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!

Raja Open Thumb Training Bag Gloves: Red Dragon

Top King Open Thumb Training Bag Gloves: White/Black

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

If you are also looking for new hand wraps for your boxing collection, check these out.

X3 Twins Muay Thai Hand Wraps

Buying wholesale is always cheaper. Beside hand wraps are something you must use anyway. These Twins hand wraps are made of 100% cotton of 5 meters length. Great quality products that you don’t want to miss! We also have Raja boxing, King Professional and Windy hand wraps in our online Muay Thai store. To visit our shop, click here.

Here’re some beautiful pictures of our new awesome raja shorts:

Raja Thai Kick Boxing Shorts: RTB-422

Raja Thai Kick Boxing Shorts: RTB-418

Raja Muay Thai Boxing Shorts: RTB-384

Raja Muay Thai Boxing Shorts: RTB-390

The Models RTB-422 and RTB-390 are the samples of our new shiny Muay Thai shorts. The shorts are still pretty soft but not as satin but they are very shiny on the outside making you look more outstanding while wearing them.

The Model RTB-418 are made of Satin just like normal Muay Thai shorts. But these will give you more choices of satin Muay Thai boxing shorts. Own a pair now!

And Lastly the Model RTB-384 purple is a little new. We call “Special Silk”. You can see the look of the shorts is quite different. They also feel different if you ask me. They usually cost more than other type of fabric. Recommend to try.

I’ll keep you update whenever we add more products into our shop. Check back often and you won’t be left out off Muay Thai fashion. At the mean time, I welcome you to visit our shop. Enjoy!

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.

It’s kinda new to our store since we’d only been selling Muay Thai equipment before. So now to be good in the business, I have to learn more about MMA and its products or equipments. So I did some research online on how to pick an MMA gloves.

The purpose of MMA gloves is just like Muay Thai gloves. The gloves are for absorbing the impact from the blow that might damage the knuckles. Good MMA gloves should be durable, light weight and allow the mobility of your hands.

MMA fighters need to use their hand for grapping. So if wearing MMA gloves that don’t feel comfortable and don’t allow the wearer to move their hand and fingers freely, then those are not the gloves you’re looking for.

Light weight gloves are best for high level fighters. The professional MMA gloves weigh about 4 oz. Amateur MMA gloves will weigh more. The reason is not different from Muay Thai gloves. Heavier gloves are perfect for learning and practicing and good for building muscles. Lighter gloves are great for fighting as they allow the MMA fighters to move their hands with greater speed.

Look for durable gloves when it’s time to invent for ones. Durable gloves will last much longer than the cheap material ones. Real leather is what you’re looking for.

Ask your trainer is the best way to go since there are a few types of MMA gloves to choose from.
Here are the samples of what we have. Check out our store for more.

Top King MMA Gloves: White Ultimate

Top King MMA Gloves: Red/White Combat

Top King MMA Gloves: Navy Blue Army

Today is another Muay Thai elbow lesson. We will finish the elbow moves soon enough and will continue with the thai boxing knee right after, so don’t forget to check back whenever you can to complete all Muay Thai moves for free right here.

The elbow move today is the Reverse Horizontal Elbow or Sok Gratoong or Sok Wiang Glap. This Thai boxing technique is ideal for attacking target like the side of the opponent’s face. There are two ways to perform this technique creating two different results. The elbow is thrown horizontally back combining with the movement of your elbow, shoulder, waist, hip and leg to add more power to the attack.

First is the lead reverse horizontal elbow. This particular technique is used as an attack when you’re in close range to the opponent. You start with twisting your left shoulder, waist, hip and leg to the right with speed and strength. Then follow that by swinging the ready elbow back horizontally to hit the target using the point of your elbow.

The Rear Reverse Horizontal Elbow will do great as a follow-on move. Use this Thai boxing technique when other elbow attacks like the elbow slash or the horizontal elbow is failed to hit the target. Look at it as an opportunity and turn it into an advantage by retracting the elbow back with speed and impact the point of the elbow against to side of your opponent’s head. For example, if you’re using the right horizontal elbow and it misses the target, swing the elbow further to the left and pull it horizontally to the ground back forcefully to the right along the same path to hit the target.

Practice this with your Thai boxing master. You will be able to do this boxing move in no time and you will enjoy Muay Thai even more.

If you like the lessons here, do not forget to spread around to your friends!

I have been reading reviews after reviews of Muay Thai gloves. To tell you the truth, Twins’ are not the best gloves you can ever get. However, if you compare the price and the quality, their boxing products are still at top.

There are quite some complains about its quality. I gotta admit, in this case, Twins Muay Thai gloves can’t be compared to some other brands. The quality of the materials is in OK-good grade. So in case you bang them up quite often by using them pretty much every day a week, they will start to show the sign like wrinkles or breaking in about 2-4 months.

However, the good things about Twins brand are that their prices of about 50 bucks a pair are quite reasonable with the quality. They are affordable by most boxers and great for starters. The foam at the point of the fist is quite soft so it’s great for sparring. And with the Velcro straps fasteners, their muay thai gloves are very easy to put on and take off. And since their prices are not freakingly high, you can have a collection of Muay Thai gloves and you can alternately wear them. This way your boxing gloves will last much longer.

Watch out for the fake ones that use low grade materials! Only buy all Muay Thai products from a trusted store.

Twins Thai Boxing Gloves: Tattoo Black (FBGV-9)

Twins Thai Boxing Gloves: Tattoo White (FBGV-9)

These two black and white pair look pretty good, don’t they?