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Slapping your own body, hard, in rhythm, before anyone is touched.
What it is
The Lanna display in which a man slaps his own arms, chest and thighs in a driving rhythm. Thai Wikipedia's article on Lanna performing arts names it beside the sabatchai drum as the strong end of the repertoire.
The long version
Inference — three things are happening at once, and a spectator only sees the third. It conditions the surface it strikes. It sets a tempo the body then moves in. And it is a declaration to whoever is watching that the man is not afraid of being hit, which is the whole content of a pre-fight display in any tradition that has one.
It belongs to fon jerng rather than to the ring, and it is the part of the northern repertoire that looks least like anything in the modern sport and most like where the sport says it came from.
Connected to
Named here by
- Fon jerng The part with no weapon and no opponent.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | tradition | นาฏศิลป์ล้านนา — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- นาฏศิลป์ล้านนา — Wikipedia (th)
- ประวัติศาสตร์มวยไทย — Wikipedia (th)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there