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Originally Posted by Ian Coe

WTF!!!




American bastardisation of karate in the 70's for sport. Karate didn't have elbows or thigh kicks (yes I know, kyokoshin, but I think the original KB is based off another style that was more popular at the time in the US. Kyokoshin is too 'violent' for main stream and didn't catch on as much, well, back then) and knees, and when they tried to incorporate the karate into a sport they wanted maximum exposure.

Muay thai is thousands of years old. It was originally a field combat art (the older styles still have sword work in them). If you got disarmed during battle a non armed combat system evolved. Many stories of great thai warriors who were well versed in unarmed combat. Theres one fable about a prince or some kind of heritage being captured in burma, fighting and koing their best 10 fighters and then the king of burma was going to execute him because he beat so many on the trot, but the crowd protested because they were so in awe of his skill, so he was set free to return to thailand. He later became king.







AAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA


*pulls out hair*


I'm just going to walk away

We'll not mention this again

lmao

Skinny guys with oversized puffs on their hands and feet punching at, and kicking at, each other, flailing really. The big gloves with the white circles on them. You could hide Big Bertha behind those gloves, and her Cadillac.