The Siamese fighting foolproof strategies to eliminate the opponent
Forgotten in their own country for decades, the 15 traditional technique forms of the MaeMaiMuay Thai [ namely, fundamental( Mae), techniques( Mai) of the Thai fight( Muay)], actually represent a technical and cultural treasure that must be preserved at all costs. Far from being merely defensive and offensive movements apparently quite simple, the MaeMai or MaiKhru are the " distillate " of a complete system of Thai fight extremely rich and sophisticated. Each technique has been developed over the centuries by warriors and fight masters, and is based on combat principles tested " in the field " in times of war and peace, through countless clashes( on a true scientific process concluding with an accurate assessment of cause and effect before being accepted). The question that arises here is: why some techniques are classified as MaeMai( that is, mother- technique) and others not? Certainly we can say that all those defined as basic techniques were, after a long series of attempts, the most effective ones to secure the victory in a real fight; in other words, such techniques are the actions that offer more possibilities to succeed to those who know how use them properly.
Despite the existence of more or less subtle differences in the application of the forms within the different regional styles of Muay, all versions of the traditional style recognize the same fifteen basic principles of combat.
Going deeper into the concept, we can say that each MaeMai in itself represents an overview of the combat, a comprehensive strategy for the fight. The true value, the beauty inherent in this type of action, lies in the fact that each MaeMai is a universal movement that, having its reading key, can be developed through the many existing variants, which give rise to multiple martial applications, all of them equally effective. The masters of the past who coded these sequences, possessed such technical mastery in close-in combat, experienced in their own flesh, that managed to condense a lot of combative principles into 15 single actions, all of them easy to reproduce. The resulting technical background, now available to all Muay practitioners, consists in a coherent and consistent program capable to meet the current challenges as it did so many times in the past.
If it is to find a distinctive approach to MuayBoran traditional techniques, we can 126