elbow strikes
Close combat hits
Elbow strikes are combat techniques using the elbow as the striking surface.
Common in martial arts like Muay Thai and self-defense systems, they deliver powerful close-range blows—the elbow's hard bone concentrating force into a small area.
Fighters throw elbows horizontally, downward, or upward: He opened a cut over his opponent's eye with a spinning elbow strike.
- clinchSettle beyond doubt
- close quartersRestricted space, minimal distance
- forearmArm's lower half
- jointShared by multiple parties
- uppercutAscending boxing strike
close-range · devastating · bone · impact · combos · fighting · standing up · brutal · eight limbs · arm · defense · self defense · illegal move · martial arts · macaroni · ulna · jab · hook
- self-defenseself-defense, martial arts, self-protection, karate, pepper spray
- martial artskarate, taekwondo, judo, kung fu, aikido
- combatbattle, fight, combat, unarmed combat, grappling
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- combat trainingbasic training, boot camp, combat drills, drills, drilling
- Southeast Asian Martial ArtsMuay Thai, silat, Thai boxing