Archive for the ‘Muay Thai’ Category

Train with a Punch Bag

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

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!

sport21
Raja Open Thumb Training Bag Gloves: Red Dragon

sport22
Top King Open Thumb Training Bag Gloves: White/Black

Muay Thai Moves: The Bent Fist

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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.

Top King Muay Thai Pads and Mitts

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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.

sport51
Top King Focus Mitts: TK-FMP 12

but since I already got my Raja mitts I thought I should get something I don’t have yet and this is what I have my eyes on.

sport52
Top King Kicking Pads: Red/White

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?

Muay Thai Learning Clips: The Elbow Chop

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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.

Muay Thai Moves: Turn Front Side Punch

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Welcome back to Muay Thai Boran Lessons or Ancient Muay Thai Lessons if you want to call it that. Thanks for coming back regularly and for those of you who accidentally came here, well you’re lucky. Because right here we give away Muay Thai lessons for free. Even though these are Muay Thai Boran techniques, I’m sure these will be useful for you.

Muay Thai is not an easy sport. Long time ago it was really used in battles. So pay attention and look out for knowledge. Any possible things you can use and adapt to improve your Muay Thai skill. Enough chitchat. Let’s get started with our today’s lesson.

Turn Front Side Punch or Prakan Perd Lok is a Muay Thai technique used for defense or escape. Here’s how to do it. The boxer or you will take a step forward and proceed to throw a right or left uppercut to your opponent’s chin which is the main target of this move. You can use either left or right hand for this matter, however, the fist you use should be delivered from the inside only. Since it will put you in a vulnerable situation if you throw the punch from the outside because the opponent can easily wipe away the punch or counter attack due to you give him a lot of time to defense-attack while gaining the force pulling the fist back.

To the attack: The boxer or you have to use your left hand to create a sweeping move and sweep away the opponent’s arm downwards. While doing this, lean you head back to get away from oncoming uppercut.

To the defense: Your left foot kick will do the trick. Use your left foot to kick the opponent in the abdomen area. You can also deliver your elbow to the opponent’s face. Reverse the side of the foot for counter attack if the opponent is left handed or uses his left hand for the turn front side punch.

That’s it for today’s lesson. I hope to see you come back to learn more because I won’t stop putting them here. More lessons are waiting. Enjoy your Muay Thai and see you next time.