The fascinating traditions of muay thai, handed down for generations, find their origins in an era past (1500 years ago), in which the Thai warrior was bulwark of civilization and foundation siamese and freedom of his people. The Thais have historically had to fight constantly to affirm and, subsequently, to defend national unity from their attempts to conquer empires bordering strong, the effect of this constant state of war has been to create a strong link between the ordinary people and the royal house. Around the figure of the king have always coagulate in times of need the energies of all the people, in order to defeat enemies militarily and numerically superior. And by the ruler of Siam are always reached signals great benefit to the development of indigenous form of struggle with and without weapons (in fact came to define the muay thai as the art of kings), the case was emblematic of writing and tax Uthong by Prince Ayudhaya, the manual known as muay thai Chuppasart and dating back to 1530. Called with the precise purpose of ensuring the survival of the state Thai, which has recently made independent (Thai means in fact free), the greatest fighters and masters of the time were gathered to encode and record consistently techniques struggle that had for centuries been used by Thai warriors and only handed down orally, often in direct line family (father to son). Since these methods of defense and offense (and especially of preparation for the battle, through specific training methods) were recorded and constantly updated, the Thai martial arts ever became not dogmatic, but the contrary is always kept in step with the times. This development is still ongoing (just observe the technical changes introduced in Thailand by the'70s through today) and the result in terms of efficacy is known to all. Of course, improvements and innovations were included in the method only after giving proof of effectiveness on the ground harder: the battlefield. The equivalent of this process today is the proof of the ring, last test of most fighting techniques of Thai mauy today.
The Chuppasart, which became the official text for all warriors Siamese, was also a kind of revolution in step martial knowledge, changing the previous master-disciple, often ammantato by a curtain of secrecy and mysticism. With this text we can talk about teaching collective new techniques were made public and available to all teachers without secret (obviously limiting everything solely Thai warriors, completely banning such speech by foreigners).
This openness and availability of knowledge of the fighting has meant that the muay thai continued to develop as said, it remained a method of combat flexible and updated.
Another fodamentale moment in the history of muay thai is proie to the throne Prince black Naresuan: until the advent of war Thai arts included the use of weapons such as swords, spears, giavellotti, daggers, sticks (technical Joined under the name of krabi krabong) and techniques with bare hands (muay thai, which studies the shots taken with all parts of the body taken to combat, dislocations and projections on the ground); Neresuan Prince, who spent his youth as a prisoner in Burma and there rigorously studied the art of war, he wanted to separate the two specialties, considering that the only weapon always available to the warrior had his body. From here the streets of muay thai and krabi krabong split sharply, marking the final success of the fight with bare hands Thai, which over the years at the highest level affinò techniques combat without weapons, through a continuous process of empirical testing and correction still Corsican.
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Marco De Cesaris

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