Real Thai Boxing

In this issue of Rantings it’s not me or anyone else from Brutal doing the ranting. It’s the authors Kraitus & Kraitus in their Thai Boxing manual ‘Muay Thai, the most distinguished art of fighting’. In it the authours express their disdain at modern Thai Boxing and instead put forward the virtues the real Thai Boxer should uphold. How funny these same virtues are consistent with the spirit of the true warrior that we refer to so often.

I’ll hand you over to the authors.

“Thailand’s great cultural legacy has begun to decline, when every foreigner can imitate it and present it as an art of his own.”

“Thai boxing consists of the qualities of obedience, genuine knowledge, courage, endurance, patience, compassion, gratitude and honesty. If any of these qualities are missing, to use the words ‘Thai Boxing’ is to act against the genuine art.”

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