Photo-Old stadium Phnom Penh 1946
During the French protectorate didn't the government banned martial art?
Cambodia scouts? Bo staff demonstration 1946
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Maybe they banned it among the commoner populations to avoid uprisings, as it could train and motivate commoner communities to fight. There were many civil wars between many different tribes and the government during Cambodia as a French protectorate.
It's possible that this photo represents a military unit which is allowed to train martial arts, because they are representative of the government. It was common in all colonies to have local people fight for the government. This could have been a special unit. Also it's possible that they were merely a unit who dedicated themselves to training the staff, and were used by the government to perform demonstrations.
France always had a fascination for martial arts. Savate was developped in France, and they used martial arts drills in the army. I saw a documentary that explained how traditional Karate had no high kicks, but that the French army inspired the Japanese army to copy the martial arts drills with many different kicks, which are said to have laid the foundation for all the flashy kicks that you see in Karate today. The documentary I'm talking about is the following: French origin of Karate kicks
Once Japan had developed a martial arts with kicks and punches which was used for competition, did we get to see the first Karate vs Muay Thai matches. The Karate fighters got utterly destroyed, although on rare occasion a Japanese fighter won. A short documentary which deals with Karate (Japan) vs Muay Thai (Thailand) is the following: Karate vs Muay Thai
It seems the French had a special interest in foreign martial arts, as there are many photos of demonstrations during the colonial times in Cambodia. There is a story of French fighters once challenging Muay Thai fighers, and they got utterly destroyed. It seems they never tried to compete with them again.
I wonder the story behind the photo you posted, and what martial art they practiced. Maybe it was an indigenous fighting system that was further developed for the military. Myabe it was a fighting system adopted from somewehere else. Would be cool to know the whole story behind it.
At the stadium North of Current French Embassy? Or somewhere else?
(Very, very, idle speculation, because the old stadium did(does?) have light towers, but concrete behind 'performers' looks a bit like a bridge or causeway and trees look like around Wat Phnom. There was a Naga bridge there, on Norodom I think, near night market. If they filled the canal before removing the bridge... OK, pretty implausible.)
(Very, very, idle speculation, because the old stadium did(does?) have light towers, but concrete behind 'performers' looks a bit like a bridge or causeway and trees look like around Wat Phnom. There was a Naga bridge there, on Norodom I think, near night market. If they filled the canal before removing the bridge... OK, pretty implausible.)
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It's the Old or RCAF stadium. There were a lot of trees around it until the edges were developed in the 2000s. These black & white photos were titled "Exhibitions au vieux stade à Penh". The color one is from around 2000.
You can see the spire of Russei Keo Cathedral in the background.
You can see on Google Earth it still has those strange concrete slopes.
You can see the spire of Russei Keo Cathedral in the background.
You can see on Google Earth it still has those strange concrete slopes.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
Cycling track? Banked corners and low, flat straightaways.
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