Basic Exercises-Forms are comprised of 5 principal sets of tools.1. Punches, 2. Kicks, 3. Blocks, 4, Stances & 5. Strikes.Historically 6 kinds of exercises were used to facilitate the development of forms. 1. Techniques of punching, 2. Kicking methods, leg maneuvers & and associated practices, 3. Posturing, 4. The use of the empty hand, 5. Corresponding tools of impact, & 6. Checking, trapping & blocking. The 12 fundamental defensive themes intertwined within the forms include: 1. Seizing nerves, 2. Attacking blood passages, 3. Twisting bones, 4. Attacking tendons, 5. Joint locks, 6. Take-downs, 7. Throws, 8. Grappling, 9. Ground-work, 10. Counter attacks, 11. Impacting anatomically vulnerable zones, and 12. Digging into the cavities of the body unprotected by the skeletal structure.

Kicking Form 1- (Kick & Associated Techniques) Click Here for YouTube link

• Students bow
• Break on command step back & adopt traditional fighting kamae
• Begin by the numbers or traditional names of moves
• Switch left leg roll check, left leg landing fwd
• Right leg front kick, parry impact with forearm strike land in fighting stance
• Step out on 45 with right foot with right hand in shuto, left hand above head
• Left leg thigh kick 360 degrees land side on right side fwd
• Parry with left strike with right forearm
• Low right side kick and land facing rear, right leg fwd and kakai
• Left leg back kick or stomp kick and step across with left foot to right hand side
• Right leg crescent kick
• Jumping front kick land reaching high with left and impact smashing down with elbow, bend legs on elbow, pulling right hand back (end in deep lunging)
• Switch across left arm behind back right arm in front
• Turn 180 degrees and impact to ribs with right spinning hammer strike swing right arm behind back
• Impact to temples with left and right fists (no lunging forward)
• Lean back bringing arms up and around clapping to ears
• Pull hands to your right ear for a neck crank
• Hook hands for a grab behind neck
• Knee with left and land fwd with left leg
• Reach high and drop scoop down to a deep lunging for a leg reap end in high stance
• Place both hands on outside of left foot and right leg sweep
• Left leg axe kick step and and slide forward land left leg fwd
• Shrug & shake and karkai (fighting stance)
• Step with left leg and right leg inside cresent kick hitting left hand
• Step back into cat stance
• Reach up high with right hand and hit down onto left palm
• Hands and feet come together
• Bow on command bow

Puching Form 1 - (Assorted Tools of Impacting) Click Here for YouTube link

• Students bow
• Break on command step back & adopt traditional fighting kamae
• Begin by the numbers or traditional names of moves
• Left jab, right cross, left hook
• Weave then four uppercuts
• Rising right elbow, circular left elbow then a right elbow coming over the top
• Both hands hit down slapping across thighs and hook around (as if grabbing around somebody’s neck)
• Switch left knee and land fwd then right knee, stomp down with right foot
• Slight head butt, followed by a left shoulder bump
• Shoot left hand out (as if reaching out behind someone’s head) and execute a elbow over the top into your left palm
• Close both hands into a fist and rotate your left fist in towards your chest and then back out and adopt the traditional fighting stance
• Hands and feet come together
• Bow on command bow

Long Combination Form 3
Bow Traditional Thai way with hands clasped together at forehead height.

Part 1 Moving forward(180 deg)

• Right Leg back into fighting stance
• Left leg lunge forward with right punch then left punch
• Right leg forward change over stance with rising right elbow while left hand guards cheek.
• From this stance follow with left circular elbow.
• Lunge left leg to left side while right elbow moves upwards and then out to right side of body as right hand does a karkae action ending up at
• Shoulder height(hooking and diverting a punch sideways).
• As this action happens the right leg moves behind and you end up in a leaning position with weight on left leg which is bent and right leg is deep behind.
  

Part 2 moving to rear at (90 deg)

• Pivot on both feet turning to right hand side at 90deg and keep the right hand close to the face.
• The left forearm simultaneously strikes/smashes across the front of the upper torso ending up in the fighting stance position but further in front than the right hand.(your right leg should be forward at this point.)
• Front left high knee(toes pointing down landing forward and in fighting stance.
• Lunge backwards once and follow up with high circular right knee (landing backwards in left leg forward fighting stance)
  

Part 3 facing behind at (180 deg )

• Right leg step behind left leg, forearm strike to face as pivot and turn facing 180 deg landing in traditional fighting stance with right leg forward.
• Left leg front kick to mid section landing forward.
• Right leg roundhouse kick to midsection landing back into fighting stance of left leg forward.
• Lunge backwards twice.
  

Part 4 moving left (90 deg)

• Look over to left hand side, right leg step up and behind left leg completing a left leg mid section side kick.
• Land the kick forward in the direction of the kick(which was at 90 deg) and now face that direction in a left leg forward fighting stance.
  

Part 5 turning to rear (180 deg)

• Right leg step forward fighting stance, pivot and turn 180 deg sliding left foot across the ground until (in a circular action) until the left leg is behind and you are in a right leg forward fighting stance.
• Left leg forward with l/circular elbow
• Right leg step forward with r/ elbow downward smash
• Right leg step back looking over right shoulder with high rear elbow strike
• Face front remaining in stance and do right over top elbow strike
• Follow up with right rear elbow to at stomach height
• Step up into shoulder width stance pulling fist up to shoulders then punch downwards.
• Feet together and clasps hands at head height.