Thai Boxing
Thai Boxing is similar to Full Contact. Fighters wear boxing shorts and gloves. The feet are unprotected. Competitions take place in a boxing ring and several rounds are fought.
Thai Boxers are famous for their powerful, high kicks. Unlike the kicks of Karate or Taekwondo, they are performed in a straight-legged way, impacting with the shin.
At the beginning of each match, the Thai boxer puts on a ritual head band or ‘Mongkon’ and performs a curious symbolic dance or ‘Ram May’. The form this takes is peculiar to the boxing gym in which it originates.
Select Thai Boxing clubs within NAKMAS are currently represented.
