17Rising elbow
Straight up
Slicing across
16Tight handheld shot inside a Muay Thai ring under hot overhead lights, a female Kenyan Muay Thai fighter, a young woman with short braids in a red sports top and red shorts, lands a single horizontal elbow on her trainer's thick pad, cinematic, the camera close and reactive. 0–2s: she steps in tight behind her guard, the camera bobbing with her movement. 2–4s: her hips and shoulders turn together, her right elbow rising to shoulder height. 4–6s: in slow motion the point of her elbow slices across into the pad, sweat flying off her arm, the camera shaking on impact. 6–8s: at real speed she resets her guard and steps back, breathing hard. Throughout: her head, shoulders and hips in frame, ring ropes and a dark crowd blurred behind, hard top light and haze.
Elbows are short-range. Step the fighter in first so the model doesn't try to throw the elbow from punching distance.