American Kickboxing at WNY MMA & Fitness: There's something besides muay thai?

American Kickboxing at WNY MMA & Fitness: There's something besides muay thai?

When ever I hear people talk about striking, it is always muay thai or boxing. Here at WNY MMA and Fitness, we have both of those options. We also have one that many people have very little knowledge about; American Kickboxing, also known as full contact kickboxing. Full contact kickboxing was made popular in the 80's by many people, three of these champions are; Rob "the Dutchman" Kaman, Joe Lewis, and Bill "Super-foot" Wallace. Why have you not heard of it? well because of the fact that it belongs under the kickboxing umbrella term, it's usually just called kickboxing. 

Why Full Contact Kickboxing is Relevant:

Full contact kickboxing is about finesse. I say this because of how everything is being compared to muay thai in terms of quality of striking, it sometimes sounds like; "that person is a good striker, but can he beat Jimmy Crowbar Leg from XYZ muay thai gym". Previously I mentioned that full contact was all about finesse, that's because it stresses the fighters ability to string together boxing style punches with kicks that are reminiscent of styles like karate. By no means does having karate style kicking make full contact kickboxing a joke, the heavy boxing influence on the style really rocketed it into the forefront during the 80's. There are current fighters that have that Full Contact kickboxing style, the dutch style of kickboxing is a very well known proponent of this. So what makes full contact kickboxing different from muay thai; its the lack of leg kicks in full contact, knee strikes and elbow strikes are also not allowed in full contact kickboxing. This does not mean that leg kicks are not practiced. If looking at the dutch style of kickboxing which has the same influences, the leg kick comes behind a barrage of well placed and timed boxing punches.

Training at WNY MMA and Fitness:

Okay so you are still wondering if you should train Full Contact Kick here at WNY MMA and Fitness, this maybe the last little bit of push needed to get your butt in gear. You see the guy in the picture there, yes that guy doing the high kick. That man is Amer Abdallah, he is ranked second in the world in kickboxing. Why is that relevant, because our very own Corey Webster is his trainer. Ill give you sometime to let it sink in. This means you can to be trained to worldly awesomeness here; and for the muay thai guys, I haven't forgotten you guys. 

Extras:

I'm gonna post some gems here for you to get a taste of full contact kickboxing style. K-1, which was a kickboxing promotion started in japan, was dominated by strikers with a heavier boxing based style with powerful kicks. Ill post some videos here to check out, enjoy:

Andrew Souwer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prnrWLCBe3g
Masato - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOjkVRPz4hs