Kun Khmer Training in Phnom Penh at Selapak Gym
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Time to test my skills and hit the fighting gym again
here some recent fights of Chan Rothana
A Biafran in Cambodia: A short fight documentary with Manu Selapak.
African Mixed Martial Artist Manu Selapak has a message for his tribal members at home and around the world as he recounts round by round his historical first pro fight in the brutal traditional Cambodian fight world of Kun Khmer. From the streets of Phnom Penh. Directed by Frank Roberts
Yuthakun Khom Demo at Selapak
Coaches Do and Steven demonstrate Cambodian martial arts techniques. Fight for Cambodia sponsors training at the Selapak Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Send a message if you want more info.
Yutakhun Khom Group session SELAPAK
SELAPAK is a place dedicated to the centuries-old Khmer Culture it's located in the centre of Phnom Penh. Tourists, expatriates and locals eager to discover more about Cambodia are welcome. Selapak proposes to share the traditional dance and traditional martial art (Yutakun Khom). selapak-cambodia.com
Contacts: info@selapak-cambodia.com
Music: MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - CAN'T HOLD US
I am Rothana Chan
Rothana Chan is a Yutakhun Khom fighter in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Yutakhun Khom is an ancient form of Khmer martial arts dating back to the Angkor era. When he is not training for a fight, he teaches the traditional techniques he learned (and is still learning) from his father to Cambodians and foreigners at Selapak gym.
WRITTEN, PRODUCED, DIRECTED, FILMED AND EDITED BY
Roberto Fumagalli contrattacco@gmail.com
A STELLA ROSSA FILM
TRAVEL MAKAN FIGHT Episode 1 | Cambodia & Akihiro Fujisawa
In this frst episode of Travel Makan Fight I had a quick visit to Phnom Penh Cambodia to attend the official Cambodian MMA Federation (CMMAF) Ceremony to receive my coaching license and certificate... Followed by traveling to KL Malaysia for Akihiro Fujisawa's fight in ONE Championsip.
Starring:
Hun Chan Reach
Kenta Nakamura
Akihiro Fujisawa
Nou Srey Pov
Chan Sam Art
Rin Saroth
Chan Rothana
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Paddy's Gym Phnom Penh The Legend, Cambodia, Christophe Clugston
fluentfighitng.com prsents the legendary Paddy's Gym in Phnom Penh Cambodia. This was the hardest training in South East Asia in the hottest weather. Here is just an average day with some clinch fight training. You also get to see part of the vibe of being in Cambodia.
Paddy Carson is a legendary South African trainer--who has promoted, and been instrumental in ISKA in Cambodia as well as training several A level Fighters (Christophe Clugston among those).
Here we see two guys form Team Quest, Oregon starting training with Paddy.
Traditional Dance Group Session SELAPAK
SELAPAK is a place dedicated to the centuries-old Khmer Culture it's located in the centre of Phnom Penh. Tourists, expatriates and locals eager to discover more about Cambodia are welcome. Selapak proposes to share the traditional dance and traditional martial art (Yutakhun Khom). selapak-cambodia.com
Contacts: info@selapak-cambodia.com
Music: Feist - 1234
Cambodia Urban Art 2016
CAMBODIA URBAN ART FESTIVAL 2016
Street art festival in Phnom Penh
31 march - 23 april 2016
Institut Français du Cambodge
With: Chifumi / Théo Vallier / Strange the Rabbit & Mike / Goddog / Mioshe / Cecê Nobre / Koy & Davido / Alias 2.0 / Venk / Syahrulfikri Salleh / Venk
Performing with KlapYaHandz / Selapak / Skateistan
Direction & commissioning : Chifumi
Soundtrack: Quand le sourire s'en va / 12Mé / KlapYaHandz
Selapak-partie1
SELAPAK, une académie en plein cœur de Phnom Penh
Partie 1: l'école de danse
THE SLEUK RITH INSTITUTE
Youk Chhang, Chairman and Founder, the Sleuk Rith Institute (SRI) and Zaha Hadid invite you to a reception to celebrate plans for a ground-breaking new center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) dedicated to the prevention of genocide worldwide.
Zaha Hadid Design Gallery, London
Thursday 9th October, 2014 at 18:30 pm.
The name of our Institute reflects our core objectives as well as our Cambodian heritage. Sleuk rith are dried leaves that Cambodian religious leaders and scholars have used for centuries to document history, disseminate knowledge, and preserve culture during periods of harsh rule and grave peril. The term “sleuk rith” literally means “the power of the leaves,” capturing their beauty as vehicles of knowledge and their strength in advancing social memory and human dignity. The Sleuk Rith Institute (SRI) will represent a permanent stand against mass violence in Cambodia and throughout the world.
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Tree that producing Sleuk rith: Traeng (KH) or Corypha Umbraculifera (EN)
See also Khmer Dictionary by Choun Nath, 10 December 1967; page 469-70.
UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION
Treang (ទ្រាំង):
Treang is the name of a thorny palm tree with long stems, the leaves of which are dried and used by monks as writing paper called sleuk rith. The sleuk rith pages are combined to form manuscripts called sastra.
In addition, the midribs of the treang leaves are used to pin the light green leaves together to make a thatched-leaf roof called phchol, which has limited durability. The leaves can be made into handbags or sacks, also called phchol. Small strips of its stems are woven to make sails, called totot. The central rib, when stripped of its leaves, is called tronung rith or chhaoeng rith (literary means: power of the bones). Mature stems are chopped up for use as canes, loom rods called dam, and various bars called poan moul, which are used to hold threads in weaving (for example treang stick, dam treang and poan moul treang). The stems of treang used as dam or poan moul are called treang kamdor khmoch and are tied to the staircase of a home to protect it from ghosts or evil spirits. In traditional lore, ghosts or evil spirits are fearful of treang. Sometimes, people who are very lazy or uneducated and do not easily wake up are considered to accompany those ghosts or evil spirits. There is a proverb which states, “Use treang to ward off evil spirits.”
Treang trees self-seed in the jungles of Cambodia, predominantly in Kratie and Kampong Thom provinces. These thorny palm trees have many beneficial uses. They can be cultivated as a border to enclose a Buddhist temple, thriving in any kind of soil. Their life span is longer than that of humans. However, after blossoming and producing mature fruit, they die. The underlying assumption of these trees is that they blossom, produce fruit, and then somehow kill themselves. This process is similar to a Buddhist proverb which states that bamboo, tall reeds (Aira arundinacea) and treang trees grow, blossom, produce fruit, and then kill themselves, just as greedy, vulgar people can hasten their deaths through their own dishonorable behavior.
Sastra (សាស្ត្រា) Pali and Sanskrit
Sastra are manuscripts which contain codes of conduct pertaining to scientific knowledge, religion, law, educational doctrine, and other life matters which benefit from instruction. The word may be used as a suffix, for example: pravoat sastra, a manuscript that describes the history of a country; vityea sastra, a manuscript that contains different methods of research using primary resources; and selapak sastra, a manuscript for studying the arts.
Sastra is also sometimes known as satra (when intended to describe a manuscript made from palm leaves), for example: satra chbap, a legal code of conduct; or satra tes, a preaching text. Sastra may be also used as prefix. For example: sastra krit: a person who composes a manuscript or code of conduct; sastra chaksa, sastra nei or sastra netra, the eyes of the manuscript (i.e., grammar); sastra ved, a wise man or scholar who knows the content of the manuscript; and sastra char, the teacher of the code of conduct or ethics.
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Extreme Khmer Episode 13: Contemporary Artists, Part 2
The conclusion of our two-part series on young artists in Cambodia today. We learn a little about the history of modern art in Cambodia, and check out a graffiti workshop with women's art group Selapak Neary. See for more.
Cambodian Art Rebels Collective Interview
Vuth Lyno, Khvay Samnang & Lim Sokchanlina
Late Night New York is happy to welcome VUTH LYNO, KHVAY SAMNANG, and LIM SOKCHANLINA, three daringly observant contemporary Cambodian young artists whose photography, performance, video, and social works offer poignant reflections on development driven urban change in Cambodia and beyond. These three artists are members of Stiev Selapak, or Art Rebels, one of Cambodia's only contemporary visual art collectives. They also run Sa Sa Art Projects, an experimental community arts center in Phnom Penh. They are currently in New York creating new work as part of Season Of Cambodia: A Living Arts City Festival's IN RESIDENCE program.
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Prokout Gym in Phnom Penh Cambodia!
Taking my two lil homies for some training and exercise! This is the Prokout fitness and fight centre in Phnom Penh Cambodia! Checkout the video tour in the link here
History of Cambodia, Histoire du cambodge 1950s-1990s
The Kingdom of Cambodia (Khmer: ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, French: Royaume du Cambodge), informally known as the first Kingdom of Cambodia (Khmer: ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជាទី ១) and the Sangkum Reastr Niyum era (Khmer: សម័យសង្គមរាស្ត្រនិយម People's Socialist Community, French: Communauté socialiste populaire), referred to Norodom Sihanouk's first administration of Cambodia from 1953 to 1970, an especially significant time in the country's history. Sihanouk continues to be one of the most controversial figures in Southeast Asia's turbulent and often tragic postwar history.
Cambodia MMA Association [ Selapak MMA gym ]
Ancient martial art revival in Cambodia
An ancient Cambodian martial art which was banned during the Khmer Rouge era in the 1970's is being revived as a sport.
For the first time foreigners are being able to practise it an attempt to prevent the art dying out.
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Mixing technique, mind and spirit, Chan Rothana is a legend among Youttakun Khom fighters in Cambodia.
The 27-year-old has fought more than 80 times in the ring and has never been knocked down.
Youttakun Khom is in Rathana's blood - he comes from a long line of fighters stretching back over many generations.
He began learning here at his father's gym on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, one of only a few gyms left in the country still teachingthe sport.
Youttakun Khom is Cambodia's indigenous martial art mixing elbow and knee strikes, shin kicks, submissions and ground fighting, as well as weapons including bamboo sticks and swords.
It dates from the Angkor period about one thousand years ago, and is considered the root of modern Muay Thai (Thai boxing) and kickboxing.
The martial art has ten individual styles, each an interpretation of the fighting movements of an animal or spirit: king monkey, lion, elephant, apsara, crocodile, duck, crab, horse, bird and dragon.
It is a deadly martial art with each strike intended to kill, allowing warriors to move quickly onto the next opponent.
Rothana's father Chan Bunthoeun is one of only two Youttakun Khom masters, or Lok Kru, left in the Cambodia today.
During the Khmer Rouge era from 1975-1979 people who knew about Youttakun Khom were systematically killed in an attempt to erase the Khmer culture and Chan Bunthoeun was forced to keep his knowledge secret.
In the Pol Pot time we could not tell anyone that we knew about this sport, he says. If you told them during the time of Pol Pot they would kill you because specialised things like this were strictly forbidden.
Over the past ten years a handful of clubs and organisations have sprung up in an effort to preserve Youttakun Khom by transforming it from a deadly battlefield technique into a sport.
In June this year Rothana opened the Selapak living arts school on this busy street in Phnom Penh to teach the techniques as well as the spirit of the art, to students.
The early months of training focus on developing fitness and learning some basic moves.
Students pay $60 for one month of lessons - well above the means of most Cambodians.
Those taking part enjoyed a rigorous workout and the insight they got into an ancient warrior culture.
For Rothana the mission is to protect Youttakun Khom by making it popular both locally and internationally.
Youttakun Khom is good for your body - it makes your body really strong, he says. It's also good for your mind - it's great for helping to relieve stress and if you learn all the moves maybe one day you can open your own gym.
Foreigners were not originally allowed to learn Youttakun Khom but Rothana believes opening the doors to others may be the only way to protect the art.
I've just moved to Phnom Penh and I started training here because I wanted a sport that was going to be challenging physically and the fact that it's something that's very Cambodian, very Khmer, is great - a bonus I suppose, it's a way to learn about the culture, says Naomi Byrne-Soper, from Melbourne, Australia.
It's a good sport that combines both the physical side and the mental side because it teaches about the culture of Cambodia, says Laura Barisone, from Milan in Italy. I would recommend it to the Italians here in Phnom Penh and in the future, if it comes to Italy, I will also recommend it to the Italians in Italy.
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MMA Conditioning at Selapak by CHAN Rothana
Coach CHAN Rothana gives instruction to the MMA conditionaing class at Selapak, Phnom Penh. Expats, locals, all skills. Everyone knows each other by name and has a seriously fun time working hard.
Phnom-Penh - Diner de mariage Khmer
Note pour la prochaine fois, ne pas arriver trop tôt !
Traditional Dance at SELAPAK
SELAPAK is a place dedicated to the centuries-old Khmer Culture it's located in the centre of Phnom Penh. Tourists, expatriates and locals eager to discover more about Cambodia are welcome. Selapak proposes to share the traditional dance and traditional martial art (Yutakun Khom).
selapak-cambodia.com