zdanboy,
Greetings again sir. You mentioned not limiting ourselves to the styles you mentioned when recommending what to train with next, I only limit the choices due to the practicallity of your situation. If you can't find a school close enough to train at, your pretty well stuck with what is there in town.
Onto kickboxing. Ok, some have recomended it, and I believe I have in the last thread where you inquired what to train in before. I'll start out with the warnings. If your not willing to put up with heavy and hard contact, avoid kickboxing like the plague. It combines the science of boxing, with all the elusive foot work, body torque and movement, with the basic power kicks from Asian martial arts. The training can be brutal, and painful at times, with high degrees of conditioning drills to withstand contact, cardiovascular{SP} work plenty of ab training. What you do though, like Judo, is just the way you would use it in an actual encounter. There is light sparring to build technique and skill, and there is full contact sparring to see how much you learned from the slower, lighter contact. In a good school you'll learn to punch, digging in from the toes up and firing quick jabs as both offense and defense. Head and body movement will be taught so that you can avoid most punches and become a harder target to hit. And you'll learn a very important skill of body shifting to minimize the damage of hits that do land. Its a fact that you won't get missed every time, no matter how good your evasions skills. Because of this learning how to eat a shot and take the least damage from it is an essential skill to have in a fight. So no, I can't say many bad things about kickboxing. On the down side though, it punishes th body if you aren't very health concious and keep things balanced out with diet, weight training and smart training, ie. don't hurt yourself more than you have to and quit when it hurts too much, its a sign from the body that something isn't right. Also, at some point, you'll be too old to carry on with the heavy contact. Then your down to switching arts, stopping training, or becoming a coach. Even the Greats like Bill Wallace and Joe Lewis admit that it takes more to beat those young pups once you get a few years on you.
I'm running short of time, but if you have any more questions, let me know and I'll try to post later tonight. May even throw in some good points for traditional Okinawan arts, which stood me in good sted when I trained with a kickboxer for a while.
Thanks,
Kail
Greetings again sir. You mentioned not limiting ourselves to the styles you mentioned when recommending what to train with next, I only limit the choices due to the practicallity of your situation. If you can't find a school close enough to train at, your pretty well stuck with what is there in town.
Onto kickboxing. Ok, some have recomended it, and I believe I have in the last thread where you inquired what to train in before. I'll start out with the warnings. If your not willing to put up with heavy and hard contact, avoid kickboxing like the plague. It combines the science of boxing, with all the elusive foot work, body torque and movement, with the basic power kicks from Asian martial arts. The training can be brutal, and painful at times, with high degrees of conditioning drills to withstand contact, cardiovascular{SP} work plenty of ab training. What you do though, like Judo, is just the way you would use it in an actual encounter. There is light sparring to build technique and skill, and there is full contact sparring to see how much you learned from the slower, lighter contact. In a good school you'll learn to punch, digging in from the toes up and firing quick jabs as both offense and defense. Head and body movement will be taught so that you can avoid most punches and become a harder target to hit. And you'll learn a very important skill of body shifting to minimize the damage of hits that do land. Its a fact that you won't get missed every time, no matter how good your evasions skills. Because of this learning how to eat a shot and take the least damage from it is an essential skill to have in a fight. So no, I can't say many bad things about kickboxing. On the down side though, it punishes th body if you aren't very health concious and keep things balanced out with diet, weight training and smart training, ie. don't hurt yourself more than you have to and quit when it hurts too much, its a sign from the body that something isn't right. Also, at some point, you'll be too old to carry on with the heavy contact. Then your down to switching arts, stopping training, or becoming a coach. Even the Greats like Bill Wallace and Joe Lewis admit that it takes more to beat those young pups once you get a few years on you.
I'm running short of time, but if you have any more questions, let me know and I'll try to post later tonight. May even throw in some good points for traditional Okinawan arts, which stood me in good sted when I trained with a kickboxer for a while.
Thanks,
Kail
