Bando

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Bando (Thaing) is the art of self-defence. Bando includes the empty-hands methods and animal forms: eagle, bull, cobra, panther, monkey. Various bando arts are still very popular in Burma, especially among scholars. There are great number of schools and styles. The main branches are:

  • Nan twin thaing (Royal Palace style)
  • Pyompya thaing (school of the ”hardsolf way”)
  • Neganadai thaing (snake style)
  • Shan thaing, a martial art number the Chinese influence (Shan province is close to the Chinese border).

After WWII, the famous teacher Ba Than (Gyi) tried to unite the techniques from the different bando styles and modernize them by founding a new Hanthawaddy bando system, but death interrupted his work. Ba Than (Gyi)’s son was Maung Gyi. In the early1960’s, formally began teaching Burmese bando at American University in Washington, D.C. In occident, of all there styles, the most popular and familiar is Hanthawaddy bando system.


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Bando; (noun) 1. A person whom participates in band in a concert or marching setting [spending excessively long hours rehearsing and spending time with others that have similar interests in music]. 2. A person who consistently talks and thinks about band. 3. A brand of marching shoe (similar to Dinkle)

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