After the successful 2018 SportAccord Convention in Bangkok, the city once again took centre stage to host the United Through Youth World Forum – Bangkok also being the birthplace of the United Through Sports initiative.
Everyone has seen the famous Ong Bak movie, which made Muay Boran world-famous and showed the effectiveness of the unarmed combat from the old battlefieds of Siam.This week the young athletes took these ancient maneuvers and made them their own.
A successful Muay Talay contest took place today at the event hotel, bringing the young athletes together for a competitive but fun afternoon.
Every muaythai athlete young or old learns a Wai Kru dance to carry out before starting each bout in the ring – and today the young athletes learned from some of the best teachers in Thailand as part of a Giant Open Lesson.
The young athletes taking part in the muaythai Youth World Championships were given a spectacular welcome to Bangkok this evening by troupes of dancers and musicians. Government representatives attended including Deputy Minister for Sport and Tourism Khun Ittiphol Khunplome who formally opened the Ceremony.
Today over 600 young athletes saw their names entered into the draw on the IFMA Live system for the biggest IFMA Youth World Championships yet, as 82 countries gathered to celebrate youth muaythai.
It has begun. Nearly 70 teams out of an expected 83 teams are already checked into Bangkok for the Youth World Championships with a record number of delegates expected ti bring the overall number to close to 1,200.
The Royal Thai Government, The Amateur Muaythai Association under Royal Patronage and the International Federation of Muaythai Amateur made a combined press conference and there could not have been a more appropriate venue than the arena itself.
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