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| The school currently has around 50 students, including whites, hispanics and Cambodian-Americans. (Photo: Courtesy of Srab Sroeuy) |
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer | Washington, DC
“We want to show that we are leading in martial arts, too, in Southeast Asia.”
Cambodian-Americans in Tacoma, Washington, have started a traditional Cambodian kickboxing school.
Srab Sroeuy, who founded South Sound Martial Arts, told VOA Khmer he wants to showcase a traditional fighting style he learned from his grandfather.
“I want to tell other countries that Cambodians also have martial arts,” he said. “In the near future, I hope we’ll have boxers from Cambodia to help us and compete here at my place.”
His trainer, Seng Bunsang, said the school can provide training for international boxing. “We are proud to have it,” he said. “We want to show that we are leading in martial arts, too, in Southeast Asia.”
Students can be of any nationality, age or gender, he added. The school currently has around 50 students, including whites, hispanics and Cambodian-Americans.
Boa Thangkeo, a middle school teacher who has instructed boxing for 20 years, said a diligent student can be ready for the ring after about six months of intense training.
“To be a strong boxer, I would like to say, takes patience and endurance and a tolerance for pain,” Seng Bunsang said. “Even if you practice for 10 or 20 years, you can’t [necessarily] defeat your opponent.”
15 comments:
No! you are not represent Khmer, you are cheating in order to promote your own business, look at the shirt lebelled MuayThai instead of bokator or Kbach Kun Khmer.
Your idiot is not tolerable.
I think the word Muay Thai was stole from Khmer.
Muay = 1 , Thai = dai (hand)=> muaydai or onehand or punch one hand.
Muaythai is Dak Muaydai or punch onehand.
are you guys Khmer or Thai! this martial art originated from Khmer and we call Pradal Serey...your shirts you wear show Thai pride!
.......AND WE ALWAY'S BLAMING THE THAI FOR STEALING OUR IDEA. THE SHIRT'S THAT THESE GUY WEAR SAY OTHERWISE.
AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE THAT ARE LOST?
Please help!
You phukcing dumbazz. if you are khmer are you that stupid?? promoting khmer sport wearing a thai shirt?
Siam stolen everything from khmer, and to see stupid people like you wearing something they stole, you are really stupid. The siem, just put the word "thai" infront of everything they steal... thai pepper, thai tea, thai desert, Now stupid thai khmer...
screw this love and peace crap... if they siam stop stealing and acknowledge their heritage, then there could be love and peace.
It' not Muy Thai. It's Khmer Boxing Bradal Serey. What a disgrace of the t-shirts these Khmers wear !!
It looks like the story was written reported by Sok Khemara, reporter from VOA. Didn't Sok notice the writing on the shirt those guys were wearing? If Sok noticed and did not care then Sok is an idiot reporter who did not know his facts. That is khmer in general, has no pride.
All I can say is you guys are the three khmer idiots
MUAY IS THAI OR LAOS WORD MEANS KICKBOXING WHICH IS EQUIVALENT
TO :
- PRADAL SEREY = KHMER KICKBOXING
- MUAY LAOS = LAOS KICKBOXING
- LETHWEI. = MYANMAR KICKBOXING
- TOMOI. = MALAYSIAN KICKBOXING
MUAY IS THAI WORD eg. MUAY BORAN = ANCIENT BOXING
KHmer Surin
POuk ah lop, pouk ah thork thieb pak av mouy thai thaa promote boxkhmer
you stupid dogs has no soul nor dignity to wear the culture robbers maythai shirt and say promoting khmer boxing
Here the real Khmer patriot http://www.prodal-boran.fr/ . Hour/Vuthy who had so far promoted Khmer boxing to the world. Khmer “Brodal Boran” and Khmer Box Kator from Paris/Bussy S.G organized each year Box Khmer Gala to promote Khmer box and reclaimed back Khmer culture title heritage stolen by the thai. The mauthai tried to try to make obstacles to Khmer box organization as much its can but Khmer had sent its back to where it from. The mauthia must hurt bad in its has now trying to brainwash and link these croni
es in USA to its organization
I invite all Khmer around the world to back "Prodal Boran Khmer" federation to promote Khmer boxing and claim back the title from the thai robbers
All I can say is Box-Kator is the Khmer martial art of Angkor civilization. One can see its representation at Angkor wall. Khmer had developed Box-Kator to freed-boxing (prodal serey) and had promoted it just before the war. The Siamese just exploited it massively during the mass civil wars and big political perturbations in Cambodia and had changed the name to box thai or maythai, with no shame.
Shame to the low skins who has no brain nor intelligence to invent something but just stolen something from someone and claimed as their own. These cronies can practice Khmer culture heritage but stop to claim as their own by respecting to those who had left this heritage to Khmer.
I agree with most of the posters in here and I understand you indignation toward the back ground picture. It is sameful to the reporter to not notice the background picture or maybe he did notice it but intentionaly put it there to insult Khmer readers? As far as I'm concern, the three Khmer in the pictures are not Khmer and if they are, they would be the most ignorant Khmer to live abroad. Your ignorance amaze me greatly. What a shame!!!
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