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Anonymous
HI
I'd like to come in and say I know what I'm talking about and I'm prepared for it all, but I'm not.

Just wanted to know if any of you guys knew anything about kick boxing, not the goals or points or how it works, but how I could get into it, or learn techniques, or really any basic info at all.
toronto ontario, 18 y/o, 160 lbs, no marshal art training or skill.
from yor friendly nieghbourhood /fit/izen.
>> Anonymous
I did kickboxing before I went to college(college makes you stop everything, btw). It's pretty fun, but it can be brutal depending on who you spar with. The point system I worked with is based off of the K-1 Point System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-1

It's a ten-point system. If you score a knockdown in round one with obvious dominance(by that, I mean your blows are connecting clean and your opponent is barely able to fight back), then you win a 10-8 round. If your opponent is able to fight back a bit, but you still knock him down, then it's a 10-8 round. If you don't get to knock him down and you're only edging him out by a few punches/kicks, then you get a 10-9 score. Three rounds; whoever has the most pts wins.

Learn techniques in a gym, not at home. You can practice flexibility, shadowboxing and weight training at home .. But, learn the techniques at a gym. Take some boxing lessons, as well. Puncher-based Kickboxers do VERY well in competition.

Hope I helped. Sayonara.
>> Casanova Frankenstein !HggsKt0/NM
There's still an active kickboxing circuit, but it's been largely absorbed into MMA.

Go find a gym and get started.
>> Anonymous
>>464766
thanks alot
I'm wundering though, for someone like me with basically no skill or previous education in any form of fighting or martial art, would I still be able to find a gym/kickboxing place willing to train me?
How much would that sort of training cost anyways?
I'm doing the weight training at home.
>> Anonymous
>>464981

You should have no problem finding a place that will train you. Everyone has to start somewhere right? Just look online or in a phonebook for gyms with a kickboxing program and they're bound to have training and one-on-one sessions available for anyone.