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I've recently come across a whole bunch of material on-line concerning an Indian art that dates back before Krabbi Krabong and looks very, VERY similar in terms of some of the movements, especially the more acrobatic stuff.
In the Indian state of Kerala, they practice an art known as Kalarippayat, and in northern India they have an ancient bare-knuckle boxing form called Muti (I cannot find anything else on this art, but am interested in it...to check for similarities to Muay Boran and the other early Thai boxing style...can't remember the name, starts with a ch or kh or chaku sound...)
Anyway...I have come to the SPECULATION that this Indian art may have traveled east, and more particularly, southeast with the spread of Hinduisim throughout Asia.
It may be possible, therefore to link the movement of this art and the migration of the early and ancient peoples and use the different variations and changes in the original form as marks on a timeline, going all the way back to the first badass martial/combat/ass-kicking method.
Further speculation may lead me to believe, that as this art moved east, and early muay thai/boran/whatever mixed through migration and conflict from the Thais to the Khmer, Vietnam, Malaysia, etcm to form the other esoteric muay thai like forms we see in those places, i.e. Muay Khmer, lethwei, and even all the way down to the Phillipines with Yaw-Yan.
Perhaps the FMA have some of there roots in Kerala as well as the broad system of Kali that fathered all of the other fighting systems of the Maphillandro area. (i.e. the sub forms of kali, escrima, arnis, silat, etc etc etc.)
I am very interested in this topic...as well as the other esoteric martial arts of southeast asia, so please...tell me all you know.
Kup Kun Kup.
In the Indian state of Kerala, they practice an art known as Kalarippayat, and in northern India they have an ancient bare-knuckle boxing form called Muti (I cannot find anything else on this art, but am interested in it...to check for similarities to Muay Boran and the other early Thai boxing style...can't remember the name, starts with a ch or kh or chaku sound...)
Anyway...I have come to the SPECULATION that this Indian art may have traveled east, and more particularly, southeast with the spread of Hinduisim throughout Asia.
It may be possible, therefore to link the movement of this art and the migration of the early and ancient peoples and use the different variations and changes in the original form as marks on a timeline, going all the way back to the first badass martial/combat/ass-kicking method.
Further speculation may lead me to believe, that as this art moved east, and early muay thai/boran/whatever mixed through migration and conflict from the Thais to the Khmer, Vietnam, Malaysia, etcm to form the other esoteric muay thai like forms we see in those places, i.e. Muay Khmer, lethwei, and even all the way down to the Phillipines with Yaw-Yan.
Perhaps the FMA have some of there roots in Kerala as well as the broad system of Kali that fathered all of the other fighting systems of the Maphillandro area. (i.e. the sub forms of kali, escrima, arnis, silat, etc etc etc.)
I am very interested in this topic...as well as the other esoteric martial arts of southeast asia, so please...tell me all you know.
Kup Kun Kup.
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