tony jaa,understand this is not muay boran

[Payak]

I have great respect for jaa panom(tony Jaa)
he is helping to spread and promote Thai culture,however people who watch these films need to understand that what jaa panom does in his films is in no way Muay Boran.
He studied the very basics of Muay Boran with ajarn sak chai,one of the few people teaching the true art on this planet,not Muay Thai with a Muay Boran title as a sales pitch.
Tony studied other arts such as Kung Fu,Capoeira,tae kwon do etc.He also studied stunt fighting for films and gymnastics and acrobatics.
He then combined all the fancy looking but ineffective techniques from all these arts and combined them with an exaggerated Muay boran stance that looks good on camera,the result being great film action,but obviously bad and again ineffective technique.
enjoy the films, i do,but understand this is not Muay Boran,real Muay Boran is simple and effective but never fancy.

 

[Biggiebrother**]

of course Tony's techniques are highly highly modified for the movies.

Even Bruce Lee separated techniques he used in his movies and those he would fight with

still Tony have some cool original movie martial arts moves

 

[Too Defensive**]

I still think he can kick some ass in real life though

 

[TheBlackAdder]

Well in Ong Bak 2 it showed him studying multiple martial arts, not just muay thai, so you will be happy with that, but yeah, you can't really expect it to be accurate or the ignorant masses to understand whats effective, alot of people don't understand Kung Fu practitioners actually use San Shou or San Da instead of Kung fu in an actual fight (they think Kung Fu is real and monks in China would destroy Fedor)

 

[ambertch]

Well what's the alternative? Real fighters make an action movie with real techniques? They do that, and it sucks and is unexciting to watch

 

[Payak]

when i say he learnt the basics under sak, does not mean he is no good,sak is the real deal and a few years with him would do anyone good.
he has a good handle on the basics for sure,I also believe he had 12 Muay Thai fights for 12 wins.
ong bak 3 is in the works now.
I been watching jaa for 16 years in Thailand, hes an old star there.

 

[superjatt]

do you know if there is an ong bak 2 with english subs out there?

 

[Ninjutsu Master]

there's an Ong-bak 2? wtf when did that come out? I thought there was just Ong-bak and the protector.

 

[Payak]

like i said jaa has been in movies for 16 years.
google it and find his movie titles.

 

[HuFlungPu]

there's an Ong-bak 2? wtf when did that come out? I thought there was just Ong-bak and the protector.

It's out.. Youtube it and check the trailer

 

[TheBlackAdder]

there's an Ong-bak 2? wtf when did that come out? I thought there was just Ong-bak and the protector.

yeah, it already came out in theatres in Thailand in December, I enjoyed it, don't know when it will come over to the states though