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Originally Posted by Little Apple  I have a question: Just saw The Protector, and in the last big fight I thought I saw a lot of Silat stuff. Does MT have that stuff too and I just don't know it yet under MT, or are they mixing arts for the movie? Not bashing! Awesome movie, just curious. |
There is some information about the style used in The Protector ,in Tony jaa's unofficial fan website
www.tonyjaa.org
"The name of the style is Muay Khod Cha Sarn or elephant boxing. This form was reserved for the best thai warriors back in the day and only passed onto blood relatives. Those are the Jaturongkabat warriors who protected the king's elephant feet. These guys were among the best as you can see from movie "Khun Siek". Since they have to be pretty quick and precise in what they do to be able to follow the king and guard the elephant feet. They must executed the brutal technics to kill the enemy upon contact quickly and move on and so that's why "Throw, Stamp on, Grap, Break" are the main technics in which they concentrated and based on. Since there is no need for the Jaturongkabaht guys any more in the modern warfare, the Art itself are almost disappeared but Thanks to Tony Jaa to bring it alive on the big screen for the world to know"
You can check out these links.
http://www.fightingarts.com/ubbthrea...0/fpart/1/vc/1 http://www.tonyjaa.org/forum/index.p...lephant+boxing http://www.tonyjaa.org/forum/index.p...lephant+boxing
thanks