This is exactly what I mean. Most the stuff I find is theatrical weapon performance. I will say some of the kalariprayattu empty hand did resemble a performance version of Muay Boran, that's the only thing I've seen yet that has any resemblance. The vajramushti empty hand forms, look an awful lot like some southern kung fu forms...have to look at the age of that art...
As far as I can tell from some quick searches, punjabi and gatka seem to be the same thing. Mukki Boxing has yet to yield me anything but some generic factoid paragraphs...still nothing to show me it's alive and well...
It seems like the empty hand IMA are few and far between but all the East Asian countries have multitudes of TMA that are alive and well.
Why do you think this is? Or do you think they are more common and intact; and for some odd reason not exposed to the West like so many other obscure arts have been?
kalariprayattu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLLpjViFhlc
punjabi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8G7e5Hq6c
vajramushti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VpmuS3MXTg
mukki boxing
gatka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Cqrhlce3I