i wish people would stop slagging off chaiya. thailand is a country where so much is falsified but you can just make a martial tradition and call it fake. i think chaiya is made such a target cos its the only tradition to still survive to the modern day. ive heard muay khorat is still around but i dont know to what extent.
there are so many people apparently saying they have studied chaiya. learning chaiya is very expensive meaning very few people can learn it for any decent amount of time to really understand and get to grips with the techniques, maybe thats why so many feel it doesnt match up. that is a massive shame cos chaiya is a martial art just as valid as karate, tkd and kung fu forms so why isnt it afforded the same level of respect? there are thousands of people teaching karate and muay thai to a standard that would never be accepted by the founders and true masters, so why is chaiya given so much stick? chaiya has only three certified teachers, all doing a great job in keeping this once dying art alive.
it sickens me to see much negativity to something very few have had a real decent experience in.
