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chrissyp
Orange Belt
Joined: 16 Jan 2013
Posts: 175
Styles: Muay Thai/ Shotokan
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 Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 11:05 am Post subject: Learning to box...before you can kickbox? |
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So, when I first started kickboxing, my coach was an old school full contact stylist...and when I told him I wanted to learn kickboxing, he made me learn traditional boxing before he'd go into more with the kickboxing.
I'm just curious if anyone else was taught this way, and if so what they thought about it?
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wagnerk
Purple Belt
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Posts: 576
Location: UK
Styles: TSD, Karate & Kickboxing
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No, the two associations that I trained with taught kickboxing from the start.
Everyone learns, trains and teaches differently, if that's the way your instructor teaches, there's nothing wrong with that 
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Nidan Melbourne
KF Sempai
Joined: 21 Aug 2013
Posts: 2359
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Styles: Goju-Ryu, BJJ, Balintawak Arnis
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Like what wagnerk said there is nothing wrong with the way he teaches.
Every instructor teaches differently in their MA. Like my sensei at my karate dojo teaches completely different to the sensei around the corner.
Even though the techniques are the same (As the school around the corner is of the same style as mine) but we learn them differently. |
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TJ-Jitsu
Blue Belt
Joined: 30 Sep 2014
Posts: 316
Location: PA
Styles: Gracie Jiu Jitsu, Muay Thai
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Its neither right nor wrong- just a simple observation. The most important thing in a fight is learning how to get your hands up and protect yourself. Theres no need to focus on your kicks if you do not know how to do this.
Boxing is a part of kickboxing, except until you get to sport specific techniques, details, and strategies. The first 6 months is basic stuff that will cross over to any style of fighting. |
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sensei8
KF Sensei
Joined: 23 Feb 2008
Posts: 16430
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Styles: Shindokan Saitou-ryu [Shuri-te/Okinawa-te based]
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Got to understand the basics of boxing; that's what I believe your instructor was trying to instill.
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