Techniques · Strikes
The high kicks
The right and left high roundhouses to the head.
Where it stands
| Technique | Teacher kept | In the student | Own runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| right high kick | highkickR2-273.2M27 October 2026 | 300.0M31 October 2026 | 2 |
| left high kick | highkickL2-271.2M27 October 2026 | 300.0M31 October 2026 | 2 |
The high kicks come from later in the same take as the low and mid kicks, Muay Thai 03, take_01. The right one (31.70–33.48 s) starts with a small step of the left foot; the left one (38.10–40.12 s) is a switch. The target is the opponent’s head, 1.56 m up. My captured shin peaks lower (1.42 m on the right, 1.47 m on the left), so in the reference the hips shift up to 16 cm to reach it while the standing foot stays planted. I asked for the other glove up by the ear as the kick lands, and for the aim to go down 15 cm and 10 cm either side, never above the head.
highkickR1 and highkickL1 trained in parallel on 27 October, cloned from the mid-kick teachers, for 2.5 hours each (work log). Their last checkpoints came down empty, so the last snapshots, 209.7 M and 199.9 M, were gated instead. The right one hits 5 of 6 at the head in the air and 6 of 6 15 cm below it, but only 2–3 of 6 at the sides, and at the bag 2 of 6 at the head and 6 of 6 on the low row. Its hips swing round as far as 127–139° in the air. The left one hits 0 of 6 at the head in the air and 4 of 6 15 cm below, but 5 of 6 at the bag at most aims; one of its six seeds falls in every row.
On the videos I said “the kick seems to be hitting the bag before it gets the height”. The second round, highkickR2 and highkickL2, moved the target onto the kick’s own path, paid for the impact on the bag only where the ankle met it on target, and threw every press in the air first. highkickR2-273.2M hits 35 of 36 in the air, the ankle topping 1.67–1.68 m; highkickL2-271.2M hits 30 of 36, and one of its six seeds still falls in every row. At the bag both now reach the height, but no kick counts as a hit, because the bag hardly moves. I kept both on 27 October.
Both went into the student in distill9 (distillation). The kept student, distill9-196.6M, lands the right one 34 of 36 in the air, against its teacher’s 35, and the left one 21 of 36, against its teacher’s 30, with 6 falls in 36, all on one seed. I kept it on the videos on 28 October: “Looks good, keep it.”
What I think, as a coach
On the aim: “no need to kick above that”. The head is the target, and the kick only has to reach it, its sides and below it.
Every attempt
Every run that trained these techniques on its own, in order.
| Run | Outcome | Machines | Hours | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
highkickR2-2026102727 October · right high kick · kept highkickR2-273.2M · Teachers: the kicks | Kept | 3 | 2.6 | $3.05 |
highkickL2-2026102727 October · left high kick · kept highkickL2-271.2M · Teachers: the kicks | Kept | 1 | 2.6 | $3.06 |
highkickL1-2026102727 October · left high kick · kept highkickL1-199.9M · Teachers: the kicks | Kept | 2 | 2.6 | $2.28 |
highkickR1-2026102727 October · right high kick · kept highkickR1-209.7M · Teachers: the kicks | Kept | 2 | 2.6 | $2.28 |
| 4 training runs | 8 | 10.3 | $10.68 |
Shared training
Runs that trained it together with other techniques: a base model, a retrain onto a new stance, a distillation into the student. Their whole cost is counted once, in the shared figure above, not split.
How the models descend
Its own runs, each with an arrow from the run it started from; faded boxes are models from elsewhere it started from or learnt from. Tap a run for its details. The whole history is on the lineage page.