I'm starting kickboxing again today and I'm very excited. Until February this year I was training 3 nights a week and absolutely loving it. I had spent 5 years at it and was really happy with where I was at. It was weirdly meditative in a way. Then all of a sudden the club was disbanded because the lead instructor decided he just didn't want to teach anymore. It was pretty hard on some of the students. But now a bunch of them have found another teacher who originally trained with our old instructor. Guy holds classes 10 mins walk from my front door. I'm excited.
Hey. Glad to hear you're starting back up. Out of curiosity, what kind of kickboxing do you do? I haven't posted any in a while, do to being too busy with work and all, but every now and again I'll post some breakdown videos under #martialarts. If you ever see or read anything you find worth sharing, post it, cause I'd love to see it.
It's a Filipino style that sort of combines kickboxing, weaponry and ground fighting. At least it was. I'm still not quite sure what to expect from the new classes. There was a bit of a factional split that caused my earlier club to even exist and I think my instructor messed around with the curriculum a fair bit... So we'll see how different it ends up being to what I'm used to I guess! :D I've just spent the last few minutes looking at stuff you've posted under #martialarts. Some of it looks really interesting! I'll definitely delve into it a bit deeper when I get the chance! And rest assured if I find something I think is worthy of the tag, I'll post it :)
If you were to kick a guy while boxing, I imagine you'd probably be disqualified... :) Kickboxing is punching and kicking. What I do is technically more like MMA. It's a Filipino style of what is essentially street fighting. So not much is off limits...