Traditional Muay Thai?

[Goju_boi]

"Oh yeah and Ong-Bak just looks like Kung Fu with more elbows and knees than Muay Thai."

yep,same with karate and other traditional styles.In mine it would look like kickboxing more if we didn't chamber our punches so much.

[elbows_and_knees]

Another thing you'll notice is that we look alot like western boxing in many respects, the swinging punches, the uppercuts, the bodyshots, etc.

What I've seen of clf doesn't resemble western boxing at all - the swinging techniques I've seen are WAY wider than textbook boxing punches. Different footwork too.

Thai boxing systems, whether they are old, new, etc, etc.

Oh yeah and Ong-Bak just looks like Kung Fu with more elbows and knees than Muay Thai.

all of the elbows you saw were muay thai elbows. most people have only seen the upward, downward and cross elbows. Not many know of the stabbing, spinning, rear, jumping etc. Same with knees. people don't know about the jumping, spinning, half, slapping, etc. variations.

it doesn't look like kung fu to me. It simply looks more traditional.

[elbows_and_knees]

"yep,same with karate and other traditional styles.In mine it would look like kickboxing more if we didn't chamber our punches so much.

pretty much every external stand up style when reduced to it's most basic components looks similar to kickboxing. There are really only so many ways to punch and kick...

[Goju_boi]

Well yeah that's true,but i like the way they each style looks because it puts more variety out there.

[Infrazael]

Another thing you'll notice is that we look alot like western boxing in many respects, the swinging punches, the uppercuts, the bodyshots, etc.

What I've seen of clf doesn't resemble western boxing at all - the swinging techniques I've seen are WAY wider than textbook boxing punches. Different footwork too.

Thai boxing systems, whether they are old, new, etc, etc.

Oh yeah and Ong-Bak just looks like Kung Fu with more elbows and knees than Muay Thai.

all of the elbows you saw were muay thai elbows. most people have only seen the upward, downward and cross elbows. Not many know of the stabbing, spinning, rear, jumping etc. Same with knees. people don't know about the jumping, spinning, half, slapping, etc. variations.

it doesn't look like kung fu to me. It simply looks more traditional.

Mabye, that traditional Muay Boran and several forms of kung fu are quite similar in many respects?

[elbows_and_knees]

that wouldn't surprise me. The original thais were originally immigrants from south china, weren't they? One theory of the history of muay thai is that is evolved from kung fu...with the loss of records though, this can't be proven.

[Goju_boi]

how were the records lost?

[White Warlock]

the answer to how they were lost was lost as well.

[Goju_boi]

well that's just as bad

[elbows_and_knees]

wars with the burmese, mainly. It was all burned.