About Muay Thai
Over a thousand years ago, when the Thai warriors had settled, after many years battle against attacking armies. They decided to codify and record their fighting techniques. A concise manual of warfare the 'Chupasart' was written which contained all of these fighting methods and constantly updated with new innovations only after such techniques had proven effective on the battlefield.
The 'Chupasart' showed how to fight with knives, swords, spears, battleaxes, pikes, cross bows. It became the bible of the warriors and the school book of fighting skills to teach the young.The warriors taught the young men but they trained from this remarkable manual of armed combat without weapons.
The shinbone became the staff of the pike to block and strike. The arms became the raised twin swords of defence. The fist the jabbing tip of the spear. The elbow, the battle axe to smash and crush; the knee too axed its way through the defences. Each part of the body became a weapon and a new close combat fighting skill emerged. A new martial art . . MUAY THAI.
