The Tamil stick-fighting style of silambam was of particular importance to the history of numerous Southeast Asian fighting systems. South Indian scholars, holy men, settlers and traders were especially influential in the evolution of Thai culture and martial arts. The weapons, their design and the pre-fight war dance in krabi-krabong show evidence of Indian derivation combined with Chinese characteristics. Entire dances were built on individual weapons, and calisthenics used by the modern Thai military are still based on these dances. Some of them are no longer found in the country's martial arts today, such as the kris (dagger), hawk (spear), trishula (either long or tekpi "short-handled trident"), daab (straight sword) and vajra. Simon de la Loubère, the French diplomat from the court of Louis XIV, observed the existence of muay Thai and Krabi–krabong in his famous account Du Royaume de Siam (1689) while visiting the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1688.Īrchaeological findings and classical dances bear testament to the myriad of weapons that were once used in Thailand.
However, the Thai fighting arts were traditionally passed down orally and did not rely on written documents for their preservation. The Burmese invasion of 1767 resulted in the loss of many historical records and cultural documents. Individual fighters were armoured and carried rhino hide shields.
Early warfare in Indochina was mostly between rival kingdoms and were fought en masse.
It was likely used in conjunction with muay boran but whether the two arts were developed together or independently is uncertain. Krabi–krabong was developed by the ancient Thai warriors for fighting on the battlefield. Krabi-krabong practitioners with Krabong and Mai sok san.
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