This extended 15 minute trailer/clip above captures some of the most important and unique teachings of the vertical knee, as understood by the Golden Age legend Chamuakpet Hapalang, the most decorated National Stadium fighter in Muay Thai history, with 9 National Stadium belts and 2 FOTY. He was known as “Evergreen” because of the length of his career and just how long he remained dominant.
Study the full 85 minute Chamuakpet session in the Muay Thai Library.
This graphic of the Golden Age careers of legends shows just how long he fought compared to others of the era:
He was one of the 3 Kings of Muay Khao, the teammates of the Hapalang Gym (Dieselnoi, Panomtuanlek and himself), and favored a knee whose dynamics went right up the middle, as opposed to a much more popular curving knee to the rips favored by Langsuan, for instance. Their fights are the stuff of legends, you can see the second of them (the first stopped by an assassination in the ring) here:
There is so much goodness in this 15 minutes, but study the full 85 minute Chamuakpet session in the Muay Thai Library and the 3 other sessions with Chamuakpet in the Library to get the most of it. Here though we get his bi-directional force generation, importance of foot placement, the use of the hip to generate power, his “pillar” of power effect, standing leg emphasis, and many other aspects of a knee taught with such detail you won’t find from many other krus in the world, even in Thailand. This is Golden Age magic.
