It is crucial to know how to stretch properly before and after your intense workout or training. Especially when you do a hard workout like kickboxing, boxing, or Muay Thai, these physical contact sports need really good stretch to add more flexibility to your muscles that will get stress from the extreme exercise.

And I found this website that talks about how to stretch! The site already explains everything you need know in advance before you get started in case you’re new with all stretching thing. The explanations include pictures of body positions and the other parts of body positions, anything that are essential for stretching your body the right way.

Stretching will help prevent injuries and allow you to reach your maximum potential. If you wanna know more about why you need to stretch, go to the site and click on “Why Stretch?” . By the way, the address for this website is www.howtostretch.com.

Once you’re ready to stretch, click on “Stretches”, a link to pages of how to stretch your hands, your legs, your hips, groin, back, and torso. There is also “Advanced Stretch” for those of you who have difficulty with doing regular stretching.

The website is really helpful and useful, especially for us who train martial arts regularly. Pass it on to your friends what you learn from the site and how it help improve your body and training.

HANUMAN JONG TANON or also known as “throws the back punch from above”. This move is mainly used for defense. The action is done by bending the joint of your right elbow up to a point where it is level with the ear. In the meantime, the left fist is at an oblique position to the front. As you sway to the left to build up power, you should then throw the right blow to your opponent’s face. This punch is thrown at a downward angle, with most of the body’s weight being supported by the left foot.

As the right punch is thrown, the left hand remains close to the face to defend against any counter-attacks delivered directly to your face.

When defense, the opponent should jump back, support his body with the right leg and deliver a left kick to your chest or midsection as soon as there is an opening found. If you use your left arm to throw the punch, then the right leg should be used to kick the opponent with.

Sparring is very important in Muay Thai training. It is the best chance that you can try out the moves or techniques that you learn, improve the ones that you are not quite confident to use (in this case you should use those moves more often to gain confidence), know what to do and what you should not do in the match.

To have an effective sparring, all boxers must control themselves. This means you will have to watch out for your partner because it is training still, not a real fight. You want to be able to learn from sparring not defeating your friend.

If you know that your partner has less strength than you, or is lighter or slower or has less experience in fighting, control your power and use light contact, even better if you note which techniques or moves that are too dangerous to use to that partner.

More importantly, even if your partner has the same level of skills, you must control your temper and fight carefully. Control your power if you decide to spar in rounds to be able to stay until the last round. Don’t get wasted and over use your power at the first round by sparring too intensely when not necessary.

Learn and get the best from sparring sessions by watching other competitors and see what techniques you can use in real competition.