Video showing ancient Muay Thai training techniques that are still being employed today by many fighters.
Fighters utilize natural material such as the banana tree and coconuts to practice kicking techniques and improve hand eye coordination.
Many of us have seen the images and video of fighters kicking banana trees with their shins and basically chopping it down with their legs. This video goes in to far more detail explaining the techniques and the purpose of using the trees as sparring partners.
For many muay thai practitioners it is a way of life, much like kung fu, so they have implemented training in to their every day lives, even something as simple as taking a bath has a purpose other than just hygiene, they splash the water in their eyes to train themselves not to blink as it creates a disadvantage when fighting.
I have often thought it would be cool to take a sabbatical and immerse myself in this type of training, to focus solely on martial arts would be cool.
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