Various Bando/Banshay thaing styles of Burma.

[mashikhana]

Greek fighting style & knife ?

ROFL ...

You do make me laugh.

[MrVictorkoko]

ျမန္မာတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ဇာတိေသြးဇာတိမန္နဲ႔ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္ဓာတ္ေတြကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ေပးတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အားကစားအဖြဲ႕၊ သုိင္းအဖြဲ႕အား အထူးပင္ေက်းဇူးတင္မိပါသည္။ တေန႔တြင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသည္ ကမၻာ့အလယ္မွာ တင့္တယ္ႏုိင္ရမည္။ ျမန္မာတုိ႕ရဲ႕ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအေမြေတြန႔ဲ စိတ္ဓာတ္ကို ကမၻာက အသိအမွတ္ျပဳလာၾကလိမ့္မည္။ ျမန္မာယဥ္ေက်းမႈအေမြအႏွစ္ မေပ်ာက္ပ်က္ေစဖုိ႔နဲ႔ ထိမ္းသိမ္းဖုိ႔၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို အသက္နဲ႔ရင္းကာ ကာကြယ္ၾကပါစို႔... ျမန္မာ့သုိင္းအဖြဲ႕ကုိ အထူးေလးစားဂုဏ္ယူလ်က္... စစ္မင္းဘုရင့္ေနာင္

[TaskForce812]

I think many people forget the true origin of Burmese martial arts. It is greatly influenced by Greek fighting styles brought from the Dayaun and Bactrian colonies of ancient Greece who moved out of China and India into present day Bagan in central Burma.

[lordsuckup1]

@TaskForce812 Interesting. I would like a link to some of this information.

[TaskForce812]

@lordsuckup1 Sure, just look up Yavana or Indo-Greek Kingdom, also look up Alexander the Great Burma for some answers. Since true study of Burmese history and culture is lacking because of the terrible government, much info is still to be found. Ever wonder why Burma is the only Eastern Asian culture with a harp-like instrument, or why ancient Burmese warriors used swords quite similar to Greek swords? If only the Burmese government would let outside organizations come in for research...

[lordsuckup1]

@TaskForce812 Interesting. But I thought Greeks used something similar to a gladius instead of a single-edged dha. Greek fighting styles? Pankration, right? That's about all I know concerning Greeks. Makes sense, since the Indians had influence from that to create Indian boxing which birthed the various versions of Muay. But I'm sure Bando itself is influenced from Chinese styles, with a bit of Silat thrown into the mix.

[TaskForce812]

@lordsuckup1 It is definitely influenced by the Chinese, but I'd say about the same amount of influence as Greek Pankration, China's capital/cultural center way back when was quite a ways east of Burma. As far as the sword, early Greek hoplites used the xyphos which was similar to the gladius, except that it was shaped like a leaf, but later on during Alexander's time, they were mostly using the Kopis which is very similar to the Indian/Nepali kukri and slightly less so to the Burmese dha.

[lordsuckup1]

@TaskForce812 Wow. Thanks for the info.

[goldenboy9191]

i want to learn This.It's Beautiful Martial Art as well as Muay Thai.

from Eastern Neighbor's Boy.

[KensaiZen]

lol first video I've seen in a long time made my blood boil and give me the thought "I want to fight that guy" the first demonstration just did it for me :) though the pinong Shan styles made me think of the Lanna styles I watched recently.

[gothless]

very similiar with silat..

[winnn007]

I just want to btich slap the fkucer with all the fancy dance.

[shango1963]

Some things look Chinese influenced, and rather recently. However, there is a great deal which clearly is authentically Burmese, which is clearly related to much Burmese dance. There are elements which are similar to Manipuri Thang Ta, which shows the close location of both those ancient lands.

[brucenatelee]

Bando, when I took it, was like a more direct form of kung fu that felt like karate with muay thai moves. Hard to explain, but I learned more in 6 months, one class per week, than I learned in my karate class in 6 months. Then there were money issues when it stopped being free... Where are there videos of all the bando forms, so I can "cheat" for missing the other 3-4 years (damn I would have been fit and kickass).

[RussellFogg]

One of the most enjoyable forms of martial arts originating from Burma, great to learn

[rsmitty304]

i will perform in the american bando assoc. national tournament tommorow. The man doing the first form on this video shall be an inspiration.

[astronetstre]

i am burmese and i realli want to learn our own martial arts! unfortunately, even in burma, bando/banshay isnt that popular.... sadly, its slowly disappearing... gov should reali embrace bando/banshay...

[cik105]

Agreed. I'm Burmese as well and I'd love to learn bando. I've been learning martial arts for years, but it would be great to learn my national martial art.

[OshMMf]

Is it me or they added "body hits" sound effects ?

[jaggernautico]

great footage, thanks

[jaggernautico]

i think also this is from rangoon, there is another dvd on kachin demonstration of various masters called 1st kachin exhibition, its just like this and has a ton of masters on it.

[moesatt123]

Hi Brother,

Could you upload the whole documentary of this? I have watched the original documentary. This is a part of the whole documentary. We can learn various martial art styles of over 100 races in Myanmar from this movie.

[moesatt123]

Could you upload the whole documentary? I have watched this in my town but I didn´t bring it together with me. I will be very grateful if you upload more.

[Mariachi24]

Maybe my country(Indonesia) share same roots with your country in ancient times. Some styles in this video really have similiar movements with our martial art ( silat ).

nice video, i really enjoy it.

[jmikejapan]

cambodia has a style of silat, maybe it went to burma?

[54living]

No. Shan(Burma)=Siam(Thai)=Dai(Chi­na). Bando and Shan Thaii(martial art) are similar. Mon(Burma)=Khamar(Cambodia).

[54living]

There is no Mon Thaii. But claimed that lethwei is their traditional. Wrong. Lethwei came from Indian Hindu monks. Arrived Burma 1st according to geographical nature. Then went on to Thai & Cambodia.

[kierin93]

aku tak pham la apa yg dia org ckp kn...

[moundthere]

hey i have done bando banshay all my life this is the first i have seen it on the net very good

[pauDur]

this is the TRADITIONAL bando??????

whats the direrens in the bando that Dr G teaches????

hope to get some info thaks ^^

[shellychurch2003]

you will also find "family" styles as you do in the Philippines. My style is Thammavongtuk or sometimes called the bamboo flower monkey. havent found out why yet been studying 30 years now. you must remember that mynamar (burma) has been at war for centuries with tibet and thailand and various pirates and conquerors trying to exploit them so the adapt and learn from those they fought against.

[moesatt123]

Hi,

I have watched this while I was in my village. This is a part of a documentary movie. Could you upload the whole movie?

[nanaohz]

thanks alot.very nice .can i know when this event was held.?

[kendoka666]

thank you for this video its good to see some things about burmeese culture my father is from rangoon but i know bugger all about burma thanks again

[brucenatelee]

I practiced Bando for about six months. I enjoyed the techniques that I was taught, and learned about 12 strikes, 9 kicks, and 9 blocks, as well as the first two forms called "point" and "square". Based on what I learned, it has a visual style similar to Chinese wushu and Japanese karate in some ways, and I learned techniques quicker that I did in my karate class (probably shotokan). Just wish I could have at least learned the other forms, since I don't care too much about weapons.

[seanaye]

Thanks for the video.

[gdiveley]

I really enjoyed this, especially the music, it is always great to see different forms of defense

[GlockMonk]

Thank you very much for the video. It brings back lots of memeories.

[7Matahari7]

Could someone tell me what styles the very fluid ones are? Seems similar with Tai Chi and Silat, I really like it and especially the weapons are very nice flow. Thanx.

[Yarwer]

it says on the video.

bagan - i assume.

[mrLin10]

Thanks a lot ...!

i have been wished to see that video for a long time..

[Silatman2]

WAY COOL