moveThe teep
ถีบ · thip
A shove with the sole. The rudest thing in the sport when it lands on a face.
Eric Langley · CC BY 2.0What it is
The straight push with the ball or sole of the foot, into the stomach, hip or chest. The article calls it a foot jab and that is what it does: it manages distance and interrupts.
The long version
Thrown quickly and with enough weight to take the other man's balance, not to hurt him. It is the answer to someone walking forward, and it is the reason a muay thai round can look static from the outside: two men at the exact distance at which the lead foot rules.
Tradition holds — the foot is the low end of the body and the head is the high end, so a foot in the face is an insult on top of a strike. Fighters use it knowing that, and a crowd reacts to it as an insult rather than as points.
Connected to
- The shin The limb it comes off.
- The round kick The other thing the leg does.
- nak muay Who throws it.
Named here by
- The shin The other thing the leg does.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Muay Thai — Wikipedia (en)
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