Banshay

Banshay : System of combat with weapons (stick, saber, dagger), left major Burmese martial arts (Thaing) as well as the Bando, which gathers the practices with naked hands. We find various styles and ethnic practices, like the Dha kachin, the dhot chin or the dhot my. There exists a large variety of knives, scraping-knife (da jyau che) and sabers of various forms and length, also of the sticks (toud' che) of various lengths, the cane, as well as lances (tlantu che) and fléaux.
The Apprentissage of the saber is reserved the most tested for and requires to have more than 18 years; for the children and the beginners, the work of the weapons often starts with the handling of the short stick. The training passes, there still, partly by the acquisition of technical matrices and the ancestral structures (akas). The specific weapon of the banshay is the Dha.

Toud' che (stick): In practice indicate the various types of sticks of Thaing. The sticks are major weapons of Thaing and gave place in the past to very effective warlike practices. There is a large variety, they are generally made wood or of bamboo. Their length, forms and section vary according to their function. Generally, they correspond to the morphology of the practitioner to whom they belong. Their section is generally round and more or less regular. We find three categories: long (pilgrim's staff, lance, tornado), means (canes of walk, stick of monk) and courts (the length of the arm or the front armlever). The long sticks is higher than the height of the ground to the size (it is what differentiates them sticks known as " courts".

the stick of walk, the height generally going of the ground to the shoulder. It is the length for the stick known as of the pilgrim (Pongyi-dhot).
the stick of the size of the practitioner
the very long stick, higher than the size of the practitioner (stick of war, for example against rider, or to make whirl to avoid the unfavourable approach).

Technique: whatever the length of the weapon, there exist certain basic seizures and of the standard guards of combat. Concurrently to that, we find a multitude of position of combat (attitudes and guards), displacements (not, pivots), forms of defense (control/blocking/deviation), of percussion (blow of size, blow of tuck, winches), techniques of tender (key, throttling, crushing/pressure), diagrams of combat (transmitted akas generations in generations), etc gestural Certaines and strategies are specific to representations of combat or styles (e.g.: the shape of wild boar to the stick runs, the stick of the pilgrim).

Dha (saber): Term indicating two close things: initially Burmese sabers (or “da kaou che”), then work generally with the knives in the thaing (long saber, scraping-knife). According to the ethnic origins, one finds various types of saber. The Burmese dha has a very specific form, generally it does not have guard, the blade has only one edge is curved and widened side points itself. Nevertheless, one finds blades rectilinear (e.g.: the dha of the ethnos group akhas is extended to its end and is carried in the back; the dha of the square Kachins at its end is carried in front of the abdomen; the dha of the Shans and certain mountain tribes is related to the traditional costume; the dha of noble of Burma often gilded, the blade and the handle ornamented).

Internal bonds

Thaing and Burmese Martial arts
Bando, Naban
Burmese Boxing (Lethwei), Bando-kickboxing,
Bando-yoga, Min-zin, Pongyi-thaing

See too

Ba Than (Gyi), Manual off the Bando disciplines , National Bando Association, Burma, 1946-68
Maung Gyi, Bando, philosophy, principles and practice , STI edition, 2000
Maung Gyi, Burmese bando boxing, ED. R.Maxwell , Understanding Baltimore, 1978
Gift F.Draeger and Robert W.Smith, Asian Fighting arts , E. Kodansha, Tokyo, 1969
Zoran Rebac, Traditional burmese boxing , ED. Paladin Near, Boulder, 2003

External bonds

Fédération (French) of Bando Boxes Burmese
Fédération of North America de Bando (the USA)

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