WELCOME to my channel. This information and documentation channel is to PRESERVE, PROTECT and PASS along my knowledge of the 2000 years Khmer Martial Art, culture, civilization and heritage. At its peak, the great Khmer civilization (as our people of Cambodia refers) ruled an empire that encompassed modern Cambodia, Thailand, South Vietnam and part of Myanmar in the West, and stretched up to Wat Phou of Laos in the North. Due to the closeness to India, our culture was largely impacted by our neighbor, particularly in literature of Aksar Khmer or Khom. The Indian epics "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" were the two pieces of such influential literature combined with the Khmer epics of Kru Pram (5 elements), see bas-relief on the wall of Bayon temple in Siam Reap.