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    Quote Originally Posted by SevenStar View Post
    people say Thai was influenced by immigrants from southern China. I doubt it tho. localized arts have a similar flavor. northern kung Fu looks similar. southern kung Fu has a similar look and characteristics. southern kung fu however looks nothing like Muay Thai. Thai looks like bando, golden boxing, bokator, pradal serey, etc. Muay Thai likely came from cambodia.
    Many southern styles look like Muay Boran. Old Muay Thai has a lot in common with what we call "traditional" martial arts.

    I've never heard any convincing evidence from any view point. But based on the appearance, the forms in Muay Boran, the fact that they used poems for naming techniques and other circumstantial evidence, I believe there was probably a Chinese connection. Of course there may not have been as well.

    I would be more inclined to consider Burma than Cambodia for origins of Muay Thai.
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    This is 100% TCMA principle. It may be used in non-TCMA also. Since I did learn it from TCMA, I have to say it's TCMA principle.
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    You can have Kung Fu in cooking, it really has nothing to do with fighting!

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    Muay boran looks like the old kmher styles. look at bokator. it also looks alot like some forms of silat. these styles would have all originated from India.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SevenStar View Post
    these styles would have all originated from India.
    Is there any proof of that? We heard that about TCMA as well.....We can trace Japanese, Korean and Okinawan arts back to China. Is there any proof that Indo-Chinese arts come from India, or just folk stories to attempt to intertwine Indian religion into other aspects of non-Indian culture?

    Come to think of it, I've seen very little empty hand Indian martial arts...can we look at IMA and see the connection to Indo-Chinese arts, the way it's obvious that Burmese, Thai, Lao and Cambodian arts are related????
    Quote Originally Posted by YouKnowWho View Post
    This is 100% TCMA principle. It may be used in non-TCMA also. Since I did learn it from TCMA, I have to say it's TCMA principle.
    Quote Originally Posted by YouKnowWho View Post
    We should not use "TCMA is more than combat" as excuse for not "evolving".

    You can have Kung Fu in cooking, it really has nothing to do with fighting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellen Bassette View Post
    Is there any proof of that?

    No. No proof. Just speculation based on, as you noted, other cultural exchanges. In the case of martial arts I don't believe it was a matter of a single point of origin, just some technologies spreading and others arising independently out of similar circumstances. There has been a continuum of related cultures across Eurasia for millennia but that doesn't suggest a single point of origin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kellen Bassette View Post
    Is there any proof of that? We heard that about TCMA as well.....We can trace Japanese, Korean and Okinawan arts back to China. Is there any proof that Indo-Chinese arts come from India, or just folk stories to attempt to intertwine Indian religion into other aspects of non-Indian culture?

    Come to think of it, I've seen very little empty hand Indian martial arts...can we look at IMA and see the connection to Indo-Chinese arts, the way it's obvious that Burmese, Thai, Lao and Cambodian arts are related????
    with this stuff there's rarely proof of anything, just as some say Japanese jujutsu had no Chinese influence and that out was developed by three physicians, and others day it came from China. much of the recorded Thai ma history was destroyed during war. as far as Indian arts, there are wrestling arts, striking arts and dances. what you'll see in them looks more like these styles than Chinese styles.
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    We need to understand that co-relation doesn't equal causation.
    That said there is nothing new under the sun.
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    Actually....

    Dhyana entered China before mainstream buddhism got there.

    Dhyana = Ch'an = Zen

    Shaolin Kung Fu is buddhist.

    Buddhism is Indian(Nepali) in origin.

    Buddhism went mainstream in China around 500 CE but had been extant since 500 BCE

    Does anyone think the other arms of practice never made it into China and elsewhere?

    The earliest civilization known of comes from the Indus valley and was referred to as the Harrapan empire.

    anyway, if one took the time to make the connections, they are indeed there to be made.
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    [QUOTE=David Jamieson;1213153]?

    The earliest civilization known of comes from the Indus valley and was referred to as the Harrapan empire.

    QUOTE]

    Good info but twenty years out of date. Civilization means living in cities and the oldest discovered (in Anatolia and the steppes of western Asia) are far older than Indus Valley civilization. A minor point but it shows that everything new and influential did not come out of the subcontinent (including Indo-European culture, itself). These settlements show that there was already a continuum of settled or semi-sedentary agrarian villages across Eurasia before the famous early civilizations began.

    The reason I don't look for a point of origin for martial culture is that these folks were not geographically isolated and they traded with each other. There wasn't enough space on the map or completely forbidding topography to keep them from influencing each other.
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    Oldest evidence of civilization:
    What is now modern day Turkey:
    Gobekli Tepe
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    I think it was the Tai people that emigrated from China to Thailand, not their martial arts.
    I've seen it agreed upon that the Khmer are probably the origin for the southeast asian martial arts, but the Thais feel that they are the ones that perfected it - each region (even in Thailand) has their own particular take though. I see very little commonalities with east asian martial arts; in technique maybe, but the methodologies are night & day different.

    The India connection might be pretty strong; however. Note that the Ram Muay/Wai Kru performed at the beginning of Muay Thai bouts depicts scenes from the Indian Ramayana. These myths don't play such a large part in China. Many traditional Muay Thai exercises & techniques reflect various yoga postures, many names are imported from Indian myths.

    As far as the Harappan civilization not being the oldest - they were pretty sure of that back in the '60s, so 20 years might be generous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pork Chop View Post
    .

    As far as the Harappan civilization not being the oldest - they were pretty sure of that back in the '60s, so 20 years might be generous.


    True. I just didn't want to sound demonstrative. You have to allow a couple of decades for the textbooks to catch up.
    "Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourself against fresh fruit."

    For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon

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    I would like to actually see some empty hand IMA. I hear about wrestling, and striking, but never really see any. This is strange to me since India has such a long history; it seems if their martial tradition was so rich, more would be preserved. I feel like there should be more info and videos out there, perhaps there is and I just haven't found them yet. Still, there's plenty of info/videos from Burmese arts, where the history is far less known and the society far more closed than India...makes me wonder...

    You see Kalaripayattu and various other weapon/theatrical styles but stuff that resembles Muay Thai, Kung Fu, Silat??? Please share the videos; I'm interested.

    The idea that Cambodian arts originated from India, then gave birth to Thai, Lao, Burmese, ect, arts doesn't make sense to me from a geographical stand point. If you were to tell me Burmese arts originated from India then spread to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia; it would seem much more logical. Of course, martial arts don't necessarily spread in a straight line, trade, war and immigration come into play...but still, India to Cambodia then west? Doesn't seem probable 1000 years ago.

    I suspect the IMA connection from martial folklore is more of an attempt to wed martial traditions with Indian religions that later migrated to these areas. It's just my suspicion, I have no proof; but thus far I've seen nothing to make me believe these arts are the least bit Indian.
    Quote Originally Posted by YouKnowWho View Post
    This is 100% TCMA principle. It may be used in non-TCMA also. Since I did learn it from TCMA, I have to say it's TCMA principle.
    Quote Originally Posted by YouKnowWho View Post
    We should not use "TCMA is more than combat" as excuse for not "evolving".

    You can have Kung Fu in cooking, it really has nothing to do with fighting!

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    look at Indian dance, and as chop noted, Yoga postures, the ram muay...that does not look Chinese. Muay Thai retained its popularity because it became a national sport. you don't hear much about bando, and before the 90s, you heard nothing about it. you never hear about golden boxing and most people have no clue that Cambodia even has martial arts, let alone can they name them. this being the case, it shouldn't seem odd that Indian arts were lost as well. I think a lot of people want to tie everything ma related to China, but the Chinese did not have a monopoly on war arts.

    as far as the spreading goes, it may not have happened that way - but I'm pretty sure it didn't spread from China.
    Last edited by SevenStar; 02-21-2013 at 03:18 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jdhowland View Post
    True. I just didn't want to sound demonstrative. You have to allow a couple of decades for the textbooks to catch up.
    Yeah, I've been noticing a confusing trend in Indian historical research though - people keep trying to push the dates back. Was watching a documentary on genetics research, tracking migration of people eastward. They mention the Keralans, how they are genetically very similar to the first people to leave Africa ~50,000 years ago, then they start talking about religious rites in Kerala, how those rites (may) predate formal language, and then they started talking about the Vedas. Very easy to get the wrong idea.
    Another documentary claimed to have found the legendary home town of Krishna, underneath the ocean, thus an attempt to push dates back before 3000BCE.

    There's been a lot of document research to see if the Upanishads & Bhagavat Gita even go back as far as claimed. Both have sections that date well into the Common Era.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kellen Bassette
    You see Kalaripayattu and various other weapon/theatrical styles but stuff that resembles Muay Thai, Kung Fu, Silat??? Please share the videos; I'm interested.
    I believe there is a youtube clip but it's been a while, let me see what I can do tonight if I have time. At the very least, the preparatory exercises for muay thai have a lot more in common with yoga than any TCMA.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kellen Bassette
    The idea that Cambodian arts originated from India, then gave birth to Thai, Lao, Burmese, ect, arts doesn't make sense to me from a geographical stand point. If you were to tell me Burmese arts originated from India then spread to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia; it would seem much more logical. Of course, martial arts don't necessarily spread in a straight line, trade, war and immigration come into play...but still, India to Cambodia then west? Doesn't seem probable 1000 years ago.
    You've got that backwards, the Tai people migrated from Taiwan, through south China, south through Vietnam, through Cambodia, and then west.
    Military arts were picked up in Khmer, as was initial exposure to Indian culture..
    When they hit the west, they picked up more Indian culture imported via Burma (some even migrated as far west as northern India).
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_people
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Empire
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahom_people

    EDIT: re: forms in Muay Boran. There are many that wonder if this was a creation for the Ong Bak movie, because many traditional forms of Thai boxing do not in fact have forms. More common, instead, were "master techniques" (Mae Mai) - usually done with a partner. The "form" in the Ong Bak movie was really a collection of single techniques that may or may not have traditionally been done with a partner.
    Last edited by Pork Chop; 02-21-2013 at 03:30 PM.
    What would happen if a year-old baby fell from a fourth-floor window onto the head of a burly truck driver, standing on the sidewalk?
    It's practically certain that the truckman would be knocked unconscious. He might die of brain concussion or a broken neck.
    Even an innocent little baby can become a dangerous missile WHEN ITS BODY-WEIGHT IS SET INTO FAST MOTION.
    -Jack Dempsey ch1 pg1 Championship Fighting

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    -Charles Manson

    I will punch, kick, choke, throw or joint manipulate any nationality equally without predjudice.

    - Shonie Carter

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