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Excellent additions - I uped the class from Stub to Start. Keep up the good work.Peter Rehse 01:18, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Lbokkator

The name for this martial art is correctly Lbokkatao (ល្បុក្កតោ) but also romanised in various styles including Lbokator. Bokator is probably just an abbreviated colloquial pronunciation and it is the most common romanisation which was popularised by Antonio Graceffo by my guess. --Cantharellus 01:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

for some reason the characters in the parenthesis following Lbokkatao are showing up as questions marks, while Japanese and other scripts are showing up fine. --AlexOvShaolin 23:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

It uses Indic text. ATTFFX (talk) 06:46, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I think this is got to be one of the worst foreign language to English translation ever. The "tor" part is pronounced in "tao" in English. The way you pronounce "tor" in English is not the same way as it would be correctly pronounced.Pwordisony (talk) 18:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
There is no standard romanization for Khmer. Many Cambodians romanize words accordingly to their, usually, poor understanding of English phonetics. --Dara (talk) 18:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Article name...

It's a tricky question - but the rather ugly "Bokator" seems to be the most common transliteration in use (19,800 Ghits). Boxkator, which is more correct, gets only 787 ghits and poor old Labokator has 170 ghits. This probably shows that Bokator is the way to go. Incidentally the English language press in Cambodia generally use "Bokator" as well. Paxse (talk) 16:52, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Clarification... Cambodians seem to know it as Bokatol thats when they have heard of it. Boxkator is incorrect its merely the name of the Bokator school run by Kim Sean. I don't know about it being known as L'Bokatol but you might be right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Swingkid (talkcontribs) 00:40, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

There is no 'X' ever used in Khmer romanization. --Dara (talk) 18:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

combat sport

"Unlike kickboxing, which is a combat sport, bokator was designed to be used on the battlefield."

What's the difference?

There should either be a link to a "combat sport" page or a better explanation of the difference.

Justpale (talk) 11:49, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Good point. Usual distinction would be that battlefield arts would not have actual "rules" (except for safe practice conventions),while combat sports have clearly defined rules which make some techniques illegal (not just avoided.) HerbM (talk) 22:37, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Needs more references

I just can't grasp the fact that most of these references are from news articles and blogs. And guess where authors such as Antonio Graceffo and other writers get their information from? The practictioners themselves. Who is to say these practitioners know the history of the art better than they themselves? They are not necessarily scholars. There are those that are arrogant and those that tell tall tales as well. If Graceffo is just regurgitating what he observes from the practitioners, then where has the standard of knowlege gone? Are there any academic studies of this martial art? I would really like to discourage the use of news articles as sources for citing. --Dara (talk) 18:54, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

The Cambodian government including the Olympic Committee of Cambodia researched the topic of Bokator. They interviewed any elders who had training in Bokator and Cambodian martial arts. The research interviews included any one who had training in Bokator not just those who were at a master level. Those that were at a master level came from different provinces and different careers. One of the masters grew up in a different country. Master Ros Serei grew up in the Khmer community of Vietnam. There are different schools and different teachers that teach the martial art of Bokator in different ways. There are academic studies, they were cited in Cambodia's report to UNESCO. PhnomCambodge (talk) 10:53, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

San Kim Sean

How is it possible for San Kim Sean to have left both during the Pol Pot regime and during the Vietnamese Occupation or by Vietnamese accusation? 98.231.221.95 (talk) 15:02, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Although there is a note at the bottom of the article stating his name "Saen" is often misspelled as "Sean", the latter, presumably incorrect spelling is used almost universally elsewhere in the article. If this is a misspelling the article should use the correct spelling throughout. HerbM (talk) 22:14, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Sentence

"They are backed by the cambodian authorities recent researches conducted by scholars, all over cambodian provinces in 2011; which led in July of the same year, to a convention of the last 23 masters (krus) of traditional khmer martial arts, still alive they where able to find. "

wut — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.222.195.13 (talk) 21:50, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Bokator - Truth

There is a big mistake. Bokator is not the khmer martial art. The name come from a legend who have nothing to see with Martial art. It had been create by Seam. The Martial art have never been lost in Cambodia as lot master trained Yutakhun Khom and Kback Khun Khmer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Selapak.cambodia (talkcontribs) 11:00, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Is it really the truth?? What you guys said?

Norkor Reach (talk) 03:33, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Was the big cat a lion?

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How is muay thai a "descendant art" of bokator?

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Origin Myth

Delete Muay Thai and muay boran was Descendant arts of bokator

Constant removal of references

The origination of Muay Thai is disputed.

Request for Comment

Should we add King Sisowath as "famous practioner" of bokator

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Why is the other descendant arts removed even tho its properly sourced and has evidence?

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