Federation Muai Thai

Thai boxing or Muay Thai

(thai. มวยไทย)

- martial art of Thailand, which took place from the ancient Thai martial art Muay Boran and similar to other Indochina martial arts such as Pradhan serey (Cambodia), Toma (Malaysia), lehvey (Myanmar), and Muay Lao (Laos). The term "Muay" comes from the Sanskrit mavya [1], and tai, translated meaning "free fight" or "free fight".
In today's muay thai can strike with fists, feet, shins, elbows and knees - because of Muay Thai is called "the fight of eight limbs" [2] [3]. From karate or martial arts muay thai distinguishes the absence of formal systems (kata taolu) [4], they are replaced by the basic combination of two or three strikes, sparring and working on the "legs" and bags [5].
 
                        
 
At home Muay Thai became popular in the XVI century, but world-wide recognition that the sport became only the second half of XX century, after the Thai fighters have won a number of impressive victories over the representatives of other martial arts. [6] Today, Muay Thai still has enormous popularity in Thailand, where there is even a holiday - the "day of national Muay Thai boxing." Outside of Thailand, Thai boxing popularity continues to grow, largely due to the development of mixed martial arts, muay thai intensively applying for a fight in the rack. Despite the fact that Muay Thai is not an Olympic sport competitions on it regional, national and international scale.