Editing Lethwei (section)

== Techniques ==
Aside from punches, kicks, elbows and knee attacks, Burmese fighters also make use of head-butts, raking knuckle strikes and take downs.
<gallery>
File:lethwei-Elbow.jpg|Spinning elbow strike
File:lethwei-Hight-kick.jpg|Roundhouse kick
File:lethwei-Knee-Elbow.jpg|Knee and elbow strike
File:lethwei-Knee-Hand.jpg|Knee and punch
File:Lethwei-Step-Elbow.jpg|Jumping knee and elbow
File:HookKick001.jpg|Back hook kick
</gallery>

{{anchor|Headbutt}}

=== Headbutt (''Gowl Tite'') ===
{| class="wikitable"
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!English !! Burmese !! [[MLC Transcription System|Romanization]] !! [[help:IPA|IPA]]
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| '''Thrusting/Forward Headbutt''' || ထိုးခေါင်းတိုက် || ''Htoe Gowl Tite'' ||
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| '''Upward Headbutt''' || ခေါင်းပင့်တိုက် || ''Gowl Pint Tite'' ||
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| '''Side Headbutt''' ||  ခေါင်းရိုက်  || ''Gowl yite'' ||
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| '''Clinching Headbutt''' || ချုပ်ခေါင်းရိုက် || ''Choke Gowl Yite'' ||
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| '''Flying/Diving Headbutt''' ||  ခုန်ခေါင်းတိုက် || ''Khnoe Gowl Tite'' ||
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| '''Rushing Headbutt''' ||  ခေါင်းဆောင့်တိုက် || ''Gowl Sount Tite'' ||
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| '''Downward Headbutt''' ||  ခေါင်းစိုက်တိုက် || ''Gowl Site Tite'' ||
|}

{{anchor|Punching}}

=== Punching (''Let Thee'') ===
[[File:Lethwei figths in Ye city Myanmar 2.png|thumb|300px|Lethwei fighters landing a punch]]

{| class="wikitable"
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!English !! Burmese !! [[MLC Transcription System|Romanization]] !! [[help:IPA|IPA]]
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| '''[[Jab]]''' || ထောက်လက်သီး || ''Htouk Let Thee'' ||
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| '''[[Cross (boxing)|Cross]]''' || ဖြောင့်လက်သီး || ''Fyount Let Thee'' ||
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| '''[[Uppercut]]''' || ပင့်လက်သီး || ''Pint Let Thee '' ||
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| '''[[Hook (boxing)|Hook]]''' || ဝိုက်လက်သီး || ''Wide Let Thee'' ||
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| '''[[Overhand (boxing)]]''' || စိုက်လက်သီး || ''Site Let Thee'' ||
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| '''[[Backfist]]''' || တွက်လက်သီး || ''Twet Let Thee'' ||
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| '''[[Punch (combat)#Basic types|Spinning Backfist]]''' || လက်ပြန်ရိုက် || ''Let Pyan Yite'' ||
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| '''[[Hammer Fist|Hammer fist]]''' || ပင့်လက်သီး || ''Pint Let Thee '' ||
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| '''[[Superman punch]]''' || လက်သီးပျံ / ခုန်ထိုး လက်သီး || ''Let Thee Pyan / Khone Htoe Let Thee'' ||
|}

{{anchor|Elbow}}

=== Elbow (''Tel Daung'') ===
The elbow can be used in several ways as a striking weapon: horizontal, diagonal-upwards, diagonal-downwards, uppercut, downward, backward-spinning and flying. They can be used as either a finishing move or as a way to cut the opponent's eyebrow to draw blood.

{| class="wikitable"
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!English !! Burmese !! [[MLC Transcription System|Romanization]] !! [[help:IPA|IPA]]
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| '''Horizontal Elbow''' || ဝိုက်တံတောင် || ''Wide Tel Daung'' ||
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| '''Upward Elbow''' || ပင့်တံတောင် || ''Pint Tel Daung'' ||
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| '''Downward Elbow''' ||  ထောင်းတံတောင် || ''Htoung Tel Daung'' ||
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| '''Jumping Downward Elbow''' || တံတောင် ခုန်ထောင်း || ''Tel Daung Khone Htoung'' ||
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| '''Elbow Thrust''' || ထိုးတံတောင် || ''Htoe Tel Daung'' ||
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| '''Reverse Horizontal Elbow''' || တွက်တံတောင် || ''Twet Tel Daung'' ||
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| '''Flying Elbow''' || တံတောင်ပျံ || ''Tel Daung Pyan'' ||
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| '''Spinning Elbow''' || ပတ်တံတောင် / ခါးလှည့်တံတောင် || ''Pat Tel Daung / Khar Hlet Tel Daung'' ||
|}

Elbows can be used to great effect as blocks or defenses against, for example, spring knees, side body knees, body kicks or punches. When well connected, an elbow strike can cause serious damage to the opponent, including cuts or even a knockout.

=== Kicking (''Kan'') ===
{| class="wikitable"
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!English !! Burmese !! [[MLC Transcription System|Romanization]] !! [[help:IPA|IPA]]
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| '''[[Roundhouse Kick]]''' ||  ခြေဝိုက်ကန် / ဝိုက်ခတ် || ''Chay Wide Kan / Wide Khat'' || 
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| '''[[Kicking#Back kick|Spinning back Kick]]''' ||  နောက်ပေါက်ကန် || ''Nout Pouk Kan'' ||
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| '''Outside low kick''' || အပြင်ခတ် || ''Al Pyin Khat'' ||
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| '''Inside low kick''' || အတွင်းခတ် || '' Al Twin Khat'' ||
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| '''Hook kick''' || ချိတ်ကန် || ''Chate Kan'' ||
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| '''Side kick''' ||  ခြေစောင်းကန် || ''Chay zoung Kan'' ||
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| '''Axe Kick''' || ခုတ်ကန် / ပုဆိန်ပေါက်ကန် || ''Khote Kan / Pal Sain Pouk Kan'' ||
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| '''[[Kicking#Flying kicks|Jump round Kick]]''' || ခုန်ဝိုက်ခတ် || ''Khone Wide Kan'' ||
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| '''Step-Up Kick''' ||  ပေါင်နင်းကန် || ''Pound Nin Kan'' ||
|}

=== Knee (''Doo'') ===
{| class="wikitable"
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!English !! Burmese !! [[MLC Transcription System|Romanization]] !! [[help:IPA|IPA]]
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| '''[[knee (strike)#Straight|Straight Knee Strike]]''' || တဲ့ထိုးဒူး || ''Delt Htoe Doo'' ||
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| '''Spear Knee''' || လှံစိုက်ဒူ || ''Hlan Site Doo'' ||
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| '''[[Curved knee|Side Knee Strike]]''' || ဝိုက်ဒူး || ''Wide Doo'' ||
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| '''Upward Knee''' || ပင့်ဒူး || ''Pint Doo'' ||
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| '''Downward Knee''' || ခုတ်ဒူး || ''Khote Doo'' ||
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| '''Knee Slap''' || ရိုက်ဒူး || ''Yite Doo'' ||
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| '''Double Flying Knee / Elephant Tusks flying Knee''' || စုံဒူးပျံ / ဆင်စွယ်ဒူးပျံ || '' Sone Doo Pyan / Sin Swal Doo Pyan'' ||
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| '''[[Flying knee|Jumping Knee]]''' || ခုန်ဒူး || ''Khone Doo'' ||
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| '''Step-Up Knee Strike''' ||  ပေါင်နင်းဒူး || ''Pound Nin Doo'' ||
|}

=== Foot-thrust ===
The foot-thrust is one of the techniques in Lethwei. It is used as a defensive technique to control distance or block attacks and as a way to set up attack. Foot-thrusts should be thrown quickly but with enough force to knock an opponent off balance.

{| class="wikitable"
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!English !! Burmese !! [[MLC Transcription System|Romanization]] !! [[help:IPA|IPA]]
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| '''[[Front kick|Push Kick]]''' || နင်းခြေ / တားခြေ || ''Nin Chay / Tar Chay'' ||
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| '''Toe Push Kick''' ||  ခြေဦးထိုးကန် || ''Chay Oo Htoe Kan'' ||
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| '''Jumping Push Kick''' || ခုန်ဆောင့်ကန် || ''Khone Sount Kan'' ||
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Note - The [[Myanmar English|Myanglish]] spelling and phonetics based spelling are two different things. The words used are phonetics based words which are more friendly and easy to pronounce for non-Myanmar speaking people. The phonetics wording is provided by Liger Paing from [[Bando|United Myanmar Bando Nation]].

=== Weight classes ===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Weight class name
!colspan="3"|Upper limit
!rowspan="2"|Gender
|-
!in [[Pound (mass)|pounds]] (lb)
!in [[kilogram]]s (kg)
!in [[Stone (unit)|stone]] (st)
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Light flyweight]]
|105||48||7.6||Female
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Flyweight]]
|112||51||8||Male / female
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Bantamweight]]
|119||54||8.5||Male / female
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Featherweight]]
|126||57||9||Male / female
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Lightweight]]
|132||60||9.5||Male / female
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Light welterweight]]
|140||63.5||10||Male / female
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Welterweight]]
|148||67||10.5||Male
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Light middleweight]]
|157||71||11.1||Male
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Middleweight]]
|165||75||11.8||Male
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Super middleweight]]
|174||79||12.4||Male
|- style="text-align:center;"
|align="left"|[[Cruiserweight (MMA)|Cruiserweight]]
|183||83||13||Male
|}