styleMuay Lopburi
มวยลพบุรี · muay lopburi
Clever. Named for a man the king liked watching.
What it is
The central line, from the old Khmer-Thai city north of Ayutthaya. Its reputation is for angles and feints rather than force.
The long version
The Thai article gives the moment the adjective was attached. At Prince Urubongse's cremation, Nai Kluen To-sa-at of Lopburi fought in front of Rama V, who was pleased enough with the way he fought that the phrase chalat Lopburi — clever Lopburi — stuck to the province, and Kluen was made Muen Mue Maen Mat, the sure-fisted.
Its list of six is the most concentrated of any school: Erawan tosses its tusks, the giant carries off the lady, Rama draws the bow, the deer looks back, Hiran rolls up the earth, Hanuman presents the ring. Five of the six are out of the epic. For a city whose ruins are Khmer and whose monkeys are its main export to the postcard trade, that is either fitting or circular, and the sources do not settle which.
Connected to
- The four lines, and the rhyme that ranks them One of the four.
- Hanuman presents the ring On its list too.
- The epic in the technique list Which its list is almost entirely made of.
Named here by
- Hanuman presents the ring Which also names it.
- The four lines, and the rhyme that ranks them Clever.
- The hermit's school The school named for the city.
- The epic in the technique list Five of six.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | มวยลพบุรี — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- มวยลพบุรี — Wikipedia (th)
- แม่ไม้มวยไทย — the fifteen and the fifteen, at revision 13177866 — 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