Learning the Push Kick in Kickboxing

I am demonstrating a type of push kick, but usually with the teep the kicking side hand is swung down when the kick is executed.

25.09.2025

My teenage client began his kickboxing course on Thursday evening. He has completed his boxing course, and we decided this was the best bridge between boxing and Muay Thai. The style of kickboxing is very similar to Dutch or Japanese kickboxing, focusing on blending punches with kicks as well as knee strikes. Kicks are taken from Muay Thai rather than the more Savate-based karate or taekwondo kicks found in American kickboxing or full contact karate. Therefore, the first technique he learned was the push kick or teep, as we call it in Muay Thai.

Training began with the simple mandate of pushing me way with his foot. We then applied it to the heavy bag and then back into sparring. Next, he learned how to exchange teeps with me, gauging distance and defending. From here we brought in counters - parries, inside shin blocks and kick catches. Then we layered in jabs, training feints between the teep and the jab. Finally, we brought in rear hand straight punches and rear teeps.

The lesson finished with strikes on the belly pad, focus mitts and a balancing exercise on the heavy bag to better stabilise my client's teeps. We then stretched for a warm down.

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