Words fail me when it comes to describing how good this Thai child is at displaying Muay Thai techniques in a training context. Not even breaking a sweat either. Compare this with the pathetic "martial arts" displays you see in commercial karate schools and kung fu kwoons in the USA and europe...hell, there is no comparison.
Yet you will note that the comments on the video (located beneath the video screen) are fixated on comparison's of the kids kicks with Tae Kwon do kicks, and other nonsense that lets you see just how narrowminded and blind to the obvious are western martial artists. The yahoos commenting wouldn't know real fight technique from ballet dancing. You can't educate morons like that because they are too busy making comparisons and pontificating to actually train, and spar, and fight, and do all the things it takes to develop serious fighting expertise.
Everything that kid displayed was beautiful, efficient, and effective. No jumping/spinning back kicks, no stiff karate punches at an imaginary adversary, no yelling/screaming/kiais, no bull! I can't tell you how much I love this video...yet there are thousands of little kids in boxing camps across Thailand who have similar skills, knowledge, and potential to the one you see pictured. The kid is not the exception to the rule...he is the norm. And to think that all those martial arts "afficianados" and would be "experts" can say about this display is what amounts to a crock full of crap. I seriously suggest that you don't even bother to read the viewer comments on YOUTUBE.COM. It is a waste of your time. The intelligent and incisive comments are buried under by the idiotic comments. This is definately one of the best martial arts clips I have seen over the past 50 years! It both impresses and inspires me.
H.A. 09/14/06 >
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