About Us
It's the era of warrior women, with strong and powerful females celebrated everywhere. While we're quickly making our mark in the traditionally male-dominated world of martial arts and combat sports, apparel in this niche has remained heavily one-sided, with most brands making womenswear as an afterthought or being designed by men, or just selling smaller sizes of men's designs.
We may prefer to strike and grapple over doing yoga and pilates, but we also want to enjoy a sleek and chic style that reflects who we are as women on and off the mat. Our mission at Athena Fightwear is to create female fight fashion - stylish activewear and apparel reimagined specifically for warrior women who want to train in style and embrace their dangerous femininity.
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Athena Fightwear is based in Singapore and is female owned and operated.
We design in Singapore, manufacture in China and ship orders from our main warehouse in China, but depending on stock levels you may also receive part of your order from Singapore.
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What makes Athena Fightwear different from any other activewear?
- Everything we design is made with females in combat sports in mind. We're talking about the little things, like wardrobe malfunctions during sparring or rolling, the need for support in certain places, the kinds of cuts and colours that would match our gis, shin guards and muay thai shorts.
- We make it a point to include little details that represent who we are as fighters and the community we belong to, or as we call, our fight tribe. For the longest time, the only gymwear that had any printed connection to combat sports was for men, or were designed by men. Finally we are creating something for women, and specifically women who want to show the community they are a part of.
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Meet Sam, Founder of Athena Fightwear
When I started Muay Thai in 2020 and inevitably fell in love with the sport (read: obsessed), I found myself going through a journey of regaining confidence in my body and needing an upgrade to my activewear wardrobe. While I loved muay thai shorts, I felt like I hadn't 'earned' it yet since I was still learning, and there was quite literally nothing else that spoke to the sport but had the chic look and feel that pilates and yogawear was so famous for.
On top of that, once I did feel deserving of muay thai shorts, I struggled to find any that fit comfortably, with all the 'unisex' shorts either riding up where they shouldn't, being enormous at the waist or not going past the thighs because of how narrow the hips were. And lo and behold, it turned out I wasn't the only one facing these problems!
With Athena Fightwear, I wanted to create something that was for us - for me and my friends and all the women who had an experience similar to ours. I wanted to carve out a space in the fightworld where we could feel we belonged because we were no longer an afterthought to a brand's range or a singular 'women's section' link on a website.
So whether you're just starting out in your first boxing class, or you're an athlete who has had to put up with the small size of men's clothes for too long, I hope Athena helps you feel like the absolute badass warrior that you are!
