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moveBreaking Erawan's neck

หักคอเอราวัณ · hak kho erawan

Breaking Erawan's neck

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Out of the epicWhat it points at
In Thaiหักคอเอราวัณ
RTGShak kho erawan
What the name saysBreaking Erawan's neck
What it points atErawan, the three-headed elephant
What it doesBoth hands onto the back of the neck, pull down, knee into the face.

What it is

The last of the fifteen, and the plainest thing in the sport: the clinch knee, named after killing the mount of a god.

The long version

Erawan is Airavata, the three-headed white elephant Indra rides, and the animal on the flag of Laos and on a hundred temple gables. The technique named after breaking its neck is the first thing a beginner is shown in the clinch.

Number ten on the same list, hak nguang aiyara, breaks the same elephant's trunk under its Pali name — the arm trapped and the elbow driven into the thigh.

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Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedแม่ไม้มวยไทย — the fifteen and the fifteen, at revision 13177866 — Wikipedia (th)
move.glossinferencethis project's translation
move.refersinferencethis project's classification of what the name points at
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

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

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