What's the difference between Thai boxing and Sanda?

Muay Thai originated in Thailand and refers to Muay Thai. It is a sport famous for its strength and agility, and is called "Eight-arm Boxing", "Eight-legged Movement", "Eight-legged Art", "Eight-body Science" and "Best Boxing Method".

Sanda, formerly known as Sanshou, originated in China, and is a sport with a unique national style in China. It was once called wrestling, unarmed wrestling, whipping, gymnastics, beating in vain and so on.

2. Different requirements

Muay Thai mainly attacks with the body's fists, legs, elbows and knees as eight weapons.

Sanda is different from Muay Thai. Muay Thai uses kicking, elbowing and knee bumping. It requires "far kick, close play and close fall" in various forms. Modern Sanda is mainly composed of straight boxing, swinging boxing, copying boxing, whipping boxing, kicking, kicking and throwing.

3. Different tricks

Muay Thai moves include fist, elbow, knee, leg, footwork and the use of weapons, and each move can be subdivided. For example, boxing can be divided into straight boxing, hook boxing and swing boxing.

The tactics of Sanda include actual combat posture, basic footwork, basic boxing, basic leg method and basic wrestling method, without using any weapons. Moreover, Sanshou, as the origin of Sanda, requires a single person to fight against weapons or multiple people.

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