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New Interview: Win Zin Oo

July 7, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

Saya Win Zin Oo is the Founder and Senior Coach of the Thut Ti Lethwei Club in Yangon. He is a familiar face to our audience, having appeared throughout the Born Warriors trilogy. In this interview, he brings us up to date on his newest projects, and the current state of Lethwei.

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New Interview: Sai Zaw Zaw

July 7, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

U Sai Zaw Zaw has been Lethwei’s top promoter since he entered the sporting arena close to three decades ago. He gives us an inside look at the business of promoting in a changing Myanmar landscape, his toughest challenges, and his hopes and plans for the future.

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New Interview: Soe Than Win

June 26, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

Our newest interview features Soe Than Win, who has been one of the leading Lethwei promoters since the 1990s and is now Vice President of the World Lethwei Championship organization. He discusses the many challenges he faced while promoting Lethwei matches in the past, and what the future holds for the sport.

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Lethwei: The Potential of a Weekly Live Broadcast

June 26, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

Since the opening of the country, Lethwei has grown internationally on the back of newly formatted competitions aimed at a global audience. Its development of the sport has followed a very different trajectory than Thailand with Muay Thai, and Cambodia with Pradal Serey — sports that slowly built up over time to develop into what…

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Soe Than Win

June 25, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

U Soe Than Win is one of the pioneering forces in the promotion of Lethwei, and his unbridled love of the sport has been unwavering for the last three decades. He was born in Myaungmya, a town in the Irrawaddy region, in 1975. His Lethwei training began in Yangon under Saya U Win Zin Oo…

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Lethwei: The Potential of a Weekly Live Broadcast

June 25, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

by Vincent Giordano Each country in Southeast Asia has developed and promoted their indigenous sports in their own unique way. For example, one can learn from Muay Thai what has worked and what has not throughout its long history. Lethwei has been kept alive and is still heavily supported by rural communities. I focused primarily…

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Lethwei: Traditional Matchmaking

May 21, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

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New Interviews Section Added

April 28, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

We hope our new Interviews section will introduce readers to a wide variety of people involved in Lethwei throughout the years. The first two interviews feature martial artist and author Zoran Rebac, whose travels to Myanmar began in the early ‘80s, and educator/humanitarian and Japan and Myanmar Lethwei coordinator Takamori Tatsuya, who began his involvement…

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Zoran Rebac

April 28, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

Zoran Rebac was born in Zagreb, Croatia on March 24, 1954. He began his training in Tae Kwon Do as a teenager, eventually achieving the rank of 2nd Dan. Zoran was a member of the national team and won the National Championship twice before turning his attention to the art of Muay Thai.

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Takamori Takuya

April 28, 2020 by V Giordano Leave a Comment

Takamori Takuya was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1960. His passion for teaching led him to start his own private school in Tokyo when he was 25 years old. 10 years later, he established his Futokuro Children’s NGO.

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