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gzk
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Styles: Shootfighting, BJJ
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 Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: Why the long pants? |
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Why do American-style kickboxers (of Full Contact Karate lineage) wear long pants and not shorts? I could understand if they were wearing gis, for tradition, but long shiny pants? I don't see any advantage.
Anyone know?
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Symphony-x
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Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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Location: Scotland
Styles: Freestyle Karate, Kickboxing, Boxing; Used to do TKD
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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I wear long trousers when doing mine because... well, actually, i have no idea, i'd prefer to wear shorts 
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throwdown
Yellow Belt
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
Posts: 29
Location: Toronto Ontario Canada
Styles: Kickboxing: full-contact & low kick, Jiu-jitsu
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Has to do with rules in kickboxing organizations.
Pants for full contact (all kicks above the waist)
Shorts for thai and low kick |
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gzk
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:34 am Post subject: |
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Ahh right, I suspected it might be like that. So it's just indicative, not functional?
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baronbvp
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Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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My instructor says it's pants when you don't kick below the waist, and shorts when you do, so you can see the opponent's knees - a no-strike area. We wear shorts. Perhaps the pants are a European kickboxing fashion statement.
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bushido_man96
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Joined: 31 Mar 2006
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Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo,Hapkido, SCA Combat, and I research Medieval Combat
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| Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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I have noticed the different outfits, but I didn't know what the method behind the madness was. After reading the posts above, it does make good sense.
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Plastic_Anarchy
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think that I've ever seen the long pants for kickboxing, I've seen shorts but I don't know. The rules of teh fight probly would affect it somehow. |
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bushido_man96
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| Plastic_Anarchy wrote: |
| I don't think that I've ever seen the long pants for kickboxing, I've seen shorts but I don't know. The rules of teh fight probly would affect it somehow. |
If you can catch some old ISKA Strike Force matches on ESPN late at night, you can see some of the long pants matches. I never really related the different clothing to the different rule sets. But, it does make sense.
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baronbvp
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Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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European Kickboxing is done in pants with no shirts. Christoph Delp is a German kickboxer and MA writer. Two of his books available in the USA, Kickboxing and Fitness for the Full Contact Fighter, show people in pants. As has been said, I believe it's because they don't kick below the waist, so the knees are not at risk.
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bushido_man96
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Also, with the Thai rules, wearing shorts makes the knees visible, hopefully helping to make sure the contact to the legs is above the knees.
Has anyone ever heard of any Thai fights where a fighter 'missed,' and took out the opponent's knee?
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on the post.
