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Practicioners of traditonal martial arts often have a false sense personal fitness. When they start training like a kickboxer or a boxer .... even grappling then they are quickly humbled.

The new IFL may be able to help get MMA into the Olympics. They are putting focus on the safety of the fighters, since the fighters help to make the money. I think they are trying to make the sport look more attractive to the public, thus paving the way for the Olympics some day. MMA will never get into the Olympics. Sorry to shatter your dreams. Kickboxing and Muay Thai MAY have a POSSIBILITY of getting into the Olympics but again that is doubtful.

Go to Japan and Europe and you'll see that kickboxing is HUGE. Whenever K1 has a tournament going on in Japan the Tokyo dome is completely sold out. Where as here in North America you're lucky to sell out every seat in a hotel gala location.

Worked as a bouncer and applying to be a cop right now. I held my own while breaking up fights and so forth.

Cardio kickboxing - yes Actual kickboxing - no. I personally believe that cardio-kickboxing cheapens the sport.

http://sunsite.au.ac.th/thailand/Thai_sport/boxing.html No rule against it. lol you make me laugh dude.

I'm old school. I train barefoot.

I don't buy that whole "death punch" stuff at all. A good boxer can hit harder than a karate-ka hands down in my opinion.

REPRESENT!!!! CHAKDEY PHATTAY!

I've been doing Martial Arts for a good chunk of my life now. Started out in TKD and then moved on to kickboxing at the age of 13 and later began training in Jiu-jitsu. My competitive career in kickboxing is awesome. I love fighting and after a 2 year break from competition I've come back with even more ferocity and will to win. Training is going great and with the help of nutritional advisors and personal trainers for cross training I'm 10x the fighter I was before. My second love is Jiu-jitsu. Been a blue belt for FIVE years now. There are people at my dojo who've started after me and moved passed me to get their black belts. Many people ask me how I feel about this and I just tell them that I don't really care. Probably because I have helped most of these people out and taught them many of the techniques that they know (btw....I laugh when they try to boss me around in class). Anyway I just don't care anymore about getting my black belt. Kickboxing is more important to me anyway but I love Jiu-jitsu as well. Before getting belts was a big deal to me but now...not so much. I just lay in the cut, go to class and practice my techniques, grapple, learn some new stuff and I'm happy. I have been told by my sensei (who I have had an extreme falling out with from last year) that if I want to get my black belt, I have to help him teach classes and so forth. I don't have the time to do that; just finished college and I got bigger and more important things to do with my time than help him teach classes while laughing all the way to the bank. Plus I feel that if I'm teaching classes I shouldn't have to be paying him membership or at least pay at a discounted rate. So right now.....I'm just content with my humble blue belt. Plus I like the colour blue anyway and it matches my Gi Just had to vent

I left TKD to start kickboxing at this one club that I heard about. From there one of the instructors had a falling out with the head of the Dojo and created his own Dojo so I left to go to his school. The rest is history.

At my kickboxing/jiu-jitsu dojo the women are treated differently. Now I'm not gonna spar with a girl the same way that I spar with a guy. I can hit a lot harder than they can and it would not be fair of me to take advantage like that. I spar at a lot of kickboxing and boxing gyms in the Toronto area and my attitude remains the same. Plus I'm one of the few fighters at my gym that fights both full-contact and low kick kickboxing rules and the girls at my gym do not want to go low kick rules at all. So sparring with them is a bit of a waste of my time because I cannot throw low kicks and I cannot spar at a heavy intensity either. I believe that it is a waste of time for them as well because when I hold back it just gives them a false sense of their own abilities. Therefore when they actually get in the ring with a person that wants to take their head off it's a different ball game and they are not ready for that. I don't grapple with females much either. Probably because there are not a lot of girls in Jiu-jitsu classes at my dojo because of the obvious reasons. Women don't feel comfortable getting so up close and personal with guys that they do not know or barely know.

I'm always jumping around and sparring with different guys at different kickboxing and boxing gyms. That's one of the best ways to bring up your skills when you compete at the levels that I do.

First off keep your hands up. You're gonna eat it hard if you don't bring up that guard. Another thing I noticed is that every kick you threw was off your right leg. Which tells methat your lead side is weak.

I have seen it. I was not impressed really. I saw the part of the show where they measure the impact force of the kicks and punches of Martial Artists and so forth and I was just laughing. They told one guy that his side kick has the same amount of force as a car wreck. That is a complete load of you know what in my opinion. If that were the case this guy would be killing people in karate or kickboxing tournaments. Of course the readings are going to be so high when hitting a stationary target. Try hitting a moving target that hard.