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Muay Thai Rules

Learn about Muay Thai rules. Understand what is and isn't allowed, what the different classes are, global variations, and what governing bodies exist globally.

Muay Thai Scoring

Learn how to score a Muay Thai fight and the details of the scoring system. Understanding how bouts are scored is crucial to maximise your chances of winning.

Fairtex MMA Gloves Review: FGV15 vs FGV17 vs FGV18 Compared

This Fairtex MMA gloves review breaks down each model in detail, comparing construction, padding, intended use and value. By the end, you will know exactly which glove matches your training style.

Muay Thai Shin Guard Size Guide: Find Your Perfect Fit

This Muay Thai shin guard size guide will help you find the perfect fit first time. We'll cover how to measure your legs, what size you need based on your height and leg size and how to tell whether your shin guards fit properly. Whether you're buying your first pair or upgrading worn-out gear, this guide has you covered.

Muay Thai vs Kickboxing: Key Differences Explained

Key Highlights Muay Thai is known as "the art of eight limbs." It uses fists, elbows, knees, and shins. Kickbox...

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10 Essential Muay Thai Nutrition Tips

Muay Thai training is tough. It put significant strain on you both physically and mentally. Hitting pads, bags and people results in damage and potentially injury. As a result, proper nutrition is crucial for maximising both training and recovery. Good nutrition and proper levels of hydration gives you the energy needed for hard workouts, helps your muscles recover, and enables you to regularly improve.

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Perfect Leather Punching Bag

Are you on the hunt for for the perfect punching bag or heavy bag for your Muay thai gym? Or perhaps you're looking to get a Muay Thai bag for your home? Whatever your purpose, this is the guide for you.

Muay Thai Workout: 10 Exercises for Building Skills at Home

In this blog, we explore 10 essential exercises for building Muay Thai skills at home. These exercises target different muscle groups and help improve technique, stamina, speed, agility, and core strength. By incorporating these exercises into your training routine, you can enhance your performance through all types of training at the gym, as well as in competition.

5 Tips For Effective Muay Thai Drill Work

Drill work is a particular type of training that’s incredibly useful for developing techniques, defence and movement in a controlled, measured environment. It is the closest type of training to sparring as there are not pads or bags involved just protective equipment (the same used in sparring).

Your Ultimate Guide to Muay Thai Gloves

Muay Thai gloves are essential gear for practitioners to ensure you can hit heavy bags, Thai pads and people while minimising the risk of injury to yourself and your partners. Choosing the right gloves can significantly impact your performance and training experience. In this guide, we show you how to make the right choice.

Breaking Yourself In – 8 Common Muay Thai Injuries

Training Muay Thai is as physically and mentally rewarding as it is tough on the body and mind. Being a contact sport, you’re regularly striking pads, people or bags and therefore exposing yourself to causing damage to yourself and others. This, coupled with the fact training is intensive and demands full-body engagement, makes injuries common, especially for first-time practitioners.

Exploring Muay Thai: The Ancient Art of Eight Limbs

Muay Thai, also known as Thai Boxing, is a martial art and combat sport that originated in Thailand. Unlike western boxing or other striking arts, Muay Thai is known as the "art of the eight limbs" because it combines punches, kicks, knee strikes, elbow strikes, and clinching techniques. This unique combination of techniques makes Muay Thai a highly effective and dynamic martial ar

The Ultimate Guide to Muay Thai Shorts

In this ultimate buying guide, we will explore the essential factors to consider when purchasing Muay Thai shorts. We will delve into the importance of material and fabric, understanding different styles and cuts, decoding the significance of colors and designs, knowing the right size for a perfect fit, top brands to consider for qualit

Muay Thai For Beginners – How To Succeed

Even if you’ve had previous experience with another combat or full contact sport, the intensity and full body workouts that you get when training Muay Thai can come as a surprise. That’s why it’s important to approach learning Muay Thai with the right mindset and take advantage of our tips on how to succeed.

What Is Primo Fight Wear?

Founded in 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand - the Mecca of Muay Thai - Primo Fightwear has quickly established itself as a global player in the Muay Thai space. Their designs and craftsmanship push the boundaries of style and material selection for Muay Thai gear, resulting in products that are bold, durable and often unique.

5 Ways To Use The Teep

The teep, also referred to as a push kick, is a long-range, diverse Muay Thai technique that can be targetted at va...

5 Examples Of Purposeful Practice In Muay Thai

We explored what purposeful practice in an earlier blog article, discussing how it differs from “normal” practice and how it can help develop your Muay Thai skills quickly and consistently. The concept itself can be easy to understand, yet when you first try to think of ways you can purposefully practice, it can be challenging.

How to Learn Muay Thai: Diversify Your Training Now

After a while of regular training, it's likely you'll hit some sort of plateau which will frustrate you, make you question your level of passion for the sport and have you searching for ways to make it exciting again. This is common with any sport or hobby and you'll need to evaluate whether it's a genuine disinterest and not just a “wall”.

10 Tips To Maximise Your Sparring

Sparring can be some of the most enjoyable and informative parts of your training, yet it can also be the most stressful and painful. For beginners it can be incredibly intimidating and even the most veteran fighter can feel pressured when sparring at a new gym. Nonetheless, sparring is essential for developing your Muay Thai skills, reaction times, conditioning and tactical thinking.

Achieve Your Fitness Goals: Can You Get Fit with Muay Thai?

Muay Thai is as effective for keeping fit as it is a striking discipline. In a 2 hour session, you can easily burn anywhere between 1000 – 2000 calories, if not more. That's equivalent to 2 hours running at 8-10mpg or 2 hours cycling at 20mph.

Enhance Your Mental Wellbeing With Muay Thai

People are increasingly conscious of the integral role mental wellbeing takes in our individual lives, and rightly so – it is estimated that 1 in 6 people experienced some sort of mental health problem in any given week. No longer is mental wellbeing the taboo topic it once was but is now an increasing focus amongst healthcare institutes, government policy and employers too.

Foot Troubles From Muay Thai Training

Training Muay Thai is tough on the feet, despite the fact we land kicks with our shins. The constant movement, pivoting and footwork generates friction which can result in blisters, sprains and cuts.

How To Increase Flexibility For Muay Thai

A fundamental route to unlocking the full potential of your rotations, power and speed in Muay Thai is by building a high-degree of flexibility throughout your body. Developing the ability to quickly move your limbs through a wide-degree of rotations without strain or injury, will significantly contribute to you're overall effectiveness in Muay Thai.

How To Pick The Right Muay Thai Shorts

Muay Thai shorts are incredibly distinct and, besides kickboxing, are rarely seen in any other sport or martial art...

What is Purposeful Practice and How to Do It

What's the difference between practice and purposeful practice? It's all in the approach as purposeful practice is focused and designed with attaining a specific goal that will improve overall performance, one step at a time. It’s kicking a heavy bag 50, 100, 1000 times until you rotate your hips the “right” amount. It’s jabbing countless times with a focus on bringing your hand back to your chin quicker than someone can counter you with your guard down

What NOT To Do At A New Muay Thai Gym

Joining a new gym, whether you're new to Muay Thai or a veteran, can be an intimidating experience. The new sights and sounds are the background to new faces, new coaching staff and new session layouts. It can be a lot to take in and adjust to. Your approach to that adjustment and your attitude to your new peers will influence the speed and ease at which you'll get comfortable at the new gym and start learning there.

5 Ways to Accelerate Your Muay Thai Learning

Whether you're just starting out in Muay Thai or are a well experienced veteran, there are always new things to learn, things to tweak, new approaches to adopt. Having a mentality of continuous life-long learning is integral to martial arts, your career and getting the most out of life.

How to Train Muay Thai Skills Outside the Gym

Practicing Muay Thai is best done in a well-equipped gym with knowledgeable coaches and enthusiastic partners. However, that doesn’t mean your learning is restricted to a gym setting. There’s various ways to diversify and accelerate your learning of the sport in the comfort of your home, while commuting or in a public park.

A Brief History of Muay Thai

Modern Muay Thai has evolved from its historical Muay Boran roots, where it was used in battles when soldiers lost their weapons, to a regulated, rules based ring sport. Muay Thai is Thailand’s most famous culutural export and, nowadays, is known throughout the world for its beauty and brutality.

5 Ways to Improve Your Shadow Boxing

Shadow boxing is a fundamental part of Muay Thai training. To the uninitiated observer, it can look odd and some may consider it a time-filler, however, in actuality, it's a key part of training which enables practitioners to visualise, experiment, refine and warm-up.

How to Stop Flinching In Muay Thai

When you first start out in any full-contact martial art, it's difficult to embrace strikes coming your way without flinching, moving and/or blinking. It's a natural human tendency to want to avoid pain and be hesitant in the face of incoming strikes. Given the frequency of sparring and drilling in Muay Thai training, it's important to condition your mind and body to incoming strikes so you can make the most of such training methods.

Muay Thai Equipment Guide For Committed Practitioners

This guide assumes you're committed to learning and enjoying Muay Thai and seek advice on what gear you need to get the most out of all your training, along with what equipment you'll need to mitigate and treat injuries.

Essential Muay Thai Equipment for Beginners

This article provides guidance based on the assumption that you're either new to Muay Thai and aren't yet sure whether its the sport for you OR you enjoy training Muay Thai but only do so infrequently, with a focus on the fitness aspects without engaging too heavily in sparring.

5 Different Approaches To Use In Sparring

There are some stylistic approaches you can adopt in your sparring sessions which will broaden your experience and help develop your learning in this way. They'll also force you to think creatively and help you diversify your arsenal. Try them on different sparring partners and adopt the approach which fits into what you're looking to learn/achieve in that sparring session.

How to Gain Respect at a New Gym

Whether your new to Muay Thai or a well-seasoned veteran, going to train at a new gym can be an intimidating and uncomfortable experience at first. Unless your name, skills and experience precede you, it's likely you'll not know many people, if any, and you'll be walking into an environment filled with testosterone, sweat, bravado and even ego.

How to Look After Your Hands and Wrists In Muay Thai

Your hands and wrists form 2 of the key limbs used in the Art of 8 Limbs. Not only are they integral to effective boxing, they're also crucial components of your blocking and clinching capabilities. Unfortunately, your hands and wrists are two areas in your body made up of numerous, individual bones.

Choosing The Right Muay Thai Gym

Whether you're new to Muay Thai or looking for a gym to develop new & existing skills, training in the right gym is key to getting the most out of your time & effort. What's right for you will depend on a variety of factors but it's worth first thinking about your goals and how quickly you want to achieve them. For exa

Why Train Muay Thai: 9 Compelling Reasons

While Muay Thai is widely considered the most effective striking discipline in the world, its reputation often deters many people from practising the sport as they consider it too brutal or likely to involve too much pain. While there is some justification in this, much of the pain arising from contact can be avoided and the benefits Muay Thai brings even the average practitioner are worthwhile and varied.

How to Clean Muay Thai Gear

Over time, all that hard work you put into your Muay Thai training rubs off onto the gear you use. While the materials will weather over a longer period, in the short term it’s easier to notice the transfer of all the various bodily fluids you secrete during training and all the dirt that accumulates on you and your gear from the gym. To maintain your gear, increase its life and keep any pungent odours at bay, you need to clean it thoroughly and frequently.

How to Clean Muay Thai Gloves

Your gloves can be a continuous source of pungent odours if you don't take the time to prevent odours building up and rid your gloves of odours when they do arise. Fortunately, it doesn't take a lot of time and there are plenty of methods to help keep your gloves clean and fresh.