Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Muay Thai Games

In Capcom's Street Fighter video game series, the character Sagat is a Muay Thai master and a national hero in Thailand. His student Adon is also a practitioner.
In SNK's Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and King of Fighters video game series, Joe Higashi and King utilize Muay Thai as their fighting styles.
In SNK's World Heroes 2, the character Shura/Naikanom Tom is based on the legendary Muay Thai hero, Nai Khanom Tom.
In the Dead or Alive video game series, the fighter Zack is a self-taught Muay Thai master.
In True Crime: NYC it is possible to learn Muay Thai. The game shows a kick strike, an elbow strike, a clinch grapple, and a flying knee attack as a special move.
In the Virtua Fighter video game series, the character Brad Burns is an undefeated Muay Thai champion from Italy.
In the Squaresoft video game Ehrgeiz, the character Prince Doza is a Muay Thai practitioner who won many battles.
In Capoeira Fighter III, there is a lady Muay Thai fighter called Chompoo.
In Clover Studio's God Hand features an enemy called Tiger Joe who fights predominantly using Muay Thai style.
In Data East's Fighter's History, the character named Samchay Tomyamgun utilizes Muay Thai as his fighting style.
In Namco's Tekken fighting game series, the character named Bruce Irvin is a Muay Thai master.
In OGPlanet's Rumble Fighter, the user may buy a scroll that teaches the user Muay Thai.
In the Mortal Kombat series, the character Jackson Briggs, a.k.a Jax, uses Muay Thai as a fighting style.
In Bully, Bryce mentioned being trained in Thai Kickboxing.
In UFC 2009 Undisputed, Muay Thai can be selected as a striking discipline.

Muay Thai Movies

The documentary feature film Fight or Flight starring Peter J McCarthy and also Andy Tompson of Lanna Muay Thai, based on an epic journey into Thailand's ring fighting circuit. Fight or Flight has won "Best Foreign Documentary" at the Long Island Film Festival. Also "Best Documentary" at festivals in Hamburg, Toronto and TVIFF in California. The official website is http://www.fightorflight.tv
In 2004, Muay Thai boxer Asanee Suwan was named best actor at the Thailand National Film Association Awards for his portrayal of Parinya Charoenphol in Beautiful Boxer. The movie tells the true-life story of a man who masters Muay Thai in order to realize his dream of becoming a woman.
The 1971 Shaw Brothers Studio film, Duel of Fists, is set in Bangkok's Lumpinee Boxing Stadium and stars Ti Lung as a Muay Thai boxer who is the long-lost brother of a Hong Kong martial artist, portrayed by David Chiang.
Recently the films Ong-Bak, The Protector and Born to Fight helped to popularize Muay Thai. Ong-Bak demonstrates some techniques of Muay Boran and Tom-Yum-Goong illustrates the fighting style of the Thai Royal Bodyguards (Jaturongkabaht, circa 1400–1700s): Muay Koshasan (Elephant Boxing style). Muay Koshasan is also known as Muay Chang Tumlai Roang (Smashing Elephant Boxing style) in that it emphasizes a lot of throwing, crushing, and breaking of joints and limbs.
The film Chok Dee starring Dida Diafat who plays himself in this semi-fictional story of his life. The film covers a lot of the training filmed in the Muay Thai camps of Bangkok.
The film Kickboxer starring Jean Claude van Damme is about a young fighter who learns Muay Thai to avenge his brother, who was paralyzed by the current champion/thug.
The 1988 movie Bloodsport features Paulo Tocha as a Muay Thai fighter named "Paco".

Kick Boxing

Muay Thai, along with savate, karate, and taekwondo heavily influenced the development of kickboxing in Japan, Europe, and North America. Especially "kickboxing" has been considered as "Modified Muay Thai" during 1970-1980 's ,which has been introduced by "Kurosaki" and his Durch followers till 1990's until to this time the organizations were named as "Karate associations "such as "WKA- World Karate Association and later they changed in their names the "karate" into "kickboxing" due to the domination of those "kickboxers who were actually muay thai fighters". "However, unlike Muay Thai, most kickboxing competitions do not allow elbow strikes or prolonged clinching knee strikes to avoid potential fight ending cuts. American kickboxing does not allow kicks below the waist.

Muay Thai


Muay Thai is a form of hard martial art practiced in large parts of the world, including Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. The art is similar to others in Southeast Asia such as: pradal serey in Cambodia, lethwei in Myanmar, tomoi in Malaysia and Lao boxing in Laos. Muay Thai has a long history in Thailand and is the country's national sport. Traditional Muay Thai practiced today varies significantly from the ancient art muay boran and uses kicks and punches in a ring with gloves similar to those used in Western boxing.
Muay Thai is referred to as "The Art of Eight Limbs", as the hands, shins, elbows, and knees are all used extensively in this art. A practitioner of Muay Thai ("nak muay") thus has the ability to execute strikes using eight "points of contact," as opposed to "two points" (fists) in Western boxing and "four points" (fists, feet) used in the primarily sport-oriented forms of martial arts.