Top 3 Flying Knee KOs in Recent History

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Posted by Mastodon2

What an amazing knee, thats just how I throw them, hands reaching out to hold the head in place and to pull it in a little bit. Simply beautiful. Very hard to block, even if your opponent gets his arms up, he will still feel it hard!

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Posted by themmadigest

that's Kid's knee:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3061367341857829622&q=yamamoto+miyata&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

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Posted by Mastodon2

Anderson Silva's Khao loy on Carlos Newton was brutal, and Newton was doing so well too.

A great one that springs to mind is is Glaube Feitosa's Khao Loy that knocked Musashi out. It wasn't a particullarly graceful flying knee, but it's worth a mention because no one saw it coming from Feitosa, a karate fighter.

If you have not yet seen it, its at the end of this video

Glaube Feitosa Highlight


Pretty good vid too, lots of spectacular looking (but not very powerful) kicks.
Well edited, makes Glaube look like a good fighter, when really he isn't all that hot.

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Posted by chris91301

that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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Last edited 9/7/07 8:45AM by Mastodon2
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Posted by Mastodon2

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Posted by chris91301

that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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I can assure you that Glaube is a Karate fighter, he trained in Kyokushin karate. The Muay Thai arsenal does inlcude that same kick, but it is in no way a typical Muay Thai kick, I've never seen a Thai boxer do it, I only know that the Thai's use it too because I used it in sparring and my Master commented on it. Glaube hits mostly with the top of his foot too, whereas I use my shin for it.

As for saying "They do that whipping thing on kicks", I'd have to pretty much disagree with that, being that I'm a Thai boxer myself, and we rarely use whipping kicks like Glaube, as overall they just arent as effective for causing damage or breaking the defence of our opponents. Sometimes we will use the overhead whipping motion that Glaube favours, and sometimes we will whip out on leg kicks, but 99% of the time Thai boxers use a straight, stiff leg, and roll the hips to create massive power. Whipping the kick is less powerful than a straight leg and rotating hips.

This is what a Thai kick looks like, not to be confused with the karate style of kicking, which is along the lines of pointing the knee at the target, then flicking the lower leg out to hit it.

Yodsaenklai showing us how its done!


And just incase you didnt see the flying knee that Glaube used, you probably wernt watching the video very well, he lands it about 3:47 in the video.

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Posted by Mastodon2

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Posted by chris91301

that looks like a thai kick to me. they do that flipping thing on kicks. pretty wicked how he landed some of these.

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I can assure you that Glaube is a Karate fighter, he trained in Kyokushin karate. The Muay Thai arsenal does inlcude that same kick, but it is in no way a typical Muay Thai kick, I've never seen a Thai boxer do it, I only know that the Thai's use it too because I used it in sparring and my Master commented on it. Glaube hits mostly with the top of his foot too, whereas I use my shin for it.

As for saying "They do that whipping thing on kicks", I'd have to pretty much disagree with that, being that I'm a Thai boxer myself, and we rarely use whipping kicks like Glaube, as overall they just arent as effective for causing damage or breaking the defence of our opponents. Sometimes we will use the overhead whipping motion that Glaube favours, and sometimes we will whip out on leg kicks, but 99% of the time Thai boxers use a straight, stiff leg, and roll the hips to create massive power. Whipping the kick is less powerful than a straight leg and rotating hips.

This is what a Thai kick looks like, not to be confused with the karate style of kicking, which is along the lines of pointing the knee at the target, then flicking the lower leg out to hit it.

Yodsaenklai showing us how its done!


And just incase you didnt see the flying knee that Glaube used, you probably wernt watching the video very well, he lands it about 3:47 in the video.

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Last edited 9/7/07 3:48PM by Jackelope
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Posted by juanez13

Joachin hansen has some of the best, and the it makes it so much better because he just walks away after he connects the knee, because he knows they are out, but he doesnt even check, just walks awy, classic..

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Posted by chris91301


i've done karate for a long time (kenpo karate). at least in this style of karate kicks do not come up the way Glaube was doing. In Thai from what i have seen is they raise their legs (traditional old school thai) and then whip them. In karate kicks look like they do in the video you posted. But of course this may possibly vary from studio to studio, from sensei to sensei as each one has a style preference and thats what their students learn.

In that last video where that guy does kicks they seem to come up from groupd up in almost a 45 angle which I think would run him into hitting lots of eblows? Or am I missing something?

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Posted by Mastodon2

Glaube is from a Kyokushin background, so his kicks will differ from yours. Obviously that one overhead kick that Glaube uses is no completely representative of his arsenal of kicks, nor is it representative of the Karate arsenal of kicks.

When you say "old school Thai", I assume you are referring to Muay Boran ("ancient boxing"), and the man I train under is well schooled in Muay Boran as well as more traditional and contemporary Muay Thai; having watched him and been taught my kicking technique from him, I can assure you Muay Thai kicks are not typically whipping. While there are whipping kicks, they are a minority and are hardly ever seen. The video of Yodseanklai is the definition of the Thai kick. Thats how I was taught to do it, thats how every other Thai boxer I've seen does it. Thats just how it is.

As for hitting elbows, first of all if you dont throw the kick that hard and you hit the elbow it doesnt matter, it wont hurt much. If you are throwing a power kick, then you will probably have set it up with a punch, leg kick, etc, so the elbow will have moved out of the way. However, even if a Thai boxer hits the elbow, it won't slow him down much, we condition our shins to shrug off that kind of punishment. The shin is incredibly hard and pain resistant, even before proper conditioning. If you are kicking with your foot and you hit the elbow, you'll feel it, and you will probably break your foot, but if a conditioned shin hits the elbow, then it doesnt really matter.

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