Typical techniques:
The hand-binding, before an important fight encounter, is an important part of their preparation of fighters. Some Khru Muay Chaiya kept the secrets of this binding in order to make Kard Chiek weapons to all intents and purposes, similar to the claws of a wild beast (the Seua Lab Leb technique uses bound hands in order to injure the opponent’s face, mimicking the movements of a tiger’s claws when attacking its prey). Having to make best use of the elbows and the forearms as weapons, binding was limited to the hands and stopped at the wrists. The first technical approach of a fight in this style was based on avoiding the attack power of the opponent, using a sophisticated systems of moves, torsions, changes of level and jumps which make the practioner of Muay Kiao Kuay an almost impenetrable target.The jumping techniques used in jumps, above all those used with kicks, knee strikes and elbow strikes (Gradot Tae/Kao/Sok) were studied in order to bring with maximum force to each strike, even if the mass of the person executing the action was much less than that of the adversary. Elbow strikes were developed to exceptional levels, making Ti Sok the best weapon for the “soft” style students users, an efficient blade in any situation, at any distance and in whatever position the fighters would find themselves in with respect to their chosen target.