In the past, I've written about several martial arts styles, including Shuri-ryu, tai chi, jujustu and jeet kune do. Today, I will cover Muay Thai.

Muay Thai is a martial arts style of Thailand, and a contact sport of the country. It uses stand up striking along with clinging to defeat an opponent. Muay Thai is a physical and mental style that focuses on using various parts of the body to strike. Because of this, Muay Thai is often called the 'art of eight limbs' for its use of fists, elbows, knees, and shins in its techniques. Being in excellent physical condition and preparation makes this style very efficient.

Since it is called the 'art of eight limbs', Muay Thai focuses on making the body a weapon to take down opponents in different ways. The body parts are referred to as different attack and defensive based weapons. The hands being called the sword and dagger, the shins and forearms being hardened in training to act as an armor of sorts from attacks, the elbows being brought down on an opponent like a heavy mace or hammer, and the legs and knees became the axe and staff. The body operates as one whole unit, while the elbows and knees are constantly searching for an opening to spin and take down an opponent to the ground for the kill. Since Muay Thai uses eight points to fight against an opponent, it is a very physically demanding style as opposed to fighting styles that use two points, such as boxing, or four points, such as kickboxing and savate. Muay Thai is a very unique style that forces the use and adaptation of the eight points to defeat the enemy.

Muay Thai is also a very deadly style as well. It can be used to kill an opponent if used by correctly and by a true master of the style.