Kbach kun boran is a martial art from Cambodia

Cambodia

Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

. It is a historical martial arts recreation of the weapon-based combat methods used by the warriors of Angkor

Angkor

Angkor is a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries. The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara , meaning "city"...

, based on a combination of existing Cambodian fighting styles and close study of the bas-reliefs around the country's ancient ruins. Kbach kun boran makes use of three main weapons. These are the dao

Dha (sword)

Dha is the Burmese word for "knife." The term dha is conventionally used refer to a wide variety of knives and swords used by many people across Indochina, especially present-day Myanmar , Thailand, Yunnan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.-Origins:The broad use and diffusion of the dha across Southeast...

 (curved sword), the dambong veng (longstaff) and the dambong bogato (twin sticks). The system also incorporates pradal serey

Pradal Serey

Pradal serey is an unarmed martial art from Cambodia. In Khmer the word pradal means fighting or boxing and serey means free. Originally used for warfare, pradal serey is now one of Cambodia's national sports...

as its unarmed component.