Coffee Table Book of: Kickboxing and Muay Thai (Paperback)

Coffee Table Book of: Kickboxing and Muay Thai is a large format book of kickboxing and Muay Thai, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two: Thai pads, shin guards and gloves, the mongkol and prajioud shown with care as objects of tradition, open sided gyms under tin roofs from first light to late at night, the kit being made and cared for, the old ways of the ring, and a few fighters seen far off in plain dark clothing.

The kit is laid out plain: red Thai pads seen from above and hanging on a whitewashed wall, black shin guards standing upright, blue gloves resting on a pair of pads, white gloves standing on their cuffs, a belly pad, a kick shield, a long red bag reaching almost to the floor, ankle supports, elbow and knee pads, a padded headguard, a kit bag packed for training, a bottle of liniment oil, hand wraps drying on a line in the sun and gloves and guards drying on a wall.

The traditions are shown as objects, with care: a mongkol resting on a folded white cloth, another kept high on a shelf beside a garland of jasmine, an old one hanging high above a doorway, a pair of red prajioud, an old teak box of keepsakes, cord being bound in cloth and red cloth twisted into armbands, the long drums, small cymbals and reed pipe of the fight music, hemp cords of the old bindings, a coconut shell floating in a bowl of water, a banana tree at the edge of a yard, an old village ring under a mango tree, a ring being built in a field, foam cut for a pad, old shin guards worn soft and foam foot pads from the early days of kickboxing.

Short notes run through the book, on the rules and rituals of the ring, the pads, guards, gloves, mongkol and prajioud and how they are made, and the history of the sport: many gyms are open at the sides, roofed against sun and rain and open to the breeze, shin guards for sparring cover the shin and the top of the foot, a belly pad lets a trainer take push kicks and knees to the body, and a kick shield is a large flat pad held close to the body to take full power kicks.

Printed in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.

Publisher - Cedar Pine Editions

Language - English

Perfect Bound

Contributors

By author

Dimitri Smith

Published Date - 2026-10-20

ISBN - 9671456001548

Dimensions - 27.9 x 21.6 x 0.7 cm

Page Count - 100