What Equipment Is Needed to Open a Professional Fighting School?

When prospective students are seeking a professional fighting school, they have the option of choosing among competing gyms to find the one that best meets their needs. One of the factors students are likely to consider is the quality and availability of appropriate training equipment, particularly if they intend to become professional fighters.

  1. Types of Professional Fighting Schools

    • There are different types of professional fighting, and schools can cater to different types of fighters. There are professional mixed martial arts, or MMA, fighters, professional boxers and professional kick boxers. There is also professional competition in more specialized forms of fighting sports such as muay Thai and Brazilian jiujitsu. The type of equipment you will need to open a school depends on which type of fighting you intend to teach.

    Equipment for Boxing

    • The equipment used in a boxing gym includes heavy bags -- standing bags, hanging bags or wall-mounted bags -- speed bags and bag gloves. Protective gear includes headgear for sparring, hand wraps, mouth guards and sparring gloves. Additional equipment for your trainers includes punching mitts, ring buckets, ice bags and impact pads.

    Equipment for Kick Boxing

    • The equipment needed for a kick boxing gym includes all of the equipment found in a standard boxing gym, with the addition of shin guards and kicking shields. Kicking shields are used as a target to improve your kicking skills, and shin guards protect you from being injured when you receive a kick to the shin during sparring.

    MMA Equipment

    • Because mixed martial arts includes elements of boxing, kick boxing and grappling, a wider range of equipment is used in an MMA gym. This can include not only an MMA cage and a boxing ring, but a full range of cardiovascular exercise and weight-lifting equipment as well as grappling mats. All of the equipment found in a boxing or kick boxing gym would also be found in an MMA gym.