Tum tap chap hak
This section of Muay Boran fighting is called Muay Pram and it is founded on traditional techniques, which when put together are called Tum Tap Chap Hak. This type of technique has gradually been abandoned due to prohibitions being imposed during sporting events. The obvious danger of actions of this type, which were not easy to perform on an expert adversary also did not augur well for the mass development and international exportation of Thai Boxing. As a consequence, trainers and boxers, finding no interest in carrying out these actions during training, progressively abandoned them and they have slowly been forgotten. Tum Tap (throwing and pressing to the ground) is a fighting strategy aimed at a quick win, above all in fights to the death of a military kind.
These techniques have been the basis for teaching soldiers to disarm the enemy and, when the enemy is disarmed they were taught to instruct the Nak Muay to perform “the swan with the broken wing”, that is to deprive the opponent of any chance to show his own abilities, thereby annihilating his fighting capacity.
