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Originally posted by -=HOAX=-
Also, in my opinion...disregard belts and katas and that type of shit. Find yourself a teacher dude...someone you are willing to learn from.
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Good advice. The kickboxing club I trained at would invite people from many different styles to come and train with us, so a good cross-section of moves was incorporated into our skills... from ju-jitsu (in-close fighting) to sikaran-arnis (Phillipine fighting style literally meaning "feet" and "weapons"), all very effective forms of fighting.
Kickboxing is simply the most direct method of disabling/defeating/killing your opponent, period. People can debate al they want, but unless you've actually fought in the ring against (and using) multiple styles of fighting, you really don't know what you're talking about.
True Thaiwanese boxing is basically the shortest distance between your weapons (fists, feet, knee, elbow, head etc) and your opponent. No fancy dramatic flashy bullshit moves, no belts, no nothing. Just quick concise moves and clever combinations that are very hard to defend against. Coupled with skills associated with other disciplines like I mentioned above and you have a style that is very hard to defeat. And any opponent that employs a style that involves "grabbing" their opponent must first be able to actually grab that opponent. A good kickboxer will be quick enough to hit without allowing his/her opponent to grab onto them.
People like xxxdesign can speculate all they want, but I know what I know. I sugges, like Hoax says, to find a place to train where the focus is on learning the best aspects of many different styles, not on belts and trophies etc. Train hard and long enough and you can enter open-style tournaments, your teacher will be able to tell you what level to enter at, and the trophies will come.