Various Bando/Banshay thaing styles of Burma.

"Thaing" is a Burmese term used to classify the indigenous martial systems of ancient Burma (or Myanmar). The word "thaing" loosely translates to "total combat". The forms of thaing include Bando, Lethwei, Banshay and Naban. It was from thaing that the various internal arts and sport offshoots (Min Zin), Burma Yoga (Bando yoga), Monk system (Pongyi thaing) and sporting versions of thaing (Bando kickboxing, Cardio lethwei, Artistic aka) were derived.

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• bando
• banshay
• lethwei

[mashikhana]

Greek fighting style & knife ?

ROFL ...

You do make me laugh.

[lordsuckup1]

@TaskForce812 Wow. Thanks for the info.

[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 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 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...

[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

[lordsuckup1]

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

[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.

[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.