Welcome to our blog! We are back again right here to talk about Muay Thai stuff. That’s right. Today’s article is going to be about Punching Bags. What are they for? And how to pick one? Perhaps you might want to get one at your house, since it will be handy for you to train Muay Thai at home.
In Muay thai or in any types of Martial Arts, Punching bags are great for building up strength of your fists punch or kicks. Besides, some people use punching bags for their stress relief. So heck even though you don’t box, there’s still a pretty good reason to have one around. Anyway let’s go back to boxing. Boxers from beginners to professionals use them a lot because practice with bags are great for creating muscles, stamina and improve boxing techniques. Now let’s choose a good quality and a right type of punching bags for you.
The First type of boxing bags is called the body-shaped bags. This human figured bag is used by professional boxers only and quite hard to find. It is a type of Pedestal bags.
The most common punch bags are heavy bags. They are cylindrical and hung from the ceiling with chains. The bags are strong and can handle hard and powerful workout or practice of your punches and kicks. Choose real leather bags filled with grains for long time use.
Pedestal Bags is like heavy bags. But instead of hanging from the ceiling, pedestal bags stand on the floor. However, if compare to the hanging heavy bag, I would go for the heavy bag because I can practice more Muay Thai moves with its swaying motions.
Last but not least, speed bags. This one is much smaller and easier to buy. Air filled speed bag are great for learning how to keep the hands up at post, improving the speed and perfecting the body coordination.
Train with the right bags that fit for your training purposes. Another thing to concern is the weight of the bag, heavier is more stable and on the other hand the lighter the harder to control.
Cautions: Never go with bare hands and use boxing gloves that are made for bag training. Enjoy!
Welcome back! Muay Thai Moves at our blog is still moving on and today Muay Thai boran moves is called “the bent fist”. I hope you like the lessons so far. However, I might not have done the job perfectly so if you see I wrote something wrong about Muay Thai technique, please feel free to correct me right below the comment. But so far I think the lessons are pretty good, especially for newbie. Who knows you might learn something from here that you will never get to learn from your boxing gym.
Since some of these are ancient Muay Thai moves, you might think you don’t need to know. However, I found that a lot of professional Muay thai fighters also need to learn ancient moves to get improved. So why wait, let’s take a look at Today’s lesson.
Its ancient name is Khok Nasa. But that doesn’t describe why it is the bent fist move. This move is perfect for attack. To start the move, throw the punch while bending the elbow and deliver the blow from the side downwards. Aim for the targets like nose, or jaws. To create more force to the punch, also twist or bed the inner wrist while punching and also step forward with your left foot and twist the body to the left (when you’re using the right punch).
To the attack: Do not look down on the boxer’s feet or ground to avoid the uppercuts. To defense against this Muay Thai fist, the left hand should be held up to block the incoming blow from your left side. The left arm is then used to wipe away the boxer’s punching fist outwards. Keep balance by swaying yourself a bit.
To the defense: Attack your opponent’s right rib with your left knee kick. Reverse the side of your knee kick if the blow is coming from the other way.
The end of the month is what we’ve all been waiting for right? Let me tell ya. This is the most happiest time of the month. And it’s a perfect time to use that money I got from working my ass off and on nothing better than what we all love here…something related to Muay Thai of course.
I got something on my mind but still can’t decide what I should get. First I want to replace my focus mitts because my old ones are kinda old now (I bought them two years ago) and the leather is starting to break. And on the other hand, I don’t have kick pads yet. What should I get?
My old punch mitts were of Raja Boxing. They are good and still work ok even I see the stuff inside underneath the leather. But these Top King ones look pretty cool and really tempt me to buy.
Have you ever try Top King leather products? Like gloves, mitts or pads? Tell me what you think? Or I should go back to Raja cause I think Raja focus mitts are pretty good.
Well let me know. At the mean time, are you getting anything Muay Thai for yourself this month?
It’s time for another Muay Thai Learning Clip. The move we are talking about today is called “The Elbow Chop”. This move is pretty easy to understand but hardly find the right time to get a chance to use it. I hope you like the video made by a friend of mine. See the whole video series in YouTube if you like.
This Muay Thai elbow or Sork is called “the elbow chop” or “Sork Sap” in Thai. It is used for such targets like head, face or collar-bone. If you do things right, this Muay Thai technique can help you winning the fight because it’s pretty deadly if you ask me. Interested now? There’s nothing to it. You can bring your elbow vertically down to impact onto the target. And if you use both elbow for this matter, it will be called “the double elbow chop” or “Sok sap koo”.
However, the only time you can use this move is when your opponent is in a lower position for example while he’s stooping, or if he’s shorter than you.
Two ways to get your elbow in ready position for the hit are: to bring your arm or both arms straight up high above the opponent’s head before bring it vertically down powerfully to the target. Second way to do it is to bend the elbow pointing the elbow to the top of the opponent’s head placing the fist right over your shoulder, then bring it down causing the point of your elbow to hit the target.
There are two types of Muay thai elbow chop : Rear elbow chop and Lead elbow chop.
Let’s start with the rear elbow chop. Start with the boxing stance as always. Twist the body, shoulder, hip and extend the back leg. Raise the arm up ready for attacking and boom.
For the lead Muay Thai elbow chop, do the same without any twisting.
I hope you like the demonstration in the video. Rate it if you think it’s useful or perhaps recommend to your friends. See you soon.
I was in Youtube the other day I say this video clip which I thought is pretty cool so I decided to spread around in my blog so those of you who come to visit my blog can see it too. I think it’s useful for newbies and don’t know how to wrap the hand properly. You gotta admit wrapping your hand for boxing is kinda tricky at first. I myself spent a lot of time wrapping my fists for the first month of boxing. But practice make perfect. Right now I can do it perfectly for both hands in less than 5 minutes. My readers might do it faster than me, is that what you’re thinking? LoL.
Anyway so this is the video. Thank heaps to Muaythaiguy who uploaded it. Your video has a really good demonstration, great for learning. And this is the website to the blog he posted in the info of this clip…Click here to visit his site. Give him a support by visiting his website and rate his video in YouTube.
Muay Thai Kickboxing-Hand Wrapping Video from YouTube by Muaythaiguy
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