Bokator martial art

      

Labokator is a Khmer historical martial art that have a thousand of fighting techniques. Labokator is a Khmer martial art that may be a predecessor to the Southeast Asian kickboxing styles. History indicates that Bokator or an early form thereof was the close quarter combat system used by the ancient armies of Angkor 1000 years ago.

Cambodia's ancient martial art of bokator is enjoying a sudden revival after centuries of neglect and its near extinction under the communist Khmer Rouge regime which outlawed the practice and murdered its master but practitioners are struggling for legitimacy and purists say a younger generation's fascination with foreign martial arts is threatening this symbol of the country's past military might. More an art form than a sport, bokator which literally means "lion fighter" in Cambodian has been somewhat derisively described as a dance with a little bit of fighting thrown in for effect. This is not entirely untrue.

Those who have mastered the thousands of punches, sweeping high kicks, take-downs and feints have a fluid animal grace that lulls the spectator into forgetting that this is a seriously dangerous fighting form. Labokator is an ancient Khmer martial art which also known as Kun Labokator. Labokator simply means "a short wooden stick wrapped around one's hands to protect oneself". The Ancient Khmer martial art of Bokator is something which belongs only to Cambodia. The proof is written in stones, on the walls of Angkor Wat. A thousand years of war with Thailand and Vietnam, followed by the Khmer Rouge Genocide nearly wiped this art off of the face of the Earth

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