Features of Muay Thai

Thai boxing is the national skill of Thailand, is a kind of extremely strong and powerful hand-to-hand combat, has always been known for its ferocity and ferocity. Muay Thai, like other national skills, has a long history and has always been a military weapon to win the war. It has been proved that the Thai people's culture is y influenced by the culture of China and India, and the Thai people and the Chinese people have an inextricable blood relationship. But for hundreds of years, the Thai people in the Central and South China Peninsula, living and reproducing. In their long struggle against foreign invasion, they gradually formed their own unique boxing. Nowadays, this sport is still used as the main content of the physical combat tactics training of the Thai Army.

At the same time, Muay Thai is also the Thai people's most enthusiastic about the sport, and the Thai people's traditional culture has a close relationship with its strong religious color, every temple or major celebrations, boxing not only become a necessary program, and often listed as the grand finale of the General Assembly. Thai people to boxing, watching boxing, gambling boxing for fun, in other words, Muay Thai is a kind of entertainment. At present, Thailand has nearly 7,000 registered gyms and more than 70,000 professional boxers. And formed a set of more complete boxing system. These facilities and boxing system for the further development of Muay Thai has created a favorable environment and conditions.

Thai boxers have many expeditions to Europe and the United States, with unique skills to many masters of the fight to defeat, wherever they are invincible, Muay Thai to the indisputable fact of the establishment of an important position in the world martial arts world, is one of the most ferocious combat arts. In recent decades, the world's masters of combat have been united many times to conquer Thailand, each time to all the army defeat and end.

One of the unique aspects of Muay Thai is the use of the limbs of the fist, elbow, knee, foot *** 8 attack parts, do a single or chain in different angles to hit the human body in all vital parts, the technology to play all the unlimited, and therefore enjoys the "eight-armed academics" reputation. Muay Thai has always been known as fierce, strong, thrilling, known as the "eight-legged movement", this boxing has no set, focusing entirely on the use of a combination of combat techniques, especially good at leg strikes, elbow strikes and knee strikes. In the Muay Thai fight, the fighters are good at using a variety of techniques to defeat their opponents, including strong fierce elbows, knees, as well as a variety of punches, kicks, but the most powerful attack Muay Thai is the elbow strikes, knee strikes and leg strikes, they play a decisive role in the fight.

In Muay Thai, the part that can be used as a defense to hit the opponent hard is the elbow. Its impact is very powerful, often used in actual combat with the knee trick with alternating, on the smash down, left hit right punch, up and down, extremely difficult to defend. Being hit by the light is broken stomach, heavy life-threatening, so it is known as the "pendulum life elbow" of the name. Elbow is also a good defensive weapon, with the elbow blocking foot, eliminate boxing, smashing knee easy to get, and make the opponent's legs and knees numb, lose combat power. Muay Thai knee move action, bend the knee and fold the leg, so that the knee protrudes, the formation of the force of the attack surface, focus on the upper part of the knee, dedicated to close-range fighting, often attacking the human body's ribs and chest and abdomen, and even the palate, the face, people can not be guarded against, the power is incomparable, it is a lethal killer weapon. Especially Muay Thai masters, after a long period of hard practice of the knee, hard as iron, if it is hit hard, the lesser unconscious for a long time, the heavier bones will be shattered, this is the most vicious Muay Thai trick.

Learning Muay Thai, want to become a master, knee kung fu need to practice hard for three years and five years to have achievements. Muay Thai footwork, is the most important technique of Muay Thai, applicable to medium and long-distance attacks, leg strikes in the power of the fight is quite fierce, known as the "iron foot" of the name, in a fight, if who once the other side kicked, the winner can be immediately finalized. Thai boxers in order to train their legs like a whip like soft, and like steel like hard, often need to practice hard for several years.

Anyone who formally practices Muay Thai should follow the strict rules of life and behavior, follow the teacher's teachings, and accept the systematic practice procedures, resulting in a strong physique and quick reaction, and the level of boxing can be improved. Based on the comprehensive technical requirements of Muay Thai, the development of a boxer's physique is balanced and beautiful due to the training methods. Thai professional boxers are often praised as the best athletes in shape and condition in all types of sports. They get up early in the morning, press the leg, kick the leg, a practice is a few thousand times, until sweaty, and then for cross-country running. And often kick banana poles or heavy sandbags to practice the hardness of the foot, insisted on a few years later, and then changed to kick the coconut tree, because the coconut tree hard, the boxers must endure the pain to break through this level, often practiced blood on the feet, so learning Muay Thai must have a strong will and perseverance. Muay Thai fighters after a long period of hard training, all the attack parts of the body are hard as iron, especially knees, elbows and legs and other parts of the more powerful, fierce. In the tense, intense fighting, kicking, hitting, top, bumping, smashing, knees and elbows, punching and kicking, ferocious movement, use freely. The opponents will be hit and hurt in an instant if they are a little bit negligent.

Thailand's boxing system can be divided into amateur and professional two. A young man into the gym to learn boxing, after several years of hard training, to be mature, that is, was arranged to appear on the stage competition, and other gym with the same level of weight and level of similar fighters against, and from then on the road to the professional boxer, and to make a living by martial arts. Some Muay Thai boxers practice boxing initially, mostly amateur nature, boxing practitioners are laborers, students, military police and so on. If they are successful in the boxing industry, they often give up their original profession and concentrate on boxing to become a professional boxer. Those who fight in the ring as a hobby cannot be called professional boxers. Modern Muay Thai has a history of 70 years and has borrowed some of the practices of Western boxing, such as the requirement for fighters to wear gloves, the setting of a referee, and the setting of a three-minute time limit for each round. Overseas, Muay Thai is often referred to as "boxing with a foot attack". Each match is divided into five rounds of three minutes each, with a three-minute break between rounds. Each boxer says a special prayer before the fight and bows down to his or her coach. In addition, the fighters perform a special dance as a sign of worship to God and as a deterrent to their opponents. Since the 80's, on December 5 every year, the Royal Bangkok has a large-scale boxing tournament held since the morning of the opening ceremony, the war until late at night, to provide the opportunity for nationals to watch Muay Thai free of charge. The number of fights, in the early 80's general arrangements for more than sixty, to 1986 increased to more than one hundred and sixty fights, and there are boxing old-timers on stage to help.

Thai boxing is not only an art, but also a savage and irresistible way to survive. Learning Muay Thai is a way to escape the boring life in the countryside and the noise of the city, but it is also a shortcut to fame and fortune. The career of a professional boxer is very hard and cold, but because of the high pay, the boxers are motivated to train hard for it. Boxing matches have made many boxers famous and gained high social status. A novice boxer can be paid 300 baht (20 baht = 1 US dollar in Thai currency) per fight, and the pay rises if he performs well. A popular boxer can earn as much as 70,000 to 80,000 baht per fight. The average professional boxer can earn 4,000 to 5,000 baht. The top boxers in the country can be worth as much as 200,000 baht. For the average Thai laborer earning more than a thousand baht a month, the status of a boxing champion is undoubtedly a dream come true for the average person. In Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, there are boxing matches almost every day, held in the two main gyms of Ratchaburi (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays) and Lumphini (Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays). There is also a televised broadcast on Sunday afternoons. Entry fees, for the lowest level of boxing in Bangkok, for example, can be divided into three prices: ninety baht per person for seats around the ring, 180 baht per ticket for the four corners of the ring, and 360 baht for VIP seats at the edge of the ring. For higher level fights, the ticket price starts from one hundred and sixty baht. If there is a match between top-class fighters, the ticket price will naturally go up. The enthusiasm of the spectators for boxing is unmatched by other sports. The Ratchamurung Arena, which has a capacity of 20,000, is often filled to capacity for the big matches, and many fans are turned away without a ticket.

1958, Japan's extremely true will karate founder David, in order to prove to the world that the school of karate invincible in the world, went to Thailand than the martial arts, the results were Thai boxer to simple, to fierce footwork beat the defeat; 1973, by Hong Kong kung fu masters, Western boxers, Japan's karate masters joint conquest of Thailand, was also defeated one by one; September 1980 in Bangkok, known as the Japanese new boxing champion of Tian Yan Yan, the fight-style boxing champion. In September 1980, in a Bangkok fight, Tian Yan, who was regarded as Japan's new fighting style champion, had his arm broken by Thai boxer David with a devastating right high kick; in 1977, the Los Angeles fight between American fighting king Cheyney and Thai boxer Narong Noi was the most intense and exciting competitive scene ever seen in the American boxing world. As a result, Chaney suffered a serious injury; in 1983, the American martial arts superstar Binnie, met with the Thai boxer Yapil, only in the second round, was Yapil with a powerful high kick to break the right arm; in 1985, the Thai boxer "Tongtian Knee" Dixie Lee was invited to the U.S. gambling city of Las Vegas to compete, the U.S. boxer was too scared to come out to meet the fight; In July 1988, the Thai team went to Los Angeles and won four of the five matches. As the Thai boxers had countless times to defeat the East and West of the wrestling masters, and therefore dominate the world free fighting ring, caused the countries of the free wrestlers pay great attention to, have traveled to Thailand to study, study the practice of Muay Thai, wrestling mystery.