Pacific Sports gel hand wraps and MMA gloves offer excellent protection for the hand, fingers, knuckles, and the wrist. They are extensively used for intense punching, sparring, and grappling MMA practice sessions.
On the top, under the Gi jacket, the items to wear that may be combined as per individual requirement, are breast guard, sports bra, T-shirt, compression shirt, and rash guard. While on the bottom, under the Gi pants, the items to wear that may be combined as per individual requirement, are groin guard, underwear, compression shorts, athletic shorts, and compression pants. Wearing these items in any preferred combination is beneficial. Pacific Sports offers high-quality compression wear and rash guards that may be worn under a Gi. The benefits of wearing a compression wear / rash guard under a Gi are numerous.
Need only a jacket, or a pant, or a belt, but not the complete gi? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. Many times, while practicing Taekwondo, Karate, Judo or Jiu-Jitsu, the gi is fine, but just the jacket or the pants needs to be replaced. Again, if there is a promotion then only the belt needs to be changed. Pacific Sports offers high-quality Gi Jackets, Pants, and Belts that can be bought individually, so that you don’t have to buy the complete gi.
The shin bone is in the front of the leg, and it is vulnerable in all martial arts. During kicks, the ankle and the instep may also get hurt. Therefore, protecting the shin, ankle, and the instep is important for a martial artist. Protection leads to no or fewer injuries that enables the martial artist to lessen time spent in recuperating. Pacific Sports offers guards that protect the shin, ankle and the instep. Pacific Sports high-quality shin-ankle-instep guards offer excellent protection, so that the martial artist can without any worry pursue Karate, Taekwondo, Muay Thai, MMA, Kickboxing, or any other combat sport.
Poomsae (patterns) and Kyorugi (sparring) need shoes that can facilitate the various types of martial movements. Pacific Sports offers high-quality Taekwondo shoes with white or black sole, specifically designed for Poomsae and Kyorugi.
Taekwondo Paddle drills improve the performance of any Taekwondo practitioner. The paddle is held by a training partner, who may hold it stationary or may move it around. The drills are usually designed by the instructor according to the progress of the student; however, few popular drills are given below.
Shorts for Muay Thai, Kickboxing, MMA and Compression wear are exclusively designed for their respective usages. Due to this exclusivity, there are some differences between them; however, they can be used interchangeably depending upon personal preference and style. Although they are all shorts, yet the major differentiating factors are length, material, cut, design, fit, and functionality.
Pacific Sports compression wear features tops, pants, and shorts, for both men and women. They are excellent for all types of sporting activities like martial arts, gym & fitness, cross-training, running, and more.
Wearing your old gi, you went through intense training, improved your skill levels, and attained higher belts. It has seen your feeble punches turn into boards-breaking powerful punches, and your slow kicks into lightning fast kicks. So, naturally there is a sentimental value attached with your old gi and you don’t want to simply throw it away. But for your competition, or you have earned a higher belt, or simply because the gi is torn, you need to have a new gi. You can always buy a high-quality new gi from Pacific Sports, but what to do with the old gi? Here are some possible suggestions.
High quality Pacific Sports gear can level up your Muay Tahi training. With excellent Pacific Sports Muay Thai shorts featuring traditional Thai lettering and motifs, your determination will improve considerably. Your punches will become more accurate when you hit Pacific Sports focus pads with Pacific Sports gloves designed especially for Muay Thai. Combine it with Pacific Sports shin guards and you can practice powerful kicks on Pacific Sports kicking shields without getting hurt. Pacific Sports gear will make your Muay Thai training more intense and take it to the next level.
Martial arts require intensive and rigorous training, which takes a toll on the martial arts uniform (gi). A martial artist needs to keep the gi in a good condition so that it lasts long. But how to make a martial arts uniform (gi) last long? In brief, taking good care of the gi would make it last long. However, few other important points should also be considered, so that the gi can last a very long time, for years and years of training.
Focus mitt drills are used for training punches. The trainer holds the focus mitts or focus pads, while the student wears gloves. With the gloves, the student punches the focus mitt held by the trainer. The trainer receives punches on the focus mitt but can also use the arm holding the focus mitt as if throwing punches, which simulates sparring. The punches thrown with the focus mitt by the trainer are evaded by the student with slipping, rolling, weaving, or shuffling techniques. In this manner, the student can practice both attacking and defensive moves with focus mitt drills, using focus mitts, focus pads, and gloves.
Nowadays, a gi comes in various colors, with the most common being white, black, blue and red. So, which gi color should you buy? This article answers some questions that might help you to determine the right color for your martial arts practice.
Training with focus mitts is not just about throwing punches and hitting the mitts. If the mitts are incorrectly held, then upon impact, the wrist or the hands of the puncher or the mitt-holder may get hurt. The following points should be considered while holding focus mitts.
In any physical activity, be it martial arts, sports, or physical fitness, feedback from trainers is essential. Trainers follow different ways of providing feedback; however, the MATS feedback method is widely used by trainers all over the world. MATS is an acronym for Motivating, Actionable, Timely, and Specific.
Buying Taekwondo shoes online is much the same as buying any shoes online. The main thing to check is can you return them if they don’t suit your needs or fit correctly?
Unlike karate jackets and pants that can be altered to fit, Taekwondo shoes cannot be altered, apart from minor adjustments such as heel grips or inner soles that is, so they need to fit correctly when you buy them.
Here’s some simple steps to make sure you end up with the Taekwondo shoes you want.
Pacific Sports gi is the first choice of amateurs and professionals alike all around the world, because it provides several outstanding features and benefits.
Pacific Sports compression wear features tops, pants, and shorts, for both men and women. They are excellent for all types of sporting activities like martial arts, gym & fitness, cross-training, running, and more. A compression wear compresses the surface of the skin and thereby exerts a surface pressure on the body part where it is worn. Due to this balanced pressure, blood flow is accelerated, and the affected muscle groups obtain more oxygen, which prevents fatigue and enhances faster recovery.
Wearing a compression tank top can provide several benefits for women engaged in various activities, ranging from exercise and sports to post-workout recovery. It can provide improved muscle support, increased blood circulation, enhanced performance, faster recovery, temperature regulation, injury prevention, psychological benefits, and more.
Pacific Sports Taekwondo equipment takes care of all your Taekwondo training needs right from uniforms to paddles to shields to shoes. All are made to the highest Pacific Sports quality and are extremely durable. They are also easy to clean, so that they remain hygienic and germ-free.
A gi comes in several weights from 8oz to 18oz, and they may be light-weight, medium-weight, or heavy-weight. The weight of a fabric depends on how the fabric of a gi is woven. A gi comes in different fabrics, which are normally cotton, canvas, or a blend of polyester-cotton. These fabrics can be woven in several different ways like plain weave, weft-faced weave, warp-faced weave, twill weave, satin weave, tapestry weave, weft patterning weave, twining weave, knotted pile weave and many more. Normally, a gi comes in single weave, double weave, gold weave, pearl weave, pearl plus weave, honeycomb weave and ripstop weave.
For the practice to be effective, the mittholder must be good; and a good mittholder needs a good focus mitt. Mitt practice is done by practitioners of boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Taekwondo, Karate, MMA, and other martial arts. Practicing with a mitt is required for learning how to punch, kick or use elbow and knee strikes. The trainer holds the mitt while the practitioner hits it. During this process, the trainer shows some tips on how the strikes can have greater accuracy, speed, and power. These tips are implemented by the practitioner until the practitioner gets it right. Hence, training with a mitt is strenuous and intense. Both the trainer and the practitioner put in a lot of effort in the training session. In order for the combined efforts of the trainer and the practitioner to be fruitful, the mitt has to be very good like Pacific Sports focus mitts.
A kicking shield is a padded piece of training equipment and so it is also known as a kicking pad. Again, besides practicing kicks, it can also be used to practice punches, knee and elbow strikes, and thus, it is also known as a multipurpose pad. While holding the multipurpose pad, the partner should not get hurt from the power of your kicks and punches. For this reason, the following general guidelines may be followed:
Pacific Sports shorts are designed to withstand the high pressure of kickboxing competition. The fabric is polyester or a blend of polyester with silk or satin, which makes it extremely strong and long lasting. The stitching is doubly reinforced at pressure points areas, so that fast kicks can be easily delivered. The sides are cut suitably to provide full range of motion. Moreover, they come in attractive colors and styles to suit every type of kickboxing competition.
Yes, there are the same. Sometime in the 1950s, the DuPont Corporation developed an elastomeric polyurethane fibre (polyether-polyurea copolymer) and branded it as “Lycra”. Lycra is also known as elastane, spandex, Numa, Spandelle, and Vyrene; however, all these have the same polyurethane fibre and thus, they are different generic or brand names for the same fibre. This fibre has great stretchability and expands quite a lot; thus, sometimes it is said that the word “spandex” is an anagram of the word “expands”. Spandex or Lycra adds itself easily with polyester, or nylon, or hemp, or cotton, or wool. Pacific Sports offers high quality compression wear made from a blend of polyester and Lycra.
Pacific Sports MMA gloves are exclusively designed for Mixed Martial Arts, so that punching and grappling moves can be powerfully executed. After an intense MMA workout, it is obvious that the gloves become dirty due to sweat, dust, and bacteria, which makes the gloves unhygienic, and they also smell bad. Therefore, it is necessary to clean the gloves, so that they remain bacteria-free and last a very long time. Pacific Sports MMA gloves are very easy to clean in few simple steps only.
A gi (also known as a dogi, or a keikogi, loosely translated as “practice clothesâ€) is a martial arts uniform that is worn by practitioners of Taekwondo, Karate, Judo, BJJ, and more. A gi consists of a jacket (known as “uwagiâ€), pants (known as “shitabaki†or “zubon”), and a belt (known as an “obiâ€). To sew a gi yourself, you need to make the jacket, the pants, and the belt.
A gi can be folded in many ways; however, traditionally in Japan it is folded either in a rectangular/square way or a round/circular way. In Japan, these methods are known as: Shikaku oritatami gi (shikaku=square, oritatami=folding/folded, gi=martial arts uniform), Nagashikaku oritatami gi (nagashikaku=rectangular), and Marui oritatami gi (marui=round/circular). Generally, martial artists in Japan, fold their gi in any of the above ways.
For a Kata, the Karate gi needs to look good and feel good, which in turn, generally makes the execution of the Kata also good. The gi may be adjusted as given in the following steps:
A new pair of shoes feels nice but getting blisters from shoe bites certainly does not feel nice. But new shoes do bite and therefore breaking in the shoes fast is required, so that wearing the shoes can be an enjoyable experience. Like all other shoes, Taekwondo shoes also need to be broken in.
Shorts are worn by martial artists practicing Muay Thai, Kickboxing and MMA. Muay Thai and Kickboxing shorts are similar in that they both are shorter and loose to allow for easy kicking, while MMA shorts are somewhat longer and tighter.
As a martial artist you already know the importance of having the right training gear to get the most out of your training sessions. From paddles to gloves to kick shields and everything in-between, having high quality training and protective equipment, lets you reach new levels of performance.
Rash guards are a popular item in sportswear and are used by athletes across a range of different sports, from martial arts and football to surfing and swimming. In martial arts, rash guard have several uses. Rash guards prevent chafing, sunburn, skin irritations, and provide numerous other protections. Because they are made from spandex, or polyester, or nylon, or a blend of these materials, they lightweight and comfortable, yet strong and durable. They can be long-sleeved or short-sleeved, and often feature UV protection as well as anti-microbial properties. Rash guards are an essential part of any athlete’s wardrobe, as they provide an extra layer of protection against the elements while still allowing for maximum flexibility and movement.
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art that focuses on using kicking techniques to defend oneself. A key tool for training and developing kicking skills is the kicking shield, which is a large, padded device that is held by a trainer or training partner to serve as a target for kicks. There are innumerable benefits of using a kicking shield in Taekwondo training. The first and most obvious benefit of using a kicking shield is improved accuracy and power. Kicking shields are typically larger and thicker than traditional targets, which allows practitioners to better focus on their kicking techniques and build up power as they practice. This is especially important for Taekwondo practitioners who rely on powerful kicking techniques to defend themselves, as the shield provides a more realistic target that accurately represents the human body.
In martial arts like Taekwondo, Karate, BJJ, and Judo, a uniform is known as a “gi”. The design of a gi has its roots from traditional Japanese attire and it consists of a jacket, pants and a belt. The importance of a gi lies in the fact that it is both functional and symbolic.
A gi (also known as a dogi, or a keikogi, loosely translated as “practice clothes”) is a uniform that is worn to practice traditional martial arts like Taekwon-Do, Karate, Judo, BJJ, and other martial arts. They are designed for providing comfort, while allowing for a full range of motion, so that dynamic movements involving stances, punches, kicks and other martial exercises, can be easily executed. A gi comprises of pants (known as “shitabaki”), a top that is wrapped around (known as “uwagi”), and a long fabric belt (known as an “obi”). The belt holds the top and also shows the skill level attained by the practitioner.
A multipurpose pad is a training equipment to practice multiple types of strikes. It can be used to train in any type of martial art. It is held by one partner while another partner delivers powerful kicks, punches, knee and elbow strikes to it. The multipurpose pads are hit thousands of times and Pacific Sports multipurpose pads last hundreds of innumerable toughest training sessions.
A focus paddle is great to practice the timing, distance and accuracy of kicks. The top of the focus paddle is shaped like a tennis racket and this is the part that is kicked. The bottom is a handle which can be held firmly by the holder of the focus paddle. In case the kick is forceful then the paddle can be knocked out of the holder’s hand, and to prevent this from happening, a long string loop made of cotton or elastic is provided, through which the holder can slide the hand before holding the handle. The string loop can also help to hang the paddle when it is not in use.
Traditionally, Taekwondo is practiced barefoot and in competitions, generally shoes are not allowed. Thus, training barefoot has the advantage of obtaining the sensitivity of the feet coming in contact with the floor, and thereby getting the real feel of a competition. However, there are many reasons why Taekwondo shoes should be worn during training. Taekwondo shoes are special types of shoes, because they have soft upper leather, laces to tie for a secure fit, and a pivot point on the sole to enable easy turning for executing various types of spinning kicks. Training with Taekwondo shoes has several advantages.
Shorts are used in both Muay Thai and Kickboxing, however the shorts are slightly different as they serve different functions. Although Muay Thai and Kickboxing share some common features, yet they are two different kinds of martial arts. Kickboxing uses punches and kicks by employing 2 hands and 2 legs, therefore it is an art of 4 limbs. Whereas, Muay Thai uses punches, elbows, knees, and kicks, employing 2 hands, 2 elbows, 2 knees, and 2 legs, therefore it is an art of 8 limbs. Additionally, Muay Thai also uses grappling techniques.
There are many types of shorts but kickboxing shorts are different. They cater to the individual needs of the sport. Pacific Sports kickboxing shorts are exclusively designed and manufactured for kickboxing. These outstanding shorts offer a full range of motion, that enables complete freedom of movement. There is ample room for the thighs to move in all directions. Shorts are made from 100% polyester. Polyester is lightweight, yet extremely strong and these shorts can withstand the toughest training. They will last a very long time. Shorts are also made with polyester satin. Polyester makes the fabric tough, while stain gives it a shiny look and a soft feel.
A martial artist may practice Taekwondo, Karate, Jiu-Jitsu, BJJ, Muay Thai or MMA, but there is always a need for the following essential and indispensable must-haves. A well-fitting gi that is comfortable, allows full-range of motion, absorbs sweat effectively, and is also long-lasting, is certainly a must-have. Pacific Sports offers excellent gi for Taekwondo, Karate, Jiu-Jitsu, and BJJ. A wide, long belt is a must-have. Besides showing the level of skill, a belt also functions to hold the jacket in place and protect vital pressure points of the body. Pacific Sports offers superb belts of all colours and also black belts specially made from premium cotton.
A gi, besides being a visual statement of the level of skill attained, the martial art practiced, and its associated culture and style, also needs to be functional and comfortable. Even if an appropriate functional gi is worn, yet it needs to be comfortable, as an uncomfortable gi distracts attention and reduces performance. A great gi has a great fit, creates a great state of mind, has a great jacket, has a great pant, has a great belt, and has several great characteristics. A great gi is compulsory for tough training and thereby, it enhances performance in martial arts like Taekwondo, Karate, Jiu Jitsu, Judo, and BJJ. Every gi of Pacific Sports is a great gi.
A study by Perry, A. & Lee, J. (2017) has found that consumers were satisfied with their current gi because of its quality, fit, and comfort. Whereas, while buying a new gi, they looked for functional and aesthetic attributes. Quality of the gi is a prime consideration. A high quality gi is durable, sewn well, should be fitting and be available in your chosen colour, fabric, and size. The stitching of the gi should be of high quality so that while performing complex techniques, it does not tear, especially at pressure points areas. Pacific Sports gi have heavy-duty double stitching at the seams. A full gusset in the pants allows room for deep stretches and high kicks without pulling at the seams. Gi made for Jiu Jitsu or BJJ, feature extra stitching at the knees, to enhance durability of the fabric.
Wearing an attire that is suitable for a given task, increases the performance of that task. If you have just joined a martial arts class, then wearing a lightweight 8oz cotton white gi can motivate you immensely. If you have enrolled for an ITF Taekwon-Do class, then you should go for an 8oz Cotton V-neck white gi which has ITF logo in front and “Taekwon-Do” print on the back. Wearing a gi with the suitable weight, while practicing martial arts increases your dedication and this results in your throwing powerful punches and blazing fast kicks. As you progress and receive higher colored belts, you can go along with 12oz, 14oz, 16oz and 18oz gi.
Martial art shoes provide several benefits and the top 4 reasons include hygiene, self-protection, sparring protection, and real self-defense situations. Unlike other martial art shoes, Taekwondo shoes feature a pivot point that is located on the ball of foot area on the sole. This unique feature enables pivoting on the leg for executing various types of kicks and also in performing various blocks and stances. Pacific Sports Taekwondo shoes have several exceptional features that provide several unique benefits.
Pacific Sports shin-ankle-instep guards are built to withstand the toughest training. They are used for training in MMA, Muay Thai, Kickboxing, Karate, Taekwondo, and many other martial arts. Pacific Sports shin-ankle-instep guards feature a unique and an innovative design that offers complete protection and is also light in weight. The guards provide optimum resilience for intensive training, excellent sweat absorption, and superior protection for the shin, ankle and the instep.
Pacific Sports offers high quality Gi pants. The pants feature a gusseted crotch, which is a wider cut and extra joining material between the legs, to facilitate all types of kicks without stretching or tearing the stitching. To provide more strength, the stitching is doubly reinforced.
A Karate dogi or keikogi or simply known as a gi, consists of a jacket (known as (‘uwagi’), pants (known as ‘zubon’) and a belt (known as ‘obi’). Generally, a belt is sold separately and does not come along with the gi. Sometimes, the jacket needs to be changed and thus, instead of buying a gi, only the jacket needs to be bought. While buying a jacket, one must ensure that it allows enough room for the arms to move in all directions, and the waist to twist without any hindrances. The skirt of the jacket should hang well beneath the belt, so that it does become un-tucked from the belt when performing different movements.
Muay Thai, also known as Thai boxing or Thai kickboxing, is a martial art of Thailand. It is a full-contact combat sport that combines the use of two fists, two elbows, two knees, and two shins, and is thus, sometimes known as “the art of eight limbs”; however, nowadays along with different striking techniques of the hands and legs, it also combines various clinching techniques.
Due to the rising popularity of Muay Thai, several sports garment manufacturers are offering a wide variety of shorts. With such a huge variety in the market, sometimes it becomes difficult to choose the best Muay Thai shorts. The following points may be considered before making a choice.
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