Students of Muay-Thai school suffer violent exercises to toughen their bodies. In a Thai boxing school in the city of Hyderabad in India, students undergo strange rituals to harden their bodies. violent blows in the abdominal or the crotch, blows on the shins, and beating defenseless, exercises can sometimes look like a real torture session. Students are prepared to apply strong shocks to harden in order to be stronger in battle, even going to the KO.
Muay Thai is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on shins is known as "the art of eight limbs" because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, being associated with a good physical preparation that makes a full-contact fighter very efficient. Muay Thai became widespread internationally in the twentieth century, when practitioners defeated notable practitioners of other martial arts.