The Art of Fighting: Muay Thai Chaiya Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Muay Thai Chaiya is a fascinating fighting system deeply rooted in the martial traditions of ancient Thailand. Host, Brooklyn Monk, Antonio Graceffo studies with Kru Lek, one of Thailands leading practitioners of this effective art. Chaiya uses a low stance, bare knuckles, elbows and knees out, like a prickly pineapple waiting to impale the opponent when he moves in. the movement and position of the Chaiya fighter is so different from any other stand up fighting art that it completely takes the opponent out of his game. Antonio was barely able to do anything against a Chaiya student who had only six months of experience. The bulk of Kru Leks students are normal people who practice for fun, culture, and fitness. But some chose to fight in the professional Muay Thai ring, and they do extremely well. Unlike sport Muay Thai, Chaiya is taught from the ground up, similar to a traditional martial art, such as Karate or Tae Kwan Do. A student could walk in off the street, with previous martial arts experience and begin learning the basics from an instructor.
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@Compadect123 All muay thai uses 8 limbs. in fact, that is the definition of muay thai, the 8 limbed fighting art. but chaiya is definitely brilliant. that's why i study it.
very useful video
thank you.
i need to learn this.....
@indigo2012v2 Yes, muay Chaiya was one of the regional styles of muay boran. there used to be very distinct styles in different parts of the country, muay korat, muay chiang mai...but since 1920s when the rules of modern muay thai were codefide. it is difficult to look dramatically different than your opponent, if you both fight following the same rules.
really interesting !!!
great martial arts videos!!!
@2ossy so do i, but its still not a massively popular strike the world over is it? You more often see the front kick or the rear leg roundhouse than the lead leg roundhouse.
hey nice show, u guys making more?
@mushy1983123 Sorry, which guys are just average with no fight experience? Tae, Nathan and I have all had professional fights in Thailand. Antonio
Evidently I have been watching some pretty poor videos demonstrating Chaiya. This one was the best I've seen so far, particularly with the explanations of how the kicks are generating power. I currently train in Muay Thai(Saekson) and have always felt that it was missing defense. I am going to have to move more towards Chaiya as I think it would suit me a bit better.
We were taught the elbow to the leg/spinning elbow to the head combo, but not exactly the same as what was shown in the video. We slide/sidestep in the same direction as the kick is moving, catch the kick, hook the leg, drive the elbow into the upper thigh, hook the leg again, and deliver the backspin elbow. It would not be a good counter the Chaiya style middle kicks in my opinion.
The elbow block with the elbow strike to the head looks like the same technique I saw in muy boran and muay thai. More in Muy boran though. Since this is thailand I am sure this is a blend of it all. As far as the that kick goes it does look like it would hurt but Im sure there is a counter for the kick and I am sure you could go to the body with a hook punch when they duck out of the way.
How would you compare the syllabus to Kru Pedro's stand up? I Know he was a student of Kru Lek but was wondering if he's changed it much. Keen to get over to see Pedro.
Sir Antonio ,
My teacher says Chaiya was the most dangerous art of all Muay Thai. It uses 8 limbs
@tekkendevilwithin cos the techniques take too long time to master.
muaythai vs muaychaiya is like iron sword bamboo spear infantry army vs swordsman army.
@2ossy i completely agree, thats why i like to use it too :)
@lazy702622 I dont understand why you wrote LOL. Is it because you disagree with the statement i made? Please explain in standard English.
@ToraJutsu01 Overeem uses it alot, llok agains rogers. it is a good kick, cuz u attack a very sensitive muscle.
@indigo2012v2 yes it is .its one of forms of boran mae mai muay thai too .this is not sport this is for real fight real situation ,salute you!!
This is why Siam was a super power in south east asia have an army of these guys with swords then you gona rock everyone in front of you
I did that but only because i had no choice.
2:06 Bullshit... Here in Holland we use the frontleg lowkick alot...
Im from Holland, where the fck you from??
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Kru Muay Association* The Kru Muay Association originated from the separation of the amateur Muay Thai from the professional Muay Thai. This division pursued the goal to have Muay Thai recognized as an Olympic discipline by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). A project that has not been successful until today. The officials of professional Muay Thai would like to have nothing to do with Kru Muay. For them this club is only a necessary evil. If you take a closer look, you will notice that all the so-called traditional teachers of the Kru Muay Thai Association have simply appointed each other as teachers and are now worshipped by wealthy foreigners once a year. The whole association is very political, but has less fighting competence than an average boxer in Rajadamnern Stadium or a Buakauw (who is a Cambodian and not a Thai by the way). Despite comprehensive state support, the Kru Muay Association still has no coherent teaching concept for traditional Muay Boran and Muay Thai is still not Olympic. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
wont work as good on a real fighter theses guys a just avg people who hav no fight expirence what so eva
MuayChaiya is all hype. This is from a Thai who has seen and tried learning MuayChaiya. brooklynmonk1 appears to not understand sport muaythai movements. Very poor self defense. Sorry about speaking the truth.
I do understand sport Muay Thai and of course, Muay Chaiya is not sport Muay Thai. I am fairly certain i made that clear in the video. Chaiya is one of many boran forms which existed pre 1920's when sport muay Thai was codified. It is, to my knowledge, one of the only boran styles which has been written down and preserved and which is being taught. All of the other "boran" teachers I found in Thailand (during 10 years of searching) were generally sport muay Thai teachers who also had a few boran moves. Two other boran teachers I did documentaries on also had a relatively complete sty, Ajan Sok Chai and Kru Mit. but Ajan Sok Chai was teaching movie fighting, not exactly pure boran. Unlike you, I don't apologize for speaking the truth. I am glad that I have had this opportunity to educate you. Do you have other questions I could help with?
I am glad that I have had this opportunity to educate you. 555 I started learning sportmuaythai at the same time I began my study with Kru Lek. After one month, I drop muaychaiya and continued with sport muaythai for the past thirteen years. To claim that you understand sport muaythai and not to do a decent sport muaythai fundamentals is amusingto me. Kru Lek's protege is only sucessful against novice like you. If he steps into a ring with a professional sport muaythai fighter, he will be destroyed, despite him sparring with sport muaythai fighters from time to time. He is defintitely in a different league. I hate to argue, but only want the fact to be known that teachers of muaychaiya are good, but only for preserving the ancient muaythai fighting art, If you are interested in learning an efficient fighting system, you'd be better off with sport muaythai.
I misspoke when I said I had educated you. All I can do is teach. You sadly, have failed to learn. That fact that you tried, but failed to learn Muay Chaiya doesn't disprove the validity of Muay Chaiya. And the fact that you speculate this or that about Tae's ability to fight is also not relevant to proving or disproving the validity of Chaiya. So, I think the real problem is logical fundamentals, not martial art vs martial art. Why don't you sit down, take a deep breath and write on paper the exact point you wish to prove. then make a list of arguments which support that argument. So far, I am not sure what your point is, apart from the fact that you A. Quit muay Chaiya, and B. were too afraid to fight Tae yourself.
"To claim that you understand sport muaythai and not to do a decent sport muaythai fundamentals is amusingto me." This sentence is a bit confusing. As I understood the rules of Martial Arts Odyssey, I was free to chose which martial arts I featured and which I didn't. I generally try to feature martial arts which are obscure or which people can't see elsewhere. In that spirit I have done episodes on Laitai, systema, Silambam, shuaijiao, tomoi... Sport Muay Thai is extremely common, and has even been codified (the actual definition of sport muay Thai, by the way, is that set of techniques which were codified in the 1920's iin Thailand). So, sport Muay Thai doesn't need my help in promotion and preservation. Having said that, of the 240 episodes of Martial Arts Odyssey, I actually have done a few on sport Muay Thai.
B. were too afraid to fight Tae yourself...LMAO Are you authorized to arrange fight on Tae's behalf? If youcan arrange the fight, I'll make you a better offer. I'm ready to fight kru Lek, if it comes to that. Now let's see if you can arrange the fight. Eat your words, if you cannot make kru Lek commit to the fight.
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)
*Some facts about Muay Chaiya* The Muay from the city of Chaiya mainly refers to a certain Ajarn Ket Sriyapai. Ket Sriyapai was the son of a governor who was active in sports promotion and brought Muay Veti fighters (Muay Thai) from Chaiya to Bangkok to promote them there. Ajarn Khet never learned Muay Thai himself. The only reason why he is called "Ajarn" is that he has written and published some (fictional) stories about Muay Thai fighters. Ajarn Ket came from a high-ranking family and therefore never fought in a boxing ring. That would have been inappropriate for his standing. His actual profession was civil servant in the building industry. Later Muay Chaiya generations (for example Ket's school friend Tonglor Yalee) mixed normal Muay Thai techniques with Silat (Indonesia), Wushu (China) and Jiu Jitsu (Japan). For these reasons Muay Chaiya, and everything that comes from this direction, can neither be called an old nor a real Thai martial art. Source: Pantip. com (dig deep and you’ll find what they don’t want you to know! 🤫)