L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
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Lol you're talking about ultimate surrenderSinnSisamouth wrote:meh
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
my friend uploaded more pics today, great picture
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
Well, if you let your opponent climb on your knee and flimsily hold your arm, you deserve a good elbow to the head. I also don't get how an elbow to the top of the head can do any harm. Sounds it would hurt the elbow more than anything. Nice photography though.
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I guess you've never seen the documentary Ong Bak.
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
". I also don't get how an elbow to the top of the head can do any harm."
Again, I rather suspect that this is part of a kata from ancient times that could have been useful if there was a piece of elbow armor with an attached spike. If not then an elbow blow to the temple would be more effective if not lethal. This seems to me to be a vestigial choreographed piece of nonsense. If I judge a martial art that touts hand to hand unarmed combat I only study it for use...i.e. would this work in a street fight?
It seems to me in this case that of the attacked opponent were to quickly drop to the ground he might easily put an end to this cirque du soleil nonsense.
Again, I rather suspect that this is part of a kata from ancient times that could have been useful if there was a piece of elbow armor with an attached spike. If not then an elbow blow to the temple would be more effective if not lethal. This seems to me to be a vestigial choreographed piece of nonsense. If I judge a martial art that touts hand to hand unarmed combat I only study it for use...i.e. would this work in a street fight?
It seems to me in this case that of the attacked opponent were to quickly drop to the ground he might easily put an end to this cirque du soleil nonsense.
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
ramon dekkers used to get the elbow out to the top of the head, its not impossible ive seen it loads of times, can see here at 2m45sBitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2017 12:26 pm Well, if you let your opponent climb on your knee and flimsily hold your arm, you deserve a good elbow to the head. I also don't get how an elbow to the top of the head can do any harm. Sounds it would hurt the elbow more than anything. Nice photography though.
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I realize it's a display/kata thing, but I still think those displays (no matter the sport) lame. Give me good ol' fashioned unarmed combat before any martial art "show".
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
Bokator venue puts martial art on stage in Temple Town
Fri, 26 May 2017
Master San Kim Sean is very exact with certain dates – like September 29, 1980, when he left Thailand’s Khao-I-Dang refugee camp for America, or April 24, 2004, when the first L’Bokator congress since the rise of the Khmer Rouge was convened in Cambodia.
He is less precise, however, about the schedule at his new Kun Bokator Restaurant Club in Siem Reap, which is the first commercial venue in Cambodia to regularly feature L’Bokator performances and fights.
The newly opened venue will host performances of the ancient martial art, which dates back more than a millennium, as well as a weekly L’Bokator fight on Saturday nights...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weeke ... emple-town
Fri, 26 May 2017
Master San Kim Sean is very exact with certain dates – like September 29, 1980, when he left Thailand’s Khao-I-Dang refugee camp for America, or April 24, 2004, when the first L’Bokator congress since the rise of the Khmer Rouge was convened in Cambodia.
He is less precise, however, about the schedule at his new Kun Bokator Restaurant Club in Siem Reap, which is the first commercial venue in Cambodia to regularly feature L’Bokator performances and fights.
The newly opened venue will host performances of the ancient martial art, which dates back more than a millennium, as well as a weekly L’Bokator fight on Saturday nights...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weeke ... emple-town
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
I'm a bit each-way on the preservation of ancient crafts/skills if the people who the craft/skill is indigenous to aren't that bothered.
This debate rages (well, politicians mumble about it occasionally) about the tribal languages in Australia - some of the native languages are down to the last 20 or so speakers and so (hairy arm-pitted) activists heckle the government to do something about preserving such noble tradition. I myself am a "community member" (aka white fella that can legally claim black rights) and to be honest I care about as much as actual black aborigines - i.e. not much, really, but I'll show an interest if there's a media event organised with beer and a decent buffet. And yet the activists now have their way and these dying languages are being taught to whole schools who live in the area. The community "aunties" wander in occasionally if they feel like it (yet still get a full salary), and sing some songs in the old language, and a whole school learns three or four words of that language. Because that's going to help those non-Aboriginal kids so much in their later lives as they become global travelers and workers.
Perhaps a better solution is to document the crap out of that language and archive it on the Internet so that if anyone actually IS interested, its available for all time. The political correctness of it all gives me the squits.
On the other hand, what's with giant pandas? If those monochrome bastards don't want to breed, is it really so wrong to let them die out?
This debate rages (well, politicians mumble about it occasionally) about the tribal languages in Australia - some of the native languages are down to the last 20 or so speakers and so (hairy arm-pitted) activists heckle the government to do something about preserving such noble tradition. I myself am a "community member" (aka white fella that can legally claim black rights) and to be honest I care about as much as actual black aborigines - i.e. not much, really, but I'll show an interest if there's a media event organised with beer and a decent buffet. And yet the activists now have their way and these dying languages are being taught to whole schools who live in the area. The community "aunties" wander in occasionally if they feel like it (yet still get a full salary), and sing some songs in the old language, and a whole school learns three or four words of that language. Because that's going to help those non-Aboriginal kids so much in their later lives as they become global travelers and workers.
Perhaps a better solution is to document the crap out of that language and archive it on the Internet so that if anyone actually IS interested, its available for all time. The political correctness of it all gives me the squits.
On the other hand, what's with giant pandas? If those monochrome bastards don't want to breed, is it really so wrong to let them die out?
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Re: L 'Bokator - Angkorian martial art. Worth preserving ?
One day, the ancient art of crack pipe making will be all-but-dead and hand-wringing community activists will be doing their best to keep it alive, whining for subsidies.
The clever Chinese figured out how to get Giant Pandas to bump uglies* long ago; the Giant Panda is doing just fine.
* See the movie The Patsy Cline Story
The clever Chinese figured out how to get Giant Pandas to bump uglies* long ago; the Giant Panda is doing just fine.
* See the movie The Patsy Cline Story
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