How To Apply Wing Chun Into Muay Thai Clinch

Hello guys!
Today I am sharing one of the practices I use to train my chi sao into Muay Thai clinch game! Hopefully this can provide more training idea to you all!
If you like the video, please don't forget to like and share! Let me know if you have any thought on this training method!
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[@blackomega4061]

Great stuff, Kevin! I've been working on incorporating more wing chun into my muay thai all year long and I've found a lot of success in hand fighting and clinch range. I'm definitely going to add this to my training so I can work on maintaining my structure and getting a feel for the push/pull element.

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Totally! My hand fighting and clinch work are mixed in with WC too!

[@macchxero]

This is amazing. Rarely seen Wing Chun/Muay Thai techniques like these on the net. So as a practitioner of both (also an instructor myself) I have to figure it out by doing experiments. But I can't let my students be my "lab rats" all the time LOL. So I'm really glad to see someone actually shared stuff like this. And it's a big plus when it's from you! BTW, I found out that while doing the clinch, treat it like a Fok Sao would make it even more nimble and versatile than the normal hold. Pairing this with Lan Sao for pressing, like a way of pull and push, was quite useful to me. Mixing Wing Chun, Muay Thai and Old English Boxing together is almost like a perfect blend of in-fighting.

[@Levitator07]

This is absolutely brilliant content. Always wanted to be able to practice my clinch game solo, using bands on the bag is genius. And using wing chun chi sao is a really good way to explain the hand trapping/joint manipulations. 🙌

[@EliteBlackSash]

I can tell your time spent with Saenchai has the wheels in your mind turning! My muay thai teacher (who trained with Ramon Dekkers) was also a JKD guy and he had a lot of tricks and nuances. Haha in my opinion anyone who trains Southern styles of KungFu, they should be finding a Muay Thai meetup group to train with one day per week. They’re our cousin style anyway. But, the particular way the “shuai” skills are expressed in the South, it benefits greatly from Thai Plum. Much like Northern styles benefit greatly from no-gi grappling. Randy Brown’s Mantis / BJJ channel shows perfect examples of this. But that is because a lot of those arts around Shandong, Henan are surrounding big time wrestling cultures

[@gw1357]

This is Wing Chun/Muay Thai fusion is my kind of stuff. Great piece. One variation I like is to lift up one side, pull down the other (toy sau one side, fuk sao the other), drop your hips, and then spear the elbow (or shoulder blow if you're really close) into the exposed body on the lifting side. The rattan ring is also a great training implement for this kind of work.

[@Utuberj0sh]

I tried to look up combining Muay Thai and wing chun on KZbin this is the very best video I can find. Would love a follow up. And I know you may not practice Lethwei or combat sambo but I think conceptually combing wing Chun and Lethwei makes a lot of sense. Lethwei is also bare knuckle so it’s easier to grab. And then once you control the arms there’s an open runway for the head to come up the center. I imagine for self defense that concept would be effective and efficient and vicious. For combat sambo, similar idea, control the arms and move head up the center. But also since sambo has a jacket there’s even more gripping opportunities than typically seen in Muay Thai, Lethwei, and even traditional wing chun. I wonder what possibilities open up when you can grab the sleeve. Since you’re a black belt in jiu jitsu l, you deeply understand grips, so I think you’re uniquely positioned to opine on this. Anyway can’t wait for more. As always great stuff Kevin!

[@edisonlu9070]

This is like close range Chi-Sao! Great tips Kevin! Will try to incorporate into Chi-Sao! I think these tips will also work with other grabbing arts like Judo etc...

[@gw1357]

I tried this in the gym today. Its not quite as easy as you made it look, but I see the benefit. I'm going to keep working it.

[@chr1staki]

Love the band around the neck concept - very innovative

[@shengchenfan]

Pretty cool creation.

[@BMO_Creative]

This is a great drill set! I do this with a BoB! It works great and is also great exercise!

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Thank you!

[@BMO_Creative]

@@KevinLeeVlog No, Thank You Sir!

[@VinhNguyen-ul8yg]

Good stuff Kevin!

[@bobbobbing4381]

Nice. I like to play clinch on my wooden dummy too. p.s. kau sau is no so much a position or technique, but a position one moves through; this is a key understanding when fighting for underhooks.

[@noorulyaseen1100]

Fantastic Video Kevin These Solo Drills you share are really helpful appreciate it man Thanks

[@pangopod2969]

Would love a short compilation video of the moves/drills to watch when practicing by myself

[@maxdominate2481]

That bag is huge!

[@redrenegade7724]

Tuk Sao really works well here. Great stuff Kevin!

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Thank you!!

[@goyneser1]

I like those ideas. Thanks!😎

[@tomdelfue7825]

For my little level (I practise both), I use chi sao for exercices which focus on grabbing the neck and using knees. Thank you a lot for sharing this video Sifu Kevin 🙏😄

[@ryanhill7461]

Thank you

[@cris89631139]

That's the good stuff, I don't know much about wing chun so I wonder if it could work against under hooks too

[@davidbenavides4116]

The move u said is kinda like a bong sau is called Kau sau Wing Tsun.

[@ryufight7987]

Great stuff I use w chun the same way . ❤

[@faeragon]

Hi Kevin, thanks for your channel. I was wondering if you were going to make a video on how to "defend" against someone who's throwing an elbow strike at you instead of the other way around?

[@edwhlam]

Excellent drill. Thanks for posting! Would be great if you have a follow-up using a partner!

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Coming up!

[@fishtax]

Thanks a lot.

[@raphael_2d878]

Great, now try to demonstrate the same with a partner while you're trying to stay close and knee him but as your partner moves back. It would be good to see how you control the range.

[@akiles391]

Thanks for the video! It'd be interesting if you can record a sparring session, see if you can apply these techniques and analyze them after the session.

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Sounds like a good idea!

[@akiles391]

@@KevinLeeVlog Maybe allowing only punching to close the distance, and then any kind of strike in the Clinch

[@SergeySamokhov]

Hmm. If you raise your “Bong Sao” so high, and you control the opponent’s arm with your wrist, doesn’t it effectively make it a Kao Sao? (Futhermore, can we say that a Bong is a rotated Tan, and Kao is a rotated Fook? 🤔)

[@mysterious-m1t]

With wing chun can you mix wing chun with any. Martial art

[@thundror]

This is a good idea but I see a problem here - the arms of your opponent are most commonly attached to his shoulders and your neck is supporting them on the other side so they will not move like this elastic band and it will be close to impossible to create an opening for your elbows. I would love it if you can show this technique with a sparring partner, please?

[@akadhsu]

Have you been be able to change the opponents’s angle as well with this incorporating double hand chi sao?

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Yeah, I use some off balance techniques to change the angle.

[@jrnocelli202]

Nice

[@KevinLeeVlog]

Thank you!

[@MurphyAKA]

I feel this video would have been better served with editing to cut the different drills apart

[@maurotolkien7299]

3:23 Note for myself

[@G36-999]

Isnt this just muay thai?

[@dirtpoorchris]

Usually you talk with perfect American accent. Hanging out with family alot lately? lol

[@sportmuaythaiv1045]

Lol! Modern sport muaythai has progressed much beyond neck grabbing. A Wing Chun practitioner will most likely get trashed by a muaythai fighter. The fatal fault of Wing Chun fighting style is not protecting your head aka "floating face". Trying to use Chi Sao in a clinch is an invitation to a fall.

[@nathandrake5544]

Chi Sao is a drill, not an actual fighting technique

[@KungFuKing166]

Absolutely deluded. Anyone who has done even basic clinchwork knows that you will struggle to get any of these techniques going from that clinch. My advice is go and do some basic sparring with a Muay Thai practitioner to understand why these ideas wont work. Dont fight a practitioner with his own style, you will lose badly

[@EliteBlackSash]

Except Kevin trains Muay Thai and Savate with some of the top guys in the country. In fact he was just traveling with Saenchai 😂 I think he’s done much more than “basic” clinch-work

[@mynameismynameis666]

knowing some wing tsun is the secret sauce to me in my muay thai sparrings...