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Choosing the Right Mouthguard: Custom vs. Boil-and-Bite

Posted on April 14, 2025February 19, 2025 by Niall

Mouthguards are an essential piece of equipment for martial artists, boxers, and anyone involved in contact sports. Protecting your teeth, gums, and jaw from impact injuries is crucial, and the right mouthguard can make a world of difference. However, not all mouthguards are created equal, and athletes often face the decision between custom-made mouthguards and boil-and-bite mouthguards. When choosing the right mouthguard, there are several factors to consider: comfort, protection, cost, and longevity.

How to Maintain and Care for Your Martial Arts Equipment

Posted on March 24, 2025February 5, 2025 by Fight Quality

Training in martial arts comes with its fair share of wear and tear—not just on your body, but on your equipment too. Whether you’re practising Muay Thai, boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or any other martial art, proper maintenance of your gear is essential. Without the right care, your equipment can wear out faster, become unhygienic, and even compromise your performance or safety.

How to Choose the Right Boxing Gloves for Training and Competition

Posted on February 28, 2025February 5, 2025 by Fight Quality

Choosing the right pair of boxing gloves is essential for both safety and performance, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned fighter. Gloves are more than just gear—they protect your hands, wrists, and sparring partners, and they can influence how you perform during training or competition. A poorly chosen glove can lead to discomfort, injury, or a decrease in the quality of your training.

Home Boxing Equipment – What You Need To Train Boxing At Home

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 by Fight Quality

Training at a gym is always ideal, but sometimes it’s far more convenient to get those hours of training in at home. If you’ve got the space, you might be considering setting up a home gym. We wanted to help you out with some tips on home boxing equipment.

The Best Punching Bags For Beginners

Posted on April 17, 2021May 12, 2021 by Fight Quality

If you’ve just started boxing or are looking for a quick way to improve your own home gym, then you might be looking at picking yourself up a punching bag. Most of the options you’ll see in professional gyms are far too expensive for the average person training at home. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some really good options out there. We’ve put together a quick guide full of the best punching bags for beginners, to help you train at home.

How are boxing gloves made?

Posted on March 5, 2021July 28, 2022 by Fight Quality

Have you ever wondered how your boxing gloves are made? When it comes to boxing gloves, there are loads of brands, all designing their gloves to be slightly different. It’s easy to find a boxing glove with almost any colour, design or style you could ask for. But how are these boxing gloves made? Different factories all do things slightly differently which is why most brands will have their own unique build style or shape. We’ve done a little bit of research so that we can give you a quick breakdown.

The Ultimate Guide To Boxing Gloves

Posted on February 11, 2021August 27, 2024 by Fight Quality

Welcome to the Fight Quality Ultimate Guide to Boxing Gloves.

When we originally wrote the first version of our Ultimate Guide back in 2016 we wanted to bring you the absolute best resource for everything you could possibly want to know about boxing gloves. Since then the guide has undergone several updates, reflecting the changes in the industry, technology and brands.

How to Keep Your Boxing Gloves Clean

Posted on January 15, 2021March 2, 2021 by Fight Quality

Let’s be real for a second – nobody wants to be the person at whose gloves stink out the whole gym. We’ll be going over a couple of the steps which you can take to make sure your gloves are always clean and fresh, and avoid any possible hygiene issues (or worse – bad smells).

Choosing the Right Brand of Boxing Glove

Posted on December 18, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

When buying boxing gloves, the brand you buy definitely matters. Almost all established fight gear brands who sell boxing gloves will have developed their own distinct style and create their gloves in completely different ways. Before looking into it though, you need to determine what sort of budget you have and what you’re going to be using that pair of gloves for.

What Types Of Boxing Gloves Are There?

Posted on December 11, 2020August 27, 2024 by Fight Quality

Whether you’ve been training for a while, or are just considering taking it up, you’ll no doubt have noticed that not all boxing gloves are the same. There’s actually more variation than you would expect, and each style of glove has its own uses. Here’s a quick run-down on most of the types of boxing gloves you may come across.

Massage guns; What are they, and should fighters be using them?

Posted on December 7, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Massage Guns. We’re sure you’ve seen them all over Instagram recently, with fighters working over their legs or shoulders with a machine that looks like a weird combo between a hairdryer and pneumatic drill. They rapidly pulse in and out, drumming against the muscle and causing a rippling effect to provide a type of percussive massage that’s meant to aid recovery or prepare you for a hard session. But are they just another fitness fad with limited evidence supporting their use (like an altitude training mask) or is there real science backing up their use?

Why do you need to wear hand wraps for Boxing, MMA, Muay Thai and other combat sports?

Posted on November 6, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Chances are that at some point towards the beginning of your training you were told you need hand wraps to wear underneath your gloves. Hand wraps of course make your hand safer, but not many people actually know how they do that.

What’s Inside A Boxing Glove?

Posted on November 2, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

We use them every time we go training and rely on the protection they offer to not damage our hands when we’re hitting pads (or the odd face or two), but how many times have you stopped to think about what’s giving you that protection?

How To Tell What Size / Weight Boxing Gloves You Need

Posted on October 12, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

How do you know you’re using the right size or weight boxing glove? If you ask most brands they’ll usually tell you it all depends on either your weight or the size of your hands, but is that always the case? Should you use the same weight gloves for both fitness work like pads or a heavy bag, as you would use during sparring?

What protection do boxing gloves provide?

Posted on September 25, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

When it comes to combat sports, there’s almost always some form of glove involved. There are a load of different types of glove, but they all share a common purpose – making things safer. That said, there are negative sides to using boxing gloves, leading some groups to agree that bare knuckle boxing is actually safer overall.

In this article we’re going to take a closer look into why we use boxing gloves in the first place. To understand what protection boxing gloves provide, it’s important to look back at what the sport of boxing was like before the introduction of boxing gloves and other safety measures.

How Are Boxing Gloves Customised?

Posted on February 27, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

With the popularity of boxing, rise of mix martial arts and ever increasing number of people taking up striking martial arts theres been an increasing demand for the boxing gloves that stand out from the crowd.

What Do You Need for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?

Posted on February 17, 2020February 4, 2022 by Fight Quality

Unless you’ve been under a rock since the first UFC competition then you’ve seen BJJ shoot from a niche sport to a global phenomenon. There’s BJJ gyms in basically every major city, competitions are aired on streaming services like UFC fight pass and acai sales are through the roof. If you’re considering taking up BJJ, but aren’t sure what kit you’re going to need to buy, then keep reading because we’ve broken it all down for you.

What Do You Need for MMA?

Posted on February 7, 2020February 4, 2022 by Fight Quality

What Equipment Do You Need To Train MMA?

MMA (or Mixed Martial Arts) is more popular now than ever, with the stars of the sport occasionally crossing into both other sports and mainstream media.

Unlike sports like Boxing or Kickboxing, MMA requires you to train all aspects of fighting, from exhilarating striking on your feet, to the more nuanced grappling on the ground. This means that there’s a little more equipment needed to make sure you’re safe. We’re here to walk you through all of the equipment you might need.

How to Care for your Handwraps

Posted on January 27, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

There’s only one thing worse than opening your kit bag and being hit by that grim odor of old sweat and unwashed kit, and that’s when one of your training partners opens their kit bag and you get hit by the odor of their old sweat and unwashed kit.

A Guide to Choosing the Best Muay Thai Shorts – Part 1

Posted on January 17, 2020August 9, 2021 by Fight Quality

Muay Thai, like other combat sports, requires a certain type of clothing when training and competing in order to maximise movement. Unlike other combat sports, the visual style of Muay Thai shorts has developed over the years, leading to a much flashier, vibrant style.