Boxing for Muay Thai Playbook

Mat Manual companion guide to "Punching in a Kicker's Art." Print it. The article teaches the punches as this art throws them: tall, short, and home again. This book cards each punch for the tall stance, prints combinations in the art's own lengths, times the guard's return, and teaches the entry links as transitions.

Name: ______________________________ Gym: ______________________________ Stance: ______________ Coach: ______________

BEFORE ANYTHING: SAFETY AND PARTNER AGREEMENTS ☐ Hand wraps are on and gloves are the gym's sparring weight for every partner drill in this book. Bare-knuckle pad work is not a drill in this book at any stage. ☐ Power is agreed before the round and named out loud. A striker who throws above the agreement ends the round, and the coach is told. Pass/fail. ☐ Elbow work appears in this book only as a transition endpoint on pads, at pulled power, with a coach present. No elbow is thrown at a partner's head in drilling, held target or not, unless the gym's own advanced rules say so in writing. ☐ A partner who feels a wrist, shoulder, or hand complaint reports it the round it appears. Punching volume drops or the role changes; nobody boxes through a new hand pain to finish a plan. ☐ Head contact in sparring games follows the gym's standing agreements. These games score guard return and entries, not damage.

Part 1: The Tall Stance for Punching

Punches in this book leave from the Muay Thai stance and return to it. The stance is set before every card.

The one adaptation that matters. Boxing craft is welcome in this book where it survives the stance. Hip turn, a straight return line, a tucked chin: kept. The deep crouch, the wide weave, the long bladed stance: left at the door, because knees, kicks, and checks live where those movements travel.