Vancouver Kickboxing is a common term for a sporting martial art that, while similar to boxing, uses the feet as well as the hands for striking. Vancouver Kickboxing can be practiced for general fitness, or as a full-contact combat sport. The (male) boxers are bare chest, bare foot and wear a boxer short. The female boxers sometimes wear a tank top and shorts.
Forms of kickboxing that have been labeled under this term include:
Adithada (Indian kickboxing) €" A form of kickboxing that uses knee, elbow and forehead strikes
Pradal Serey (Khmer kickboxing) €" A possible predecessor of Muay Thai
Muay Thai (Thai boxing/kickboxing) €" Strong emphasis on knee and elbow strikes
Savate (French kickboxing) €" Allows the use of shoes
Sanshou/Sanda (Chinese kickboxing) €" Takedowns and throws are legal
Lethwei (Burmese Kickboxing) €" any part of the body may be used to strike and be struck
Japanese kickboxing €" Similar to Muay Thai, but different point system is taken
Full Contact Karate (American Kickboxing) €" Most of the time padding and in some cases body armor is used
Shoot boxing €" A Japanese form of kickboxing which allows throwing and submission while standing similar to San Shou.
There are many additional derivatives of these forms, as well as combined styles which have been used in specific competitions. The rules of €Vancouver Kickboxing€ also vary between these different styles. The word kickboxing is disputed and has come to become more associated with the Japanese and American variants. It must be noted that many of the above styles do not consider themselves to be €kickboxing€ as such, although the public uses the term generically to refer to all these martial arts. The term itself was created by the Japanese boxing promoter Osamu Noguchi for a variant of Muay Thai and Karate that he created in the 1950s;
this term was later used by the American variant. When used by the practitioners of these two styles, it tends to refer to them specifically rather than the martial arts they were derived from.
Today there are several unique styles of Vancouver kickboxing being practiced around the world. Interestingly, some of these styles do not consider themselves to be €kickboxing€ even if the general public tends to refer to them as such. Many laymen are under the impression that modern day kickboxing originated in Thailand, Japan or elsewhere in the Far East, in fact, the real origins of the sport are revealed by the real name by which is was known, full contact karate. During the mid-seventies various American tournament karate practitioners became frustrated with the limitations of the then rather primitive competitive scoring system.
They wanted to find a system within which they could apply kicks and punches to the knockout. Full contact karate was born. Early bouts were fought on open matted areas just as ordinary karate matches were. Later events were staged in regular size boxing rings. These early tournaments produced kickboxing's first stars, Joe Lewis, Bill Wallace, Benny Urquidez and Jeff Smith. Later the Americans really wanted to test their mettle and sent teams of kick boxers to Japan under the banner of the WKA (World Kickboxing Association). From this point kickboxing developed in to a true international sport.
Forms of kickboxing that have been labeled under this term include:
Adithada (Indian kickboxing) €" A form of kickboxing that uses knee, elbow and forehead strikes
Pradal Serey (Khmer kickboxing) €" A possible predecessor of Muay Thai
Muay Thai (Thai boxing/kickboxing) €" Strong emphasis on knee and elbow strikes
Savate (French kickboxing) €" Allows the use of shoes
Sanshou/Sanda (Chinese kickboxing) €" Takedowns and throws are legal
Lethwei (Burmese Kickboxing) €" any part of the body may be used to strike and be struck
Japanese kickboxing €" Similar to Muay Thai, but different point system is taken
Full Contact Karate (American Kickboxing) €" Most of the time padding and in some cases body armor is used
Shoot boxing €" A Japanese form of kickboxing which allows throwing and submission while standing similar to San Shou.
There are many additional derivatives of these forms, as well as combined styles which have been used in specific competitions. The rules of €Vancouver Kickboxing€ also vary between these different styles. The word kickboxing is disputed and has come to become more associated with the Japanese and American variants. It must be noted that many of the above styles do not consider themselves to be €kickboxing€ as such, although the public uses the term generically to refer to all these martial arts. The term itself was created by the Japanese boxing promoter Osamu Noguchi for a variant of Muay Thai and Karate that he created in the 1950s;
this term was later used by the American variant. When used by the practitioners of these two styles, it tends to refer to them specifically rather than the martial arts they were derived from.
Today there are several unique styles of Vancouver kickboxing being practiced around the world. Interestingly, some of these styles do not consider themselves to be €kickboxing€ even if the general public tends to refer to them as such. Many laymen are under the impression that modern day kickboxing originated in Thailand, Japan or elsewhere in the Far East, in fact, the real origins of the sport are revealed by the real name by which is was known, full contact karate. During the mid-seventies various American tournament karate practitioners became frustrated with the limitations of the then rather primitive competitive scoring system.
They wanted to find a system within which they could apply kicks and punches to the knockout. Full contact karate was born. Early bouts were fought on open matted areas just as ordinary karate matches were. Later events were staged in regular size boxing rings. These early tournaments produced kickboxing's first stars, Joe Lewis, Bill Wallace, Benny Urquidez and Jeff Smith. Later the Americans really wanted to test their mettle and sent teams of kick boxers to Japan under the banner of the WKA (World Kickboxing Association). From this point kickboxing developed in to a true international sport.
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