Martial Arts Odyssey: Bokator Fighting (Part 1)

Cambodias ancient martial art of Bokator was almost lost. Working together, grand Master San Kim Saen and Antonio Graceffo struggle to promote and preserve the art. In the two years, since the last Bokator video was filmed, Grand Master has labored tirelessly to bring up the overall fighting level of the Bokator students. Their athleticism, strength to body weight ratio, and flexibility were never in question. Their shins are hard as iron. Their stand up fighting is gradually reaching the level of pro-kickboxers. Now, the Grandmaster is beginning to focus on grappling; stand up grappling first, and submissions next.
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[brooklynmonk1]

@lazy702622 I dont really need your pity. What a strange thing to say that you feel sorry for those who got their black krama. Why? Because they learned an interesting martial art, got fit and feel pride in their country? Are these attributes you would take away from someone? Also, with exception of Kyokushin, most traditional styles can't fight at all, so when they get in a ring, they revert to kickboxing or very bad kick boxing because it's not what they study.

[brooklynmonk1]

this is not muay thai. it is bokator. cambodia, not thailand. it is done exactly right for cambodia. the grand master is teaching this. there is no better authority on cambodian martial arts.

[VietzRus]

@brooklynmonk1 Well its documented that he studied HAPkido and earned a very high rank, but there is nothing on his bokator training or history not even from a third party.So he was no bokator crediblity other then his word. Also it takes many years and hours of hapkido training to be a grandmaster, and with both arts boasting 10s of thousands of techniques how did he ever find the time for bokator or vice versa???

[VietzRus]

@brooklynmonk1 just to be a ass, "Traditional styles" Boxing,Muay Thai, Muay Lai Lao, Lethwei,Bradel serey, Vo tuDo, Judo, Jujutsu, most styles of Wrestling, pankration,savate etc etc ARE VERY TRADITIONAL styles.......all very old and follow a method. =] But I guess you mean traditonal as in "Karate" or "Taekwondo". mostly do to gyms focusing on children or lack of quality instruction . Unless your a Machida or Cung le I would have to agree.

[VietzRus]

anyone can say look I have a ancient style, pick out a old name of a long dead art, point out old murals or verses that reference fighting and say look I teach that and make a lot of money. TKD is well documented they say its 2000 year history and is korean but its really Karate was more kicks and is less then 50 years old, look up haidong gumdo,hapkido,hwarangdo, all these frauds follow a pattern/story that san kim saen following, the only different is he didnt get caught yet.

[hazza3]

@brooklynmonk1 I know how you feel, it gets on my nerves how one group of people claim to "own" something without actually knowing about it.

[brooklynmonk1]

@hazza3 No worries, I get a bit touchy about this issue because I keep getting angry email from Khmericans and Thais who have never been to Tony jaa's village, trained with his teacher or interviewed his parents.

[hazza3]

@brooklynmonk1 Oh sorry, I just read it again now and you did say Thai nationality and not ethnicity. My bad mate.

[brooklynmonk1]

@hazza3 At no point in this video or in these comments have I claimed that Tony Jaa was ethnic Thai. I think if you read this again you will find about five times that i have explained tony jaa is a member of the kuy ethnic group. he is neither thai nor khmer. he was born in thailand and is a thai citizen. he and his family speak thai, khmer and kuy.

[hazza3]

@brooklynmonk1 Ummm Tony Jaa is a Khmer Surin, he doesn't have an ounce of Thai in him apart from his nationality saying he is.

[brooklynmonk1]

@ichibang15549 he meant krama, which isthe khmer head scarf we wear and which we use for a weapon in bokator. if you type krama in a word document, the auto-correct automatically changes the spelling to karma. I have actually published articles with that mistake in them.

[unknownally]

@ichibang15549 whoops I meant Krama