Muay Boran

Thai fighting style created in 13th century developed from ancient Indian Kickboxing (Musti Yuddha/Adithada) with more elbow and knee strikes. Muay Boran was developed by the Siamese army for unarmed combat skill in 13th century according to the King Ram Khamhaeng's war strategics manual.

Kuntao

Kuntao (拳道) is an Hokkien Chinese art created by Southern Chinese immigrants community in the Malay Archipelago before 14th century. Mix of Nanpai Kungfu (南派功夫) and Panantukan, Kuntao is oldest organised martial art training system in Malay countries before Silat era.

Double Sticks Fighting

Dual wielding technique using two sticks one in each hand. There are lot of stick / sword based martial arts that teach dual wielding technique worldwide. From Asia, Middle East, Europe, Africa and even native America tribes. 

Difference Between Front Kick & Leg Stomp

People are also often asking me this question. So let me explain it simplest as possible.

Both Front Kick & Leg Stomp can be categorized as “Straight Kick”, the difference is on their attack range.

Some dojos like Northern Chinese Kungfu and Taekwondo are prefer to teach beginner students a long range Front Kick, aimed to body (kick on solar plexus).

Other dojos like Southern Chinese Kuntao and Panantukan are prefer to teach beginners students a close range Leg Stomp, aimed to leg (kick on the knee joint).

By the way, both kicks can be used to kick the opponent’s groin (kick on bladder).

Simple right?

Difference Between Jab & Cross

People are often asking me this question too. So let me explain it simplest as possible.

Both Jab Punch & Cross Punch can be categorized as “Straight Punch”, the difference is on their attack range.

Jab Punch is effective to punching the opponent on long range, where Cross Punch is too slow to reach because the distance is too far.

Cross Punch is effective to punching the opponent on the close range, where Jab Punch is powerless because it have no enough space to launching powerful straight punch.

Some punches are only effective to be performed using lead arm and other punches are only effective to be performed using rear arm. Some kicks are only effective to be performed using lead leg and other kicks are only effective to be performed using rear leg.

Simple right?

Sikaran

Filipino martial art originated long before the Spaniards came to the Philippines in the 16th century. Like other ancient Filipino martial arts, Sikaran also created by group of tribes / warriors together (not by one person) and has no written history. 

Dumog

Ancient Filipino wrestling art roots in pre-colonial Philippines. Originally developed by ancient Filipino farmers and warriors to control or disarm the opponent.

Southpaw Stance Strikes

Sometimes we need to train all basic strikes using the Southpaw Stance (right foot and right hand placed on the front) for variation in training.

This technique is very helpful when the opponent attacking us from right side and we don’t have time to set up the Regular / Orthodox Stance (left foot and left hand placed on the front).

The method is same as regular basic strikes training (each strikes repeated 10 counts) but now on inverted position. Simple.

Intercepting

Mix of both offense and defense.

When the opponent going strike, we strike first using faster linear technique.

African Laamb

African ancient wrestling style developed by Senegalese tribes. Main objectives is to throw the opponent to the ground.

Viking Glima

Viking - Nordic countries ancient wrestling style, created before 9th century.