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I believe many people have heard of Muay Thai, but do you know? In fact, Muay Thai originated from Cambodia. Cambodian boxing has a longer history than Muay Thai. Before the founding of Thailand, the relationship with Khmer is inseparable. Culture, art, music, and dance are inseparably related to Khmer culture. Many professional scholars believe that all the boxing in Southeast Asia and India originated from the Funan Dynasty before the establishment of the Khmer Empire. Therefore, Muay Thai, Muay Lao, Lethwei, and Tomoi have similar styles. skill. For example, the reliefs at the bottom of the entrance pillars of Bayon Temple depict various scenes of fighting and fighting, such as a relief showing that two men are fighting, and the other showing two warriors elbowing each other, just explaining some of the characteristics of Cambodian boxing.
Kun Khmer
There are two kinds of Cambodian boxing. One is Pradal Serey (ប្រដាល់សេរី), also known as Kun Khmer (គុន ខ្មែរ), which features martial arts competition with bare hands. In Cambodian, pradal is "fight or boxing" and serey is "freedom". Therefore, Pradal Serey can be translated as "free combat", through technical wrestling and fighting, or win the game through points. The biggest feature of Cambodian boxing is the "kick technique", which uses the power generated by the rotation of the hip joint to attack. Cambodian boxing includes four basic ways of playing: boxing, kicking, elbow and knee.
Bokator
Another kind of Cambodian boxing is Bokator, the official name is L'bokator (Khmer: ល្បុក្កតោ), which is a Khmer martial art combined with weapons. The bokator has been handed down from the early combat invented by the Angkor army 1700 years ago It uses different elbow strikes, kicks and ground battles.
During the battle, the warriors of the bokator were still wearing the uniforms of the ancient Khmer army. A krama (scarf) was wrapped around the waist. Blue and red silk ropes called sangvar day were wrapped around the warrior's head and biceps. Why tie these things? The ancient Cambodians believed that ropes have magic to increase strength, although now they are just a ritual.
Bokator, like many other Asian martial arts, has many observations of nature. For example, there are boxing styles imitating the styles of horses, birds, naga, and eagles. You cannot see this style in Pradal serey. The colors represented by Bokator beginners are white, followed by green, blue, red, brown, and finally black. There are 10 levels in total. Boxers must wear black krama for at least another ten years in order to obtain the highest glory of the boxer: Gold krama. When you get the golden krama, you are a real boxing master, because the bokator has a total of 8,000 to 10,000 different techniques. When you graduate from the black belt, you only learned 1,000 boxing techniques. From the boxer to the boxing master, many people have to work hard all their lives to get the final glory.
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