Muay Thai (Part 1) - First Impression
I have always been intrigued by martial arts since young. In those days, we only have two TV channels - channels 5 and 8. Channels 3 and 10 were Malaysian channels. Most of our TV programmes were imported TV drama series mostly from Hong Kong, sometimes there were others like Japanese but by and large they have the same old formulas. They were either very sad stories of guys struggling to make a living, women being married and getting trampled or despised by other families and the rest were all sword fighting and about revenge. The sword fighting genre were always about revenge where the main character's master or family were murdered and he would train very hard in order to seek revenge later. The most popular was Jimmy Wang Yu, most famous especially in the "One Armed Swordsman" ( 独臂刀) - Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quEHEaNsSKA There were others Yueh Hua (Drunken Swordsman / 大醉俠 / Come Drink With Me) and later Ti Lung and David Chiang among others. (I...