weaponThe shin

แข้ง · khaeng

Not the foot. The foot is full of small bones.

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What it is

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.

The long version

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.

Fighters 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.

Inference — the banana-tree and glass-bottle stories are about the same mechanism told as folklore. The bone does adapt. It adapts to bags.

A 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.

Connected to

• The eight limbs The count it belongs to.
• The round kick The kick itself.
• The teep The other thing the leg does.
• The bag Where the bone is made.

Named here by

• The eight limbs One pair of the eight.
• Checking the kick Bone against bone.
• The crocodile lashes its tail Except this one lands with the heel.
• The round kick The part that lands.
• The teep The limb it comes off.
• Apidej Sit Hirun His weapon.
• The bag What is being built.

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