Does anyone know anything about the martial arts of Myanmar(formerly burma, thailands mortal enemy} Specificaly Bando and lethwei? The info I have found is scetchy at best.

http://www.thaing.net/lethwei.htm

Home page has links to other arts of that area:

http://www.thaing.net/

Well, being half-thai I can tell you a little bit of our "mortal enemy".

Usually, once per year, there's a gathering in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Where the best Muay Thai fighters fight with the best Burmese fighters. I've been to that gathering a few times, and it's fun, cuz they fight without weight restriction and no gloves.

Now how are they different? That's a bad question, how are they similar? That's a better one. In essence they are both almost the same, except that Lethwei allows headbutting, but who said MT doesn't have headbutts? It's just that Thai people see that headbutting is a technique of the uncivilized world.

The kicks, punch, knee, elbows and clinching are almost the same yet the clinching of Bando and Lethwei is very different from MT. They seem to favor holding one limb and the head when clinching.

Now someone mentioned that MT is a "younger sibling" of Lethwei. This is wrong. MT has always been with the Thai people. MT has been dated about 2600 years, that's almost as long as there has been a tribe of people in China calling themselves "Tai". These "Tai" are the ancestors of the Thai people.

Back to the subject. The information about Bando is very sketchy due the part of Myanmar's government policy of closing the country away from foreigners, and the policy of not teaching their indiginous art to foreigners as well.

I'd say, Lethwei is very similar to MT, and Bando is still too sketchy for me to conclude.

I'm also interested in knowing what my "enemy" has. So far, they haven't shown any interest in showing their art to the public so, who knows?

-Taison out

I seem to recall reading Daniel Inosanto was studying Bando (as well as everything else! How does he do it?)

let me describe about what difference between Bando and Letwhai. Bando is considerable combination of mental and principle of body movement .Bando situration is depend on Square Movement. called "AKwet", if u start study the Bando first u must try on foure square . like Karatedo "Chudan-no-kamae" and "ten-no-kamae" after than need to study various methord of attack . Traditional Bando don't have any belt standard. The highest position is call "SayaPhyit" meaning Master define the student to distibute his professional to another.to reach these stept all student must pass the exam.exam is very sample but very diffcult and very dangerous. Brief of exam is like that .. the samll house with one door to enter and another one door to exit without any other window, there are 2 person with sword waiting him in front of house and than anothe 2 person in the house and another 2 persons outside of exit door.each person hold sword . the student try to enter the house and try to exit the house from another door without any worn. after passed ths exam he is began to ba a Bando professonal .

Dan may have studied with a Burmese immigrant or someone who studied from a Burmese and taught it to Dan, but I don't think Dan went to Myanmar and studied it there, but maybe he did? I don't know. It's the same thing with some of the "secret" Shaolin stuff, how do we know them if they are "secret"?

Last time I tried entering Myanmar through the border gat, I was pushed out. It seems, they don't like visitors that much.

-Taison out

For someone with no belt from any MA, you seem to 'know' a lot about this subject. Are you from Kelantan or Trengganu? Perhaps you do silat?

Any one who can survive a few warriors with swords waiting in and outside a house with no windows..........even the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, need Windows!

A Malaysian troll?

I am always amazed at the sheer volume of BS I see posted on the internet. The test for a Bando black belt is unadulterated BS.

As to the fights in thailand they are neither countries "best" the better Thais would not fight because of the inherent risks of bareknuckle and the Burmese are usually shan refugees living in Thailand or right on the border. There have been very few recognized burmese fighters who have fought outside of the country the government does not make it that easy to leave.

Lethwei is very differnt than modern ring MT. Lethwei is also older than MT as MT/Krabi krabong was heavily influenced by the Mon styles.

Bando is not a term used byt he older masters and is far more prevalent outside of Burma itself. the term Bando is usually indicative of Burmese arts with a heavy outside influence

Dan Inosanto trains under Dr. Gyi and the American Bando Association

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exam is very sample but very diffcult and very dangerous. Brief of exam is like that .. the samll house with one door to enter and another one door to exit without any other window, there are 2 person with sword waiting him in front of house and than anothe 2 person in the house and another 2 persons outside of exit door.each person hold sword . the student try to enter the house and try to exit the house from another door without any worn. after passed ths exam he is began

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This is total BS. You are clearly an idiot.