Kick boxing

Kick boxing (Japanese: キ ッ ク ボ ク シ ン グ) is a contact sport of Japanese origin in which the fighting techniques and combat of boxing with some martial arts such as karate and Thai boxing mix. It is well connected with the ancient art of Muay Thai, but the blows with the elbow and knee are usually not allowed, so similar to modern Thai boxing or Thai boxing.

While it is not considered a traditional martial art training or Gendai Budō par excellence, but a combat sport; a fighter of kick boxing is a tough competition to the other fighters fight standing, who prefer other types of contact sport or martial arts, for endurance, strength, and endurance to blows of its practitioners. Today is one of the favorites for the development of the fight standing, used in the combined mixed martial arts or MMA / AMM systems.

There are different rules kickboxing, depending on the type, organization / association / federation and the type of event, be it amateur or professional. Common rules to larger organizations are generally:

They are valid all attacks on his thighs, inside or outside, hitting with the tibia or instep. Known as low kicks. There are also high roundhouse kicks, and average height and other kicks as: the frontal, downward, downward slant, spinning kicks, front kicks and hook, but several of these are very spectacular but ineffective in combat because they are complicated and allow the opponent's lace, block, dodge or divert, so you often see in the later rounds if decommissioning combat or "knock out" KO it is no longer possible, in order to win on points.

In the hip it is not allowed to hit, or genitals.

Each assault has three minutes to one minute rest (with many variations, such as two and a half minutes and 45 seconds, etc).

Punches and elbow just some knee strikes, except in the so-called "Kick Japanese Boxing", or form K1, which is based on the rules of the famous tournament * K-1 where blows knees are allowed, as are not accepted Circular knee and the front knee, and even in the regulations intended grips with the coup are allowed, but within a time limit to hit the opponent.

They use appropriate punches, but no blow open hand.

Projections or grips are not accepted.