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moveThe three-pit step

ย่างสามขุม · yang sam khum

The three-pit step

Named by one school onlyList
An object or a choreWhat it points at
In Thaiย่างสามขุม
RTGSyang sam khum
What the name saysThe three-pit step
What it points atthree pits in the ground
What it doesThe footwork the southern school teaches first: a triangle, never a line.

What it is

Chaiya's first lesson, and the one thing on its list of seven that is not a strike at all.

The long version

Three points on the ground, and the fighter moves between them rather than forward and back. Khum is a pit or a hollow; the name is the ground, not the feet.

Inference — a school that opens with footwork is a school that expects to be outnumbered or outreached. Chaiya's reputation is defence, and it starts here.

Connected to

Named here by

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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