Muay Thai Fight in Chiang Mai, Thailand

This is a travel video from a Muay Thai fight I witnessed in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The fight was fascinating and mostly featured underweight men, boys and even some girls. The crowd really got into it and was one of the main highlights of the match. Muay Thai (Thai: มวยไทย, RTGS: Muai Thai, IPA: mūɛj tʰāj) is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Burma and muay Lao from Laos.1234

The word muay derives from the Sanskrit mavya which means "to bind together". Muay Thai is referred to as the "Art of Eight Limbs" or the "Science of Eight Limbs" because it makes use of punches, kicks, elbows and knee strikes, thus using eight "points of contact", as opposed to "two points" (fists) in boxing and "four points" (hands and feet) used in other more regulated combat sports, such as kickboxing and savate.5 A practitioner of muay Thai is known as a nak muay. Western practitioners are sometimes called nak muay farang, meaning "foreign boxer."