I really want to learn kickboxing. I want to have the ability to kick people in the face. I wouldn’t, unless I was being attacked or something. But I’d love just knowing how to do it.
When I went looking for new martial arts studios in the city I moved to, I found a number of places that teach classes, but the setups for kickboxing was more like a boxing gym out of Rocky movies. No classes; just a gym you pay memberships for like the YMCA to use the equipment to train yourself, maybe talk one of the other guys into a sparring match later on. If you want actual training, you have to hire a personal trainer or coach to work with you.
To summarise, kickboxing training is (at least around here) not really intended for people who are new to martial arts, but more for people who want to compete professionally. If you want to learn the basics from the ground up, you’re better off taking classes from one of the style-based studios, (ex: Karate, Jiu-jutsu, Tae-Kwan-Do –if you’re really set on kicking people in the face, that’s probably the style I’d recommend, actually; Tae-Kwan-Do. Not the tightest defensive style, but they do flashy kicks well enough. )
Most effective kicks will be delivered below the waist. The high kicks are not what you lead with. And remember the Boxing part of Kick Boxing? Yes, you will box at least as much as you will kick.
Besides fighting should always be your last choice. Depending on circumstances flight should be a higher priority than fight.
I’ll always remember what a world renown MMA fighter said when asked what he would do if someone wielding a knife would try to rob him. Give them the money!
Sure you might be able to disarm the perp, but one mistake can cost you so much more. Have an artery cut and you may bleed to death. Damage the sinews in your hand and/or arm and you might never have full mobility again, same goes for severed nerves. A cut to the groin area can have you bleed out in less than a minute, and so on. It’s just not worth it.
Second choice is to run the hell away. He said that most likely he was a better runner than any hopped up junkie robber, so running away was a very valid option.
Last choice was to fight, but that was only a choice if paying them off or running away wouldn’t work.
If you still think you want to learn to fight for self protection go check out Krav Maga. It’s pure self defense no crap fight and flight techniques developed for the Israel Defense Force (IDF). It includes not only techniques for killing, maiming, or incapacitating people but also teaches you how to escape from a moving car, escape from a dark room after being knocked about, being effective while stressed out, confused and disoriented.
I tried tae-kwan-do. Threw my back out every time I tried the high roundhouse kick. It was years and years later I figured out the motion in my hips was inherently limited, and I was using my back rather than my hip joints to get height. Real bad idea. High kicks in general are not a good idea in a real fight.
Gotta sell that proposal to the current audience!
Ahh, the magic words! PHYSICAL!
Yoga is physical as well… I think the magic word was actually ‘violence’
I really want to learn kickboxing. I want to have the ability to kick people in the face. I wouldn’t, unless I was being attacked or something. But I’d love just knowing how to do it.
When I went looking for new martial arts studios in the city I moved to, I found a number of places that teach classes, but the setups for kickboxing was more like a boxing gym out of Rocky movies. No classes; just a gym you pay memberships for like the YMCA to use the equipment to train yourself, maybe talk one of the other guys into a sparring match later on. If you want actual training, you have to hire a personal trainer or coach to work with you.
To summarise, kickboxing training is (at least around here) not really intended for people who are new to martial arts, but more for people who want to compete professionally. If you want to learn the basics from the ground up, you’re better off taking classes from one of the style-based studios, (ex: Karate, Jiu-jutsu, Tae-Kwan-Do –if you’re really set on kicking people in the face, that’s probably the style I’d recommend, actually; Tae-Kwan-Do. Not the tightest defensive style, but they do flashy kicks well enough. )
Most effective kicks will be delivered below the waist. The high kicks are not what you lead with. And remember the Boxing part of Kick Boxing? Yes, you will box at least as much as you will kick.
Besides fighting should always be your last choice. Depending on circumstances flight should be a higher priority than fight.
I’ll always remember what a world renown MMA fighter said when asked what he would do if someone wielding a knife would try to rob him. Give them the money!
Sure you might be able to disarm the perp, but one mistake can cost you so much more. Have an artery cut and you may bleed to death. Damage the sinews in your hand and/or arm and you might never have full mobility again, same goes for severed nerves. A cut to the groin area can have you bleed out in less than a minute, and so on. It’s just not worth it.
Second choice is to run the hell away. He said that most likely he was a better runner than any hopped up junkie robber, so running away was a very valid option.
Last choice was to fight, but that was only a choice if paying them off or running away wouldn’t work.
If you still think you want to learn to fight for self protection go check out Krav Maga. It’s pure self defense no crap fight and flight techniques developed for the Israel Defense Force (IDF). It includes not only techniques for killing, maiming, or incapacitating people but also teaches you how to escape from a moving car, escape from a dark room after being knocked about, being effective while stressed out, confused and disoriented.
I tried tae-kwan-do. Threw my back out every time I tried the high roundhouse kick. It was years and years later I figured out the motion in my hips was inherently limited, and I was using my back rather than my hip joints to get height. Real bad idea. High kicks in general are not a good idea in a real fight.