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Jaa initially worked as a stuntman for Muay Thai Stunt for 14 years, appearing in many of Rittikrai's films.

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, Jackie Chan and Jet Li 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.

When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.Tony Jaa was born and raised in a rural area in Surin Province to Rin Saipetch and Thongdee Yeerum.