muay thai movement

The word Muay comes from the Sanskrit "mavya" ("martial boxing") and Thai comes from the word "Tai" ("Thai tribe"). Muay Thai is referred to as the "Art of Eight Limbs" or "Science of Eight Limbs" because the technique is very loaded using punches, kicks, elbows and knee attacks, so it uses eight "contact points", which differ from the technique of "two points" in boxing. Western style and "four points" (hands and feet) used in sports-oriented martial arts. A Muay Thai practitioner is known as nak Muay, while Western, white or non-Southeast Asian practitioners are sometimes called nak Muay farang, which means "foreign boxer