Bando-kickboxing

See also: Burmese Boxing

Bando-kickboxing is the modernized and sporting form of the Lethwei . It is called “boxes Burmese with four weapons” in Europe. Born in North America with the beginning of the year 1960, this kind of fencing of the feet and the fists gantés in a boxing ring gave birth, in the USA in the years 1970, varied forms of Full-contact and Kick-boxing . There exists, in competition, the two shapes of combat: the “controlled Bando-kickboxing” (light-contact) where the techniques are retained perfectly and the “Bando-kickboxing of full-contact” where the blows are carried to full power, intended for the experienced and major practitioners. According to the ages and the technical level the rules and the conditions of competition are variable: in particular authorized techniques and prohibited, the time of combat, the type of surface of combat (carpet or boxing ring), the port of certain protections (helmet, drill plate, leggings, slippers, etc).

Internal bonds

See too

Bando, philosophy, principles and practice , Maung Gyi, STI edition, 2000
Burmese bando boxing , Maung Gyi, ED. R.Maxwell, Understanding Baltimore, 1978
Asian Fighting arts , Gift F.Draeger and Robert W.Smith, E. Kodansha, Tokyo, 1969
Traditional burmese boxing , Zoran Rebac, ED. Paladin Near, Boulder, 2003

External bonds

Fédération (French) of Bando Boxes Burmese - a mine of information on an effective discipline multimillénaire and hyper
Fédération of North America de Bando (the USA)

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