Teep Playbook: The Push Kick, Its Recovery, and the Catch Game
Mat Manual companion guide to "Your Teep Keeps Getting Caught." Print it. The article takes the caught teep apart into three faults. This book specifies the front and rear teep, benchmarks the recovery, teaches the catc…
| Art | Muay Thai |
|---|---|
| Family | Muay Thai & Ring Sports |
| Level | intermediate |
| Format | playbook |
| Topics | kicks, sparring, defense, training-plans |
Mat Manual companion guide to "Your Teep Keeps Getting Caught." Print it. The article takes the caught teep apart into three faults. This book specifies the front and rear teep, benchmarks the recovery, teaches the catch's mechanics so you can drill against them honestly, and builds the six-week repair.
Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Stance: ______________ Main teep leg: ______________
SAFETY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE ☐ Catch drills are partner-respecting work: the catcher catches to the standard agreed for that drill round (Part 3's stages), never at a speed or with a finish nobody consented to. Sweeps and dumps inside drills are performed to the mat, controlled, at the stage's intensity. ☐ Ankle and knee strain in catch practice comes from fighting a dump's first motion. The book's rule stands in drills as in fights: ride one step, then re-base. ☐ One-legged hopping drills on tired legs are a sprain syllabus. The caught-position drills run early in a session, not as a finisher. ☐ Sparring games in Part 7 are fenced games: no full-power kicks to a partner standing on one leg, ever. ☐ Pain in the hip flexor that lingers between sessions reduces conditioning volume (Part 6), the same as any other report. Snap is built over weeks.
Part 1: The Teep, Specified
Front (lead) teep
| Element | The standard |
|---|---|
| Chamber | Knee drives to the chest line, foot under the knee, standing heel rises |
| Engine | Hips travel forward into the kick; the leg extends because the hips threw it |
| Striking surface | Ball of the foot, toes pulled back, ankle locked |
| Target lines | Solar plexus/stomach (primary), lead thigh (low answer), chest (against a taller advance) |
| Contact feel | Through the target by an inch or two; the partner is displaced, not tapped |
| Recovery | Foot snaps back on the line to the chamber height, hips reverse with it, then the foot sets down under you |
Rear teep
| Element | The standard |
|---|---|
| Entry | Thrown behind a forward step or a switch step; the step is part of the kick |
| Chamber | Rear knee drives past the standing leg to the chest line |
| Engine | The step's momentum plus hip drive; the power teep of the two |
| Target lines | Body (primary), head line only from a switch against a reading opponent, thigh against a checking style |
| Recovery | The same law as the front: retraced line, hips reversing, guard home. Power is no excuse for a slow return |
The recovery benchmark
| Test | Protocol | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Ten quality teeps | Bag or pad, front then rear, each at full standard | 10 in a row with no balance loss, no hand drop, foot visibly snapping home |
| The return test | Partner watches only the return: kick, then hands must be able to touch your shoulders (guard position) before your foot sets down | Guard wins the race every rep |
| Shadow standard | 3 × 1 minute shadow teeps at rhythm, full recovery each | No rep ends in a lean by round 3 |
Teep Playbook: The Push Kick, Its Recovery, and the Catch Game
Mat Manual companion guide to "Your Teep Keeps Getting Caught." Print it. The article takes the caught teep apart into three faults. This book specifies the front and rear teep, benchmarks the recovery, teaches the catch's mechanics so you can drill against them honestly, and builds the six-week repair.
What's Inside
- Part 1: The Teep, Specified
- Part 2: How Catches Work (Learn the Enemy's Mechanics)
- Part 3: The Three Seconds, Drilled
- Part 4: The Drill Library
- Part 5: The Variation System
- Part 6: Conditioning for the Snap
- …and 20 more sections
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