Muay Thai?

[salboski]

I've been taking thai for about 3 months now. We've been doing quite a bit of sparring lately. I have got the blocking down (although my reactions are a little slow to kicks) But I can't figure out which kick is coming. for low, rib and high kicks i do the same block, but if a guy throws a teep instead i get pushed back out of position to throw a counter. How do you guys deal with this?

 

[NeoOsiris]

It comes with experience, and knowing your opponent. Everybody has tendencies, its human nature. You study them and will just get used to seeing little differences between the kicks. As long as you keep you hands up to block high kicks and don't close your eyes, you can check or prepare yourself to absorb low kicks. You can't expect to block everything, thats why you see even professionals get kicked in the head and KTFO because it is extremely difficult to really predict a kick everytime.

 

[Hilly]

take the leg kicks, elbows tucked in for ribs, can always smash his foot or shin with an elbow, easy to chuck your hands up for a high. good conditioning taking leg kicks, don't forget about your back leg either cops less damage so its weaker. you can check the leg kicks also, but i tend to not worry too much about them and counter straight up with a punch when they throw a leg.
but yeah it will all come with practice mate so don't stress.

 

[Hilly]

take the leg kicks, elbows tucked in for ribs, can always smash his foot or shin with an elbow, easy to chuck your hands up for a high. good conditioning taking leg kicks, don't forget about your back leg either cops less damage so its weaker. you can check the leg kicks also, but i tend to not worry too much about them and counter straight up with a punch when they throw a leg.
but yeah it will all come with practice mate so don't stress.

what do you meain by a teep kick? front kick, push kick. try and catch em and make em pay, sweep or punch

 

[Marvin Covar]

close the distance or learn to block the teep.