Coralee

make sure your using your hips to deliver the kicks...if you swing your hips into it your leg will immediately follow..good luck!

Boxers are trained to fight one style, in karate you are trained to defend in many different ways....in my opinion a well trained martial artist would do quite well against a well trained boxer.

I don't know where everyone is based, I'm assuming a mixture but I'm from Canada and studied Chito-Ryu for about 11 starting when I was 6....I am now 23 and have studied off and on since a nasty knee injury in a competition. I just spent about 6mths in England studying Goju-Ryu which had it's obvious differences but was quite similar. I now live on the german/switzerland border and am really itching to get started again but not really sure what to go for....any hints? I don't really want to get into shotokan or tkd and am not all that familiar with other styles. Any advice is greatly appreciated! Coralee