Muay Thai Martial Art

Knee

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Tradition of Wai Khru
One of the most important traditions of Muay Thai is Wai Khru (Paying Respect to Teachers). In order to become a fully-fledged Muay Thai fighter, a person has to pass through a series of ceremonies. First comes the Initiation as a Trainee Fighter Ceremony (Kuen Khru), in which the khru muay accepts young fighters as his students and pledges to teach them to the best of his ability. After fighters have been accepted, they must demonstrate a good conduct, diligence and endurance, in addition to training as hard as they can, following implicitly all the teacher's rules.
During their apprenticeship, young fighters will experience the second type of Wai Khru ritual, the Annual Homage-Paying Ceremony (Wai Khru Prajam Pee). This annual ceremony is usually held on Muay Thai Day (March 17) for young fighters to pay respect to their teachers and souls of teachers long passed away. The ceremony then progresses to the students honoring all the teachers present, who will mark sacred symbols on the fighters' forehead in order to bestow prosperity and success upon them - a custom known as jerm. The ceremony culminates with the third form of Wai Khru, the Ritual Dance of Homage (Wai Khru Ram Muay) performed by the fighters as a mark of respect.It is only when fighters have passed all these three milestones (initiation, training and participation in contests) that they are entitled to call themselves as real Muay Thai fighters. When fighters have satisfied their teachers on all these counts, then they can participate in the fourth Wai Khru ritual, the Initiation as a Teacher Ceremony (Khrob Khru), which bestows on them the rank of khru muay and again involves a performance of the Ritual Dance of

Great Defence

2009-03-05T22:09:00.000+07:00

Muay Thai is one of the best great defensive sports.

High Kick

2009-03-04T21:35:00.001+07:00

High Kick

Legendary Muay Thai Hero

2009-03-02T21:32:00.003+07:00

Legendary heroes
At the time of the fall of the ancient Siam capital of Ayutthaya in 1763, the invading Burmese troops rounded up a group of Thai residents and took them as prisoners. Among them were a large number of Muay Thai Thai boxers, who were taken by the Burmese to the city of Ungwa.
In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the king of the Burmese, King Mangra decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics. The festivities included many forms of entertainment, such as the costume plays called likay, comedies and farces, and sword-fighting matches. At one point, King Mangra wanted to see how Muay Boran would compare to the Burmese art Lethwei. Nai Khanom Tom was selected to fight against the Burmese champion. The boxing ring was set up in front of the throne and Nai Khanom Tom did a traditional Wai Kru pre-fight dance, to pay his respects to the Burmese king, as well as for all the spectators, dancing around his opponent, which amazed and perplexed all the Burmese people. When the fight began, he charged out, using punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, pummeling his opponent until he collapsed.
The referee however stated that the Burmese opponent was too distracted by the Wai Kru, and the knockout was invalid. The King then asked if Nai Khanom Tom would fight nine other Burmese champions to prove himself. He agreed and fought them all, one after the other with no rest periods in between. His last opponent was a great boxing teacher from Ya Kai City. Nai Khanom Tom mangled him by his kicks and no one else dared to challenge him any further.
King Mangra was so impressed that he remarked, "Every part of the Thai is blessed with venom. Even with his bare hands, he can fell nine or ten opponents. But his Lord was incompetent and lost the country to the enemy. If he would have been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen."
King Mangra granted Nai Khanom Tom freedom along with either riches or two beautiful Burmese wives. Nai Khanom Tom chose the wives as he said that money was easier to find. He then departed with his wives for Siam. Other variations of this story had him also winning the release of his fellow Thai prisoners. His feat is celebrated every March 17 as "Boxer's Day" or "National Muay Thai Day" in his honor and that of Muay Thai's.
Today, some have wrongly attributed the legend of "Nai Khanom Tom" to King Naresuan, who was once taken by the Burmese. However, Nai Khanon Tom and King Naresuan were almost two centuries apart.

Royal Muay

2009-03-01T14:12:00.004+07:00

Royal Muay
Muay gradually became a possible means of personal advancement as the nobility increasingly esteemed skillful practitioners of the art and invited selected fighters to come to live in the Royal palace to teach muay to the staff of the royal household, soldiers, princes or the king's personal guards.This "royal muay" was called muay luang (มวยหลวง).
Some time during the Ayutthaya Period, a platoon of royal guards was established, whose duty was to protect king and the country. They were known as Grom Nak Muay (Muay Fighters' Regiment). This royal patronage of muay continued through the reigns of Rama V and VII. As the ancient time, they were teach or fight without any protective equipment such as head guard, kick pads, boxing gloves or any shin instep. It was only the fabric handwraps.

Muay Boran (Ancient Boxing

2009-02-27T22:44:00.002+07:00

Various forms of kickboxing have long been practiced throughout Southeast Asia. As with the most countries in the region, Thai culture is highly influenced by ancient civilizations within Southeast Asia. Muay Thai's origin in Thailand can be traced back to its ancestor Muay Boran ("ancient boxing"), an unarmed combat used by Siamese soldiers in conjunction with Krabi Krabong, the weapon-based style. Eventually Muay Boran was divided to:
Muay Korat (Northeast) emphasized strength. A technique like "Throwing Buffalo Punch" was used. It could supposedly defeat a buffalo in one blow.
Muay Lopburi (Center region) emphasized movements. Its strong points were straight and counter punches.
Muay Chaiya (South) emphasized posture and defense, as well as elbows and knees.
Muay Pra Nakorn (North) emphasized speed, particularly in kicking. Because of its faster speed, it was called as well "Ling Lom" (windy monkey or Loris).
There is a phrase about Muay Boran that states, "Punch Korat, Wit Lopburi, Posture Chaiya, Faster Thasao. (หมัดหนักโคราช ฉลาดลพบุรี ท่าดีไชยา ไวกว่าท่าเสา)".
As well as continuing to function as a practical fighting technique for use in actual warfare, Muay Thai became a sport in which the opponents fought in front of spectators who went to watch for entertainment. This kind of muay contests gradually became an integral part of local festivals and celebrations, especially those held at temples. It was even used as entertainment to kings.
Eventually, the previously bare-fisted fighters started wearing lengths of rope wrapped around their hands and forearms. This type of match was called muay kaad chuek (มวยคาดเชือก).

Tradition of Muay Thai Wai Khru

2009-02-26T00:04:00.002+07:00

Tradition of Wai Khru
One of the most important traditions of Muay Thai is Wai Khru (Paying Respect to Teachers). In order to become a fully-fledged Muay Thai fighter, a person has to pass through a series of ceremonies. First comes the Initiation as a Trainee Fighter Ceremony (Kuen Khru), in which the khru muay accepts young fighters as his students and pledges to teach them to the best of his ability. After fighters have been accepted, they must demonstrate a good conduct, diligence and endurance, in addition to training as hard as they can, following implicitly all the teacher's rules.
During their apprenticeship, young fighters will experience the second type of Wai Khru ritual, the Annual Homage-Paying Ceremony (Wai Khru Prajam Pee). This annual ceremony is usually held on Muay Thai Day (March 17) for young fighters to pay respect to their teachers and souls of teachers long passed away. The ceremony then progresses to the students honoring all the teachers present, who will mark sacred symbols on the fighters' forehead in order to bestow prosperity and success upon them - a custom known as jerm. The ceremony culminates with the third form of Wai Khru, the Ritual Dance of Homage (Wai Khru Ram Muay) performed by the fighters as a mark of respect.
It is only when fighters have passed all these three milestones (initiation, training and participation in contests) that they are entitled to call themselves as real Muay Thai fighters. When fighters have satisfied their teachers on all these counts, then they can participate in the fourth Wai Khru ritual, the Initiation as a Teacher Ceremony (Khrob Khru), which bestows on them the rank of khru muay and again involves a performance of the Ritual Dance of Homage.

Tiger Muay Thai

2009-02-25T23:22:00.002+07:00

In its original form of Tiger Muay Thai, Tiger Muay Thai consisted of an arsenal of nine weapons - the head, fists, elbows, knees and feet - known collectively as na-wa arwud. However in modern Muay Thai, both amateur and professional, headbutting an opponent is no longer allowed.
To strike and bind the opponent for both offensive and defensive purposes, small amounts of stand-up grappling are used: the clinch. Formal Muay Thai techniques are divided into two groups: Mae Mai or major techniques and Luk Mai or minor techniques. Muay Thai is often a fighting art of attrition, where opponents exchange blows with one another. This is certainly the case with traditional stylists in Thailand, but is a less popular form of fighting in the contemporary world fighting circuit. With the success of Muay Thai in mixed martial arts fighting, it has become the de facto martial art of choice for competitive stand-up fighters. As a result, it has evolved and incorporated much more powerful hand striking techniques used in western style boxing and the Thai style of exchanging blow for blow is no longer favorable. Note: when Muay Thai fighters compete against fighters of other styles (and if the rules permit it), they almost invariably emphasize elbow (sok) and knee (kao) techniques to gain a distinct advantage in fighting. Almost all techniques in Muay Thai use the entire body movement, rotating the hip with each kick, punch, and block. The rotation of the hips in Muay Thai techniques, and intensive focus on "core muscles" (such as abdominal muscles and surrounding muscles) is very distinctive and is what sets Muay Thai apart from other styles of martial arts.

Punching Bag Gloves

2009-02-25T01:42:00.003+07:00

Punching Bag Gloves

This generally tools are using with multi purpose but mainly the people using this for punching the punching bags. But some of them using as the fight gear for MMA sports.

This is easy to find and easy to use as well. Nothing is so complicate and specify for this Puncing Bag Gloves.

Punching Ball

2009-02-25T01:17:00.003+07:00

Punching Ball or professionally known as Speed Ball

This Punching Ball will helps to improve your fist speed, punching speed as well as precision of hiting.

Believe me, this tool is not so easy to play with unless you are a professional. But this punching ball is really helpfull and most important is that you can find it in every gyms and fitness clubs.

Some of them contained sponge but some contained sands or foam, this is depending on your purpose. Normally for Muay Thai is putting sands.

Shin Insteps

2009-02-25T01:05:00.003+07:00

Shin Insteps

It has been said that hands, shins, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in Muay Thai Martial Arts. So, it is not a big surprise to have something cover your shins while you are training with your instructors. Without this shin insteps you will hardly find your intructor. Normally, the manufacterur composition with a very thick padding foam or sponge to reduce the power of impact as much as they can. They are very popular among Muay Thai Fighters.

Belly Pad

2009-02-25T00:56:00.003+07:00

Belly Pad or generally known as Body Protector.

This is my favorite equipment when I have to be an opponent with Muay Thai Fighter. This equipment is goods for punch practice or even kick practice. It is so much reduce and absorb the power of hit from the contact. They are so many kinds of Belly Pad but of course the most cover one is the best one.

Kick Pads

2009-02-25T00:45:00.006+07:00

Kick Pads

They are the most favorite equipments for both Muay Thai instructors and Muay Thai fighters.

This Kick Pads will help them to improve the power of kicking. This tools has been created 100 - 200 years ago but still using as the most important port of Muay Thai training. Previously, it was just a piece of wooden but now the world has so much change including this tools. Now it becomes very soft as the pillow.

Focus Mitt

2009-02-25T00:34:00.006+07:00

Focus Mitt

This is also one of the major Boxing Equipment for the instructors or teachers.

It can helps to improve your puncing precision and speed of punch.

The person holding the focus mitts will typically call out combinations and "feed" the puncher good counter-force while maneuvering and working specific skills. Focus mitts are often used as an augment to sparring, with more explicit focus on the puncher than the feeder, especially to develop good punch combinations and defensive maneuvers such as "slipping," "bobbing" and "weaving." Eventhough, this is not really popular among Muay Thai as they prefer to used their shins rather than fists.

Boxing Gloves

2009-02-24T23:16:00.007+07:00

Boxing Gloves.

This is the main gear of boxing or any kind of martial arts.

Boxing Gloves have been around for over three thousand years. The Greeks handed it down to the Romans as a sporting event and as Romans had a tendency to do they turned it into a gladiatorial event. The old Greek method of using hardened leather strips as the gloves was implemented however with one significant change. The improvement has been on and on especially the softness and density of the foam. It makes the sport more fun than hurt.

Head Guards

2009-02-24T22:33:00.012+07:00

To Protect your head this equipment would be the best option. No matter what material they are making of, as long as this Head Guard can protect your chin, your head, your cheeks and your ears. That is it!.
Otherwise, it would be really hurt.

Training Muay Thai with Safe

2009-02-24T22:24:00.007+07:00

If you wanna learn Muay Thai Boxing? You better learn with safe.

Just like any other martial art, it is always dangerous with novice or at least you have have easily the muscle pain. Fortunately, the world today is much safer to learn Muay Thai Martial Arts as they are so many equipment and supporting equipment to reduce a dangerous.

For this reason, those boxing gloves, elbow protector, shin instep, head guards, kick pad, kick shield or event the belly pad were created.

History of Muay Thai Martial Art

2009-02-22T17:19:00.008+07:00

Muay Thai's Brief History

The origins an history of Muay Thai are unknown, it was like any other matial art that created during the war or difficult circumstances as the reason of self-defending. It has been shown up particularly very first time during the invasion of Burmese on Siam (Apprix. 700 – 800 years ago). But the historical documents deal very little with Thai Boxing, only when it is mentioned in ancient Thai laws, in chronicles (especially with reference to military events or festive affairs), or in literature. Many later books on Muay Thai conclude that it has been a unique national martial art in the Thai nation since the distant past.

The earliest beginnings of the arts of self-defence should be similar, especially amongst Asian countries, which emphasize fighting with all parts of the body such as throwing, thumping, breaking, punching, beating, knocking, thrusting and kicking, and so on. It is believed that Muay Thai started by using all parts of the body for self-defence and for settling arguments, as well as for defending the country during the various wars. Muay Thai was practiced by the soldiers of the army in battle with neighbouring countries, in order to keep enemies from reaching them with weapons, such as swords, in combat at close-quarters. The Thais used the arts of Muay Thai, especially dtae (Kick) and teep (Foot thrust), to keep their opponents at a distance, as well as to keep them off balance so that they would surrender more easily.