Last week I told you how to pick boxing gloves. This week I decide to go on with the how to article. So once you got your gloves, before you put them on, it’s a must to put on hand wraps. Why?

Hand wraps are for protecting you hand. It’s the second protector you need apart from the first, gloves. In other type of boxing like bound-fist boxing only uses handwraps for protection. It helps shield your bones and tendons. More over it will hold your wrist and thumb.

There are many types and styles and colors of hand wraps you can buy. Check out our TWINS MUAY THAI HAND PROTECTORS our store in Protection Gear section.

The hand wraps you’re looking for need to be made from elastic material that will shape your hands and also can let air through, cotton made is recommended. The best lengths you can find in store are from 120″ to 170″ but if the wraps you already got are too long and you have small hands, feel free to shorten your hand wraps a bit. Small sizes are also available in some shops.

Here are some tips:

• Always feel comfortable when you put hand wraps on. If not, rewrap again.
• Don’t wrap your hand too tight and too loose.
• You need at least a couple pairs of hand wraps. They need to be washed quite often depending on how much you sweat.
• You need practice to get used to it. Follow your trainer instruction step by step if it’s your first time. Or keep in touch with our MuayThaiArt.com/weblog because next time I’ll be back with how to use your handwraps step by step.

Don’t forget to check out our store! Our hand protectors are available in many different colors of your choice.

I did promise you about a week ago that I’ll show you some pictures from Koh Kood. I just got back a few days ago and gathered all the pictures I took and chose a few I think are the most beautiful. Koh Kood is an island in the eastern Thailand, about hour and a half from land with speedboat.

After I went to this island, I have to chance my mind. I thought there would be a lot of tourists on the island. Surprisingly this island does limit the number of tourists to conserve the nature. After all that is the best idea, since lately there are a few islands already closed to be cleaned and to get rid of all those wastes.

Anyway, the first thing I did there is kayaking along the river that leads to the inside of the island. My sis and I stopped at a pier and walked 15 mins to Klong Jao waterfall. It turns out a really big waterfall and quite some people playing and swimming there. We took some pictures and vids. After spending an hour there we headed back cuz it started to get dark already and you don’t wanna be in the tropical forest in the dark trust me!

The next day we walked along the beach, through the forest along side the coast to other beaches, until we were so freaking tired and decided to rent a motorcycle and went to many places inside this Koh, including another waterfall. It’s almost raining season here now so there is lots and lots of water making these waterfall flushed with loads of water. Beautiful! But that could be dangerous to you need to be more careful swimming in the water near one.

That was it. The next day we just headed back to the land and Bangkok. Btw it’s a season of Durian, the famous fruit of its stinks. You should try one if you get a chance. Some like it some don’t. For me? 50/50. Like it of not I bought 5 of them on the way back.

Here are some pictures from Koh Kood’s beaches and waterfalls. I hope these photos make you want to visit the place. The time duration that’s perfect for going there is from October to December.

Enjoy!

Khunsuk is a Thai historical action and love-story movie. Though there are not so many Muay Thai action scenes, it does have a well-built screenplay, great camera work and good drama. So overall is great to see.

The only hardest thing of watching this film is you need pretty good background knowledge of Thai history to understand everything about this movie. If you don’t give a shit about history and wanna see great story and nice shooting picture, only once of watching is enough cuz you can still tell who fighting who. To tell you the truth, even I’m Thai and I need to watch it a couple times to value the whole thing.

A trick for you if you wanna see this one is…pay good attention to the first 5 mins of the film, where it tries to set a nice historical stage. This might make it clearer to you.

Plot:

It’s a tale of Sema, a boy from a poor family. The movie sets in Ayutthaya epic. All about battle and fighting for keep the country free. Sema has to decide if he wants to continue doing his father job, a sword maker or serves the country being a soldier beside the King. The tragedy of the story is this poor guy falls in love with a rich girl. Of course the girl’s father has a rich decent guy waiting for his daughter. Will true love overcome in the end?

Like I said, on the whole, it is a pleasurable film. Good love story, but not too corny trust me, good battle motions! So if you get a chance to see it, see it. This one does promise you some real action.

See you next week with our film review! Enjoy the film!

I have been continuing looking for Muay Thai Gym. So today’s website is about a gym. And I just realized one near my house. How haven’t I told you about this one before? Sasiprapa Gym founded for 40 years is one of the most famous gyms in Thailand.

More then 10 trainers with hundreds of fight experience are teaching here everyday.

If you are looking for a training camp in Thailand, I recommend you this one. Apart from highly experienced trainers, here also provides you good accommodations and nice learning environment with all the equipments you need right in the biggest city of Thailand.

You can first check out its site at www.muaythaisasiprapa.com. However there’s nothing much at this site. Just some pictures of their trainers, boxers and students and some news of its boxers’ previous fights.

Anyway if you want to learn Muay Thai in Bangkok Thailand, this is another choice for you. In the site, you can find contact information.

Sasiprapa Camp’s picture from www.muaythaisasiprapa.com

If you are now looking for a camp, this is it! See you next time with our Hot Martial Arts Web!

Hi guys! Welcome you back to Speak of Thai at our MuayThaiArt.com/weblog. Like you all know, we are here every week to teach you some essential Thai through a dialog or expression. So all you have to do is memorize that dialog. Just simple as that. You never know what one day you might be in Thailand.

So today’s topic is how to ask “where is the bathroom?”. You know this kindda thing is an emergency! So let’s take a look at our short dialog. And later I’ll break it down in to each word for you.

First is the keyword! Bathroom or toilet in Thai we call Hong-Num (ห้องน้ำ), literally meaning room of water. Don’t ask me why!

Here goes the dialog!

Excuse me! Could you tell me where the bathroom is? = Kor-Tod-Krap, Hong-Num-Yoo-Thang-Nai-Krap? (ขอโทษครับ ห้องน้ำอยู่ทางไหนครับ)

You walk straight to the end then turn right. = Dern-Trong-Pai-Soot-Thang-Laew-Liew-Kwa-Ka (เดินตรงไปสุดทางแล้วเลี้ยวขวาค่ะ)

Thank you. = Korp-Koon-Krap (ขอบคุณครับ)

So…that’s it! Here I’ll tell you some vocabs that I think you need to know here. No need to memorize all at once…but if you can, that will help you build up your own sentences.

Kor-Tod = Excuse me! Here we add Krap at the end to make it polite. You know you’re asking someone for a favor, you gotta be nice.

Dern = to walk
Laew = then, later on, after that
Liew = to turn
Kwa = right

What do you think? Isn’t that easy? Please tell us what you think about our Speak of Thai, we do always want to improve. You can also tell us what you want to know about our language.

I’ll leave you here for today to give you some time to work with your Thai.

See you next time here at MuayThaiArt.com/weblog