Kickboxing

Kickboxing

Kickboxing is an umbrella term for different styles of full-contact hybrid boxing type, combat sports, and martial arts based on punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in various times in history. The fight takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouth guards, shorts, and bare feet to favor the use of kicks. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, general fitness, and competition. Some styles of kickboxing include: full contact karate, Muay Thai, Japanese kickboxing, Lethwei, Sanda, and Savate. Although people have faced each other in hand-to-hand combat, since the dawn of humanity, the first documentation of the use of kicking and punching in sports combat is from ancient Greece and ancient India. Nevertheless, the term kickboxing originated in Japan, in the 1960s, and developed in the late 1950s from karate mixed with boxing, having some influence, with competitions held since then.

Data Source : Wikipedia

• Entity:  Martial Art

• Focus:  Punching, Kicking, Striking
• Hardness:  Full-Contact
• Country of origin:  Various
• Parenthood:  Asian Martial Arts (Karate, Taekwondo) Including Southeast Asian Boxing (Muay Thai, Lethwei)
• Descendant arts:  Shootboxing, Vale Tudo, Mixed Martial Arts, Combat Sambo
• Wikidata description:  Full-Contact Combat Sport In Which The Gloved Competitors May Punch And Kick With Bare Feet
• Wikidata label:  Kickboxing
• Wikidata aliases:  Kickboxing, Kick-Boxing

• Related Topics:  Kickboxing Category, Boxing See Related Meanings For The Word 'Boxing'., Kickboxing Weight Classes - Kickboxing Weight Classes Are Weight Classes That Pertain To The Sport Of Kickboxing. Organizations Will Often Adopt Their Own Rules For Weight Limits, Causing Ambiguity In The Sport Regarding How A Weight Class Should Be Defined., Women's Kickboxing - Women Have Participated In Kickboxing Since The 1960S In Thailand. But There Has Been A Superstition And Prejudice Women Have Often Being Prevented From Participating In The Major Tournaments In Thailand., Sports Originating In Japan, Mixed Martial Arts Styles, North American Martial Arts, Boxing, Japanese Martial Arts