kitThe rope

คาดเชือก · khat chueak

Hemp over the knuckles, knotted, and sometimes wetted.

Hem Vejakorn · Public domain

What it is

Hand-wrapping in hemp rope or raw cotton thread, used instead of gloves until the late 1920s. Khat chueak is literally to gird with rope.

The long version

The English article is specific about what the rope did: knots placed over the knuckles made a strike "more abrasive and damaging", while the wrap protected the hand underneath. Chaiya's account uses raw cotton thread rather than hemp, and puts a prajiat round the head as well.

It ended after a death in the ring. Fighters went to gloves and to cotton coverlets over the feet and ankles, and the older form acquired a new name — muay boran — once the new one had taken the old one's.

Tradition holds — the ropes were dipped in water, and in some tellings in resin and ground glass. The water is in the article, attached to the account of why the straight knee was risky; the glass is folklore, and this project has no source for it.

Connected to

• Gloves What replaced it.
• Muay boran What it is now filed under.
• The knee Which technique it held back.
• Muay Chaiya Where it was thread rather than rope.

Named here by

• The knee The rope that the straight knee had to wait out.
• Muay Chaiya Thread, in this case, rather than rope.
• Muay Korat Wound to the elbow here.
• Muay boran What it is fought with.
• Nai Khanom Tom What he fought with.
• Gloves What it replaced.
• A French diplomat, 1687 What they were fighting with.
• muay What got tied.

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