MUAY THAI

Viewed as the “art of eight-points”, Muay Thai is a brutal martial art featuring clinch-work and striking with knees, elbows, feet, and fists. The sport is generally associated with Southeast Asia and Brazil. A practitioner of Muay Thai is known as a “nak muay” while Western practitioners are sometimes called nak muay farang, meaning “foreign boxer. It is also Thailand’s national sport.