Thank you for this! I’m back in Muay Thai after four years and I completely forgot about using the head to control the opponent. Thank you for the reminder and appreciate your content! Stay safe
If you mean downward head pressure it's not really a problem. You are not passively putting your head down in space, but rather driving it into vulnerable spots, and securing it in position with your lock on the neck or other framing of the arms. Counters to this are not usually to try to pull the head down.
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu - Muay Thai ah that makes sense. Perhaps I didn't phrase that right. My question is what if your opponent also watches these blogs and while you are fighting for a dominant position he or she start to apply head pressure on your jaw. What's a good defence for that?
ah, then it's like any other fundamental clinching, you fight for position. There can be a head pressure war :P --- if someone is pressuring your chin, you can learn to roll your head around, and deliver some yourself.
Same as muay thai. Went through all that before. Different rules, same thing. Muay khmer too. A lot of people don't realise in Thailand, where Sylvie lives (Chiang Mai?) there are muay thai fights which are same crap. Seen it all before. I was living there 20 years ago, fought guys from lanna too
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu - Muay Thai. That's so awesome !!! I'm glad to see someone from Colorado living out their dreams it gives me hope that I can maybe do the same one day I'm from Greeley colorado
there is no nerve in the jaw that makes you unbalanced. when you get hit in the jaw your head rotates and that makes the fluid in the semicircular canals shake and you lose balance. great vid tho
I don't really know if there is an actual nerve, but there is a place in the jaw that if you put pressure on, and vice down on the opposite side, feels very much like a nerve-like experience. It feels electrical, and will weaken the legs. Definitely not an anatomist though. Just describing the experience as best I can.
Googling around this is what I found: forums.sherdog.com/threads/the-button-how-does-it-work.1040662/ >> "i just broke out the book from that seminar and according to it the hypoglossal, vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves all come together at the mandibular angle which is the pressure point i am referring too. so there is not only one nerve behind the jawbone, there are 3 that come together that create this pressure point. from what i've been told, when the jawbone is pushed back into the nerve(s) suddenly with great force it cuts off communication between the brain and the body for a split second and your brain interprets this as a heart attack and thus shuts down your whole system as a preservation measure (or something like that.)" I'm not smart enough to tell if any of this is true, but for interest of discussion, here it is.
Such good advice, and so well explained! 8 minutes and not a single "um, ugghh" or edit.
Love your content Sylvie. I have followed your pages for years now and your stuff gets better and better every time.
massivojohnson I second that!
I had never even seen or considered techniques with the "ninth limb." Thank you very much, Sylvie.
this is so awesome cus it's all things I learned in grappling. which clinch work is grappling but still.
Thank you for this! I’m back in Muay Thai after four years and I completely forgot about using the head to control the opponent. Thank you for the reminder and appreciate your content! Stay safe
This is excellent info, Sylvie! Thank you for sharing! My coach used to wrestle in college and he always emphasized head position in every position.
Great video. Thank you Sylvie
What about side teep from lead side southpaw?
This is awesome! love your stuff. what if your opponent also tries to put head pressure on you
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If you mean downward head pressure it's not really a problem. You are not passively putting your head down in space, but rather driving it into vulnerable spots, and securing it in position with your lock on the neck or other framing of the arms. Counters to this are not usually to try to pull the head down.
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu - Muay Thai ah that makes sense. Perhaps I didn't phrase that right. My question is what if your opponent also watches these blogs and while you are fighting for a dominant position he or she start to apply head pressure on your jaw. What's a good defence for that?
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ah, then it's like any other fundamental clinching, you fight for position. There can be a head pressure war :P --- if someone is pressuring your chin, you can learn to roll your head around, and deliver some yourself.
This is awesome, made realize a hole in my clinch game that I never knew I had.
Hey sylvie love the content , talking about the 9th limb, what do you think of lethwei?
Same as muay thai. Went through all that before. Different rules, same thing. Muay khmer too. A lot of people don't realise in Thailand, where Sylvie lives (Chiang Mai?) there are muay thai fights which are same crap. Seen it all before. I was living there 20 years ago, fought guys from lanna too
The head slice is Awesome technique for clinch and dirty boxing
Your freaking awesome
Goddamn I'd give this 2 thumbs up if I could
Much love from Colorado you're badass:)
I'm from Boulder, Colorado to Colorado. :)
Sylvie von Duuglas-Ittu - Muay Thai. That's so awesome !!! I'm glad to see someone from Colorado living out their dreams it gives me hope that I can maybe do the same one day I'm from Greeley colorado
Loved that long clinch tanadet study. Gonna practice that ziptie
My master who’s from Burma teach me these things
Μaybe Sylvie it's time to transfer to Lethwei which is in my opinion the new real deal combat sport
I got a hard ass head too, best believe I'm taking advantage
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there is no nerve in the jaw that makes you unbalanced. when you get hit in the jaw your head rotates and that makes the fluid in the semicircular canals shake and you lose balance. great vid tho
I don't really know if there is an actual nerve, but there is a place in the jaw that if you put pressure on, and vice down on the opposite side, feels very much like a nerve-like experience. It feels electrical, and will weaken the legs. Definitely not an anatomist though. Just describing the experience as best I can.
Googling around this is what I found: forums.sherdog.com/threads/the-button-how-does-it-work.1040662/ >> "i just broke out the book from that seminar and according to it the hypoglossal, vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves all come together at the mandibular angle which is the pressure point i am referring too. so there is not only one nerve behind the jawbone, there are 3 that come together that create this pressure point. from what i've been told, when the jawbone is pushed back into the nerve(s) suddenly with great force it cuts off communication between the brain and the body for a split second and your brain interprets this as a heart attack and thus shuts down your whole system as a preservation measure (or something like that.)" I'm not smart enough to tell if any of this is true, but for interest of discussion, here it is.
There is actually