How To Buy Kickboxing Gear

If you want to get into kickboxing, you need to get some equipment. I'm going to show the most basic, fundamental stuff you need to buy. Firstly, you need wraps.

These wraps, usually around about four meters long, they go around your wrists, around your hands, and they protect your hands before you put your glove on which comes to the next thing you need to buy, gloves. Now, there are lots of different types of gloves available. You can have grappling gloves for use in MMA, big heavy 20-ounce boxing gloves.

These are 12-ounce gloves; there you see they have the name to the side, the weight to the side. This is a good kind of weight to start. You can fight in these professionally, and it's also good for using a heavy bag and for focus pads.

So, you've got your wraps, your gloves, and finally, because you kick in kickboxing, I'd recommend some shin pads. These are really, really thick, so they protect your shins, your shins hurt a lot. When someone hits your shin, unless you've been training for years and years and years, you have lots of nerve endings close to the bone, it hurts, so this protects you, also protects your feet.

There are lots more of different equipment you can get, lots of different exercise pads and head gear, but what I showed you there, the gloves and the shin guards, are the most fundamental. Another thing which is useful is to get focus pads. If you buy some of these, it means you and a friend can train outside of the club environment.

So what they do, you put the gloves on here, and people can- your friend can kind of punch or kick, I guess. So, to recap, get wraps, get some standard boxing gloves, I recommend 12-ounce or heavier, the heavier, the less chance of injuring your opponent, and some shin guards. It's generally better to go for well-known brands - Taupo, Fairtex, King, Twins, ones which are kind of famous are usually built a bit better than the really cheap ones.

Personally, I'd have a look at your kind of local kickboxing school, see what they sell, and also have a look online. That's usually the best way of buying equipment such as this. .