Saturday, November 3, 2007
WHY MUAY THAI?
The reason why our group has decided to do a research on Muay Thai is because we realized that Muay Thai is gaining popularity not only in the Southeast Asian region but globally too. Muay Thai (or also known as Thai Boxing) was not founded by a single person, but by generations of the “Thai race”, or Thai people, who had migrated southward from China, into the Mae Kong and Chao-praya regions respectively, to join the other Thai race who already co-existed with several other races of people in that region of the world, such as Khom, Lawa, and Morhn.
Conflict between races, or nations gradually brought about the development of a fighting system along with the usage of weapons of war. But a written record kept by the Burmese mentioned a prisoner of war who was a Muay Thai (an unarmed combat) master who defeated TEN Burmese great fighters in a single tournament! His name was Kanom-tom (many know him as Nai Kanom-tom, the word “Nai” means Mister). The record was dated March 17, 1770. Now Thai people commemorate Muay Thai on March 17 of every year.
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From the growing number of Muay Thai gyms being established in Singapore and SEA, to the variety of Thai films that contained the sport as its central theme. All these blatantly highlighted the growing popularity of the sport. So, being curious beings, we wanted to find out the reason behind the phenomenon and its effects on the Southeast Asia region.
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