Muay Thai Jumping Attacks: The Complete Guide to Aerial Strikes

Muay Thai has a reputation for being a grounded art. The clinch, the low kicks, the body shots at mid-range — these are the images that define the sport in most people's minds. That reading is accurate, but it is not complete.

The Thai boxing tradition contains a well-developed catalogue of aerial techniques. Jumping attacks are not a modern borrowing from kickboxing or MMA. They belong to the classical vocabulary of the art, and their rarity in competition reflects strategy rather than ignorance. A jumping technique surrenders your base for a fraction of a second. Thai fighters, as a rule, are too tactically intelligent to use these strikes carelessly.

But when the moment opens up, aerial attacks are fight-ending weapons.

The full guide on Dojo and Ring covers each technique in the system — the Superman Punch and its lead-hand variation, the jumping elbow, the jumping roundhouse, the scissor teep (and why the Karate Kid comparison is not as far-fetched as it sounds), and the two primary forms of the flying knee, each suited to a different tactical situation.

The guide also addresses the strategic framework that makes these techniques work: why they exist, what functions they serve — power amplification, distance coverage, psychological disruption — and why the best aerial strikes in competitive Muay Thai almost always arrive after deliberate setup rather than impulse.

Read the full article here: Jumping Attacks in Muay Thai: The Complete Guide to Aerial Strikes

Ram Muay: What You Are Actually Watching Before the Fight Starts

Before a single strike is thrown, before the fighters even touch gloves, the audience sees something that looks like a dance but is not one.

The Ram Muay is the ritual performance every Muay Thai fighter carries out before a bout. To someone unfamiliar with what they are watching, it can look like pure decoration. In reality, it is one of the most layered elements of the entire sport.

The Ram Muay is not improvisation. It has a fixed internal structure, learned, repeated, and passed down through camps and lineages. It operates on two levels simultaneously: ceremonial and functional. It warms up the joints and major movement chains, activates the nervous system, and allows the fighter to read the opponent through the performance itself, watching how the other camp responds to what is being shown.

Every camp has its own version, and this is not simply an aesthetic preference. The style of the Ram Muay often reveals the tactical priorities of the camp: those built around the clinch tend to produce tighter, more controlled sequences, while camps with a strong kicking game show wider, more extended leg movements. Experienced coaches read the Ram Muay the way a chess player reads an opponent's opening.

The Ram Muay is not tradition for tradition's sake. It is living proof that a martial art can carry its memory, its teacher, its camp, its origin, embedded in the body itself, performed in every fight, without a single word spoken.

If you want to understand why the distinction between Wai Kru and Ram Muay matters structurally, how the Sarama music interacts with the fighter's movement rather than simply accompanying it, and what the international spread of Muay Thai loses when it simplifies or skips the ritual entirely, the full analysis is at dojoandring.com.

→ Ram Muay Explained: Structure, Personal Style and Tradition in Muay Thai

Vovinam Self Defense techniques

Το Vovinam Viet Vo Dao είναι ένα πολύ ενδιαφέρον Βιετναμέζικο στυλ. 

Το Vovinam, όπως λέγεται για συντομία, έχει άοπλο και ένοπλο μέρος. 

Στο άοπλο χρησιμοποιούνται χτυπήματα με τα χέρια, τους αγκώνες, τα πόδια και τα γόνατα, επίσης λαβές και ανατροπές. 

Το ένοπλο μέρος περιλαμβάνει τεχνικές με μακρύ ραβδί, κοντό ραβδί, μαχαίρι, ξίφος και σπάθη. Χρησιμοποιεί τη δύναμη και την αντίδραση του αντιπάλου και βασίζεται στον συνδυασμό σκληρών και μαλακών τεχνικών. 

Οπτικά αυτό που κάνει εντύπωση είναι η επιθέσεις με εναέρια «ψαλίδια» που εγκλωβίζουν την μέση η τον λαιμό του αντιπάλου και οι μπλε στολές”.

Εδώ βλέπουμε την εφαρμογή των τεχνικών για αυτοάμυνα.