Keat Sriyabhaya (1902-1978): the great Been born master of the muay chaiya

in the district Tha Taphao of the province of Chumphon, in a family of solid martial traditions, great master Keat has been without doubt the more famous and respected figure in Thailandia, as far as technical preparation and to moral dowries in the field of the muay thai traditional. Between 1950 and the year of its dead women, the master has contributed in formidable way to preservare what for he it was the true guerriero style originates them of muay boran, the muay chaiya, the style of the south that had its moment of maximum popolarità during the reign of the king Chulalongkorn. The technique refined of master Keat (handed on to the posteri through its disciple, master Tong) has been for years one of the secrets better guarded of the martial limbs thai; he narrates themselves in fact that in the first years a Seventy Japanese Federation of kick boxing arrived to the point to offer 100,000 bath of the age to Bramajarn Keat, provided that revealed the secrets of its art, but the master kindly declined the offer. Fortunately, thanks to the work of master Tong, its successor, it is today possible to study to bottom the principles and the techniques he originates them of this great master, without which perhaps the muay chaiya he would be scomparso in order always from the world-wide panorama of the martial limbs orients them.