![]() ![]() His films have showcased various other martial arts styles, such as Kung-fu, Silat, and Jiu-Jitsu. His early martial arts experience included Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Muay Boran, and Krabi-Krabong, with an emphasis on gymnastics and acrobatics. ![]() Panna had instructed Jaa to attend Maha Sarakham College of Physical Education in Maha Sarakham Province from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree. By 15, he was a protégé of stuntman and action film director Panna Rittikrai. Jaa began training in Muay Thai at his local temple at age 10. ![]() "I practiced until I could do the move exactly as I had seen the masters do it." "What they did was so beautiful, so heroic that I wanted to do it too," Jaa told Time in a 2004 interview. He practiced the techniques in his father's rice paddy. In his youth, Jaa watched films by Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan at temple fairs, which inspired him to learn martial arts. Tony Jaa speaks Kuy, Thai and Northern Khmer. The Kuy are known for being skilled trainers of elephants. The Kuy practice traditions that are more similar to the traditions of Cambodia than that of traditions observed by the Lao or the Thai. He is of Kuy descent, a Mon–Khmer ethnic group that inhabits Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. Tony Jaa was born and raised in a rural area in Surin Province to Rin Saipetch and Thongdee Yeerum. Since then, Jaa has appeared in films such as Furious 7 (2015), SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015), Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (2018), and Expend4bles (2023). After leaving the Thai movie company Sahamongkol Film International in 2013, Jaa signed with Universal Studios, and focused more on an international fan base. His Thai films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (2003), Tom-Yum-Goong (2005), Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (2008), Ong Bak 3 (2010), and Tom Yum Goong 2 (2013). ![]() His martial arts films are credited with helping to showcase the Thai combat systems of Muay Thai, Muay Boran, and "Muay Kotchasaan" (a fighting style Jaa and Rittikrai developed in 2005). Prior to becoming a leading actor, Jaa worked as a stuntman for Muay Thai Stunt for 14 years, appearing in many of his mentor Panna Rittikrai's films. Tatchakorn Yeerum ( Thai: ทัชชกร ยีรัมย์, RTGS: Thatchakon Yiram, pronounced formerly Phanom Yeerum ( Thai: พนม ยีรัมย์, )), better known internationally as Tony Jaa and in Thailand as Jaa Phanom ( Thai: จา พนม, RTGS: Cha Phanom, ), is a Thai martial artist, actor, action choreographer, stuntman, director, and traceur. ![]()
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