Hi! I’m back with “how to” article. Today is all about how to properly use a heavy bag. If you’ve been working with one, you will know that it’s not that easy as it looks to be. There are some certain things you need to do before and while using it.

First, make sure you protect your hands with hand wraps and boxing gloves or training gloves. And once you start striking the bag, keep your wrist aligned with your forearm and punch with the top of knuckles (index & middle finger).

Now here’s how to work with the bag! Take a look at this clip below. It’s pretty nice and helpful that I think is actually a complete tutorial. And the guy is really good, IMO at least.

How to hit the Heavy Bag VDO from YouTube.com

There are some other exercises you can perform with the punching bag. Different schools teach different techniques. But do make sure you safely protect your hands and wrists well enough while training. Keep your hands guard. It’s possible that when you get tired you will drop your hands down a bit. That’s NOT good! Because in a real fight, if you once drop your hands and arms down just a bit, that means too many more chances that you will get hit from your opponent. But let’s hope that won’t happen to you. So practice with the bag and treat it like it’s your opponent. And you can also practice some quick moves that you can learn along way.

A heavy bag can be bought in almost every martial arts and sport store. Tomorrow I’ll be back with how to buy a heavy bag or punching bag. So stick with us and come back tmr.

Welcome back to Speak of Thai. Right here we want to push and teach you how to speak a spoken Thai. So today I want to talk a bit about sport, hobbies well actually we’re talking about Muay Thai today. In Thailand, Muay Thai is the most popular sport and the one that represent this country the most. The world has known many Thai great boxers. It’s a sporting dialog. Good and useful stuff. And if you really wanna learn MuayThai in Thailand, this stuff is totally helpful. And don’t worry too much about the complete comprehension of the dialog…it’s only your first time ok? I’ll tell you the vocabularies later.

Let’s take a look at the dialog.
A: Khun Shob Tum Arai Wae La Wang? (What do you like to do in your free time? Or what are your hobbies?)
B: Pom Shob Chok Muay, Laew Khun La? (I like to box. And you?)
A: Chan Shob Doo Muay. (I like to watch boxing.)

Here are some vocabularies!
Khun = You
Shob = to like
Tum = to do
Wae La Wang = free time
Chok = to punch, Chok Muay = to box
Doo = to watch

Good so that’s our sport and hobbies today. Alright, I hope that wasn’t too hard for you. And hope you got a lot from it. The way you can keep up and retain with it you have to read in and see it in many different contexts. Right now the dialog starts to get a bit harder with the new vocabularies. They are quite a lot now. Don’t give up!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me right here and I’ll reply to you asap. Do come again next week to learn our new lesson right here at MuayThaiArt.com/weblog. Right now it’s time for me to say SawaddeeKa.

Hi guys! Another new gym for you today! This club right now has Health and Fitness Clubs in 6 locations for you in San Diego. This new fitness club’s concept is to combine a boxer and kickboxer’s workout regimen with an environment that is fun and appeals to people of all fitness levels.

Group X Fitness at The Boxing Club consists of active round-the-clock lessons in Boxing, Kickboxing, Pilates, Indoor Cycling and Yoga.

Pictures from TheBoxingClub.net

Right here fun while working out is the most important thing. They want you to have fun and get the best shape of your life at the same time. Members here can access unlimitedly to more than 200 group classes at each location. Classes are available all day, starting from 6 am to 8.30 pm. This club is recommended for people with all types of schedules. Or you can also take an all day long work out if you want to.

The classes are meant to give you an entire body workout. Each class begins with jump rope and shadow boxing to warm up. Then stretching, boxing, kickboxing, and drills. The class will end with strength training and abdominal exercises. All of the trainers will pay attention to each student and willingly want to help and be your friend. They also offer Muay Thai kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, advance boxing, yaga and pilates.

In case you’re interested. To find out more about this club dial 1800 BOXING-CLUB or visit the site at www.theboxingclub.net, where you can check out their group classes and locations of each club at SCHEDULE/LOCATIONS. Or you can also check on their trainers and other useful information.

Come back next week with another interesting Boxing Club near your house. If you want to share the club you are joining right now, please do. See you next time at MuayThaiArt.com/weblog.

Scuba diving in Thailand is one of the most popular water sports. Here there are several gorgeous dive sites in the world. The water is incredibly crystal clear, full of sea lives. Transportation and accommodation is readily available. You can also take a diving course here in Thailand because the instruction reaches an exceptionally high standard. Not to talk about the cost, it’s rather cheap comparing to other places around the world. And once you got your diving certification right here, it is also accepted in any places around the world.

You can go dive at any time of the year, although the season might affect the visibility. For example, in the Andaman Sea, the best time to go diving is from October to April and the other side is in the Gulf of Thailand, the perfect time is from May to September. And when the water is crystal clear you can see many sea lives like whale sharks, manta rays, flying fish, dolphins and colorful coral reefs right from the surface.

Every accepted dive shop is affiliated with PADI. Just like the one I took the course with. My trainer can speak well English. And there are also trainers for other several languages. At diving schools here you can expect international standard with good and professional facilities.

I heard that some places near the sea, you don’t need much time to learn how to dive. Just a couple days are good enough, or some places just one day. Or you can choose to take a course in Bangkok and take a test in the open water. That way it’d be convenient for you who don’t have much free time.

Diving is another great activity to do in Thailand’s sea that you can spend with your friends and family. Even when you go dive, the rest of the team can also relax on the beach, swim, sail canoe and enjoy the food, the trip and the scenery of the world’s most beautiful sea sites.

Yesterday I was saying that winning against a local boxer in his home country tournament seems impossible. It’s like this in any countries. However the rules of judgment and scoring are clear for all types of boxing which both viewers and players should know and concern of. Today’s article is the rules for Muay Thai only. They might differ from other types of boxing.

As you already know the result can be determined by 2 ways: score from judges and another KO.

The fighter who has the higher total score is the winner. But if both of them are seriously hurt, the end of the fight is called by the referee. And the result will be different. If the competition is set for 5 rounds and the referee call to end the fight in round 1 or 2, the boxers are draw. But if the referee end the fight in round 3 or 4 or 5, the boxer how got the higher points will win.

Knock Out or KO, the referee will end the fight when:
1. One boxer has serious wounds and down to the floor and doesn’t look good to continue the fight.
2. When the boxer has bigger than 2 cm long wound.
3. The boxer gets knocked down to the floor more than 2 times in a round.
4. The boxer wants to surrender.
5. The boxer breaks the competition rules.

Boxers earn scores by attacking and defense. According to Thai Boxing rules, boxers will get a point from attacking opponent by using fist, knees, elbows, etc. Every attacking points will be from hitting the right points of the body and strongly. Referees can also give extra points to the one who has superior skills and tactics. Boxers will also get scores from their effective defense. However if boxers break the rules during the fight, 1 point will be deducted.

These are just briefly written for you who don’t wanna open the rules book. But if you really want to start Muay Thai, the key is that you should learn everything about it and respect the rules and your opponent. See you next time!