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Krabi Krabong Buddhai Sawan<\/span><\/h3>\n
Ancient Combat Weapons Arts of Siam (Thailand)<\/h5>\n
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Krabi means “short”, signifying the sword (daab), and Krabong means “long” meaning the staff (plong) or spear (ngao).<\/p>\n

Born of open-field combat from a period when\u00a0Thailand (then Siam)\u00a0was routinely at war with the armies of\u00a0Myanmar (then Burma), Krabi Krabong is a traditional weapon art still practiced in Thailand.\u00a0 It features many different weapons such as single and double sword, sword and shield, forearm shields, spear, staff, knife, and sabre.<\/p>\n

Although it is better known as historical performance to most Thais,\u00a0there is tremendous combative applicability lurking behind its cultural theatre.\u00a0 Krabi Krabong’s brutal effectiveness and overall intensity<\/strong> are unmatched in the weapon arts.\u00a0 Krabi Krabong is to stickfighting what Muay Thai is to kickboxing: it takes weapons fighting up a notch (or three) in ferocity and technical refinement.<\/p>\n

Krabi Krabong is aggressive, powerful, and undeniably dangerous in its ultimate application on the open field of combat.<\/p>\n


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There is clear resemblance between the modern sport of Muay Thai and its older empty hand predecessors like Muay Boran and Muay Chiang.\u00a0 Similarly, they are intimately linked to Krabi Krabong – the latter being the battlefield weapons form of the today’s familiar ring sport.\u00a0 Krabi Krabong uniquely combines in-your-face aggressive power and rapid-fire speed<\/strong> with the application of double sword (daab song meu<\/em>) as its mainstay.\u00a0 It also includes other weapons like the staff or the infamous mae sowks (forearm shields).<\/p>\n

Most often trained as a mini-course at maelstr\u00f8m, Krabi Krabong is also a regular staple in our\u00a0Dog Brothers training program<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– specifically because of it’s eminent viability in the full-out fight.<\/p>\n

Check out scheduled and announced events<\/strong><\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n


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Krabi Krabong applications in Dog Brothers training (guro Benjamin “Lonely Dog” Rittner)<\/h3>\n