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Common mistakes in kickboxing

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Just when I think of myself as an ancient martial artist, I see things that say otherwise. Like the young boys, in all the fancy gym clothes, who threw these ridiculously slow spinning kicks at the heavy punching bag. Before your head is handed over to you in a match or fight, please:

1. Keep your hands up. A good boxer or puncher can step into his kick and knock him out when he drops his hands.

2. Kick a bag lighter about 40 pounds. Something to give in. I was constantly going to a chiropractor when I was training a lot and 30 years later I still have hip problems.

3. Work the bag, don’t let the bag work for you. Kick and punch to develop your punching power. Don’t just keep hitting the heavy bag until exhaustion. You will become careless.

4. If your coach isn’t watching you, try not to train yourself to exhaustion. When you get too tired. You become careless. Careless practice makes technique sloppy. While you should be able to train while under stress or fatigue, make sure you don’t make careless mistakes. I used to train badly for weeks and then I had to untrain. It is better to train less properly than too badly.

5. Avoid overtraining. You’ll know when you can’t sleep well, have a poor appetite, and a racing heart rate. Lean and underweight guys, take note.

6. Train patiently. The whole idea of ​​martial arts is to develop the person. When you train smart, consistently and patiently, you will progress further. The guy in a hurry to “blow heads” always takes longer.

7. Practice some humility. True martial artists don’t strut around town in T-shirts and “cage fighter” attitudes. The skinny one will only attract the attention of the bullies and the hard hit will be knocked down a notch or two. I have met world-class martial artists who don’t flaunt their skills. (A 19-year-old insisted that he had won 48 bare-knuckled matches. He also failed a simple fitness test, so it makes you wonder.)

8. Apply one technique at a time. Some methods, like Hapkido, practice dozens of kicks and hand punches in each session. This works after a couple of years. I found that mastering a couple of shots put me ahead of most beginners. A good technique beats a dozen sloppy ones.

9. If you are going to train, TRAIN. I get tired of the guy who claims to train 3 hours a day, when he mostly walks around the gym shaking his gums. Have fun, socialize, but get some serious training.

10. Jogging is not a road job. Road work, as described by champion wrestler, Matt Furey, runs while imagining he’s fighting. If you practice kick-boxing, practice punches while running. If there are too many people around, practice footwork and wind races. Kick-boxing matches do not have the intensity of the jog.

11. Above all, enjoy your training. If you don’t like workouts, try something else. Just remember that professionalism is not easy.

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