Muay Thai Fist clenching and Hand wraps
Muay Thai Fist clenching and Hand wraps
The next step of Muay Thai training is you have to learn how to clenching the fist and make hand wrap correctly. But before we are going to learn how to clinch the fist and how to make hand wrap correctly, it is also good to know about the history, style and development of hand wrapping of Muay Thai. In ancient times, boxers did not use some kind of gloves or hand wrap style that similar to the western style these days. In fact, boxers were not required to wrap or cover their hands. However, sometime later, once the concern of safety of boxer’s hand, hand wrap was required in order to support and protect hands from severe injury. Muay Kad Chuek was the first common type of Muay that introduce the hand wrap method. Its unique style of hand wrap called Kad Chuek, is a kind of fist binding that not only focus on protecting hand but also to increase strength of attack. So the style of hand wrap has changed to increase attack potential by twisting threads into small coils and making knots hide under the knuckles. There were some more complex method of making fist binding become more danger such as before the fight, soaking bounded fists into the water and dried into the sun light then the knots become harder.
The style of hand wrapping is really depends on individual and camps, but there still a general method of Muay Thai hand wrapping, which widely used and you can practice from our video clip. Now let start to learn how to clench your fist and making correct hand wrap.
When the new era of Muay Thai has emerged and has absorbed a lot of western boxing, using gloves and safe hand wraps are required in formal competition. The objective of increase attack strength has no longer been recognized, remain only to protect boxers from injury and safety.
How to clench your fists
It is very necessary to learn how to clench your fists correctly in order to use them effectively and safely. Clench your fists improperly may cause injuries with hands and fingers. The power of the punch could will increase if you clench the fist correctly. Please follow these following steps.
1. Holding your 4 fingers first (except the thumb), then bend the knuckle and bring your finger tips towards your palm.
2. Move the thumb place firmly on the fore finger.
3. Hold fists firmly and tense your wrist when you punching.
Hand-Wraps
It is essential that you first apply the hand-wraps to both fists before wearing gloves. As mentioned above that clench your fists correctly is very important, but hand wrapping is much much more important. This is because ineffective hand wrapping will not only cause serious injury during the fight or training, but also effects to your arms and fists movements, which related to overall performance.
Hand wrapping method has to accommodate boxer to wear boxing gloves comfortably and allow boxer be able to use punch effectively. Boxer have to balance the weight of boxing gloves and weight of hand wrapping material and make sure it will fit their most comfortable the total weight of gloves and wraps must not too heavy or not too light.
The length, width and thickness of wrapping materials are also important. They need to fit to boxer's hand, too short stripe may not wrap the entire hand and too long may generate unnecessary weight to boxer's hands as well as uncomfortable. It is a responsibility for each of boxer to try and test which kind of wrapping material, how long and how thickness that will fit to them for the best performance.
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