Very few teach the techniques of MuayBoran. I have a beginners program that is designed to teach a blend of the bareknuckle & ringsport basics, but unfortunately the class didn't really catch on (mostly due to the time slot we were in).
It isn't that the techniques aren't legal in the ring. I would venture to say that most of the techniques still are. But the ringsport of MuayThai is very "stream-lined"... fighters train in the techniques that have the highest percentage of success. A lot of the footwork and stylistic fighting has been streamlined as well to make the fights more exciting.
Sadly, its very difficult to find authentic MuayBoran anywhere, not just in the US. Even in Thailand its hard to find the real genuine article. Most camps stopped training in their systems of MuayBoran decades ago with the growing popularity of the ring sport, and now that the old masters are dying off the knowledge is dying with them.
At this point, the best sources for authentic MuayBoran are Vincent Giordanno and Colonel Amnat Pooksrisuk. Vincent is hard to track down. He's in NY, but he spends the better part of the year traveling and researching the ancient bareknuckle fighting systems of SE Asia. Colonel Amnat Pooksrisuk is from Bangkok, but comes to the USA a few times each year to attend the War College, and takes that opportunity to teach Bareknuckle MuayThai seminars.
A good start to learning MuayBoran is to go to the following websites:
ancientmuay.com
bareknucklemuay.com
These two websites offer the 1st two DVD's in Colonel Amnat's "Ancient Bareknuckle MuayThai" series. They are a great resource to begin learning and understanding the basis of the MuayBoran systems.
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