Brooklyn Monk: Pra Kru Ba The Muay Thai Monk

Pra Kru Ba is a Muay Thai monk who rides horses on the Burma border helping hill tribe people and orphans from the war in Burma. In 2003 he took in Antonio Graceffo, his first foreign student. He taught Antonio the Thai language, Muay Thai, and Thai Buddhism. In 2009, Antonio returned to the monastery to see his old teacher. Many things had changed at the monastery. In the intervening years, Kru Ba had grown from being a renegade forest monk, opposed in many established circles, to being a popular, iconic figure, who receives hundreds of visitors per day. But, the relationship between student and teacher hadnt. Kru Ba was excited to hear about Antonio fights and travels. Antonio was please to have even a few minutes with one of his favorite teachers.
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[christopheclugston]

I could understand your Thai--eventhough you've been ALGd and away from it for months. But you got to remember to speak Pak Nuah up here.

[brooklynmonk1]

Please dont tell on me. if David Long finds out i was speaking Thai they will kick me out of the program.

[matthewdonohoe]

nice!

[fazeboogie]

Beautiful vid..Thank you

[MaximoHudsonable]

Nice. I have horses, am a Buddhist and like Aikido. My prayer beads are much smaller, however.

[randyds5]

thats nice that you pay homage to a person who made such a great impact on you

[HotKebab]

Pra Kru Ba has some great principals. I like the horse idea =)

[APOKALYPSE34]

this is one thing in life that makes you happy to move forward and help others. I resect you and your master!

Keep up the great work!

[sunrise3500]

Kru Ba is a good man. He lives with good Dharma. May his work expand and save more orphans and refugee.

[christopheclugston]

Kind of hard to hide3 when you are on Global Internet speaking.