Friday, February 5, 2010
Basic Rules of Muay Thai
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Muay Thai, which focuses on both offense and defense as well as on stamina, is a martial art anyone can learn: men, women, young or old. With the interest in Muay Thai growing fast, the martial art schools in Europe, America and Asia, they began their studies. To learn it, the player should know some basics of Muay Thai. Muay Thai is carried out in five minutes, three
rounds of two-minute break. The fight is a wai Khru dance, which requires that each participant pays tribute to his teachers. Besides the symbolic meaning, the dance is a good warm-up exercise. You will notice that each boxer wears a headband and armband.
The headband, called mongkhol, it is assumed that the chance of the user because they give a monk or a boxer’s own teacher had been blessed with. Since Buddhism and teachers play an important role in the life of Thais, the headband is both a talisman and a spiritual object. It will be removed after the wai Khru dance, and only coach of the boxer. The armbands are now believed to offer protection and are removed when the fight is over. A match is decided by a knockout or by points. Three judges decide who carries the round and whoever wins the most rounds wins the fight. The referee plays an important role as the boxer’s safety depends on his decision. On one side of the ring, the band is under tension, comprising a Javanese clarinet, drums and cymbals. They accompany the fight from the homage dance to the conclusion. The tempo increases, more and more, the action inside the ring. The musicians are mostly ancestors who have seen just about everything, but their music is always faster heart races. They say that the melody, a siren song that the true followers of Muay Thai will never be able to resist. Equipment for Muay Thai is necessary to be in the stadium with games provided. There are a stopwatch, a signal gong, a warning signal, and boxing gloves in different sizes according to the rules, equipment needed to provide water for boxers and other additional personal accessories for boxers who do are not prepared their own such as boxing shorts in red or blue, jock straps, surgical tape, rope or sacred. Thai boxing can be classified into two types, the first is muay Lak emphasis on prudence and patience brings, and is very rare nowadays. The second is the Muay Kiew tricks and feints in its entirety is made to surprise the enemy.
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