Muay Thai Blog

Why do the kicks of slender Thai fighters feel so overwhelmingly “heavy”? Anyone who has spent time in a fight gym has witnessed this scene at least once. A Thai trainer—barely 160 cm tall, with limbs as slender as sticks—casually swings a kick into a heavy bag. Yet the impact detonates  with a thunderous boom, reverberating through the gym as the bag folds sharply in half, as if the entire building had shuddered. Now contrast this with a muscular beginner, capable of bench-