Young Muay Thai

Thai boxing, or Muay Thai, is no stranger to brutality. Fighters employ punches, kicks, knee and elbows strikes that can incapacitate their opponents. Even more incapacitating is that many of the children who fight in these matches are commonly exploited as a means of generating gambling revenue. At the behest of various activist organizations, the Thai government has made lukewarm, but inevitably ineffective efforts to protect the children, as these efforts are met with resistance from local communities for both cultural and economic reasons. These young people are often the main breadwinners for their families, who mostly live in destitute rural areas. For this reason, the children who box are well admired. They keep a strict regimen that might keep them out of trouble, away from crime and drug or alcohol abuse. They train every