For some, kick boxing It is a Japanese combat sport that mixes some boxing techniques with martial arts techniques. For others, Kickboxing is the Japanese version of Muay Thai (Thai boxing), and its creation was not due to the inspiration of a martial arts master, but to the initiative of a Japanese sports show promoter named Isamu Noguchi.

To understand how it was born, it must be mentioned that part of the foundation was due to the existing controversies due to the repeated defeats by the karatekas who had faced each other in Thailand with Muay Thai exponents. Which led to the effectiveness of karate do being analyzed compared to the Thai version of the sport, which is why we took advantage of it by proposing this option.

He birth of kick boxing It dates back to the 60s, when Noguchi faced a renowned karate fighter named Tadashi Sawamura against the boxer of Thai origin Lacray in Tokyo, and although the expectation was great in his favor, the result of the fight was not what this promoter expected, since that Lacray underestimated the Japanese, and Sawamura was not just any karateka, and in the first phase of the fight he applied a jumping front kick to the chin on the Thai, knocking him out almost in the opening minutes. This episode left lessons learned and did not discourage Noguchi, who again organized a show to pit karatekas against boxers, generating more expectation in the public.

This fight caused Sawamura to receive heavy punishment from Adisorn, and from the first rounds the Japanese was repeatedly knocked down with a marked execution of punches, knees, elbows and kicks, and in the fourth round he was knocked out. This opened the door to the new sport. So, 1963 is the year in which the formal beginning of this activity is recorded.

There are several elements of the methodology and training that are similar to Muay Thai, however, it is less strong than the latter, and in the sports regulations, elbow and knee blows to the head were suppressed, although they were done on other parts of the body.

Precisely, in kick boxing The sporting regulations are similar to those of Muay Thai, that is, a ring is used, matches agreed upon with weight division, the rounds are two minutes long and one minute rest. The authorities determine the control of the fights, and the main ones are made up of the prosecutor, judges, referees and doctors.

For protection purposes, competitors must wear boxing gloves, groin and mouth protectors, the feet and tibia are bare, although the use of anklets is permitted, and loose shorts are used as clothing, very typical of Muay Thai.

Another of the curiosities of this sport is that, despite developing from its beginnings in Japan, it was not named with Japanese words, but rather in English; kickboxing . This was initially due to the fact that it sought to position this type of sports spectacle in the United States, Europe and other regions of the world, which was where the initiative was aimed.

As expected by many, and just as happened to Muay Thai, kick boxing It could not attract much interest in the West or in the United States, so only with the advent of Full Contac and the interest that this new sport aroused did it open doors to both disciplines. The spread of the sport throughout the US, Europe, Asia and South America gained more strength, in fact, currently, its name is used generically and is synonymous with other martial activities that do not necessarily have anything to do with the original and the one that their creators promoted.

From another point of view, the kick boxing It is a sporting reinterpretation of different martial arts, which has been evolving, and has positioned itself very well in several countries.

In 1974, Mike Anderson founded the Professional Karate Association (PKA), which would later change the “K” of karate to Kickboxing . At some point these competitions were called Full Contact Karate, until Delcourt, president of the International Karate Federation, banned it for not agreeing with these competitions. Two years later, the World Association of Human Rights Organizations was founded. Kick boxing (Wako ).

He Kick boxing American is usually divided into gradations similar to those of karate, that is, by belts in the colors white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black, of course, with the different levels of black from 1st to 10th. And as has been explained in the voice of its great exponents, it is a sport that allows comprehensive training and not only trains for competitions, but also allows people to improve their physical fitness and be more prepared in terms of self-defense.

This work has allowed today the kick boxing is a successful martial and sports combat system, which is inserted among the so-called martial arts, next to the full contact and the muay thai