More Chaiya
April 1, 2009 by natb19
By Nathan Brown aka natb19
After my last post comparing the raised knee guard of Muay Chaiya and modern Muay Thai (interesting comments there… worth a read!) a few people showed interest in how us Chaiya boys practice our balance and conditioning to pull off this guard and the follow up moves. I’ve been meaning to write up a post on my blog for ages on this, but have been really busy with teaching, work and well, just living!
But, I’ve got my ass in gear at last and written a good size article which includes a video and details about the 10 basic exercises of Muay Chaiya. I haven’t got comments on my new site yet, so if you’ve got questions or feedback, please do it here on mymuaythai.com.
In regards to practicing the raised knee guard, the key exercises are numbers 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10.
Hope y’all enjoy,
More about Nathan
Starting with Judo at the early age of 7, Nathan Brown was a student martial arts (Taekwondo, Kung Fu, Chinese Boxing, Tai Chi, Jeet June Do) and eastern philosophy long before moving to Thailand in 2002, looking for a life more attuned to the Taoist philosophies that he had come to love.
The first meeting with Ajarn Lek made a great impression, especially after sparring with Tae for the first time and seeing the beauty in simplicity which is Muay Thai Chaiya. Seeing the practicality in defense, and efficiency and directness of attack, he also saw many similarities with the more advanced concepts of fighting that he’d learnt from studying the Jeet Kune Do concepts of Bruce Lee. Kru Nathan has learnt Muay Thai Chaiya for over 7 years from Ajarn Lek, who refuses to teach the fancy superfluous moves which now seem to be the trademark of Muay Boran, instead teaching the style in it’s practical, useful form.
Kru Nathan has spent over two years teaching the style in Thailand (teaching in both Thai and English), and 8 years after coming to Thailand Kru Nathan is now looking to take Muay Thai Chaiya international, starting workshops and private tuition.
Check out his websites (www.mymuaychaiya.com, www.learnmuaythaichaiya.com ) and his youtube channel for more information on learning Muay Thai Chaiya.
The website doesnt work for me
Really? Nop has told me it’s slow, but it’s fine for me here… please can anyone else give me a heads up if it doesn’t work?
Cheers!
no it works… its just really really slow to load
Same here… it’s a slow load, but it’s worth it.
Thanks guys, I’m saving my pennies to upgrade my server! (or just a host outside of Thailand!)
I can prolly help ya with the hosting :) hit me up!
And as I already told ya. I LOVE the new layout! Well done making it from scratch!
My fault here, I wasn’t patient enough :) Interensting article!
How ironic. I actually watched this video the other day. Good stuff. :]
Not working for me either – I get a broken layout with just a comment box. Main page loads up blank with just a background image. Ah, wait – works fine – a little slow but everything loads – in Firefox. It’s safari it doesn’t work in – all the content loads up in the code but very little of it displays. Strange because usually stuff works pretty similarly between safari and firefox.
In the process of changing hosts… hopefully this one will prove faster!
Thanks for the tip divergent, gonna try and figure out why Safari doesn’t like it!
not working here 2 ,, can anyone assist me with a good diet ?