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A champion confronts, for you, the elite of combat sports! Aurélien Duarte, martial arts expert and multiple world champion, guides us in the discovery of combat sports around the world. Aurélien will meet practitioners, teachers, grand masters or simply enthusiasts who live their sport on a daily basis. In this episode of Planète Fight, Aurélien Duarte takes us to Yangoon, Myanmar, to confront Letwei, commonly called Burmese boxing, one of the most dangerous combat sports. ------- Chapters ▷ 0:00 - Introduction ▷ 01:32 - in Yangoon, to discover Burmese boxing, Letwei ▷ 11:41 - Learning the basics of Letwei ▷ 15:00 - Meeting a master of Thaing (Burmese martial arts) ▷ 21:00 - Physical preparation before the fight ▷ 24:10 - History of traditional wrestling ▷ 28:34 - Discovering Yangoon and its temples and boxing schools ▷ 35:00 - Learning Banshay ▷ 37:24 - Last training before the fight ▷ 40:33 - Visit of the doctor Thaing, specialist in herbal and plant medicine ▷ 47:00 - Final fight between Aurélien and a wrestling champion ▷ 53:49 - Generic #martialarts #wrestling#senegal#dakar #combat #documentary #sport #wrestling ------- Subscribe to the channel: https://goo.gl/4bVtZk Follow us on Facebook: / wocomo ------- Since the origin of humanity, man has distinguished himself by his ability to fight. Tribes, ethnic groups, civilizations, have placed the art of war at the top of their concerns. Warriors have been adulated, sanctified, deified for millennia. Today, combat disciplines and martial arts are considered sports. They number in the thousands spread across the planet. Popular or taught in secret, they nonetheless draw on their cultural origins to transmit and perpetuate themselves. Aurélien Duarte will attempt to unravel the mysteries of certain practices, to enlighten the viewer on the cultural and historical origins of disciplines that are sometimes thousands of years old. He will also become a practitioner of his activities. This point is essential because it will allow for an informed and concrete understanding of the fights. Original title: Planète Fight - Myanmar A film by Aleksandar Dzerdz © 2012, Licensed by Lukarn ------- Scientific documentaries, animal or societal reports: wocomoFRANÇAIS aims to provide access to reliable and high-quality sources of information. Produced by major studios around the world, the documentaries on our channel allow us to take a fresh look at the world in which we live. Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries: ▷ wocomoHUMANITY: / wocomohumanity ▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: / wocomowildlife ▷ wocomoHISTORY: / wocomohistory ▷ wocomoTRAVEL: / wocomotravel ▷ wocomoCOOK: / wocomocook Wocomo FRANÇAIS is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.