Buy It Once: Beginner Gear Checklist + Sizing Guide

Buy It Once is a 15-page fillable checklist and sizing guide for UK beginners. It tells you what to buy first and what can wait, explains what glove "oz" means, and walks you through measuring for shin guards and shorts, so you don't buy twice. £7, or £5 added to the Thailand Camp Planner.

Key facts:

• £7, or £5 as an add-on to the Camp Planner. A4 PDF, 15 pages, fillable or printable.
• A four-stage checklist: day one, first month, sparring, competition.
• Glove, shin and shorts sizing sheets, with a real maker's chart (Fairtex, read 23 October 2026) to show why sizes differ between models.
• Gum shield guidance from the UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine, and amateur competition kit under the IFMA rules (both read 23 October 2026).
• No brand paid to appear. It ranks no products and contains no affiliate links.

Who it's for

• Anyone in their first months of Muay Thai in the UK, about to buy gloves, wraps, a gum shield or shin guards.
• Anyone flying to a Thailand camp and deciding what to bring from home.

Your gym's rules always win: the guide tells you what to ask your coach.

What's inside

• Sheet 1: what to buy at each stage and what can wait, with a tick-when-bought tracker.
• A price-check table you fill in with the shop, price and date.
• Gloves: what "oz" means, a rule-of-thumb table by bodyweight, why makers' charts disagree, and Sheet 2, a glove weight finder and fit check.
• Hand wraps, shin guards and shorts: length and types, two sizing systems compared, Sheet 3 for measuring your shin, and a shorts measuring sheet.
• Gum shield, groin guard and chest protection, and competition kit under IFMA Rule 15.
• How to read a "best" list, kit care and a replacement tracker.
• Sheet 4: questions for your coach, plus sources and dates.

Page previews

Every page in the PDF, with its page number:

• p3: Start here
• p4: Sheet 1: Buy this first / buy later
• p5: What to spend: a price-check table
• p6: Gloves: what "oz" means
• p7: Sheet 2: Glove weight finder + fit check
• p8: Hand wraps
• p9: Shin guards: two different sizing systems
• p10: Sheet 3: Shin measurement + copy-the-chart table
• p11: Shorts: measure at hip level
• p12: Gum shield, groin guard and chest protection
• p13: Competition kit (amateur rules)
• p14: How to read a "best" list + care
• p15: Sheet 4: Questions for your coach + sources

Price and what you get

Sources

• Atlas-Beginner-Gear-Checklist-Sizing-Guide.pdf, built 23 Oct 2026: page count and contents.
• Fairtex size guide, read 23 Oct 2026: https://www.fairtex.com/pages/fairtex-size-guide
• FSEM position statement on mouthguards, read 23 Oct 2026: https://www.fsem.ac.uk/position-statement/mouthguards-for-the-prevention-of-oro-facial-trauma-in-sport/
• IFMA Rules & Regulations v3.057, Rule 15, read 23 Oct 2026: https://muaythai.sport/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IFMA-Rules-and-Regulations-v3.057_110526.pdf

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