-fat-hang",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "The crocodile lashes its tail",
   "as": "Except this one lands with the heel."
  },
  {
   "from": "te-chiang",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "The round kick",
   "as": "The part that lands."
  },
  {
   "from": "teep",
   "type": "move",
   "name": "The teep",
   "as": "The limb it comes off."
  },
  {
   "from": "apidej",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Apidej Sit Hirun",
   "as": "His weapon."
  },
  {
   "from": "bag-work",
   "type": "drill",
   "name": "The bag",
   "as": "What is being built."
  }
 ]
}