Bando

Bando Videos

• Bando thaing- American bando association
• Muay Thai vs Bando
• Various Bando/Banshay thaing styles of Burma
• Kun Khmer Student at the Bando Tournament 2
• Kun Khmer Student at the Bando Tournament 3

Bando Online Resources

Bando a self-defense martial art from Burma. The earliest meanings of Bando were "self-discipline, self-development, and self-improvement". Later, it came to mean, "self-protection, or self-defense". Bando includes the empty-hands methods and animal forms: eagle, bull, cobra, panther, monkey, and boar. There are a number of schools and styles. The main branches are:

• Nan twin thaing (Royal Palace style)
• Pyompya thaing (School of the ”hard-soft way”)
• Neganadai thaing (Snake style)
• Shan thaing, a martial art influenced by Chinese styles (Shan province is close to the Chinese border).

Bando's origins are closely linked to Buddhist temples and their teachings, the temples also traditionally functioned as educational centres. People from India, such as those who preached Buddhism, brought their culture and martial arts to the Himalayas and Southeast Asia. The Chinese whom the Burmese once regarded as kin also influenced Burmese culture. The mix of Chinese and Indian martial arts, particularly the animal styles were what originally gave birth to bando. -- Bando According to Wikipedia

The website fightingarts.com says that Bando is a general term meaning "way of discipline" or "system of defense" referring to those styles of unarmed and armed self-defense developed in Burma that employ striking, kicking, grappling and locking techniques, throws, plus weapon techniques introduced into the US by Dr. Maung Gi, a college professor in 1960 (Head of the American Bando Association). Bando is often called Burmese karate.

The principle targets are the legs, the torso and the head. Bando is an amalgam of martial arts, combining thaing (self defense), unarmed combatitive sport (bando) and armed combatitive training banshay. Also Bando has close links with bama lethway, or burmese boxing. -- Everthing2.com

"No system is completely unique. No system is completely independent from external and internal influences. Every system evolves over time by integration, modification and restructuring, resulting in what we then call "uniqueness." Overtime, this unique system will also change." -- Bandosystems.com

The Bando System as taught within the American Bando Association today includes empty hand forms or kata as well as self defense, weapon forms or kata (Banshay), sparring, kickboxing (Lethwei), and grappling (Naban). Banshay is a term for martial arts of Myanmar, focusing on weapon use. ...  Lethwei or Lethawae ; also known as Burmese Boxing and Myanma Traditional Boxing) is a form of kickboxing originated from Myanmar (Burma). ...  Rakhine naban Naban is a term for the various grappling martial arts of Myanmar. ...

The American Bando Association incorporates 9 animal systems including: Bull, Boar, Cobra, Viper, Python, Panther, Tiger, Scorpion & Eagle. A student first learns the Bando basics, and begins to learn the animal systems at higher ranks. The basis for the Bando System is a 9X9 matrix of techniques and principals. The student is encouraged to grasp the underlying principals of the system, as a single technique may only be useful in a specific situation, but the principal the technique is built on, will be useful in many situations. -- Nationmaster.com

BandoArticles

• Despite the Chinese influences, Bando is credited as a style of armed and unarmed combat native to Burma. It is an assimilation of Karate-like striking and kicking techniques, Judo-like throwing techniques, swordplay and fighting with knives, spears and sticks. Atlanta Martial Arts Directory

• Bando is one of those martial arts that a lot of people have heard of, but don't really know what it's all about. In this feature, we'll discuss bando's origins, major precepts, and combat effectiveness. -- Bando: Burma's Art of the Boar 

• Bando, the official Burmese martial art is very similar to Muay Thai but allows its practitioners to also use head-butts, making it harder to defend against and giving it a higher possibility of injuries (many fighters find it difficult to gauge distances on head butts because of vision blurring due to the fast movement of the head). -- About Bando

• Like Thailand, Burma, its neighbor, developed systems of unarmed fighting hundreds of years ago. Since India and China are two of its neighbors, it is not surprising that the evolution of unarmed fighting techniques owed much to India and China. -- Burmese Arts of Unarmed Combat

• Bando is a multi-faceted martial art, with roots in China-Burma-India. The system was brought to America in the late 1950’s by Maung Gyi (now Dr. U M. Gyi, Grandmaster.) It is practiced by a small group of dedicated students and teachers here in the U.S. under the auspices of the non-profit American Bando Association. -- What is Bando: An Overview