The legend of the Muay Thai, the guerriero Nai Khanom Thom

di Marco De Cesaris

According to the old tailandesi Masters the Muay Thai, the shape of traditional fight of the thailandese people, is an Art of combat that puts in degree the own adepts person of to be effective in the crashs with or more adversaries using the natural crews of the human body, from head to foot; in the combat they must be known to use the arms in order to hit and in order to seize and to fight, and every part of the body comes prepared R-al.meglio like "instrument" in order to attack and to defend themselves from the aggressions of whichever type, frontally, of side and to the shoulders. The serious student must learn which is the points weak people of the human body in order to learn to catch up them with the own attacks and must condition the strong parts of just the body in order to take advantage of them like shield defensives and blades, maces and sticks in order to offend. Is for that the study dell' siamese Art is called delle "9 you arm" meaning that the Muay Thai standard to use with scientific efficiency of head, hands, elbows, ginocchia and legs (the techniques Chern Muay). The human body adequately trained, animated from the guerriero spirit who ago to act without fear is comparable to an arm: this is the creed of the majority of the Limbs Orients them of combat. The legends of the martial traditions of India, China, Japan, Korea and of all the Asian East South are full of episodes that graze the paranormale in which the hero it is defended from formations of armed adversaries and not, with the single aid of the own limbs and just the courage. In the Muay Thai the figure more emblematic than such traditions, to half between legend and history, is senz' other the prototype of all the combatants adepts person of this art, celebre the guerriero Nai Khanom Thom. The history of its life represents the archetype of the gesta of the faithful guerriero hero to the native land and the own Martial Art that, in the moment of maximum sconforto and difficulty, succeeds to draw inspiration from its fundamental values in order to exceed apparently unsurmountable obstacles, giving back the freedom if same, to its companions and indirectly to all the its people.
Captive fact of the birmani, invaders of its native land, captured in the course of the tremendous bag of the ancient one understood them Ayuddhaya in 1774, Nai Khanom Thom came drawn in imprisonment in Birmania (odierno the Myanmar) with to many of its fellow soldiers. During a series of tornei of fight in which the vincitori they made to fight the prisoners like gladiatori, Thom came noticed from the birmano King Mangra whom it observed with it appeal to the great ability in the combat of our hero. Yearning to put to the test the effectiveness of the shape of siamese fight that many losses it had caused between the birmani conquerors, the king Mangra determined to oppose in a combat without crews the best one between the tailandesi prisoners to a formation of birmani gladiatori between the best ones of its army. High power of the shape of fight used from the thai could not sure be advanced to the ability of the best guerrieri of the Birmania! To this point the history to the legend gets confused: one very narrates of a epico crash to hands knots municipal until death that it saw of forehead the champion thai and 10 birmani challengers (second other sources 12 or quite 13). Of sure one knows that the style of combat of Nai Khanom Thom was much neighbor to whom still today it comes called Muay Kard Chiek or fight with the hands bound with ropes: Thom was accustomed to use all the resources of just being, is physics that psychical in order to defeat the adversaries. The combatants of Muay Kard Chiek of the fameliche age were compare to you to Tigris; every offensive action was accepted, fists, elbowed, ginocchiate, articular soccer, heads, levers, stranglings, projections, the bites and "clawed" to the soft parts even made part of that that a gladiatore of the age used and were ready to contrast.
With similar background a Nai Khanom Thom its career of lottatore and soldier was found to face the challenge harder than all: to fight for the own life but also in order to save the own companions and in order not only to reconquer the freedom. With a such burden on the shoulders it is told that the hero thai succeeded in the enterprise to defeat the adversaries one after the other, carrying cleverly the crash on the plan of mobility and the rapidity of action: the birmani were in fact a lot feared for the power of their fists and for their force in the fight body to body.
For this reason Thom took advantage of R-al.meglio the own speed hitting with soccer, ginocchiate and elbowed, executed with wild power, hurling hard shinbones, ginocchia and elbows like the iron against the vital points of the adversaries. The traditional short tailandese pantaloon, style perizoma, facilitated its movements and its agile actions, permettendogli not to fall preda of the attacks of the birmani lottatori. It is like is, the legend narrates that, once defeats all the adversaries mandatigli against, were the same King Mangra who is decided to grant to the freedom to the hero thai and all its fellow soldiers, progionieri facts with he. One says that the King observed admired the incredible test capacity a.termine of the siamese lottatore and succeeded in to assert that "every part of the body of the thai is velenosa, also without crews succeeds to having the better one on the enemies". The positive effect of the exploit of Nai Khanom Thom, beyond to that immediate one of the obtaining of its freedom, was quite to give again confidence to the same tailandese people, defeated but never I tame. From then the figure of this great hero it is the same symbol of the uncontrollable spirit of the Martial Art thai: the true martial artist is the one who which she puts in front the sense of the honor even to just the personal interest, even if this exposes it sacrifices to great.
The native land, the own Martial Art, the school where it has been trained, just the Master and the community of the practicing colleagues: these are the values for which it fought Nai Khanom Thom and it is for that its figure is still puts into effect them and worthy of the greatest respect. From 17 centuries March is its day and, in Thailandia like in the rest of the world, practicing of Muay Thai of whichever level honors it, today like then.