moveThe crocodile lashes its tail
จระเข้ฟาดหาง · chorakhe fat hang
The crocodile lashes its tail
| In Thai | จระเข้ฟาดหาง |
|---|---|
| RTGS | chorakhe fat hang |
| What the name says | The crocodile lashes its tail |
| What it points at | a crocodile |
| What it does | Spin away from the opponent and drive the heel into his head on the way round. |
What it is
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.
The long version
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.
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.
Connected to
- The fifteen mother techniques The list it is ninth on.
- The shin Except this one lands with the heel.
Named here by
- The elbow A named technique that is not an elbow, and is mistaken for one.
- The fifteen mother techniques Number nine, and the one every gym still says.
- The fifteen, standing in a courtyard The one on the right of the row.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | แม่ไม้มวยไทย — the fifteen and the fifteen, at revision 13177866 — Wikipedia (th) | |
| move.gloss | inference | this project's translation | |
| move.refers | inference | this project's classification of what the name points at | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- แม่ไม้มวยไทย — the fifteen and the fifteen, at revision 13177866 — Wikipedia (th)
- แม่ไม้มวยไทย · ลูกไม้มวยไทย — สารานุกรมไทยสำหรับเยาวชนฯ เล่ม 35 — Thai Junior Encyclopedia Project, by royal command of King Bhumibol
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there